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New comment by paulclinger in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"

paulclinger — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:37:30 +0000

Roundabouts are great (we just had two complex intersections with traffic lights replaced by roundabouts and the traffic flow is much better), but they take significantly more space than a 4-way stop.

New comment by paulclinger in "Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL"

paulclinger — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 03:33:31 +0000

Many of these topics (and more) are explored in Ted Chiang's "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Obje...).

New comment by paulclinger in "A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers"

paulclinger — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:23:23 +0000

I have updated the Lua binding to support the session extension (http://lua.sqlite.org/home/timeline?r=session) and it's been integrated into the current version of cosmopolitan/redbean. This was partially done to support application-level sync of SQLite DBs, however this is still a work in progress.

New comment by paulclinger in "LuaRT: Lua programming environment for console, desktop applications for Windows"

paulclinger — Sat, 25 May 2024 19:25:05 +0000

It's an IDE, but it allows building full GUI apps. It's itself written in Lua using wxlua/wxwidgets toolkit, so has access to the majority of the modules availables in wxwidgets. The binaries are also bundled with the IDE for all supported platforms, so you can develop and package your own application in the same way.

New comment by paulclinger in "Libwebsockets: pure C library for http, websockets, MQTT"

paulclinger — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:46:58 +0000

FWIW there is ongoing work with good progress to add websocket support to redbean (https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/pull/967)

New comment by paulclinger in "Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)"

paulclinger — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:10:53 +0000

True, but I take loading a dishwasher as a puzzle to do it in the most compact/efficient way, which helps with adding enjoyment to the process.

New comment by paulclinger in "Show HN: Lua Carousel, create little programs on desktop or mobile devices"

paulclinger — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:33:13 +0000

Look great! I've done something similar with exactly the same approach of fully reevaluating Love functions, which allows changing the app behavior on the fly: http://notebook.kulchenko.com/zerobrane/live-coding-with-lov.... This is only running on a desktop (as it's controlled from the ZeroBrane Studio IDE running on the same machine) and allows both changing the source code and using virtual sliders on any numbers in the script to drag left/right to affect the behavior.

It was very interesting to work on that and to see the behavior of the script changing in real time. I've seen some of the users creating simple applications in a matter of minutes using this approach; here is one that was done at about the same time as the Love demo (although it's using Gideros SDK): https://notebook.kulchenko.com/zerobrane/gideros-live-coding...

New comment by paulclinger in "Building a starter pack for an API-as-a-Service"

paulclinger — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 02:30:02 +0000

I find it easier to read if it's something like "22% with $5 minimum per month".

New comment by paulclinger in "Cosmopolitan v3.1"

paulclinger — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:33:37 +0000

No, to my knowledge cosmopolitan doesn't provide any special provisions to support this, so you'd have to build it yourself.

New comment by paulclinger in "Cosmopolitan v3.1"

paulclinger — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:29:19 +0000

FWIW, there is ongoing work on dlopen; it was introduced 2 weeks ago (https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/5e8c928f1a37349a...) and continued after that.

New comment by paulclinger in "Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck"

paulclinger — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:41:37 +0000

It will complicate the control of the truck and add more components (increasing the cost).

New comment by paulclinger in "Placemark is going open source and shutting down"

paulclinger — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:48:44 +0000

Obituary. necrolog is coming from French and is used in some languages, Russian for example.

New comment by paulclinger in "Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data"

paulclinger — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:07:51 +0000

There is a similar sign next exit 17 on 405N prohibiting existing and re-entering back.

New comment by paulclinger in "A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely"

paulclinger — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:14:59 +0000

Don't worry, it will be paused for your convenience and resumed when you come back.

New comment by paulclinger in "Cosmopolitan Third Edition"

paulclinger — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:07:38 +0000

There is no support for dynamic libraries in Cosmopolitan right now, so the libraries would either need to be compiled in (statically) or included in the archive as Python-only libraries. With the later ones, it should be a matter of adding them to the zip archive within the cosmo python executable, which should make them available to your scripts. See the discussion elsewhere in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38102629) for some additional details.

New comment by paulclinger in "Cosmopolitan Third Edition"

paulclinger — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:17:19 +0000

Yes and yes.

New comment by paulclinger in "Berry is a ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language"

paulclinger — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:41:32 +0000

It does indeed look interesting and looks to be similar to Lua in several aspects (although, there are some noticeable differences too). FWIW, there has been work done in eLua to keep some of the data (transparently) in ROM: https://eluaproject.net/doc/v0.9/en_arch_ltr.html (see rotables).

New comment by paulclinger in "Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job"

paulclinger — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 05:36:22 +0000

I don't think it's really that wrong-headed. What are the choices: (1) march ahead trying to salvage the current design with no clear path forward (other than waiting for the SSR solution), (2) quit right now, or (3) quit in 6-8 weeks if the proposed solution doesn't work (or is not delivered fast enough). The last option is not that bad if the author is hoping to figure it out, especially that the timeline is short and with a quick prototype (which the author did) it's going to be clear much sooner if the new approach is workable or not.

New comment by paulclinger in "Far Manager: files and archives in Windows"

paulclinger — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 03:40:24 +0000

I mostly use arclite, Brackets matching, Netbox (for FTP access), Process list, FarColorer and Temporary panel. I suspect most of them come bundled with Far.

New comment by paulclinger in "Far Manager: files and archives in Windows"

paulclinger — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:38:24 +0000

I've been using FAR for the last 20+ years on a daily basis and it hasn't crashed a single time for me. I like its minimalist UI, but a quite complex functions are only a click or two away and various plugins extend its functionality in useful ways (for example, Netbox for ftp access). I think it's a fantastically useful and robust tool.