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MangoToupe··on Pixar's True Story
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MangoToupe··on Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS"
If you need multiple allocators, and you aren't already using lisp, who cares? Just use lisp. Anyone who can use allocators against the C abi can clearly see the benefits of using a language that can cater to the developer. Zig can never do this, yea even with its shallow macros. Zig will always be a shitty B knockoff rather than something artisans actually want to use
MangoToupe··on Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems
You shouldn't call it "soil" after treating it like this. Maybe "processed earth" or something like that
MangoToupe··on Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS"
You call the use of memory something other than "allocation". Ez.

I thought that passing down allocators was core to the language. I was mistaken. This is actually quite nice for writing allocation code when you'd like to opt into it.

MangoToupe··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
> We shouldn't dilute the term hero

Buddy you're fighting against 3000 years of dilution. Let people have their word

MangoToupe··on Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems
> Considering the existing DDT contamination, ending up with dirt that needs to be fortified with compost is hardly the worst trade-off.

I would definitely bet against this if I could. Soil is far more potent than DDT can harm.

MangoToupe··on Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
You seem like a bitter person. I hope you find love.
MangoToupe··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
Idk about hero, but he's definitely american. What a fast food warrior!
MangoToupe··on Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
> This indy developer (is that label fair?) is putting AAA studios to shame.

For the hundredth time. He's an extremely rare person focused on quality, value, and competency. And he clearly just loves his own game

Edit: Sorry? Pay for what, and risk what why? AAA studios simply cannot deliver good value in comparison. The donation is unrelated—or perhaps, arguably, open source makes this productivity possible.

MangoToupe··on Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS"
> As another commenter wrote "how do you allocate memory without an allocator?"

You call these things something other than an "allocating" and "allocators". Seriously, few people would consider adding a value to a hashmap an intentionally allocational activity, but it is. Same with adding an element to a vector, or any of the dependent actions on it.

Seriously

MangoToupe··on 'Three norths' alignment about to end
> Langton is obviously "long town"

Are we speaking another language? C'mon, this isn't obvious at all.

> but Matravers is a very strange non-English sounding name, and indeed according to Wikipedia it's from French

Duh? Was "vers" not a major clue?

...what kind of language education did you receive? I was taught english, french, and latin. Were you taught german or dutch by any chance?

MangoToupe··on 'Three norths' alignment about to end
True. There may be australians interested in other otherwise-obscure islands
MangoToupe··on Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS"
Odin claims to be pragmatic (what language doesn't lol) but "All procedures that returned allocated memory will require an explicit allocator to be passed". Charitably, is this aimed at c/zig heads?
MangoToupe··on Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems
> From there, it's pretty easy to filter out the soil and clean it up.

"Cleaning" soil is an interesting concept. At what point does it just become dirt? Presumably some of the nutrients will remain, but it seems like this would sterilize it.

Dirt still has use, of course, but soil is expensive to produce for a reason.

MangoToupe··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
This is a use case that hasn't yet been proven out, though. "Good enough" for an executive may not be "good enough" to keep the company solvent, and there's no shortage of private equity morons who have no understanding of their own assets.
MangoToupe··on Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
...isn't that the point of this entire subthread? The kernel itself doesn't provide the stable ABI, userland code that the binary links to does.
MangoToupe··on Singapore study links heavy infant screen time to teen anxiety
This was a commentary on the sort of person who takes the phrase "screen time" seriously—a much broader cultural and social issue than the study itself could reasonably evaluate.
MangoToupe··on Singapore study links heavy infant screen time to teen anxiety
> Screen time today is way different than even 20 years ago.

Gee, it's almost like it's not about the screen itself at all.

MangoToupe··on The Signature Flicker
I don't think this is true at all. Off the top of my head, the only cli ui that seems more usable as the gui equivalent is magit.
MangoToupe··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
The only way the theory of international law holds any water is if countries are held to it regardless of the treaties they've signed. Any country that hasn't signed with the ICC is clearly a country run by criminals.
MangoToupe··on Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers
I'm sure this will be a nice consolation as the meaningful part of the economy collapses
MangoToupe··on Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers
> Data centers are becoming political flashpoints, primarily because of their impact on electricity prices.

I'd bet anything that they know people are pissed the market has wildly misallocated capital and are trying to save face by framing it as a cost that directly impacts consumers. In reality, the fear is knowing that our investor class is really too dumb to handle the money we've stuck in a box called "the world's retirement funds" and handed to them.

MangoToupe··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
> violence going 10% down is better than 0%

This is also what protection payments look like on paper; surely we can reduce violence much more.

I say: let every country have nukes, or let no country have them. This halfway bullshit is worse than either.

MangoToupe··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
> But the whole point of Nuremberg was to prevent this, the whole idea of international law was meant to prevent this.

That seems a little silly on the face of it when you realize most people complicit during the war in what we would now call war crimes weren't even charged to begin with. Many on the losing side found lucrative jobs with the side that won, and the side that won wasn't even considered for charges.

> In a world where human rights are not respected, why would we think that the Jewish people are anything but disadvantaged?

That also seems a little farcical any way you twist it

> If might makes right, you've already accepted that the world belongs to China.

Actually, I think we're moving towards a world that is more earnestly determined by market forces. Or, these were always the same concepts; we just can't force the world to take our "deals" anymore.

MangoToupe··on CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]
That's the whole thing about consensus tho, it's hardly embarrassing
MangoToupe··on As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
You're right. I thought I was misremembering....
MangoToupe··on As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
> I was only using 6GBs of ram.

Insane that this is seen as "better software". I could do basically the same functionality in 2000 with 512mb. I assume this is because everything runs through chrome with dozens more layers of abstraction but

MangoToupe··on 62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_of_Eupalinos

That one is ~2600 years old

MangoToupe··on Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
"The news" is hardly reality either, and nor does it record most of the political conflict in the world.
MangoToupe··on Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains
The logical leap
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