xorvoid

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by xorvoid 4d ago
Poor man's runtime "dynamic" version. AKA: A much worse version. In advanced cases, you'd need dependent types, but the only place where that almost shows up is in the "amount <= balance" assertions. That&#x
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by xorvoid 26d ago
I was literally just catching up on this issue on Zulip yesterday. Amazing timing! I like this framing a lot. I'm a huge fan of tiered abstractions. Ideally, you start with the highest level where it's cleanest and you work your w
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by xorvoid 2mo ago
Something quite similar to what I'm doing right now.
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by xorvoid 4mo ago
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 die already! Let's move on.
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by xorvoid 5mo ago
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. (sigh) If this doesn't gross people out e
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by xorvoid 5mo ago
https://xorvoid.com/galois_fields_for_great_good_00.html
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by xorvoid 5mo ago
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 compute a 32-bit (or larger) hash at *every* b
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by xorvoid 5mo ago
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 their practices but don't have power to act a
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by xorvoid 5mo ago
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 whole life - it's usually others
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by xorvoid 5mo ago
"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 with both niche and common products and services."
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
Strong disagree. Markdown is great. And the perfect format simply doesn't exist. You cannot be all things to all people. shrug
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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 exuberance and economic bubbles. The phenomenon is well-docum
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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 for this to be viable, the small internet nee
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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 and going home". Sorting ourselves into id
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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 always seemed to me to be a second class citizen. I think I read
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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 was this? Can you share any advice?
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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 it's hard to appreciate sometimes that all the
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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 choice. If it provably doesn't escape => optimi
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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, yes, it's frustrating to bump into an issue and di
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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 convinced that these type system ideas are t
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by xorvoid 6mo ago
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. It sounds to me like you don't have the best
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by xorvoid 7mo ago
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 for any casual attack. We'd have to be talking state leve
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by xorvoid 7mo ago
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/xorvoid/otcc_deobfusca
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by xorvoid 7mo ago
Too real! LMAO
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by xorvoid 7mo ago
I may be the author.. enjoy! It was an absolute blast making this!
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by xorvoid 8mo ago
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. Climbers tend to die from Rappelling more than any
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by xorvoid 8mo ago
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 experience is more similar to just a "hard hike". S
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by xorvoid 8mo ago
Others have said a longer version of this: Be the change you want to see in the world. Do it yourself. Don't wait on others. Organize social events, invite people.
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by xorvoid 8mo ago
https://xorvoid.com
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by xorvoid 8mo ago
I didn't miss that and I'm not sure what argument you're making. It sounds like you're trying to say that state censorship is conditional, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt to make your case.

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