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New comment by FrozenVoid in "I miss the programmable web (2021)"

FrozenVoid — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:18:44 +0000

Writing userscripts and CSS filters becomes more tedious each few years, especially mucking with dynamic DOM and complex frameworks websites tend to use now. WASM and obfuscated/minified javascript made "programmable web" impossible in practice.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Cmacro: Lisp Macros for C"

FrozenVoid — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:11:57 +0000

Lambdas can still be written using GCC extensions. https://github.com/FrozenVoid/C-headers/blob/main/lambda.h

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Wikipedia suspends edits to its 'recession' page"

FrozenVoid — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:28:38 +0000

Wikipedia is not a reliable source for anything that is remotely controversial or recent(as in last 20 years), as there always people who have agenda to 'correct the record' on something.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Black MIDI"

FrozenVoid — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:23:35 +0000

I just binge watched a dozen videos, this is probably my new favorite genre. The complexity and speed are on par with very fast electronic but far more pleasant(like classical orchestra). Are all such Black MIDI using only piano notes or this is just a stylistic convention?

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Does the Past Still Exist?"

FrozenVoid — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 06:49:11 +0000

Body could be 'subtle' astral/etheric matter. Flesh is strictly physical biological matter.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability"

FrozenVoid — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 05:47:14 +0000

Well, the little tigers can be dangerous and hold pathogenic bacteria in their little claws. You'd be nervous too if that thing could claw at your eye at any moment. Plus they could carry toxoplasmosis and tons of infections picked up from street animals.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Health effects of the use of non-sugar sweeteners: a review and meta-analysis"

FrozenVoid — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 05:36:55 +0000

I'd play it safe and eat only natural sweeteners like inulin/stevia/xylitol. Gut microbes haven't evolved to expirience the whole array of artificial sweeteners.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "How about a Genius Basic Income?"

FrozenVoid — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:58:41 +0000

It won't work: Left doesn't acknowledge the benefits of meritocracy. Right is anti-intellectual and suspicious of progress. There is no social movement supporting intellectual achievement: the public is focused on cheap infotainment and sensationalist science that is 'group-activity' such as "scientists from X find Y, due being funded for Z". Lone genius/inventor doesn't have such appeal as 'Big Science', which is actually collectivist mediocrity rewarding social climbers and salesmen: Academic science has to justify itself financially and 'discoveries' are usually coming from the above(Y found but funded for Z). In the past the idea of scientific progress was understood as necessarily, but today the status quo is more comfortable

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Decompiler Explorer"

FrozenVoid — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:29:34 +0000

What happens with code that uses lots of gotos(incl. computed gotos)?

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Clinically clean lenses are destroying what makes cameras special"

FrozenVoid — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 06:20:35 +0000

> beautiful in an intangible way

Perhaps the older lens has more pleasing colors: normally absorbing a bit more of hi-freq(blue/violet) lens a comfy "orange sunset" effect and warm atmosphere. Modern digital cameras tend to be "colder" in color, with sharp blue/violet.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort"

FrozenVoid — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:20:44 +0000

Combsort is far more elegant and faster algorithm. I've wrote a type-generic combsort a while ago here: https://github.com/FrozenVoid/combsort.h

(Combsort as well as mentioned algorithm also consists of two loops and a swap)

New comment by FrozenVoid in "IPL: Intuitionistic Programming Language (2013)"

FrozenVoid — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 04:44:30 +0000

For anyone interested there is repo(by the author) on github with the copy of code: https://github.com/granstrom/intuitionistic

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Hyper Scientific Notation for Unspeakably Large Numbers"

FrozenVoid — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:26:19 +0000

Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_level-index_arithmet...

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Artificial Photosynthesis in the Absence of Light"

FrozenVoid — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 04:38:29 +0000

So does this mean chlorella can be mass-produced cheaper than crops? This would be a second "Green Revolution" if this scales up, it will free up lots of land.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Function Dispatch Tables in C (2019)"

FrozenVoid — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:43:00 +0000

I prefer the flexibility of computed gotos a GCC extension that is likely the fastest dispatch method outside of compile-time. With computed gotos, you can have arbitrary dispatch complexity and structure, interleave code(e.g./code1/ ;skip_label: ;label1: /code2/; goto *return_loc;) and use assembler-like tricks to reduce fast paths(e.g. switch off code segment execution or alter control flow on the fly)

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Ask HN: What's your greatest enjoyment in life?"

FrozenVoid — Sun, 22 May 2022 13:15:14 +0000

consider the baseline state of the world, what pleasures are Not mindless escapism or illusion of plenty? I don't want to deceive myself that if i'd have some mundane pleasure it somehow compensates the entire weight of the world.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?"

FrozenVoid — Sun, 22 May 2022 12:53:21 +0000

The fundamental problem as i see it: Nuclear is profitable/possible only at large scale, it cannot 'scale down', unlike e.g. wind/wave turbines you can't buy a mini-reactor because the industry is very regulated(and for a very obvious reasons). the closest scaled-down nuclear has got is RITEG , which was built without these regulations(and would horrify Americans as much recreational nukes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

New comment by FrozenVoid in "Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious"

FrozenVoid — Tue, 17 May 2022 07:42:44 +0000

Easy way to discern if site is social Cookie Clicker: 1.Does it provide a rating/score for content. 2.Does it reward users with larger rating/score? 3.Does it limit users with lower rating/score? If all three question are positive, then it is optimizing for content-score engagement type of users, pushing the lever for extra dopamine hits.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "I Trained My TikTok"

FrozenVoid — Sun, 15 May 2022 09:36:35 +0000

Youtube can be "Trained" (with a blank profile/container) into TikTok type content by repeatedly watching first recommended video and skipping videos in 2-3 secs.

New comment by FrozenVoid in "No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me"

FrozenVoid — Wed, 11 May 2022 02:46:50 +0000

Back when youtube had a good UI it was real ratings, you could rank videos 1-5 https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/youtube-comes-to-a-5-star-... then it """optimized""" out the middle ratings( Middle ratings were the more honest ones, perfect videos are rare and 1-ratings we often unjustified) to 1=dislike 5=like, where everything is simplified to single click mobile engagement. I would like a 1 to 10 rating scale and make MORE refined rating choices, not vague "likes"(currently YT has only 1-5 star rating for rare question-type prompts with video on homepage for logged in users when it needs feedback). Making 5/10 7/10 and 9/10 videos rank the same with "likes" lowers quality of ratings substantially.