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Re:Reforming English Spelling on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:16PM (#50214712)
The usual answer is that they pretend these differences dont exist and use one blessed (maybe artificial) dialect.
Re:The Art of 64-bit Assembly on Saturday August 01, 2026 @03:10PM (#49137428)
This publisher copy is neither pedantic nor wordy. It is just a market blurb for the book.

The thing that frustrates me the most about AI is how every thread in every forum spend half the time arguing whether an article is AI or not, as if bad writing only started to exist with AI. Just fucking don't read it.

Re:Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor on Saturday August 01, 2026 @03:06PM (#49137380)
Plenty of alternatives to Glyphs. FontForge and Robofont both come to mind.
Re:The Art of 64-bit Assembly on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:15PM (#49136877)
This text doesn’t seem AI generated to me.
Re:Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test? on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @08:52AM (#49083044)
I read the article and I still dont understand what a blind reading test is.
The Zig compiler compiles lazily and does not detect dead code. (Read: functions that are not called from any compiled functions)
Re:Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:14AM (#49007190)
I don’t understand this comment. Are you implying omitting the chicken is some sort of conspiracy?
Writing a C Compiler is really good. I enjoyed myself doing it with Rust and Zig.
Re:Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:38AM (#48783772)
I like this article. It puts to words something that has been in my mind for a while.
I love this. Any chance of having this be a downloadable application somehow?
Re:Deciphering Basmala on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:31AM (#48715592)
> right handed presents some challenges too (my hand will come over letters I've just written and there's a risk of smudging them

You’re supposed to place your hand under the line you’re writing. Not to the right of it.

Re:Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:19PM (#48708752)
I’d argue that was active aggressive, actually.
Not to get into an argument, but most of the population in the Middle East are Muslim who don't give two shits who killed Jesus because they don't believe he was killed to begin with.
Over the past few days I have been making a spell checking TUI app. I used AI (meaning: free Gemini web interface) to discuss various aspects about the apps and debug compiler errors ang suggest useful rust crates for various problems.

Just a more helpful discord chat generally. It also gaslights you too!

Here is the tool: https://git.sr.ht/~asibahi/hoopoe

Re:Changing How We Develop Ladybird on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:51AM (#48409825)
This can’t be serious.
Re:Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @09:12AM (#48383547)
It’s hacking when it’s someone you don’t like.
Re:Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:59AM (#48356246)
You made me curious. Has anyone invented new ways to ride horses in the age of the automobile?
Re:Zig: Build System Reworked on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:00AM (#48334900)
It’s definitely a great tinkering language but .. eh .. the Zig team and community are extremely opinionated about how to use the language correctly.
Re:Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:04AM (#48321196)
I am saying as far as anyone other that the Bytecode Alliance is concerned it is custom API for Bytecode Alliance projects.
Re:Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime on Thursday May 28, 2026 @05:04PM (#48315459)
The component model is still in phase 1 (standardization is phase 5) and the Bytecode Alliance are its sponsors and the ones pushing it into the ecosystem with wasmtime.
Re:We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:39AM (#48294200)
I’m confused. Why not start the conversation in Polish?
Submitting a patch requires talking to other people.
Re:Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git on Friday May 15, 2026 @11:07AM (#48149667)
His initials
This was a very interesting read. I wonder if similar techniques can apply to Turkish or Japanese dictionaries?
Re:Multi-stroke text effect in CSS on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:25PM (#48040520)
It works if you use Noto Emoji as the font.
Re:A Gopher Meets a Crab on Saturday May 02, 2026 @07:33AM (#47985467)
No it is not. If you were introduced to the term via LLMs doesnt mean everyone was.
Re:WASM is not quite a stack machine on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:52PM (#47938839)
I do, but where does it say so in the spec?
Re:WASM is not quite a stack machine on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:15AM (#47934138)
This is the wat2wasm tool I have been playing with: https://webassembly.github.io/wabt/demo/wat2wasm/

It refuses to accept the following

    (module
      (func (export "addTwo") (param i32 i32) (result i32)
        (i32.add 
          local.get 0
          local.get 1
        )
      )
    )
which based on my reading should be accepted.

I will try the tools you mentioned but I personally settled on generating the unfolded ones for my experiments as they just seem easier.

Re:WASM is not quite a stack machine on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:55AM (#47933224)
This `dup` seems entirely useless it actually supports the case for omitting it fron the instruction set.
Re:WASM is not quite a stack machine on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:48AM (#47933149)
I am saying that textual wasm uses `a b +` (justl ike binary wasm) and `(+ a b)` is just a nicety.

It is explicity sugar for the stack operations, per my reading of the spec.

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