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PythagoRascal··on Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong
> The most interesting possibility is if the Odin compiler is itself written wholly in Odin.

Currently, it is not (C++, mostly C style). As far as I can remember, Bill has previously said that a self-hosted version of the compiler might be a possibility, _after_ the 1.0 release and when the full spec of the language has been written.

PythagoRascal··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
I think they call those prisons. /s

But seriously, I don't know how much I'd trust society to care / keep funding such schools, or people working there to that with enough empathy and motivation for too long.

The sentiment that (even low-level) criminals in prison are trash, that deserves the worst instead of rehabilitation, is I feel too wide-spread for me to think it would be different.

But yeah, I might be too cynical here.

PythagoRascal··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
Conversely, it also ingrains the lesson that it is ok to abuse anyone weaker than you A) if you know you can get away with it (because someone stronger is not always around/aware/inclined to intervene), or B) because that is just normal / the way the world is.
PythagoRascal··on Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
No, I think it was meant literally. Like the IT Crowd skit where Jen refers to the Internet Explorer desktop shortcut as "the button for the internet".
PythagoRascal··on Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
"The author" in above comment refers to the author of the port. So, yes, thats what they meant.
PythagoRascal··on AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against artist [updated]
Sue who? Youtube? The claimants?

A fraudulent claimant like this is often some anonymous operation that can pop up under a different name the next day. Good luck finding them (and hope they are even located in a place where suing for copyright would even make sense).

Youtube is protected by their terms and the DCMA, as far as I know.

PythagoRascal··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
I'm interested in the opposite direction too. If the iPad could do real phone calls and sms, I would ditch mobile phones. In the process I'd hope to reduce some screen time. I could live with Pod+Pad+Watch, but I doubt they'd ever make that happen :(
PythagoRascal··on Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback
I doubt they'd just add a UUID in a file header somewhere. If they uniquely modify the actual audio samples in a way that is inaudible during casual listening, that would be much harder to "diff", I think.
PythagoRascal··on Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
Does it need to? Unfortunately, a threat of a lawsuit by a large company is weapon enough to make people buckle.
PythagoRascal··on Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
Adding another link, here's the one I often use: https://flatuicolors.com
PythagoRascal··on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
Could you elaborate on which features are premium only? Or maybe also put them in the AppStore description? I tend to be averse to even downloading apps with IAP, without knowing what they are going to be.
PythagoRascal··on Does iOS have sideloading yet?
> How many give you a 25% discount on top of that? Nobody.

Because they are not allowed to sell the game cheaper elsewhere if they also want to sell on Steam. Their dev ToS require that.

PythagoRascal··on The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)
There is also the amazing Franzoli Electronics with his tesla coil music. Great selection of tracks. from AC/DC - Thunderstruck to Megalovania - Undertale OST, you'll find something you like: https://youtu.be/99aLrgk-uqs
PythagoRascal··on Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)
My best guess would be: selecting with the mouse from the left until the (first two?) arabic characters, then extending the selection using the right arrow key while holding shift. Might be that the arrow key skips the cursor to the right side before extending the selection.
PythagoRascal··on Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month
As far as I know they are using a customised variant of the "wave-function collapse" technique, used and popularised by Oskar Stalberg in his games "Bad North" and "Townscaper". The technique boils down to hand-crafting tons of tiles with adjacency rules about which tiles can slot together. When the user adds/removes a tile the algorithm iteratively tries to find fitting tiles and, if needed, changes neighbouring tiles for ones with the best transitions. He gave a talk where he goes into detail about this[1]. You can also find more if you google his name and "wave-function collapse". [1]: https://youtu.be/0bcZb-SsnrA
PythagoRascal··on Arena-based parsers
I would be very interested in a more detailed write-up, if you have the time (or have one already).
PythagoRascal··on Banks start using purchase history for targeted ads [video]
What does it achieve to be snarky to someone who can do nothing about it?
PythagoRascal··on Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)
Yes, and an individual's convictions remain static forever and cannot be influenced by others. You can't convince me otherwise.

Your argument sounds tautological.

PythagoRascal··on The Reddit blackout will continue
For not being a charity they seem to gladly accept a lot of free volunteer work and free content created for them.

I'd say in terms of value to the platform they got a great deal.

PythagoRascal··on ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links
Haven't tried it, but this comment on /r/DataHoarder mentioned these two repos:

https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

PythagoRascal··on Show HN: Pashword – Hashed Password Calculator
Am I misunderstanding something or is this not just replacing one password with two salts and another password? What benefits would this have over just generating a password?
PythagoRascal··on Isometric Pixel Art
Somewhat related, there is a Twitter thread about (not quite isometric) hex-grid pixel-art [1].

In a previous thread [2], Oskar Stålberg, creator of the games Bad North, Townscaper, is talking about his use of grids and their dual for procedural tile placement.

Franekk, an amazing pixel artist, is reacting to this that hex-grids are difficult for pixel-art, and later figures out that Oskars trick does indeed work for pixel-art too [3].

[1]: https://twitter.com/Franrekk/status/1485669221711425544 [2]: https://twitter.com/OskSta/status/1448248658865049605 [3]: https://twitter.com/Franrekk/status/1486045914930233351

PythagoRascal··on GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion
> It is learning from it just as a human reader would

I don't see how that invalidates the copyright/license argument. So, instead of just a straight up license violation it's a license violation via plagiarism.

That argument wouldn't hold up even if it was a human that caused the violation. You can't just paraphrase someones licensed work and then lie about looking at and pretend you made it yourself, which is basically what seems to happen with co-pilot, as it doesn't also automatically reproduce the license of the code it reproduces.

PythagoRascal··on A database without dynamic memory allocation
Two great resources are:

- https://www.gingerbill.org/series/memory-allocation-strategi...

- https://www.rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-all...

PythagoRascal··on Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
Except if they purchase a subscription to these benefits through one of the two companies (same parent company) that provide them. The subscriptions are of course competitively priced, since they only have the best interest of their customers at heart.
PythagoRascal··on Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
Another one for the non-tech pile:

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't: https://youtube.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt

A foulmouthed, self-taught botanist walking through deserts: urban, sub-urban and actual; talking about the origins and habitats of plants he encounters, while slagging off shitty city planning, dying lawns and ocasionally, Wholefoods.

PythagoRascal··on Wearable Muscles
They even have their typography guidelines (and full CD) online here: https://ethz.ch/staffnet/en/service/communication/corporate-...
PythagoRascal··on Ask HN: Is there ANY way to filter out unrelated videos from YouTube search?
I didn't know these worked on YouTube as well and not only on Google. Thank you! I guess this will have to do for now :/
PythagoRascal··on Protestware: “peacenotwar” NPM package drops anti-war message on user's desktop
Another downstream consumer is the Unity Hub (software to download & manage Unity Engine versions) via Vue.
PythagoRascal··on Why not hire part-time developers?
In Switzerland jobs are usually advertised in %, where 40h-45h/week is 100%. From that it is also usual to talk about 80% or 4/5days/week (and so on for other percentages).
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