ape4

4,690 karma · joined June 5, 2013

Anyone with a credit card

Naive question... would it be possible to make a language that describes multimedia formats that could then be automatically converted into code.

ape4··on Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

Create the referenced but non-existent file and then fix it /s

ape4··on The true power of regular expressions (2012)

The last thing we need is huge regexs made by AI

ape4··on Should you wash your solar panels?

I imagine rain will clean them. In most places it rains every so often.

ape4··on Frame – Linux X server in Assembly

I wrote my own.... symphony, novel, programming language, etc

ape4··on Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

Just adding, since I don't see it mentioned in the readme, that its written in Typescript. That's what makes this interesting. I imagine Pandoc can do this but its not Typescript (its Haskell).

ape4··on Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format

It would be nice if the low quality image also provided a headstart for the full quality image.

ape4··on Late Bronze Age Collapse

I think it's a popular topic because so many people are wondering when our civilization will fall.

ape4··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

Yeah, its a bit of a cheat. The best obfuscated C programs have the source looking like a Christmas tree (or something) and then play an xmas song (or whatever)

ape4··on Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene

I wonder what the regulations are for this sort of work

ape4··on Google copybara: moving code between repositories

Why doesn't it have a capybara as its logo!

ape4··on So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

Why not call it .junk-drawer instead ;)

ape4··on Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

So its not a cache for my record collection ;(

ape4··on Ported my C game to WASM, here's everybug that I hit

64 bit was added in WebAssembly 2.0 (finished in 2022 according to Wikipedia). I know what doesn't answer any it wasn't there in the first place.

ape4··on Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water

Couldn't they reuse the water - after it cooled down.

ape4··on ESP32-S31

Its good you can do that but the command doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

ape4··on Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

Comparing a number to zero is something that's done a lot

ape4··on Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

Does google have a option to avoid AI summaries?

ape4··on Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)

Ah, I wonder what's change since then.

ape4··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

Yeah the exact kind shouldn't matter - just the WebGL capabilities.

ape4··on Your hex editor should color-code bytes

As a next level beyond coloring... how about adding some interactivity? How about a slider to control the brightness of each type of byte. Turn everything but text to 10% when when you're looking for some words in a binary file.

ape4··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

As a non-European I want to say: thanks EU

ape4··on Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

Can it only make compilers for Lisp-like languages

ape4··on Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)

Right that's what I meant ... the .ll file. Thanks

ape4··on Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)

Would a practical approach be parsing the source into clang's AST format. Then let it make the actual executable.

ape4··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

Why don't they charge by the Gigabyte

ape4··on What have been the greatest intellectual achievements? (2017)

I guess some of the great symphonies doesn't count as "intellectual"?