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Rexxar

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Here is a vector drawing software on which I'm working:

- https://www.ludigraphix.org/

- https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/ludigraphix/id1376937727

Here are some (old) image builds with it:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/_rexxar_/

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Rexxar··on Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards
It's seem completely crazy to me to give your card to a waiter.
Rexxar··on Lisp in the Rust Type System
Looking at the history it looks like a bot.

- quite young account

- all comments are roughly the same size

- only top level comments, never reply to other comments

Rexxar··on Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff
I don't understand what the use automatic differentiation for in this context.
Rexxar··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
I don't use Node.js or Bun, so I'm little out of touch. But what need 1 millions lines of code as the js engine itself is a library ?
Rexxar··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
I don't know why but AI and LLMs seems to make people to lose basic sense of rationality. I didn't think we would have seen so many comments such as "It’s all the same just different syntax" after a full rewrite some years ago.
Rexxar··on MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
> four random letter names

So probably very old accounts

Rexxar··on CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
> What's your imagined ideal outcome when you comment... this, exactly?

That you take more time to search yourself before asking other to do it.

> Advice: just put the link and skip snarky commentary

As usual, the one requesting compliance to other is often the worst offender.

> Apart from the guy claiming an imaginary "all security bugs will be fixed" which I already said I disagree

That was exactly the point of the 'bluedragon1221' initial comment you were responded to. So finally you agree ?

Rexxar··on CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
> Which part of the comment comes off as fanatic to you?

I didn't use the word 'fanatic' neither the previous comment you were responded too.

> Can you discuss productively without attacks?

So you thing someone telling you "look a little harder" is a "personal attack" ? After I took some time to give you a link you ask for ?

> I'm not seeing fanaticism.

You are the only one using this word in this discussion.

Rexxar··on CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
> Citations and links, please.

"bigiain" comment, in the same discussion is an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120707

There is comment like this everywhere, if you don't see them it's just that you don't want to see them. There are a little less frequent than 5 years ago but still frequent enough in each c, c++ or rust discussions.

Rexxar··on ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips
It's strange to count this as single machine. But if we go this way, the north Chinese interconnection and the continental Europe interconnection are bigger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid).
Rexxar··on The Free Universal Construction Kit
There is some interoperability provision to patents and copyright in European union if I remember correctly but I don't know how broad they are and if they apply to this.
Rexxar··on Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert
This one is doing the job on almost every body you know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex
Rexxar··on France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
There is already 100000 workstations in a branch of the police with this Linux distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

It's not performative.

Rexxar··on Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C
I don't work regularly on it but I have a proof of concept go to c++ compiler that try to get the exact same behaviour : https://github.com/Rokhan/gocpp

At the moment, it sort of work for simple one-file project with no dependencies if you don't mind there is no garbage collector. (it try to compile recursively library imports but linking logic is not implemented)

Rexxar··on France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
It's probably just a technical accounting update. Old assets are often kept valued at their buy price and not reevaluated every year to avoid taxes (Banque de France is not exempt from taxes). As they swap a type of gold by another and do a sell/buy action, the new gold is valued to current market price while the old one was valued in accounting at an old value.

They had a deficit last year, so they can probably avoid to pay tax this year by balancing last year loss with this year profit.

Rexxar··on A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use

  > Someone didn't get the memo that for LLMs, tokens are units of thinking.
Where do you get this memo ? Seems completely wrong to me. More computation does not translate to more "thinking" if you compute the wrong things (ie things that contribute significantly to the final sentence meaning).
Rexxar··on Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas
The input should be the range and the distribution of probability on this range. Intuitively we have a tendency to assume an uniform probability for range [-1, 1] which is not the case if we check every doubles.
Rexxar··on Spanish legislation as a Git repo
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/

If you go on particular laws, you can see the previous versions and how it changed. Example: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT0000...

Click on "version" then "comparer" buttons and you will see a diff.

Rexxar··on Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust
Original zlib code: https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/develop/contrib/puff/puf...

The code of the article: https://github.com/ieviev/mini-gzip/blob/main/src/main.rs

Top level declarations of the C code:

    #define MAXBITS 15   
    #define MAXLCODES 286
    #define MAXDCODES 30
    #define MAXCODES
    #define FIXLCODES 288

    struct state

    local int bits(struct state *s, int need)
    local int stored(struct state *s)

    struct huffman

    local int decode(...)
    local int construct(...)
    local int codes(...)

    local int fixed(...)
    local int dynamic(...)
    int puff(...)
Top level declarations of the Rust code:

    const MAXBITS: usize = 15;
    const MAXLCODES: usize = 286;
    const MAXDCODES: usize = 30;
    const FIXLCODES: usize = 288;
    const MAXDIST: usize = 32768;
    struct State<'a> 
    struct Huffman<'a>

    fn decode
    fn construct
    fn codes
    fn fixed
    fn dynamic
    fn stored
    pub fn inflate
Rexxar··on Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust
The difference in size seems to be mainly due to the missing documentation before each function.
Rexxar··on ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores
Indeed, I see they now wait 28 days to not been displayed in green before commenting.
Rexxar··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
Did you have envisioned the possibility that your were the one that have missed other people joke ?
Rexxar··on EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime
It was only hard because UK wanted to stop immediately to participate to budget while continuing to benefit from already agreed multi-years policies.
Rexxar··on NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun
> There are many counter-examples to your examples, such as “direct” and “indirect”, “humane” and “inhumane”.

They are not counter-example. You use the other "in-" prefix that take an adjective and give the opposite adjective, not the one that create a verb from a noun.

Rexxar··on NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun
It's just a parsing error. "in-" is also a prefix to create verbs from a name or another verb like inhume, inflame, induce, incite, inject, infiltrate. Inflammable is (inflame)-able and not in-(flammable)
Rexxar··on NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun
He probably misuses "propeller" which is strangely restrictive to "rotative blade propulsion" in English whereas "to propel" is generic in its meaning.
Rexxar··on Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
Maybe it would made the immune system age faster if it is "used" too much.
Rexxar··on Best performance of a C++ singleton
The fact that he calls the generated code good/bad without discussing the semantic differences tells that the original author doesn't really know what he is talking about. That seems problematic to me as he is selling c++ online course.
Rexxar··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
Doesn't seem necessarily a contradiction. Job posting growth logically happens before effective job growth.
Rexxar··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
I saw a lot of comments trying to guess where the job were lost in other comments and I think this give a little more context. I put the original source, there are 42 pages of data, if you want more details.
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