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New comment by PythagoRascal in "Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong"

PythagoRascal — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:35:34 +0000

> The most interesting possibility is if the Odin compiler is itself written wholly in Odin.

Currently, it is not (C++, mostly C style). As far as I can remember, Bill has previously said that a self-hosted version of the compiler might be a possibility, _after_ the 1.0 release and when the full spec of the language has been written.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:54:45 +0000

I think they call those prisons. /s

But seriously, I don't know how much I'd trust society to care / keep funding such schools, or people working there to that with enough empathy and motivation for too long.

The sentiment that (even low-level) criminals in prison are trash, that deserves the worst instead of rehabilitation, is I feel too wide-spread for me to think it would be different.

But yeah, I might be too cynical here.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:34:59 +0000

Conversely, it also ingrains the lesson that it is ok to abuse anyone weaker than you A) if you know you can get away with it (because someone stronger is not always around/aware/inclined to intervene), or B) because that is just normal / the way the world is.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

PythagoRascal — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:33:06 +0000

No, I think it was meant literally. Like the IT Crowd skit where Jen refers to the Internet Explorer desktop shortcut as "the button for the internet".

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

PythagoRascal — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:09:43 +0000

"The author" in above comment refers to the author of the port. So, yes, thats what they meant.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against artist [updated]"

PythagoRascal — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:34:46 +0000

Sue who? Youtube? The claimants?

A fraudulent claimant like this is often some anonymous operation that can pop up under a different name the next day. Good luck finding them (and hope they are even located in a place where suing for copyright would even make sense).

Youtube is protected by their terms and the DCMA, as far as I know.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

PythagoRascal — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:52:36 +0000

I'm interested in the opposite direction too. If the iPad could do real phone calls and sms, I would ditch mobile phones. In the process I'd hope to reduce some screen time. I could live with Pod+Pad+Watch, but I doubt they'd ever make that happen :(

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback"

PythagoRascal — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:42:43 +0000

I doubt they'd just add a UUID in a file header somewhere. If they uniquely modify the actual audio samples in a way that is inaudible during casual listening, that would be much harder to "diff", I think.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:38:51 +0000

Does it need to? Unfortunately, a threat of a lawsuit by a large company is weapon enough to make people buckle.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)"

PythagoRascal — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:59:48 +0000

Adding another link, here's the one I often use: https://flatuicolors.com

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety"

PythagoRascal — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:10:20 +0000

Could you elaborate on which features are premium only? Or maybe also put them in the AppStore description? I tend to be averse to even downloading apps with IAP, without knowing what they are going to be.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Does iOS have sideloading yet?"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:30:46 +0000

> How many give you a 25% discount on top of that? Nobody.

Because they are not allowed to sell the game cheaper elsewhere if they also want to sell on Steam. Their dev ToS require that.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)"

PythagoRascal — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:49:37 +0000

There is also the amazing Franzoli Electronics with his tesla coil music. Great selection of tracks. from AC/DC - Thunderstruck to Megalovania - Undertale OST, you'll find something you like: https://youtu.be/99aLrgk-uqs

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)"

PythagoRascal — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:09:40 +0000

My best guess would be: selecting with the mouse from the left until the (first two?) arabic characters, then extending the selection using the right arrow key while holding shift. Might be that the arrow key skips the cursor to the right side before extending the selection.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month"

PythagoRascal — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 07:52:42 +0000

As far as I know they are using a customised variant of the "wave-function collapse" technique, used and popularised by Oskar Stalberg in his games "Bad North" and "Townscaper". The technique boils down to hand-crafting tons of tiles with adjacency rules about which tiles can slot together. When the user adds/removes a tile the algorithm iteratively tries to find fitting tiles and, if needed, changes neighbouring tiles for ones with the best transitions. He gave a talk where he goes into detail about this[1]. You can also find more if you google his name and "wave-function collapse". [1]: https://youtu.be/0bcZb-SsnrA

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Arena-based parsers"

PythagoRascal — Wed, 08 May 2024 07:20:51 +0000

I would be very interested in a more detailed write-up, if you have the time (or have one already).

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Banks start using purchase history for targeted ads [video]"

PythagoRascal — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:04:18 +0000

What does it achieve to be snarky to someone who can do nothing about it?

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)"

PythagoRascal — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:08:13 +0000

Yes, and an individual's convictions remain static forever and cannot be influenced by others. You can't convince me otherwise.

Your argument sounds tautological.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "The Reddit blackout will continue"

PythagoRascal — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:43:32 +0000

For not being a charity they seem to gladly accept a lot of free volunteer work and free content created for them.

I'd say in terms of value to the platform they got a great deal.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 10:12:08 +0000

Haven't tried it, but this comment on /r/DataHoarder mentioned these two repos:

https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy