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CyMonk··on A Statement by Autistici/Inventati Collective About US Sanctions
Answers to the five Ws: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083
CyMonk··on Odin 1.0 Announcement
Why not start with the home page? It provides a good overview and covers all the important points:

* The Data-Oriented Language for Sane Software Development.

* Odin is the C alternative for the Joy of Programming.

* Simplicity, High Performance, For Modern Systems

If you don't see value in these points, you are not part of the target audience.

CyMonk··on We need tech news sources which exclude AI
> An Apple II in 1982 has 256 Kb of RAM.

Just to nitpick, because this was my first computer. The Apple ][+ from 1982 featured an 8- bit 6502 processor capable of addressing max. 64 KB. If I remember correctly, the base model shipped with 16 KB and could be upgraded.

CyMonk··on The Card That Made the Apple II Serious
i had counted on the z80 card instead.
CyMonk··on Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990
The third game in the series is "X-COM: Apocalypse".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM

CyMonk··on Was it a billion dollar mistake?
In this case the "grouped element mindset" means not only just using allocators but also avoiding RAII by flattening the traditional pointer- based OOP AST into arrays accessed by handles.
CyMonk··on Was it a billion dollar mistake?
"Bink [...] was written and researched by [...] mostly Fabian Giesen, Casey Muratori and Jeff Roberts.", Bink Video Credits

https://www.radgametools.com/binkhcrd.htm

CyMonk··on Was it a billion dollar mistake?
> Casey, meanwhile, has worked on a low-level game development video series for a decade and... never actually shipped a game?

He worked with Jonathan Blow on "The Witness"[0].

As the developer of the "Bink 2" video codec[1] and the animation tool "Granny 3d"[2], his code powers thousands of games.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/, [1] https://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm, [2] https://www.radgametools.com/granny.html

CyMonk··on GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
e.g. on this very site.

https://gdimayhem.temari.fr/index.php?p=datas

CyMonk··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
It actually goes back to mechanical typewriters, which were limited to 70 to 90 characters per line. Commonly used punch cards also had 80 columns. Both were the inspiration for the 80 characters in computer terminals.
CyMonk··on Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator
I am really happy with https://wezterm.org/
CyMonk··on What We Can Learn from Nordic Socialism
I often wish I lived in a world where people understood that social democracy, socialism, Marxism, and communism are not synonyms.
CyMonk··on Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads
what you describe is called "shadow banning".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

CyMonk··on [dead]
yep, same here. i thought pinecone is an algorithm i am not familiar with and expected to read the results of a benchmark in which delphi beats cpp, rust and dlang.
CyMonk··on Bundle of mature content games for free from GOG
"Some games vanish. Not because they broke the law but because someone decided they shouldn’t exist. For 48 hours, these games are free, because if a game is legal, you should be free to buy it."
CyMonk··on ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea
not minimal, but there is "iamb- A Matrix client for Vim addicts"

https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb

CyMonk··on Radium Music Editor
here is an alternative to nodal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727420/Midinous/
CyMonk··on Cpparinfer: A C++23 implementation of the parinfer algorithm
there is a rust implementation that implements smart mode.

https://github.com/eraserhd/parinfer-rust

CyMonk··on Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next?
35,69% of steam users run windows 10 in june 2025 .

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

CyMonk··on You will own nothing and be happy (Stop Killing Games)
there are alot of drm free games released on steam. you can check this in advance by looking up the depots on steamdb and if the steamworks api files are included.
CyMonk··on What CSS length unit should you use?
FYI, you need Javascript and WebGL for the page to work.
CyMonk··on The Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
not to forget the confrontation between bakunin and marx in the first international, over several core issues of the movement.
CyMonk··on Rewriting Unix Philosophy for the Post-AI Era
> What if you put a colon in a file with colon separated fields?

This problem has been solved for thirty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character

CyMonk··on Show HN: A new programming language inspired by Go, no LLVM
Why does it have a Millennium Falcon as a logo? ;)
CyMonk··on Recognizing Patterns in Memory (2022)
as a teenager in the 80s i was obsessed with ripping the music from c64 games. at some point i had so much practice that i could identify the music data perfectly by recognizing visual patterns in the hexdump of the memory.
CyMonk··on Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany
Here are charts from the mentioned KBA site which show the decline from 300.000 in 06/2024 down to 208.00 in 01/2025.

https://www.kba.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Fahrzeugzula...

https://www.kba.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Fahrzeugzula...

CyMonk··on Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany
New car sales in Germany have generally declined significantly since last summer. The last thing Germans worry about is a new car.
CyMonk··on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines
they define the term bullshit in lesson 2:

[quote]BULLSHIT involves language or other forms of communication intended to appear authoritative or persuasive without regard to its actual truth or logical consistency.[/quote]

CyMonk··on Italy, Intel close to $5B deal for chip factory
If you are not from the US or Canada remember Billions are Milliards for the rest of us.
CyMonk··on SpaceVim 2.0
has anybody an opinion on lunarvim vs nvchad?
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