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Something quite similar to what I'm doing right now.

They're just inventing another language here. That's fine if you want to do that. Just do THAT. C is horribly and unfixably broken. We've known that for many decades. Just let it d…

I don't know how many more examples people need to see of big tech not respecting privacy... it's just becoming a farce now. Big tech tracking woman's cycles? Of course they are. (…

https://xorvoid.com/galois_fields_for_great_good_00.html

Thank you Michael Rabin for your excellent work. Rest in Peace. Rabin Fingerprinting is one of my favorites of his contributions. It's a "rolling hash" that allows you to quickly c…

I live in a town in the Midwest that just voted down a data center project. Personally I think it's mostly a proxy vote against bigtech/social-media. People are pretty fed up with …

Maybe you need to spell out what you're implying because it's not very clear. I don't understand what's so bad about wrong inferences. I've been living with wrong inferences my who…

"The person seems to have low self-esteem, displays introversion, poor honesty, low emotional stability, very little adventurousness and poor self-control hence we can target them …

Strong disagree. Markdown is great. And the perfect format simply doesn't exist. You cannot be all things to all people. shrug

What if some of these ancient mysteries simply weren't logical. Investigations always assume that there was some very rational reason but still in our modern society we have exuber…

I generally agree with this, but I think the small internet hasn't succeeded in building social replacements for the "centralized systems". The internet is a social technology. So …

Strongly disagree. This is just increasing the "political temperature". The only true solution is people learning to talk and disagree with each other without "taking their ball an…

Thank you! Re extensions: my thinking was that if you build a clone, then extensions become irrelevant. Just build what you need directly into the software. Extensions systems alwa…

I was thinking about doing the same. Build a clone with AI custom tailored for my own quirks. And not bothering to open source it because it's too bespoke for anyone else. How hard…

That's a good point. It is pretty intertwined with ISAs. But, I think you could successfully argue it's just C semantics leaking into the ISA. C was so incredibly successful that i…

This makes a lot of sense. It makes me think of Go's approach to blur the distinction of heap/stack by just treating it as an escape analysis problem leading to an allocation choic…

I feel the same confliction about this organizational policy. It has been refreshing that they haven't just jammed half-baked ideas into stable like C++ has done for decades. But, …

I'm pretty conflicted on this comment section. A lot of people are expressing a lot of fear of C++ bloat. I get that. I'm not sure what the right answer for Rust is, but I'm fairly…

There's already some good advice in this thread, but I want to add more. This will indeed be very hard, but I'd urge you to take a long-term and positive forward looking approach. …

This was my thought as well. We have a lot of shared knowledge and memories with details that are definitely not shared in any online artifact. Those would be very hard to spoof fo…

Further Fun fact, that submission was called OTCC. I reverse engineered it and that provided inspiration for SectorC. https://xorvoid.com/otcc_deobfuscated.html https://github.com/…

Too real! LMAO

I may be the author.. enjoy! It was an absolute blast making this!

Not sure what your point is here. He died rappelling when his bag got stuck. He didn't die free soloing. And it's unrelated to Yosemite. It was an avoidable accident and very sad. …

This. Watching Honnold makes your palms go clamy and makes you uncomfortable because you imagine how terified you'd be in that position. But for an athlete like Honnold, the experi…