Hacker News: renewedrebecca

New comment by renewedrebecca in "C is not a low-level language (2018)"

renewedrebecca — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:05:25 +0000

You can do all those things with a macro assembler.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Lazarus Release 4.0"

renewedrebecca — Mon, 12 May 2025 19:12:23 +0000

fpcupdeluxe is a lot more reliable than installing the releases.

When arm64 came out, I couldn't even get an arm64 build for my Mac, but fpcupdeluxe just handled it.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)"

renewedrebecca — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:39:39 +0000

Pascal originally required you to specify the length of the string before you did anything with it.

This is a totally good idea, but was considered to be too much of a pain to use at the time.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Lazarus Release 4.0"

renewedrebecca — Mon, 12 May 2025 00:08:31 +0000

It was so much harder when I was a baby- you had to bootstrap the whole thing on an IBM 360.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "What’s new in Swift 6.2"

renewedrebecca — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:38:03 +0000

Feels like a lot of people like making dealing with null as complicated as possible.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Show HN: Oliphaunt – A native Mastodon client for macOS"

renewedrebecca — Sat, 10 May 2025 14:51:50 +0000

Then use Ice Cubes. Not everything has to be FOSS.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Show HN: Oliphaunt – A native Mastodon client for macOS"

renewedrebecca — Sat, 10 May 2025 14:49:30 +0000

It's not very community-like out of the box, that's totally true.

OTOH, after you follow both people and hashtags, it feels pretty much like everything else, more or less.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Apparently Bluesky has one centralized service, the "relay""

renewedrebecca — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:14:36 +0000

> Can’t pick a big generic instance because

Nobody is going to defederate from mastodon.social, but otherwise, this is all true.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "A Tour Inside the IBM Z17"

renewedrebecca — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:01:22 +0000

Both. Mainframes though are incredibly good for both I/O and uptime.

Yeah, Linux/Unix are way better on both than they used to be, but on a mainframe, it's just a totally different level.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Empty Calories of AI: A Cure for Loneliness Worse Than the Disease?"

renewedrebecca — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:16:06 +0000

Because a lot of real humans on social media are awful.

(Some platforms are better than others, obviously.)

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Christianity was always for the poor (2024)"

renewedrebecca — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:19:35 +0000

Sure, but that is different than being a translation.

A "translation" of the Bible is always considered moving from the original text, not from the likely language of the speaker.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Christianity was always for the poor (2024)"

renewedrebecca — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:18:05 +0000

You are completely wrong. The US is not a leftist nation by any stretch of the imagination. Honestly, you're so incredibly wrong, that I can't believe you actually believe what you are saying.

In fact, after being on HN since 2008, I have never encountered someone as wrong as you are.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "The Subjective Charms of Objective-C"

renewedrebecca — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:19:27 +0000

I lost hope for Swift after seeing a minor holy war about the c-style for loop.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back"

renewedrebecca — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:18:28 +0000

> "But nobody made them agree to that!"

And to amplify your point just a bit, if the alternative is losing your healthcare and possibly going homeless, what does "agreeing" even mean anymore?

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Googler... ex-Googler"

renewedrebecca — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:00:33 +0000

Probably because only the US has the kind of gun violence that you're wondering about. I don't think in Europe, the idea that someone is going to come after you with a gun because you pissed them off generally hits the radar.

Someone may find the question offensive because of that.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Guitar modeling companies are recreating rare vintage sounds for the digital age"

renewedrebecca — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:38:07 +0000

Greatest amp ever, if you ask me.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "The Curious Case of Jupiter Ace"

renewedrebecca — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:57:40 +0000

I see this idea a lot, but I don't really buy it. I've coded in 6502 assembly for years, and the zero page is not register-like at all.

Best thing you can say about zero page is that it only requires one read cycle to fetch a value from. (Or one write cycle to store a value to it.)

Why ZP isn't like registers: You can't do register operations with it. For example, you can do this with the accumulator:

LDA #03 ; load immediate value of 3. STA $c000 ; store it at $c000.

LDA $1004 ; load a value from $1004. ADC $4000 ; add the value stored at $4000. STA $4001 ; store to $4001.

You can't do this at all with a zero page address. You have to go through an actual register first.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say"

renewedrebecca — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:14:31 +0000

Do you like to be surveilled at work? Would it make you want to do a better job or just hate your job more?

New comment by renewedrebecca in "LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News"

renewedrebecca — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:10:58 +0000

The concern here is that people aren’t happy that LLM parasites are wasting their bandwidth and therefore their money on a scheme to get rich off of other people’s work.

New comment by renewedrebecca in "The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir"

renewedrebecca — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:54:12 +0000

> It seems fine as long as they follow the regulations related to price fixing

This would be the "if it's legal, it's also ethical" fallacy.