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gatane··on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
There was a reverse engineering one, and openRA.

https://github.com/TheAssemblyArmada/Vanilla-Conquer

gatane··on 'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison
Parasocial relationships are a thing, later I've been way too fond of Twin Peaks or some streamers, for instance.
gatane··on 'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison
Not only this. Every group (work, school, uni) now uses whatsapp/other for communication, and if you own an older device you sometimes cant use said apps, so you are obligated to have a newer phone or else you will become isolated.

And Android/iOS has closed source code that makes you unable to update.

gatane··on The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks
Please, do not bother the devs on how to install this on your PSP, the plugin is still on the works.

Source: the PSP Discord.

gatane··on Immutability Changes Everything (2016) [pdf]
My main gripe with immutability is that making updated data requires building a full copy of the data again with the changes. Sure, you could have zippers to aid in the updating process by acting as a kind of cursor/pointer, but raw access to data beats them anytime (even if you optimize for cache).

So if you had to optimize for raw speed, why not choose mutable data?

https://ksvi.mff.cuni.cz/~sefl/papers/zippers.pdf

gatane··on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
The OST of this game is amazing. Make sure to download the official CD data from the freeware release, they are a blast.
gatane··on Notes on the Derivatives of Regular Types (Zippers in FP) [pdf]
A more theoretical read on the same topic:

- Differentiating Data Structures (2005) http://www.strictlypositive.org/dfordata.pdf

- Performance analysis of Zippers (2020) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.10926

gatane··on Storing 3D scans in a grain of wheat
But how do they prevent data corruption?
gatane··on Luon programming language
Dijkstra said that 0 was better for reasons.
gatane··on The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
Reminds me of old Internet. We need more of these pag (in style)
gatane··on Tree Calculus
Your example reminds me of Binary Lambda Calculus [0]:

[0] https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html

gatane··on Tree Calculus
This is like a weird child between Lisp/Forth and Prolog (?). I do think it is neat tho, got me thinking on how you could implement it and parse it.

Thanks for the inspiration!

gatane··on The Rules of Programming (2023)
To break the rules, thou must know them first.
gatane··on Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study
I do agree that sometimes you have to consume less negative content or else you can become pretty doomy after reading about it.

But dont forget that sometimes you need to feel bad to understand that you are sick. If you were sick without feeling bad, you could die, because you did not take action!

Dont sugar coat the world! If you feel shitty, maybe there is a reason for it, a reason within or outside you!!

gatane··on Autopoietic Networks
Autopoiesis.

That word alone brings me back to systems engineering, and how everything was "like a biological cell" in modern practice.

gatane··on The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
WE HAVE EXPLOSIVEEE
gatane··on Exposure to phthalate compromises brain function in adult vertebrates
Trans people have been around ages, same as gays and all that. Yet no gay gene discovered.

We know that a living being is just not only DNA, but also its environment; now on top of that add all the big complexity of human social behaviour and gender into it. I doubt they will find a "cause" to trans-ness.

gatane··on Exposure to phthalate compromises brain function in adult vertebrates
Noo, but "think about the economy, think about the poor production line being halted or the prices modified, we cant do that".

Reminds me of the situation of climate change on Spain. The whole thing blew up yet the only thing they can do is damage control once it is too late.

gatane··on Tracking down a mysterious skateboarder from 1979
I can only wonder if that board did get rust'ed by the water.
gatane··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
Hell yeah, buttons are back baby
gatane··on The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The 2nd Gen of Pokémon also did that, basically having references to rl Japan:

https://youtu.be/Qil4OpfOufU?si=dLQEFJVESfMdW1BX

gatane··on NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices
IPv6 is the answer, yet no one is implementing it on scale. Damn.
gatane··on Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf]
At Uni, we had to implement the same project on different paradigms/languages.

We had to do goddamn Paint on Prolog. Yup.

gatane··on Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models
Are there any good benchmarks for float vs fixed point, specially for ARM systems?
gatane··on Fixed-point arithmetic as a replacement for soft floats
You can also use a library for it:

https://github.com/PetteriAimonen/libfixmath

I saw this getting forked for a custom SDK for the PS1 (which doesnt have a FPU).

gatane··on The Nobel-, Emmy-winning genius who became Google's star antitrust witness
Ivan Illich mentioned!

Do you know which of his books mentions that idea?

gatane··on How can we trust Open Sources power but doubt Socialism's potential to unite us?
Open Source is more akin to anarchism, if you think about it. Which more or less, fits the "hacker way" of it: You are free (freedom) to see, edit and distribute it in many ways depending on your license (self imposed government).
gatane··on Making things people want vs. making things that alter thinking
Before searching extra results on reddit, we had yahoo LOL
gatane··on Ask HN: Why no transflective LCD portables?
Like the one in the Gameboy Color, that used colors but no backlight?
gatane··on Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra
Modern vector notation (i, j ,k) came to be thanks to an electrical engineer bored of dealing with quaternions lol (Oliver Heaviside)
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