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mserdarsanlion Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019)

A while ago I built an interactive tool to display posits (Also IEEE floats etc.): https://mserdarsanli.github.io/FloatInfo/

It is hard to understand at first but after playing with this a bit it will make sense. As with everything, there are trade offs compared to IEEE floats, but having more precision when numbers are close to 1 is pretty nice.

mserdarsanlion The great displacement is already well underway?

Why would any parent name their child water with an extra L?

mserdarsanlion Includeable minimal operating system for C++

according to wayback machine the domain expired at the end of 2021. Months later it came back with the sneaky ad. Their page at github https://includeos.github.io/ does not have it. It is safe to assume whoever grabbed the domain has no association to the authors.

Project has been dead for many years now btw.

mserdarsanlion Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

They should say it in binary

mserdarsanlion Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

So annoying, I wrote this extension some time ago to get rid of relative dates in github

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yyyy-mm-dd-gi...

mserdarsanlion Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview

They are trying to build a decentralized and open social protocol and one of the first things they have done is removing scrollbar from their pages for no reason at all. They are definitely on the right track.

mserdarsanlion Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code from Python 2 to Python 3

They are quite different languages with similar names, like java and javascript

mserdarsanlion Facebook is removing chat from mobile website

I could not find an article about it, that is why I submitted a screenshot here.

mserdarsanlion Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation

http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

mserdarsanlion Critical Security Release for GitLab 8.2 through 8.7

From https://sandstorm.io/install

> Run this in a terminal:

> curl https://install.sandstorm.io | bash

kthxbye

mserdarsanlion Medium and Twitter founder: ‘We put junk food in front of them and they eat it’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs

mserdarsanlion GitHub is down

Phew, I can't develop anymore but http://left-pad.io/ is still up so my systems continue operating.

mserdarsanlion A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes

HN is also mostly crap

mserdarsanlion First Preview of Android N: Developer APIs and Tools

> Nobody has a problem with jvm [citation needed]

mserdarsanlion TiltBrush by Google

http://buttersafe.com/2011/12/22/the-greatest-gift/

mserdarsanlion Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

Yeah they should also use Node.js to make it more async and MongoDB for webscale.

mserdarsanlion Winning a competition predicts dishonest behavior

So you won the honesty competition?

mserdarsanlion Is there any point to the 12 times table?

I don't work with Python, but when I want to multiply some numbers, I type `python` into terminal and use it as a calculator, as it allows me to do such operations quickly.

It sounds weird that someone opens an IDE and waits ten seconds looking at a splash screen to do a simple multiplication.

mserdarsanlion Is there any point to the 12 times table?

> Take as an example 7,203 x 6,892. If I want to know that exactly, then I reach for Mathematica

They are always trying so hard to sell Mathematica in these blog posts, but this is the lowest I've seen.

mserdarsanlion CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow

Counting is the hardest thing in programming.

mserdarsanlion Avoiding Complexity with Go

> ... I had to go ahead and publish what I had or it would have remained in my drafts forever. ...

It wouldn't be a loss if you have deleted it forever, you didn't need to keep it in your drafts.

mserdarsanlion ASCII art editor designed for the Mac

http://i.imgur.com/za2WQUF.png

There is only one text example on the page, and it is messed up.

mserdarsanlion Microsoft Announces Windows 10

Still not open source.

mserdarsanlion Show HN: Realm for Android

This is a non-answer.

mserdarsanlion Idiomatic Generics in Go

"If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem."

Bjarne Stroustrup

mserdarsanlion My $300 Home Cloud Server

Latter would be more preferable.

mserdarsanlion Cling: an interactive C++ interpreter, built on top of Clang and LLVM

Last time I checked (around 2 years ago), it was very unstable and did not run on many systems.

Looking into http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/requested-cling-features: There is still "bug 11297: STL: vector of pair works if compiled, but not if interpreted" Which is something so basic that it has to work.

Apparently the bug report was created in 2005, and it's currently closed with "Won't Fix".

I'd really like a C++ REPL, but I am not hopeful for Cling.

mserdarsanlion Chromeos-apk – Run Android APKs on Chrome OS, OS X, Linux and Windows

Logged in after many months just to downvote you, then realized I can not :( Please accept this sincere comment as a dovnvote!