malkia · HackerLangs

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....

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

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

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6 gün öncediscuss

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

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20 gün öncediscuss

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.

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21 gün öncediscuss

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.

malkia

21 gün öncediscuss

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!

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

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

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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!

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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

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2 ay öncediscuss

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).

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2 ay öncediscuss

There is a game - Beyond The Darkness - released few weeks before the name change

"Beyond the Darkness" was released on Nov 14 2024 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1728610/Beyond_The_Darkne...

"Beyond the Dark" (the malware) was released (ahem, renamed) on Dec 28 2024

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oh wow! that sounds awesome! (I guess I left around the time you were starting)! I was based in LAX (so no G-Buses for us, but I had to visit MTV often - like once twice a month, and enjoyed getting on one of them)). Kudos!

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yup - when I started in 2014, coming from long gamedev experience it was nice that "g4" was just "p4" rewritten for piper. (alzo "blaze menu" was cool, but did not show (AFAIR) places in LAX)....

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Xoogler here (2014-2017). My team (part of Ads) used primarily Java, and we used the Eclipse, then we started switching the IntelliJ.

Cider was used also a lot, but I've heard even back then some folks were free to use whatever they like - vi, emacs, you name it.

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3 ay öncediscuss

One more "hidden" fact - Windows uses sqlite a lot, for a lot of tables. There is even

    "C:\Windows\System32\winsqlite3.dll"

and

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.27975.0\um\winsqlite\winsqlite3.h"
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.27975.0\um\winsqlite\winsqlite3ext.h"

Well it's compiled in it's own way, which may not be to your liking, but it's there to use :)

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In the past I've used the backup API - https://sqlite.org/backup.html - in order to load in memory a copy of sqlite db, and have another live one. I would do this after certain user action, and then by doing a diff, I would know what changed... I guess poor way of implementing PostgreSQL events... but it worked!

Granted it was small DB (few megabytes), I also wanted to avoid collecting changes one by one, I simply wanted a diff over last time.

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4 ay öncediscuss

Are we now at the bottom of the the Uncanny Valley of AI?

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4 ay öncediscuss

I pre-blame... an artifical intellect!

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5 ay öncediscuss

You can ... to a degree - Google for "XtaCache"

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