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by omoikane 3d ago
Maybe because if the code wants to call the invalid opcode interrupt handler (INT6), it needs extra code to populate the flags and registers expected by that handler, whereas actually triggering an invalid opcode exception will get all thos
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by omoikane 4d ago
Regarding compiler deleting memset, there are multiple memory-zeroing functions that are guaranteed not to be optimized away: https://cppreference.com/c/string/byte/memset (memset_s) https://cppref
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by omoikane 5d ago
> Torturers don't hit people in the head The comic doesn't say hit the person in the head, it says "hit him with this $5 wrench", and did not specify what to hit. https://xkcd.com/538/
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by omoikane 6d ago
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40090809 The playlist included "the sound of jet planes all night" and "the screams of rabbits being slaughtered". I don't think they really n
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by omoikane 7d ago
I was going to say, NetHack doesn't feel sparse to me, but maybe I just have not played enough NetHack. I think it's due to the fact that there is a fair bit of content, but the interface drip-feeds them very slowly, combined with
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by omoikane 8d ago
Another solution from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562657 - Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge (4 days ago, 99 comments)
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by omoikane 8d ago
I just tried and it doesn't happen for me, maybe the problem has already been fixed? Separately, if I were seeing a captcha that I can't get past, my first reaction would be to find a different site to see if it's a site spec
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by omoikane 9d ago
I think this is an example of "shipping your org chart". The fix is proposed in the reply "we need one person/team to own the overall picture", but I am not sure they reached that fix by the end of the thread.
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by omoikane 10d ago
> This means that adding one (1) to the difficulty of a challenge makes it 1024 (one thousand twenty-four) times as hard to solve in the worst case. I don't understand the units here, wouldn't a bit versus nibble difference mak
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by omoikane 14d ago
I also have been using a flip phone ever since I got a cell phone. I had to upgrade it once because the old phone only supports up to 3G network or whatever, and my carrier just silently dropped all calls on that network a few years back,
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Quine Clique(github.com)
1 points by omoikane 15d ago|1 comments
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by omoikane 15d ago
Video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f2wV7Odq8E A multiquine of 51 languages by Yusuke Endoh, where each quine also accepts an argument to output quine in another language.
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by omoikane 17d ago
In 2021, USD to JPY exchange rate ranged from ~102 to ~115, and the average was ~109. The actual exchange rate could be a bit less depending on where you make the exchange, so 100 USD to 10000 JPY doesn't seem like that much off. (For
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by omoikane 17d ago
> User interface and user experience improvements https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta6/release-notes/#:~... Menu that does different things based on modifier keys seems novel to me, is BeOS or Haiku
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by omoikane 18d ago
> humans have a high ability to ignore negatives in things they're a fan of, including (and often especially) their own work I thought this is due to the "backfire effect", because humans perceive criticisms of things they
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by omoikane 21d ago
This is a wonderful paper that includes many optimization tricks that are generally applicable, including various optimizations that they retrofitted into lld. But I thought there was one meta optimization that was especially interesting (
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by omoikane 21d ago
Bluesky didn't require phone numbers back when it was invite only, and then there was a period of time after they allowed everyone to create accounts where users need a phone number to verify. That requirement might have been replaced
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by omoikane 24d ago
There was another miscompilation discussed last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743462 - It's not me, it's the compiler (2026-07-01, 26 comments) https://github.com/rust-lang/rus
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by omoikane 25d ago
Alan Paeth's three-shear rotation is one of my favorite algorithms, especially because it's perfectly suited for rotating pixel art. Because shearing preserves all the original pixels, it even works with dithered images, unlike s
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by omoikane 28d ago
I like Existential Comic's explanation of the simulacrum concept, using football/soccer injuries as an example: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/476
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by omoikane 28d ago
I like how a website for tracking balloons escalated into critical infrastructure. Reminds me of 99 Red Balloons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons
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by omoikane 1mo ago
It's iOS only, relying on iOS to exclude isSecureTextEntry things from screenshots: https://github.com/mozzius/expo-privacy-sensitive/blob/main/...
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by omoikane 1mo ago
The 1% Fighter
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by omoikane 1mo ago
> while (has_watermark(text)) slightly_rewrite... I understand what you are trying to say but I am not sure any watermark detection API would definitively return a true/false answer, I would have expected something more like a numer
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by omoikane 1mo ago
Maybe Bluesky is not quite the Twitter rival it set out to be, but it's got a better shot than Mastodon, according to the user count graphs here: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://mastodon-analytics.com&#
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by omoikane 1mo ago
Related, Oscar Toledo also made a tiny Klondike Solitaire program for IOCCC, I wonder if it was inspired by this one: https://nanochess.org/klondike_in_c.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450024 -
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by omoikane 1mo ago
> Sanjay (who just joined Twitter) Clarification: this comment is saying Sanjay Ghemawat joined Twitter as a user recently (new account @Sanjay_Ghemawat as of July 2026), as opposed to Sanjay working for Twitter the company.
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by omoikane 1mo ago
It's probably not that different from rangefinder style cameras[1]. I don't think the problem with this one is with its transparent viewfinder, it's more that its output quality just aren't that great according to someo
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by omoikane 2mo ago
I am glad they also cloned the snake game. https://github.com/8bitbubsy/ft2-clone/blob/master/src/ft2_n...
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by omoikane 2mo ago
I also liked how the "Be" in "to Be continued" resembles BeOS.

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