FrozenVoid

Writing userscripts and CSS filters becomes more tedious each few years, especially mucking with dynamic DOM and complex frameworks websites tend to use now. WASM and obfuscated/minified javascript made "programmable web" impossible in practice.

Lambdas can still be written using GCC extensions. https://github.com/FrozenVoid/C-headers/blob/main/lambda.h

Wikipedia is not a reliable source for anything that is remotely controversial or recent(as in last 20 years), as there always people who have agenda to 'correct the record' on something.

I just binge watched a dozen videos, this is probably my new favorite genre. The complexity and speed are on par with very fast electronic but far more pleasant(like classical orchestra). Are all such Black MIDI using only piano notes or this is just a stylistic convention?

Body could be 'subtle' astral/etheric matter. Flesh is strictly physical biological matter.

Well, the little tigers can be dangerous and hold pathogenic bacteria in their little claws. You'd be nervous too if that thing could claw at your eye at any moment. Plus they could carry toxoplasmosis and tons of infections picked up from street animals.

I'd play it safe and eat only natural sweeteners like inulin/stevia/xylitol. Gut microbes haven't evolved to expirience the whole array of artificial sweeteners.

It won't work: Left doesn't acknowledge the benefits of meritocracy. Right is anti-intellectual and suspicious of progress. There is no social movement supporting intellectual achievement: the public is focused on cheap infotainment and sensationalist science that is 'group-activity' such as "scientists from X find Y, due being funded for Z". Lone genius/inventor doesn't have such appeal as 'Big Science', which is actually collectivist mediocrity rewarding social climbers and salesmen: Academic science has to justify itself financially and 'discoveries' are usually coming from the above(Y found but funded for Z). In the past the idea of scientific progress was understood as necessarily, but today the status quo is more comfortable

What happens with code that uses lots of gotos(incl. computed gotos)?

> beautiful in an intangible way

Perhaps the older lens has more pleasing colors: normally absorbing a bit more of hi-freq(blue/violet) lens a comfy "orange sunset" effect and warm atmosphere. Modern digital cameras tend to be "colder" in color, with sharp blue/violet.

Combsort is far more elegant and faster algorithm. I've wrote a type-generic combsort a while ago here: https://github.com/FrozenVoid/combsort.h

(Combsort as well as mentioned algorithm also consists of two loops and a swap)

For anyone interested there is repo(by the author) on github with the copy of code: https://github.com/granstrom/intuitionistic

Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_level-index_arithmet...

So does this mean chlorella can be mass-produced cheaper than crops? This would be a second "Green Revolution" if this scales up, it will free up lots of land.

I prefer the flexibility of computed gotos a GCC extension that is likely the fastest dispatch method outside of compile-time. With computed gotos, you can have arbitrary dispatch complexity and structure, interleave code(e.g./code1/ ;skip_label: ;label1: /code2/; goto *return_loc;) and use assembler-like tricks to reduce fast paths(e.g. switch off code segment execution or alter control flow on the fly)

consider the baseline state of the world, what pleasures are Not mindless escapism or illusion of plenty? I don't want to deceive myself that if i'd have some mundane pleasure it somehow compensates the entire weight of the world.

The fundamental problem as i see it: Nuclear is profitable/possible only at large scale, it cannot 'scale down', unlike e.g. wind/wave turbines you can't buy a mini-reactor because the industry is very regulated(and for a very obvious reasons). the closest scaled-down nuclear has got is RITEG , which was built without these regulations(and would horrify Americans as much recreational nukes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

Easy way to discern if site is social Cookie Clicker: 1.Does it provide a rating/score for content. 2.Does it reward users with larger rating/score? 3.Does it limit users with lower rating/score? If all three question are positive, then it is optimizing for content-score engagement type of users, pushing the lever for extra dopamine hits.

Youtube can be "Trained" (with a blank profile/container) into TikTok type content by repeatedly watching first recommended video and skipping videos in 2-3 secs.

Back when youtube had a good UI it was real ratings, you could rank videos 1-5 https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/youtube-comes-to-a-5-star-... then it """optimized""" out the middle ratings( Middle ratings were the more honest ones, perfect videos are rare and 1-ratings we often unjustified) to 1=dislike 5=like, where everything is simplified to single click mobile engagement. I would like a 1 to 10 rating scale and make MORE refined rating choices, not vague "likes"(currently YT has only 1-5 star rating for rare question-type prompts with video on homepage for logged in users when it needs feedback). Making 5/10 7/10 and 9/10 videos rank the same with "likes" lowers quality of ratings substantially.

Society medicalizes outliers, the common 'nerd' in 1980's would be labeled as 'aspie' or autistic today. The cultural status has changed drastically, since technological skill became a valued commodity but judgement of nerds as 'abnormal' remains. "Autistic traits" ascribed to people without serious mental deviations are Western culture rationalizations of intellectual withdrawal and critical vision of social circles coming from intellectuals: the social values that drive this distinction are relics of primitive societies that focused on biological performance and let intellect be merely a tool to achieve some concrete task. This obviously changed with time, but socially the ranks of 'apes in modern clothing' prevail in numbers over the intellectual minority, deciding their 'mental traits' as some troublesome deviation that has to be normalized and streamlined to 'fit in mainstream society'. It does not occur to them that society itself is pathological amalgamation of incompatible and competing cliques/interest groups that does't have any 'inherent human values' like a corporation doesn't value much from profit and market share. The idea of social skills and (enforced) social integration assumes this is the 'default' state and not culturally-bound complex of psychologically divergent behaviors that cannot be "normal" as 'asocial' behavior is right below the surface of most societies and requires arcane control mechanisms to suppress and redirect(law, armies,police, education,etc) - the 'normality' of this social structure is never questioned and people treat this "enculturation" process as some mandatory part of civilization, that their identity is based on - they cannot see their individual worth without social approval and social circles of support, the manufactured narratives and media feeds dictating what to think today. All of which are disgusting and exploitative controls that keep these 'apes in modern clothing' in line, as bread and circuses continue. Medicalizing me would not change society or improve it overall, it would just enforce another layer of cultural control - training people to treat intelligence itself as symptoms of some manufactured "spectrum" or "complex"( formally approved by Science™ as 'Broader Autism Spectrum')..as if Idiocracy was slowly seeping into real world.

> C coders like C to the exclusion of all else, or they would have abandoned it long ago.

Those irrational people seem to have code that doesn't require rewrites/refactoring every few years. Switching to an entirely new ecosystem as a primary field? I leave it to the beta-testers, perhaps in 10 years Zig/Rust/Nim will be standardized languages with multiple compilers and big ecosystems supporting them, just like C and polished enough to be as easy as C to write.

People laughed at Stallman calling mobile phones 'tracking devices', yet he was proven correct time and time again. Even with limited data, there are methods to reconstruct all locations and activities.

C macros are as abstract or even more abstract than hygienic macros https://github.com/BlueFlo0d/CSP https://github.com/FrozenVoid/C-headers/blob/main/argmanip.h

C macros are powerful enough to create entire functional languages at compile time, which is far beyond any constexpr functions. https://github.com/rofl0r/order-pp

zig comptime is the same as constexpr/consteval in C++ which operate on variables and valid code blocks.

C macros operate on arbitrary tokens, which get converted to code or constants. For example variadic functions can be implemented to act on token arglists that act as abstract tuples: https://github.com/FrozenVoid/C-headers/blob/main/argmanip.h

Could you explain what happens when you read text?

It is a general capability to modify C code at will, example: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

Lack of macros in recent systems languages like Zig/Hare/etc seems to be a design flaw, a handicap marketed as safety feature or bargain for clarity. If a language can't replace C macros, it cannot replace C.