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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

That is funny, somewhat works but there's a bias toward the victorian era. https://halupedia.com/the-x128-cpu-architecture. Otherwise I feel sorry for the creator's tokens.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

https://github.com/vlang/v

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

I think Pentium will still be supported. i486 refers to very old 32 bits CPU (80486). The article is not clear but by default I tend to think that i586 and i686 will still be supported.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

When a team is so much into its own littke bubble, it does not realize anymore the shit they are doing

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

This work on system of weight:

> For each option and criterion, you assign a rating (0–10). Each criterion has an importance weight (1–5 stars). Decidit multiplies rating × weight and sums the values – the option with the highest score wins.

Is this really made for people who lack self-discipline or maybe just a website made for a portfolio ?

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

So eventually that would be used to poison communications, just in case of Iranian would use that old channel, which then would also mean that it's been cracked a while ago.

That's absurd but I like this kind of little stories.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

> When a wealthy artist bought the island [...]

Not an artist. British businessman and Winter Olympian. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Schellenberg.

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Also the C API is a bit the poor child. Plenty of useful options (or even opt passes !) are not available.

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

If only that was only about emitting byte code in a file then calling the linker... you also have the problem of debug information, optimizers passes, the amount of tests required to prove the output byte code is valid, etc.

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Another one bites the dust

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

The bigest anoyance nowadays (in the EU at least) is rather the cookie policy agreement. "View the list of our 258 partners", etc.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

That remind me of The Ax [0]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422015/

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

How this was discovered is incredible. An amator satelite was lauched. operators collected data. At some point they had the idea to plot them. That gave a big stain in the south atlantic.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Not into ZIG but for some reasons I monitor new issues that pop in the bug tracker of "new" / "raisins" languages. ZIG has clearly reached the next level, let's say if you compare the issues two years ago (lot of comptime/type system things) VS now.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

I've wrote a lot of `xor al,al` in my youth.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

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vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I cannot reply on the blog but to answer the author about other languages, here is the D version, using a single template:

    auto ref T max(T)(auto ref T u, auto ref T v) => u > v ? u : v;
    
    void main()
    {
        int a = 1;
        int b = 0;
        int x;

        static assert(__traits(compiles, &max(a,b) == &a),
            "should have selected the lvalue version");
        static assert(__traits(compiles, x = max(1,0)),
            "should have selected the rvalue version");
        static assert(__traits(compiles, x = max(a,0)),
            "should have selected the rvalue version");
        static assert(__traits(compiles, x = max(1,0)),
            "should have selected the rvalue version");
    }

sixthDot

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

an hygienic way to handle that is often "assert", can be a macro or a built in statement.The main problem with assertions is the side-effects. The verification must be pure...

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vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Bound checks are usually conditionally compiled. That's more a kind of "contract" you'll verify during testing. In the end the software actually used will not check anything.

    #ifdef CONTRACTS
    if (i >= array_length) panic("index out of bounds")
    #endif

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vor 9 Monatendiscuss

What is really mind blowing is that, if understood correctly, bots would be used to check the availability of a product, that sounds so a "hacky" method, like "seriously people are doing that in 2025".

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