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The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression(qoaformat.org)
140 points by smlckz 3y ago|63 comments
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Ask HN: What are some software projects towards which you’re very grateful
1 points by smlckz 3y ago|2 comments
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by smlckz 3y ago
I find it interesting that we can think about [simple and complex] mathematical structures. How did we get the ability to do so and why we can do so? I distinguish between mathematical structures and "reality". From my perspective
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by smlckz 3y ago
This refers to the pic(1) preprocessor to the troff(1) typesetter. Troff is a historical typesetting software with a long history in the Unix ecosystem. Having personally used some of the modern implementations (e.g. GNU troff or groff, hei
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by smlckz 3y ago
Then you arrive at questions such as "Why do we exist?", even "Why anything exists at all, what was the need for all of this?" > Why do we feel that we exist? Who does the feeling part? There’s the non-helpful answer
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by smlckz 4y ago
Extra hilarious as I can actually hear the sound of crickets.
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Coffee with Brian Kernighan – Computerphile [video](youtube.com)
7 points by smlckz 4y ago|0 comments
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Counterfactual Quantum Computation is Weird [video](youtube.com)
3 points by smlckz 4y ago|0 comments
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Status Update, May 2022(drewdevault.com)
2 points by smlckz 4y ago|0 comments
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Explaining Web 2.0 (2008)(youtube.com)
1 points by smlckz 4y ago|0 comments
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by smlckz 5y ago
What else can be done about it instead of building things, writing down or talking?
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by smlckz 5y ago
Fabrice Bellard is a CTO? Are you talking about this guy?: https://bellard.org
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by smlckz 5y ago
> In C, a read from an uninitialized variable is an unspecified value and is allowed to be any value each time it is read. This is important, because it allows behavior such as lazy recycling of pages: for example, on FreeBSD the malloc
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by smlckz 5y ago
For those people who are thinking about some HTML subset, you can have a look at WebLite: https://weblite.codeberg.page
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by smlckz 5y ago
Try Racket and DrRacket.
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by smlckz 5y ago
Aren't we, now ?
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by smlckz 5y ago
Truly, someone should try out NetBSD here...
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We need to talk about clickbait [video](youtube.com)
3 points by smlckz 5y ago|1 comments
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Tips for debugging your new programming language(drewdevault.com)
3 points by smlckz 5y ago|0 comments
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by smlckz 5y ago
Naming things are hard :)
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Ask HN: Memorable Snippets of Code
2 points by smlckz 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Which “old” programming language(s) you still use in your $DAYJOB?
16 points by smlckz 5y ago|25 comments
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A case of long term health consequences of exposure to burn pits in Iraq [video](youtube.com)
1 points by smlckz 5y ago|0 comments
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Using io_uring to make a high-performance finger server(drewdevault.com)
91 points by smlckz 5y ago|16 comments
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by smlckz 5y ago
> Also, Javascript doesn't have a logical xor operator, so trying to do that would potentially reduce readability. I also didn't know about any operator to logically xor two boolean variables (thought about (ab)using JavaScript
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by smlckz 5y ago
> Dutch directness. This reminds of Edsger W. Dijkstra. > "I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras." -- Alan Kay
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by smlckz 5y ago
https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html
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by smlckz 5y ago
- ''Artificial'': not naturally occuring, also not a "clone"/"fork" of something natural. - ''Physical'': not software simulation, virtual; "exist" in the same world
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by smlckz 5y ago
Have we humans been able to make artificial physical self-replicating machines? Is it feasible to make such machines?
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by smlckz 6y ago
I am unable to forgive the author for the following: #include <cmath> #include <stdio.h> The code looks almost like pure C, but that little `c`...

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