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Each point doesn't really bear the same level of "unsoundness". Most are actually not problems at all the way I see it.

1. I can live with NaN. When the source of something becomes difficult to track, use a debugger.

2. Map vs map? Just another homograph, like there are hundreds in all spoken languages, yet most people manage to communicate.

3. The overhead of negative indices might be acceptable in JavaScript, but most languages probably don't benefit from having them. I think negative indices are actually hurtful, they tend to hide bugs which would otherwise be caught very early at runtime.

4. This is actually a serious issue. I don't get why so many people are in awe with TypeScript type system. Anything based on duck typing is a red flag to me. But still, better than no typing at all...

ajfjrbfbfon Oracle's Hidden Hand Is Behind the Google Antitrust Lawsuits

Paywall. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201224190038/https://www.bloom...

ajfjrbfbfon 1.7M premature deaths annually from air pollution in India

I just read the headline, but I feel like Karma is beginning to hit them back. They bred like rats for decades, and continue to do so, leading to extreme overpopulation, leading in turn to extreme pollution. In the end, there's only so much population a territory can support before individuals start dying off. Whether this is by starvation or air pollution, it all originates from the same issue. They really need to start working on birth control.

And don't get me wrong, I have nothing against indians. Would this happen anywhere else (and it is) my reaction would be identical.

ajfjrbfbfon Libre Barcode Project

It does repeat. Disable remote fonts and clear your cache you'll see. There's a special pattern at the start and at the end.

ajfjrbfbfon Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)

What does he mean by ARM emulator? Does it mean translating from ARM instruction set to AVR's? If so what is the 6.5 kHz about? An ATmega can probably run at a few MHz, surely emulating 32-bit instructions from 8-bit doesn't take a thousand cycles on average.

ajfjrbfbfon Unicorn Traits – Early Signs of a Bilion Dollar Company

The name of the author is "Richard Awoyemi", your username is "richardawoyemi". Shouldn't you say "the stuff I'm saying"?

ajfjrbfbfon Writing a Memory Allocator (2019)

Implementing a memory allocator seems to require system calls. What happens when there's no OS? For example on an MCU like Arduino, is the memory allocator packaged along with the program data? If so and in the case of an Arduino, is the code for it available anywhere? I would be curious to see how this is implemented on an embedded system.

ajfjrbfbfon Imgdiff: Faster than the fastest pixel-by-pixel image difference tool

Why not use the GPU? This is exactly the kind of tasks GPUs were designed for. Gimp can do this in real time using the difference layer mode.

ajfjrbfbfon Endangered Firefox, the State of Mozilla

I don't know, I disabled Chrome long ago to make sure it doesn't do shady stuff in background.

ajfjrbfbfon Binary Decision Diagrams (2010)

There's Judy arrays too, I'm not sure if it's already included in one of those data structures.

ajfjrbfbfon IceStick Tutorial: experience FPGA design and RISC-V using $40 FPGA device

All TinyFPGAs are sold out for now :(

ajfjrbfbfon No Nonsense List of Google Alternatives for Linux Users

> Blogging - Medium - I actually hate Medium, but its easy and popular.

For a no nonsense list that doesn't make much sense.

ajfjrbfbfon Books for Programmers

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

ajfjrbfbfon The Last Children of Down Syndrome

There always after-birth abortion, although that's probably a lot less ethical.

ajfjrbfbfon Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should

renames a file

> yeah, it renames the require statements, when you rename a file.

??? IntelliJ has probably been doing this since day 1 (in 2001), more have probably done so for far longer. Granted this applies to Java, not JS, but still. Speaking of IntelliJ, it is completely absent from the author pathetic history of IDEs, adding to the fact that he ought to get of the ghetto he's living in.

ajfjrbfbfon SVG Path Editor

Tools that can't parse the compressed arc flags are especially frustrating. Android Studio for example.

ajfjrbfbfon Common Probability Errors to Avoid

With that Mac keyboard I would say around 30% per keystroke.

ajfjrbfbfon When Computers Were Cool

Can this run GPT3? Also a 6.5kW computer must need quite some cooling system...

ajfjrbfbfon The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2344/

ajfjrbfbfon Five Eyes nations plus Japan call for Big Tech put backdoors in everything

Or just use Linux and build everything from source.

ajfjrbfbfon Atomic Typos (2005)

When using dd, every typo is an atomic typo.