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fjfaase

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Software engineer with more than 30 years experience writing software in mostly C++. Interest in parsers, interpreters and combinatorics problems.

* https://www.iwriteiam.nl/ * https://github.com/FransFaase * https://fjfaase.at.hn

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fjfaase··on Why neither Asia nor the US has produced a rival to ASML
Enginering?
fjfaase··on Religious affiliation of members of 118th Congress [pdf]
Did not find a single atheist or agnostic on it. Maybe there are some among those who refused to tell it. Sometimes I get the idea that it more acceptable to call yourself a satanist than an atheist in the USA, because if you associate as a satanist you at least acknowledge there is a god.
fjfaase··on Could Europe Defeat America in an All-Out War?
In case of a war, the USA will go broke due to the enormouse state dept and the USD will crash. That dept is largely owned by EU countries and the PRC due to trade deficits.
fjfaase··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
It failed for political reasons. Political leaders being afraid to get involved in the war. Also do not rule out right wing political parties that are often anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia due to being sponsord by Russia.

The USA also has had it share of preventing the EU from getting involved.

fjfaase··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
There might be more competition in Europe than you think, because there are fewer companies that dominate the whole continent.

Also Europe houses the company that builds the worlds most complex machines, which depends on innovations made by hunderds of other companies. I worked at one of those companies.

fjfaase··on Nobel Institute says Venezuelan leader Machado can't give Peace Prize to Trump
She has given the medal of her Peace Price to Trump and he will probably boast about having received the price.
fjfaase··on AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
As long as Euro cloud is owned directly or indirectly by a company based in the USA there will be no digital sovereignty.
fjfaase··on A life simulator that let you live any life you want?
Another AI dropshopper?
fjfaase··on Peon – Prefixed Entry Object Notation
How does it indicate that an object is removed? How about moving objects, when you are manipulating a tree like structure?
fjfaase··on Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE
Just before the agents came out of their car another ICE car passed in front of her car. She was waving the agents to pass her. She could not back-up, because there were people standing/walking behind her car. She was not blocking the road, but nevertheless the ICE agents came out of their car to confront her. Context does matter.

After the women got shot, the agent who shot lost the scene taking the weapon with him, which is against all regulations. Other ICE agents prevented medical help from a doctor who identified himself as such and the blocked an ambulance, making them complicit with the murder as she might have been saved if she had gotten medical treatment immediately.

fjfaase··on Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE
That makes those ICE officers complicent to her death, because they had no ground for stopping the physician, who might have saved her.
fjfaase··on [dead]
Lets see how it plays out. The total economy of Europe is larger than the USA. Economic growth in the USA is largely based on AI and might burst soon. The EU is about to wake-up.
fjfaase··on Why Does Life Keep Evolving These Geometric Patterns?
Without having read the article, I guess it is because they can be generated with simple rule systems.
fjfaase··on How does a president becomes a dictator? By executive order
No, by having a group of representatives that allow it. Many dictators were democratic elected. This is true for Hitler and Putin. It will be true for Trump and his descendants.
fjfaase··on US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
This argument has been rebuked over and over again. Denmark and the USA already have an agreement allowing the USA to establish military bases on Greenland [1]. There used to be a lot of USA military bases on Greenland and currently there is but one: Pituffik Space Base.

[1] https://www.eunews.it/en/2025/06/12/denmark-approves-militar...

fjfaase··on The math animation library ManimCE had many of its assets deleted by an attack
I understand that nobody created a local clone of the repository.
fjfaase··on Show HN: Are the Riemann Hypothesis and Navier-Stokes the Same Problem?
There has been a recent number of submissions to wild proofs or theories generated with the help of AI. See [1] and [2] as examples.

According to the LinkedIn page [3] mentioned at the GitHub page, the author has bachelor degree in Communication from Boston College. Either the author is a self-made genius at the level of Ramanujan or has are rather superficial understanding of mathematics and is simply good at prompting the right AI agents.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379409

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430060

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristintynski/

fjfaase··on Show HN: Are the Riemann Hypothesis and Navier-Stokes the Same Problem?
Verifying a limited set of points does not count as a mathematical proof, unless you have some proof that by verifying these points it implies to be true for all points.
fjfaase··on Pilot reports UFO hovering beside jet, leaving air traffic control stunned
And did not take a picture?
fjfaase··on Russian drones, missiles pound Ukraine ahead of Zelenskiy-Trump meeting
And Ukraine missiles pounding military targets and refineries. Some say that fights are most intense before a peace aggrement is reached. But it is more likely that Putin is playing USA and EU, and just wants to continue the war.
fjfaase··on Gravity coupling matches the 128-bit integer limit to 6 ppm
Where does the 64 come from and what do you mean with 'proton mass stability'? The proton is believed to be stable because it is the lowest mass baryon. GUT theories say it might be unstable with a half time of at least 10^34. How does that relate to your number 64? Does the number have a unit?
fjfaase··on Gravity coupling matches the 128-bit integer limit to 6 ppm
What is so special about 2^127?
fjfaase··on What makes you senior
On top of this you also need to have the skills to communicate this with others, because if you are not able to convince others, in management, you are on a sure track to a burn out. Being the only one who sees the solution and not being able to convince others is going to make you very frustrated or to simply give up.

Soft skills are always the more important than all other skills.

fjfaase··on Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
I am not sure if follow you completely. Yes, I guess it is the case, but what is the use? Before you can compile the Tiny C Compiler, you already need to unpack the .tar.gz file containing the sources. The sources for ungz and untar

So, you need a minimal C compiler that can also compile the ungz and untar programs from their C sources. At the moment, I have a minimal C compiler that can compile the Tiny C Compiler and the standard library that is part of the GNU Mes compiler. One of the following tasks will be to see if it can also compile the sources for ungz and untar, which can be found in [0]. I think it will be not so hard as these sources already have been adapted to be compiled with a minimal C compiler.

[0] https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools-extra

fjfaase··on Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
The latest version of g++ is written in C++. If I am not mistaken g++ 4.7.4 is the oldest version that is written in C. But it does not support the C++ version in which the latest version of g++ is written. For that you have to compile g++ 10.4.0 first. And g++ 4.7.4 cannot be compiled by the Tiny C Compiler (tcc). The total chain then becomes:

tcc 0.9.26 → tcc 0.9.27 → gcc 4.0.4 → g++ 4.7.4 → g++ 10.4.0 → g++ 13.1.0

fjfaase··on Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
In fact the MES-compiler, the one that I want to replace, is written in Scheme. It also comes with a Scheme interpreter written in C. Before the MES-compiler can be executed the source has to be unzipped and unpacked with two programs that are also compiled from C sources. So, you already need a compiler that supports a sizable subset of C to compile all these programs in order to compile the MES-compiler, which is a rather compliant C-compiler, which is used to compile the Tiny C Compiler and a standard library (included in the MES sources). The unzip and untar programs are also needed to unpack/zip the archive with the Tiny C Compiler sources.
fjfaase··on Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
I understand that you mean that SectorLisp is taken as the 'seed' that we have to trust that it is not malicious (or secretly executes a malicious program if its finds it). In the live-bootstrap project it is 'hex0' that is the seed, a simple program that converts hexadecimal character (by pairs) into bytes.
fjfaase··on Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
The idea of bootstrapping is that you start with nothing, or at least with almost nothing. In case of stage0 (the first stage of live-bootstrap) this a small program that converts a file with hexadecimal characters (in pairs) to a binary file. From there you have to build everything. To compile Rust, you need a Rust or C compiler, I understand. I have no idea how hard it would be to build a minimal Rust compiler that could compile itself, one that not necessary performs all the checks that the (full) Rust compiler would do.

I think that Rust is build as part of live-bootstrap, but at a much later stage when the latest version of the GNU C compiler has been build.

fjfaase··on Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
At WHY2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzyyO5wvm0 with (interactive) notes: https://www.iwriteiam.nl/WHY2025_talk.html

At Hackfest Enschede 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKXMwVqaauc with notes: https://www.iwriteiam.nl/Hackfest_2024.html

fjfaase··on Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
Stage 3 or 4 support for the other targets is also planed. This will require some small adaptations to the compiler for 32 to 64 word size and Stack-C versions for those targets.
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