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New comment by malkia in "an ambiguity in C89 which will never be fixed"

malkia — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:26:26 +0000

This... from the time when kids played with real toys :)

New comment by malkia in "Reverse Jevons Paradox"

malkia — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:00:07 +0000

Or also called bureaucracy

New comment by malkia in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

malkia — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:52:21 +0000

USB-C1, USB-C2, USB-C3, etc... we had the CAT naming for a while

New comment by malkia in "Manual: •.,:;…!?·"

malkia — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:10:29 +0000

Садись. Двойка! - "Sit down, you got an F" :) - sorry, as bulgarian it was funny to me this used as example (from russian).

New comment by malkia in "The Visual 6502"

malkia — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:03:45 +0000

Well I've played the 6502 simulator as a kind on my 6502 Apple ][ clone :) :) :)

youtube.com/watch?si=XuNgnVc4rf86nIgA&t=42

it should'be available here to play online too (but haven't tried it)

https://archive.org/details/257_Educational_Software_The_650...

New comment by malkia in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

malkia — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:47:56 +0000

15 million mollars :)

New comment by malkia in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

malkia — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:39:53 +0000

Oh yes, good point! Stand corrected!

New comment by malkia in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

malkia — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:32:38 +0000

Does this apply to Netflix, Amazon, Disneys, and many other streaming providers's "What to watch next? Recommended..." of sorts (or music/podcast streaming services)...

New comment by malkia in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

malkia — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:41:20 +0000

I spent years (on my free time) coding Lisp, even had the aspiration (but I was younger then) to rewrite P4V (Perforce Client GUI) in it :) -

https://github.com/malkia/p4bee

but haven't touched it in years....

New comment by malkia in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

malkia — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:29:04 +0000

Hah, didn't think of it this way... To me it was if it allows live updates (+support for them) or not :)

New comment by malkia in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

malkia — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:28:13 +0000

I've been wondering - Is lisp (common lisp, clojure, scheme) easier for iterative work with LLMs?

New comment by malkia in "Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System"

malkia — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:44:06 +0000

No it's not. Not everybody uses Zig. Rust/Python/And others have also tried "fixing" it.

New comment by malkia in "Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System"

malkia — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:22:13 +0000

Everytime I see a language creating their own package system, all I can think of it how much we've missed here.

The only exception is C/C++, where there is none established that well, for good or bad.

These choices may create later super-convoluted processes when you have to mix more than one language together.

Packaging systems makes thing easy, but complicate further the line if another language needs to be used.

New comment by malkia in "A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse"

malkia — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:11:46 +0000

In similar spirit, there was an old US TV show that was popular in Bulgaria.

It was about some typical US family living with the grandad (father's side).

So grandad gets punishes all the times for all the silly things he does, and his punishment involves him getting "pork" instead of "beef"...

Well that "punishment" does not work in Bulgaria (back 20+ years ago) - "pork" was always better back then, not because in general pork is better, but because our "beef" was terrible (cows were mostly for milking)...

So while learning English, and listening to the show - I got super confused why in English they would say one thing, and captions in Bulgarian completely the opposite!

Hence I learned, there is a mastery in localization.

New comment by malkia in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

malkia — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:23:33 +0000

There is HyperDX - search is not fastest, but it could be something that we do too - haven't checked deeply if high-cardinality is big issue with ClickHouse, but seeing some high cardinality data with what we post.

New comment by malkia in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

malkia — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:20:54 +0000

There is an awesome amount of software written by Russians - nginx, clickhouse, 7zip, Far Manager, WinRAR, even Kotlin (his creator) - I grew up, as bulgarian, with Russian books (especially math) that were indispensible.

Do I like the Russian goverment, or any of their goverments (current, soviet or royal ones) - Hell no! We were liberated "two" or was it "three" times by then only to screw things for us badly (Bulgaria).

The people, the culture, the language, the music, art, science are great...

I still don't understand why so many bulgarians still like Putin... but hey!

New comment by malkia in "PlayStation Architecture"

malkia — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:17:00 +0000

Holy Shit! _ How did they got so far - this is amazing...

Look here - https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFoxdieTeam%2Fmgs_reversin...

New comment by malkia in "PlayStation Architecture"

malkia — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:57:57 +0000

ha! I wish I knew this back then, but now I do remember - I think what we did was simply clearing the bit before access, and it was in just dozen or so places. Slap a macro and you are done!

New comment by malkia in "PlayStation Architecture"

malkia — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:54:15 +0000

There are memory regions that are mapped to the same physical memory - https://psx-spx.consoledev.net/memorymap/

I worked on the Metal Gear Solid port from PSX to PC, and Konami programmers chose a wild trick to store how the "C4" bomb was planted - either on the wall, or on the ground.

Essentially the pointer pointed to the same physical memory address, but if it was planted on the wall (or on the ground, I forgot) - then it was OR-ing it with 80000000h or was A0000000h - or maybe something else - lol was long time ago.

It was fun porting this on PC, and right now I don't even remember what I did exactly - hahaha

New comment by malkia in "Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware"

malkia — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:22:10 +0000

Sandboxing is quite easy (user-wise), once you install the sandbox system. By default it allows only a single sandbox, and with small `.wsb` file you can drive what's visible from the host, whether the GPU should be active, etc. - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

It's great for testing, and Sandbox is just the tip of the iceberg of what Windows Containers support

- e.g. maybe someone can come up with "launcher" that goes through it (somehow).