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New comment by chc in "C23: A Slightly Better C"

chc — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:19:52 +0000

They also wanted "without loss of performance" (compared to C, I think, based on the context), which also has tension with the other requirements. I don't think it's possible to make a memory-safe language that has easy C FFI with no overhead and doesn't require you to think about C stuff. The esoterica of C have to be addressed somewhere.

New comment by chc in "Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly"

chc — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 19:13:40 +0000

Cities: Skylines was sort of a follow-up to Cities In Motion, which was entirely about transportation, so that's a very essential part of its DNA.

New comment by chc in "Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly"

chc — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:47:58 +0000

Game dev in general is that way, but my impression was that Colossal Order had traditionally been a little better than most. I suppose I may have been mistaken.

New comment by chc in "Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly"

chc — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:45:29 +0000

They let you return the game no questions asked if you haven't played it for two hours.

New comment by chc in "Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly"

chc — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:44:47 +0000

Using web tech for the UI isn't a problem here. The article, when measuring the performance impact of different rendering phases, describes the time the UI requires as "an irrelevant amount of time."

New comment by chc in "Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness"

chc — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:36:30 +0000

Humans actually need to eat more than for-profit companies do.

New comment by chc in "GitHub Actions could be so much better"

chc — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:33:08 +0000

I'm not gonna post my employer's proprietary code into ChatGPT.

New comment by chc in "HashiCorp did it backwards"

chc — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 23:09:16 +0000

AGPL is almost exactly the same as GPL except that SAAS counts as distribution. That's the entire purpose of the license — to preserve the copyleft protections of the GPL in a world where most software people use is hosted.

New comment by chc in "Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in Go"

chc — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:21:35 +0000

What of it, though? I noticed, but didn't think much of it because pseudocode doesn't need to be valid and usually isn't. What is the problem with these syntax errors that you are trying to address by calling attention to them?

New comment by chc in "ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”"

chc — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 23:13:30 +0000

Literally any new technology could be the plot to a sci-fi horror movie. The entire concept of the genre is to show how progress could go awry.

New comment by chc in "New study measures grammatical complexity of languages"

chc — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:32:56 +0000

Agglutinative languages say hi.

New comment by chc in "New study measures grammatical complexity of languages"

chc — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:30:30 +0000

I think that's more a peculiarity of Russian than a necessary quality of flexible sentence order. For example, many deviations from the standard sentence order in Japanese can still be understandable and grammatical because particles denote the parts of the sentence.

New comment by chc in "The ideal viewport doesn't exist"

chc — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:24:09 +0000

A lot of Linux users tile their windows too.

New comment by chc in "Poland’s ‘anti-vampire’ graves"

chc — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:14:21 +0000

The singular "they" is in fact about as old as the singular "you" (which was also strictly a plural before then).

New comment by chc in "Poland’s ‘anti-vampire’ graves"

chc — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:55:43 +0000

This is also the origin of the "stake through the heart" trope. The stake was originally meant as a way to hold a vampire in place, just like these instruments.

New comment by chc in "Lahaina residents worry a rebuilt Maui could slip to the hands of rich outsiders"

chc — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:51:02 +0000

That's not really here or there. Owning a house does not make it legal to, for example, use it as a brothel. We could just as well say that owning a house does not make it legal to rent out. You'd still have your right to the property.

New comment by chc in "Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex"

chc — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:01:13 +0000

He linked to the White House website. The occupant of the White House at the time was George W. Bush. I am not even trying to be charitable, that's just the most likely reading to me. Basically every talk show host made similar jokes all the time because Bush was widely considered to be an incompetent nepo baby, so I'd need a reason to read it any other way, and I don't really see one here.

New comment by chc in "Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex"

chc — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:45:46 +0000

The Bush Administration did not do any of those things. Reading his comments as a dismissal of those things, rather than the guy running the White House when he wrote it, seems uncharitable.

New comment by chc in "Nim 2.0"

chc — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:14:27 +0000

I don't see them drawing any distinctions from C++ or Rust there either. It really sounds to me like most of their low-level experience is in C, where the contrasts they appear to be drawing really do apply.

New comment by chc in "Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI"

chc — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 21:36:45 +0000

Why do you think that? To the extent that a correlation exists between the level of social benefits offered by a country and the amount of horrors committed by its government, I would expect it to go the opposite direction (i.e. brutal dictators are more likely to hoard resources than share them freely). I have heard some attempts to substantively make the argument that socialized economies lead to brutality before, but every one I have seen has relied on a pretty blatant sleight of hand where laissez-faire economics is conflated with democracy. If you're aware of an analysis that does an apples to apples comparison and comes to that conclusion, that would be very interesting.