stevefolta

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by stevefolta 2mo ago
Someone turned me on to this recently, but mainly it ended up getting me back into Timeguessr. (I'm much better at Timeguessr.)
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by stevefolta 3mo ago
"If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some." -- Alan Perlis
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by stevefolta 4mo ago
Looks like a new 1.3 release is coming very soon. I love QBE, but it does have its limitations: - It handles the ABIs for passing and returning structures in registers, but only with superfluous copies to and from the stack. - Can't ge
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by stevefolta 6mo ago
There's also my own "KX" (< https://codeberg.org/stevefolta/kx >), a very similar project. Mere looks like it wants to be more serious in the long term.
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by stevefolta 8mo ago
Oh, it _does_ have string interpolation, my bad. Sadly, not by default -- you still have to go back and add an "f" before the string once you've started typing it and then realize that you want an interpolated string. Also,
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by stevefolta 8mo ago
Nice! Compiles in 2s on my unexceptional hardware. But it lacks my other main desiderata in a new language: string interpolation and kebab-case.
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by stevefolta 9mo ago
Hooray! Personally, I'm hoping this'll lead to support for the GPU on Spacemit SoCs.
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by stevefolta 9mo ago
I’ve often heard “Fontucky” for Fontana CA.
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by stevefolta 11mo ago
In synthesizers, diodes are used in oscillators to shape triangle waves into sine waves.
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by stevefolta 11mo ago
Hainbach's video on the collection: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxYGxpXBEos&t=2024s >
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by stevefolta 11mo ago
This video says latency is two samples: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEoYlaj9u8&t=110s >.
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by stevefolta 11mo ago
Once you cut through all the verbiage, this is just a re-invention of Woosh ( https://woosh.sourceforge.net/ ).
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by stevefolta 1y ago
But if that's what they want, they may be driving out the exact wrong subset of their devs.
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by stevefolta 1y ago
Another interesting one is Scroll, a scrolling-tiling fork of Sway: https://github.com/dawsers/scroll/
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by stevefolta 1y ago
I still have one of these that I bought back in its heyday, but it doesn't work. I suspect it just needs new belts.
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by stevefolta 1y ago
No it can't. Not for RISC-V/musl, so I'm sure that must be true for other platforms too.
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by stevefolta 1y ago
The downside of QBE is that it doesn't have a way to generate debug symbols. But I still love and use it.
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by stevefolta 2y ago
Oh, perfect, thanks! I've been using Niri for less than a week, hadn't got to using named workspaces yet, and missed the bit in the docs where it says they can be empty.
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by stevefolta 2y ago
The one caveat -- and it's a big one -- is that Niri numbers workspaces dynamically, and won't let you have an empty workspace (except temporarily).
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by stevefolta 2y ago
> In the ENIAC the form of the [sic] that [program] storage (decimal) was quite different to that of the data that ENIAC operated on (binary). Huh? ENIAC was a decimal machine all the way through.
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by stevefolta 2y ago
Depends on your definition of "a good name". It seems like yours includes "must be a short English word", but doesn't include things like "is easily web-searchable" and "doesn't conflict with ex
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by stevefolta 2y ago
> ...nobody really should be using either of them. What's wrong with poll(), at least for smaller values of nfds? And what should one use instead when writing POSIX-compatible portable code, where epoll() and kqueue() don't ex
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by stevefolta 2y ago
What is nongnu.org, and what is its relationship to gnu.org?
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by stevefolta 2y ago
Yeah, Rust is the language for people who think C++ is not complex (or hostile) _enough_.
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by stevefolta 2y ago
Yeah, it seems odd that it has PowerPC but not RISC-V.
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by stevefolta 2y ago
Not true, the JS _does_ get a chance to prevent the search behavior. It's not a problem with other games.
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by stevefolta 2y ago
Too bad the keyboard doesn't work (Firefox with "Search for text when you start typing" on). They didn't do the "event.preventDefault(); event.stopPropagation();" dance.
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by stevefolta 2y ago
I tried looking at code in Mebinac, and was surprised at how strongly it reminded me of old screenshots of Smalltalk.
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by stevefolta 2y ago
> ...why not arrange the words by, e.g., what sort of thing they’re about? I don't know if that exists, but there are rhyming dictionaries.
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by stevefolta 2y ago
> Unlike python, however, you can’t just call an interpreter to run this program. Sure you can: "tcc -run hello.c". Okay, technically that's an in-memory compiler rather than an interpreter. For extra geek points, have yo

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