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New comment by CodeArtisan in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

CodeArtisan — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:03:41 +0000

C23 removed the whole stuff about indeterminate value and trap representation. Underflow/overflow being silent or not is implementation defined.

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp"

CodeArtisan — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:31:40 +0000

Shouldn't it be (+ a (apply + b))

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test"

CodeArtisan — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:43:19 +0000

The video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R is happening in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, an area filled with super natural anomalies and artifacts due to the radiation. A legend/rumor says that there is a special crystal granting any wish at the center of the zone, inside the power plant's sarcophagus. The existence of the crystal can't be verified because a cultist faction, The monolith, is preventing anyone to reach the center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Cher...

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

CodeArtisan — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:06:42 +0000

I have been using Framagit for a few years now. it has been online since 2016, it's the public Gitlab instance of Framasoft, a french non profit organization. RocketGit has been online since 2015 and relies on its own software, i have never used it but i have heard about it regularly.

https://framagit.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framasoft

https://rocketgit.com

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

CodeArtisan — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:19:53 +0000

Hack came after. Noduerme is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP

New comment by CodeArtisan in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

CodeArtisan — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:20:45 +0000

>I can't think of a single example where foreign inteference (or war) has had the citizenry welcome foreign powers as liberators or otherwise increased freedoms or conditions in a country for those citizens.

When Japan occupied the Netherlands East Indies in the early weeks of 1942, many Indonesians celebrated, seeing the Japanese army as the fulfillment of a prophecy attributed to Jayabaya. He had foretold a time when white men would establish their rule over Java and oppress the people for many years, only to be driven out by "yellow men from the north." According to Jayabaya, these "yellow dwarves" would remain for one crop cycle (interpreted as 3 1/2 years, corresponding to the duration of Japanese occupation), after which Java would be free from foreign domination. To most Javanese, Japan was seen as a liberator, as the prophecy appeared to be fulfilled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayabaya

(To One Piece readers) I remembered this from this post https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/xb3lx/spoilers_jo...

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake"

CodeArtisan — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:19:22 +0000

>That's why array indexing is signed in C

C23 updated the definition of the [] operator to disallow negative subscripts with array type. I think you have to explicitly convert the array to a pointer type now.

    int a[2];
    a[-1]; // not ok
    (&a[0])[-1] // ok

C23: https://cstd.eisie.net/c2y.html#6.5.3.2

C11: https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.5.2.1

New comment by CodeArtisan in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

CodeArtisan — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:31:33 +0000

Geocities had a ton of xfiles fansites https://geocities.restorativland.org/

(beware, has auto-playing audio!) https://geocities.restorativland.org/Area51/5795/

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Area51/8406/main.htm

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Area51/6601/

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Area51/8616/

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Area51/2133/

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Area51/2442/

and many more.

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function"

CodeArtisan — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:11:54 +0000

Until C23, you could declare a pointer to a procedure that takes an unspecified amount of any type arguments like this

    void foo( int (*f)() )
    {
        f(1);
        f(1, "2" , 3.0);
    }

https://godbolt.org/z/s6e5rnqv9

If you compile with -std=c23, both gcc and clang will throw an error ( (*f)() is now the same as (*f)(void) )

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Do you want the US to "win" AI?"

CodeArtisan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:43:44 +0000

Belgium could be in the top5 in the next report chart due to Google alone.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-clo...

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

CodeArtisan — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:40:36 +0000

Counter-strike was definitively a mod, you had to install it in the same folder as Half-Life and start it with 'hl.exe -game cstrike'. It became a standalone game later with the retail release.

edit:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Counter-Strike#Vers...

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

CodeArtisan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:45:19 +0000

Toolchain: https://ada-lang.io/

IDE: https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatstudio

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

CodeArtisan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:52:19 +0000

The games he made for programming competitions like ludum dare were decent. I especially enjoyed Prelude to the chambered.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191221082346/http://ludumdare....

https://web.archive.org/web/20210722173354/https://www.youtu...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgAujBKarXXoMxJDyi1Am...

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

CodeArtisan — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:10:10 +0000

Wikipedia has a page already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alex_Pretti

New comment by CodeArtisan in "You can't fool the optimizer"

CodeArtisan — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:01:44 +0000

Recursive Popcount:

    unsigned int popcount(unsigned int n) 
    {
        return (n &= n - 1u) ? (1u  + popcount(n)) : 0u;
    }

Clang 21.1 x64:

    popcount:
            mov     eax, -1
    .LBB0_1:
            lea     ecx, [rdi - 1]
            inc     eax
            and     ecx, edi
            mov     edi, ecx
            jne     .LBB0_1
            ret

GCC 15.2:

    popcount:
            blsr    edi, edi
            popcnt  eax, edi
            ret

Both compiled with -O3 -march=znver5

New comment by CodeArtisan in "GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code"

CodeArtisan — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:34:05 +0000

Stats from Debian and Archlinux. i can't tell how reliable they are.

https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=x11-common+g...

https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages#packages=gnom...

New comment by CodeArtisan in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

CodeArtisan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:55:42 +0000

Final Fantasy Tactics on Game Boy Advance had a color mode for television.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F29nlIz_tWo

New comment by CodeArtisan in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

CodeArtisan — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:27:42 +0000

Dorsey left may 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/j...

New comment by CodeArtisan in "John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta"

CodeArtisan — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:54:21 +0000

29 Millions according to https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-AMDGPU-Driver-Size

5 Millions alone for the AMD graphic driver.

New comment by CodeArtisan in "4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC"

CodeArtisan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:14:57 +0000

Brave browser launched a blockchain based domains registry IIRC.