DarkUranium

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by DarkUranium 8d ago
I'm pretty sure that's impossible nowadays, at least avoiding everything that runs on AWS.
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by DarkUranium 9d ago
They absolutely do accept then discard when it's flagged as spam above a certain confidence threshold (below that it "only" ends up in the spam folder).
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by DarkUranium 9d ago
I suspect because it's hard to differentiate between ones that actually respect the consumer vs ones that only say so, but are actually lying to your face. That and not respecting the consumer is more profitable in the short term (
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by DarkUranium 17d ago
The UK has the same system with the same problems. It always converges to a two-party system eventually, the US just speedran the process.
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by DarkUranium 17d ago
Little did they know that the UK effectively already had Norway's status and then some, what with all the special privileges they were granted in the EU.
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by DarkUranium 22d ago
Vectors & multidimesional arrays are something I'm 100% adding to my language's core. It kind of started with vectors as the very first feature (I was sick & tired of libraries reinventing their own `Point`/`VectorN`
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by DarkUranium 1mo ago
... I can't believe I typo'd that as "LobreWolf". OH WELL.
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by DarkUranium 1mo ago
It's a big part of why I'm strongly opposed to common-law systems (as opposed to civil law). All the case law, all of it becomes, well, law. And then you get the whole "legislating from the bench" critique, which, whil
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by DarkUranium 1mo ago
Yes, and it's a surprising good part about PHP (a language that otherwise has an enormous collection of warts, to put it mildly). I feel like the more dynamic and/or weakly-typed the language is, the more important it is to have a
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by DarkUranium 1mo ago
LobreWolf is a good recommendation, though if you want something with more "usual" defaults --- I love WaterFox, myself.
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by DarkUranium 1mo ago
I know it's not the only problem (but it is IMO the main one), but this is why I'm a proponent of allowing operator overloading in languages. Yes, you can't tell at a glance if `+` really still does what it should, but I find
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by DarkUranium 1mo ago
TIL that TLS (before 1.3) was designed by non-cryptographers. What the hell.
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by DarkUranium 2mo ago
I really hate the whole thing about companies promoting using LLMs to change one-liner emails into this long multi-paragraph thing that ends up saying almost nothing ... just wasting everyone's time in reading them (with an extra spr
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by DarkUranium 2mo ago
I'm confused, how can I see it, for example?
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by DarkUranium 2mo ago
I feel like this should be treated as, and have consequences similar to, plagiarism. Alas, it's probably just wishful thinking on my part.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
My #1 complaint by far is that it --- pretty much silently --- depends on systemd to work correctly. Try having a docker-compose with a service that waits until a dependency is healthy --- in a host that has no systemd (such as Alpine Linux
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
That gives me an idea for an icon pack. TL;DR path-traced voxel art, isometric render. Alas, I'm no designer.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
You can't rip it, or even make backups in the US (you can in most, if not all, of Europe; dunno about the rest of the world). It's illegal, and constitutes piracy.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
A rip & copy is a breach of the DMCA (because it involves circumvention of DRM, among other things) in the US, which makes it software piracy. And then they wonder why so many advocate for just skipping the "purchase" step whe
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
Where could one find resources about implementing such GCs in their own language?
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
Yes, copying strings is definitely cheap, but allocating memory for the copy is absolutely not. And I have my doubts w.r.t. 0-terminated strings being more efficient, with maybe the exception of some very specific niches.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
In the other, you say "xy, yz, zx" (or whatnot), which makes it much clearer as to what's what. What exactly does `i` correspond to in a quaternion? They always rely on implicit assumptions/conventions.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
Also, I really think we'd all be better off if we stopped using quaternions entirely and started using rotors instead.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
I still like the idea that Han Solo was --- quite simply --- bullshitting, talking out of his ass. It fits the character and it resolves the filming/script mistake with a good explanation that doesn't take mental gymnastics.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
> Proxmox comes close but doesn't offer proper enterprise support contracts ... but then again, neither does VMware, apparently.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
By that logic, no natively-compiled language has a type system. Though I should note that in a way, even some ISAs have one, what with e.g. separate float vs integer registers.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
I like the D approach where arrays are just `struct { size_t length; T* ptr; }` internally --- and strings are just arrays of `immutable(char)`. It has a big advantage over the Pascal approach in that you can do zero-copy slicing, since the
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
I very commonly see fixed-point libs be slower than floating-point (assuming floating-point hardware is available --- soft-float is slow as hell compared to fixed-point, of course). Commonly enough that I think it's some fundamental re
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
If you include Uranium in the oceans, we have about 4.5 billion years of fuel. It's no less renewable than the Sun.
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by DarkUranium 3mo ago
Coal in the US alone kills one Chernobyl of people each year. (using estimates for Chernobyl --- so, in coal's advantage, as Chernobyl's confirmed deaths are actually very low)

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