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spankyspangleron Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

If you asked some dumb question and I answered it, it wouldn't change your mind would it? If it did, then your position is so flimsy it's laughable. Just make a point in plain language rather than rhetorical questions that vaguely relate to the comment but are lazy incomplete thoughts that don't actually address what was written.

You would have a point about knowing exactly every single corner case of the language. I don't think that's easy even for C. Fortunately I didn't claim it was either.

> grasp

spankyspangleron Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says

This goes to all politicians and "experts" and journalists.

The slavish subservience to authority and desperate clamor to lick boot sickens me. I mean, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the gun running and drug smuggling and interventions in South and Central America, banking corruption and laundering, the subprime crash, the Panama Papers, Congressional insider trading, corporations paying no taxes while politicians clutch pearls and wring hands about how they're using legal loopholes so there's nothing they can do about it, intelligence agencies spying on congress and on citizens, fabrications of stories about collusion with Putin, the list is endless.

And yet again, like clockwork, once again the "experts" and "journalists" know what is best for us and once again the followers are all falling over themselves to prove their devotion by putting on their big shows of faith, and denouncing and bullying all the heretics and traitors who dare to ask questions.

I have to laugh if it wasn't so sad. For some stupid reason I had some hope, but after seeing it all play out again it seems like old Dick Cheney could come and start talking about Iran and WMDs or denounce the next Gaddafi, and Fox and the NYT and all those other "trusted experts" would duly start regurgitating their lines, and pretty soon everyone would fall in line and anyone who didn't want to go to war (read: send others to war) would be un-American traitors.

spankyspangleron Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

> I surely replied to the right comment,

Oh, well it didn't address what I wrote.

> So ready for the question?

Doesn't address what I wrote.

spankyspangleron Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says

No need for badgering, asking pointless questions nitpicking and adding nothing to the discussion. Which itself is a form of bullying and belittling.

There is nothing wrong with my initial comment about the WHO's authority, it absolutely has a measure of authority. Why you would try to make up some definition of the word "authority" that nobody else uses, and then try to attack my comment with it is beyond me.

spankyspangleron Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says

What do you mean rationale? Entities have authority according to who and what they can influence and affect. It is false to say a state has absolute authority and the WHO has no authority.

Those who listen to, act on advice from, censor and attack opposition to the WHO give it authority. This seems to be very upsetting to you for some reason.

spankyspangleron Why is Jerusalem blurry on Google Maps? (2019)

1. Not citing some random poll it isn't. Your polling data had no bearing on the the question of this legislation.

2. You are the one peddling hateful conspiracy theories. Fairly sure that goes against the site guidelines.

> Banning high res satellite pictures matters even less

Matters so little that it was the masterstroke of the evil black-Jewish-Christian cabal from your imagination? Hilarious.

> Not really a conspiracy when they admit that to pollsters.

Admit what?

> Also I have not expressed any hate at evangelicals or jews. That seems to be something that you're dreaming up.

Sure, of course you haven't. Dog whistles are great like that aren't they?

spankyspangleron Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

I'm not sure if you replied to the wrong comment or not because it doesn't address what I wrote.

spankyspangleron Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says

The subservient bootlickers were quite desperate to give it authority. And the WHO is already dysfunctional and corrupt.

spankyspangleron Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

I'm not sure what you mean. C is a high level language. And yes it and standard library has obviously grown more complex than it was 50 years ago.

It's small and easy to grasp the entire thing though, unlike most other more modern high level languages.

That said, it's not entirely clear that matters too much. Almost any non-toy C project is going to be bringing in libraries outside libc, so you still need to go off and learn those if you want to work on a project. Doesn't really matter whether they're in the base language or not.

spankyspangleron Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says

And politicians were encouraging people to go out in the streets and gather en masse to celebrate / protest / whatever, denouncing border controls as racism, etc. Putting positive patients into nursing homes ill equipped to cope with it. It was a huge clusterf...

spankyspangleron Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says

The WHO lost a lot of credibility (deserved or not). They clearly either did not have a good grasp of the science and evidence while they were issuing their proclamations, or they were attempting to steer reality away from certain problematic scenarios for certain interests that have corrupted the organization. Or both.

The bigger problem was not the WHO, it's very common for such organizations to be highly dysfunctional and corrupted. It was the slavish adherence to authority (aka boot licking), and piling on, bullying and hatefully attacking anybody who dared to question this corrupt authority. Everyone was getting in on the action, from mega corporations to the average "useful idiot" internet bully.

Unfortunately it's a big problem for some people who put politics above reality to cope with that idea, because WHO is on "their side", for various reasons.

spankyspangleron [dead]

https://twitter.com/sfpelosi/status/1147657745253855233

It sure was convenient for a lot of the richest and most powerful that their little Epstein problem went away.

Hopefully there is at least one person with the tiniest shred of a soul left takes a stand one day and spills the beans. Maybe it will be Melinda.

spankyspangleron Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

Is this supposed to be a trick question? All do virtually the same thing at their core, differing in where they take their input from and whether they are the C11 bounds checking variants. You can add all the v prefix variants too, doesn't really make things more difficult.

You could have thrown in a bunch of functions from string(3), but even then... C string handling isn't great by any means, but it isn't vast or complicated either.

spankyspangleron Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512

> If you drop backwards compatibility, you can get a lot of headroom for better performance.

Far less than a lot of people probably think though. AMD has an excellent x86 core, faster single threaded and throughput than the M1, on a generation older process technology, and quite possibly a smaller design and development budget than Apple, although not so power efficient.

spankyspangleron Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512

Well, the roots of the technology came from PA Semi, which was founded with big names who had a long tradition and experience in the industry. They specialized in high performance power efficient processors for embedded, which happens to fit very well with what smartphones need. But their very first design (a PowerPC front end, before Apple bought them) was already quite impressive.

Strap a lot of cash and volume behind that after they get bought, and the results speak for themselves. There is no shame in it. Intel has been stumbling at the moment, but others were stumbling in the decade from Core 2 to Skylake.

spankyspangleron Why is Jerusalem blurry on Google Maps? (2019)

You presented no evidence. Quoting some poll is not evidence for your deranged conspiracy theories.

> We literally still have "in god we trust" on our bills,

You seem hatefully fixated on things which really don't matter all that much.

Why do you have to construct these vast strange conspiracy theories about the religious beliefs of some segment of the population? So you can have an excuse to hate them?

Supporting Israel (note: that does not equate to the spontaneous creation of any laws) honestly doesn't seem like the world's biggest problem. America recently sponsored wars, genocides, toppling of governments in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan which seems a bit more problematic. Or do you blame the blacks and the Jews for those as well?

> "hacked"? maybe not. Interfered? definitely.

Wrong. There was no evidence ever produced indicating that Trump colluded with Putin to hack or interfere with the election, and the Mueller report quite explicitly stated that none was found. Another baseless conspiracy theory you have been deluded into believing.

spankyspangleron Why is Jerusalem blurry on Google Maps? (2019)

A laughable question from someone peddling baseless conspiracy theories. Common sense and simple observation of the world around me.

Those polls (we seem to be straying dangerously close to "the blacks and the jews" level of hateful conspiracy theory, by the way) are not evidence for the cause of the creation of this legislation, nor even attempt any semblance of cause and effect.

It might also help you get some perspective to keep in mind that those in actual positions of power (that's not Bob the unemployed coal miner from West Virginia who didn't finish highschool and goes to church once a week), spend considerable resources curating and influencing public opinion to their end. Consider, for example how many people were deluded into believing the baseless conspiracy theory that there existed ample evidence which proved Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election.

spankyspangleron A Somewhat Comprehensive History of U.S. Senators Who Have Died in Duels

> Step outside and settle it is one thing.

What one thing, hateful toxic masculinity and bullying from a white male in a position of power and privilege?

You're saying that like it is not also "honestly pretty messed up".

spankyspangleron Why is Jerusalem blurry on Google Maps? (2019)

It's bizarre that people make up this kind of hateful delusional convoluted conspiracy theory that allow the to hate "the all powerful white supremacist rednecks", rather than open their eyes to the obvious reality that it is a matter of special interests, political lobbying/corruption and strategic interests, just like everything else. I guess it's evidence of the wildly successful divide and conquer campaign that has been inflicted upon people.

I can assure you the people receiving wealth and power to make the decisions that lead to this kind of policy, nor the people paying them care in the slightest about "the rapture" or what your imagined church going enemies in "bumfuck nowhere" care about.