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New comment by rebolek in "I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music"

rebolek — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:58:56 +0000

Oh, Absent Friends by Divine Comedy. What a beautiful record!

New comment by rebolek in "56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up"

rebolek — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:23:09 +0000

What if I don't `evict`? How different is it from forgetting to `free`?

New comment by rebolek in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

rebolek — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:47:11 +0000

If your trip to desert is worth polluting whole low orbit and high atmosphere is debatable. Same goes for hypothetical business there. Maybe building towers would be a better idea in long term.

New comment by rebolek in "War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history"

rebolek — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:12:52 +0000

cool visuals but the result is totally random

New comment by rebolek in "War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history"

rebolek — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:49:51 +0000

*every = some of them

New comment by rebolek in "The future of Flipper Zero development"

rebolek — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:00:42 +0000

Is there some study to explain why? Do they feel more safer pretending to be human sized...furry animal?

New comment by rebolek in "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination"

rebolek — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:21:26 +0000

thank you, captain obvious

New comment by rebolek in "Red Programming Language: Static linking support"

rebolek — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:57:12 +0000

I always love to see Rebol and Red mentioned anywhere, as I spent more than half of my life with these languages, working with them and working on them.

Recently I started working on [Recoil](https://recoil.rblk.eu/) which is inspired by Rebol/Red but targets static memory-safe compiled niche to complement dynamic interpreted nature of Rebol. It’s still in very early phase but it already has some very nice features (at least I consider them very nice) like fully compiler owned `parse`, finite state machine and (lazy) finite state transducer datatypes.

Oh, and built-in Rebol-like scripting language that can run on (not only) ESP32 called F00.

It’s still work in progress but I like it. Maybe someone else can find it interesting too.

New comment by rebolek in "Red Programming Language: Static linking support"

rebolek — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:42:37 +0000

No, even Rebol2 can build 64 bit but the whole compiler needs to be rewritten to produce 64 bit binaries. It’s not limitation but deliberate choice made when 32 bit was still major target. It may seem silly in the hindsight. But it made sense then.

New comment by rebolek in "AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design"

rebolek — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:21:34 +0000

No. I'm really not fan of Python but you're not going to parse JSON at assembler level. You need to choose right level of indirection for each task. And LLMs are good at more than Python and Rust. I'm using LLMs to write programs in my own language that is compiled by a very fringe language and it happily does everything from scripting on ESP32 to audio plugins and 3D gfx on desktop.

New comment by rebolek in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

rebolek — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:16:26 +0000

SpaceX is successfully building reusable rockets. BTC can process few transactions every ten or so minutes at enormous price.

I think SpaceX is definitely overpriced but saying that BTC is more sane is completely delusional.

New comment by rebolek in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

rebolek — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:39:41 +0000

By looking at my face you agree with EULA take explicitly says "don't look at my face"

New comment by rebolek in "Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I."

rebolek — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:31:11 +0000

They would end up extremely bored very soon.

New comment by rebolek in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

rebolek — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:39:24 +0000

Then vote for politicians who do.

New comment by rebolek in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

rebolek — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:07:51 +0000

20% of auto-reported crashes. So it's not like Linux users were writing more tickets but the game crashing on Linux more (because of gfx drivers).

New comment by rebolek in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

rebolek — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:53:48 +0000

I want better Topaz. My favourite font.

New comment by rebolek in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

rebolek — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:04:50 +0000

I moved to Codeberg and self hosted Forgejo. I'm happy.

New comment by rebolek in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

rebolek — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:49:13 +0000

How much creativity do you need to fix bugs in corporate code? Almost zero. It’s maintenance, not creative work. Nothing against it, it’s needed, but let’s be real, would anybody be really sad if this work is overtaken by LLMs? I certainly won’t be, let them do it.

New comment by rebolek in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

rebolek — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:26:19 +0000

It's not like you can't write "update this for next round of forced obsolescence " to Claude. Yes, it's unnecessary burden but solvable.

New comment by rebolek in "Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs"

rebolek — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:14:08 +0000

> "For the last 15 months or so my hobby has been shouting at Claude"

How can you shout at Claude when it’s

1) foobaring, bamblabooing and fghrtawing all the time without telling you what’s going on

2) when it finally interacts, it’s asking for a permission you told it 30 seconds ago "yes and do not ever ask me again until heat death of the Universe"

3) and after all of that, it just spits out: "you’re out of tokens, give up your liver or wait until next Trump’s war"