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asibahi··on Reforming English Spelling
The usual answer is that they pretend these differences dont exist and use one blessed (maybe artificial) dialect.
asibahi··on The Art of 64-bit Assembly
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.

asibahi··on Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor
Plenty of alternatives to Glyphs. FontForge and Robofont both come to mind.
asibahi··on The Art of 64-bit Assembly
This text doesn’t seem AI generated to me.
asibahi··on Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?
I read the article and I still dont understand what a blind reading test is.
asibahi··on Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds
The Zig compiler compiles lazily and does not detect dead code. (Read: functions that are not called from any compiled functions)
asibahi··on Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds
I don’t understand this comment. Are you implying omitting the chicken is some sort of conspiracy?
asibahi··on Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
Writing a C Compiler is really good. I enjoyed myself doing it with Rust and Zig.
asibahi··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
I like this article. It puts to words something that has been in my mind for a while.
asibahi··on Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser
I love this. Any chance of having this be a downloadable application somehow?
asibahi··on Deciphering basmala
> 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.

asibahi··on Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs
I’d argue that was active aggressive, actually.
asibahi··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
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.
asibahi··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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

asibahi··on Changing How We Develop Ladybird
This can’t be serious.
asibahi··on Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry
It’s hacking when it’s someone you don’t like.
asibahi··on Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler
You made me curious. Has anyone invented new ways to ride horses in the age of the automobile?
asibahi··on Zig: Build System Reworked
It’s definitely a great tinkering language but .. eh .. the Zig team and community are extremely opinionated about how to use the language correctly.
asibahi··on Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime
I am saying as far as anyone other that the Bytecode Alliance is concerned it is custom API for Bytecode Alliance projects.
asibahi··on Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime
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.
asibahi··on We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin
I’m confused. Why not start the conversation in Polish?
asibahi··on Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess
Submitting a patch requires talking to other people.
asibahi··on Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git
His initials
asibahi··on Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
This was a very interesting read. I wonder if similar techniques can apply to Turkish or Japanese dictionaries?
asibahi··on Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
It works if you use Noto Emoji as the font.
asibahi··on A Gopher Meets a Crab
No it is not. If you were introduced to the term via LLMs doesnt mean everyone was.
asibahi··on WASM is not quite a stack machine
I do, but where does it say so in the spec?
asibahi··on WASM is not quite a stack machine
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.

asibahi··on WASM is not quite a stack machine
This `dup` seems entirely useless it actually supports the case for omitting it fron the instruction set.
asibahi··on WASM is not quite a stack machine
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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