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I also first used Linux via knoppix around 2004. Great introduction. Though my big sister said it was difficult to install it to the hard drive because it's meant to be a live cd, but she managed to do it, .

Knoppix used to have a really good desktop environment with effects and games. I think it had KDE with compiz-fusion. That was awesome. Now it's just bland lxde.

Probably. But at least it's useful and runs locally. Better than all the predatory apps that you have to download 100mbs to do something this website can do instantly without downloading anything or sending anything to a server.

Yeah, now anyone can write really long impressive code with a sophisticated backdoor by using AI.

Can't trust anything anymore. (Not that I ever did trust npm)

I'm amazed by how in-depth the documentation is. Usually projects struggle to get decent docs. (Unless the docs are LLM generated). I'm not sure what's better, the design or the docs.

Like you said in your backstory, it's an awful shame to work so hard on something and have it get absolutely no attention.

I haven't tried out any of the code yet, but I'm curious enough to maybe try it sometime, especially since it has a robust FFI already. I had just uninstalled rust because I'm more of an old school C guy and don't like writing "safe" code.

So you used rust to write a better rust? I'm just kidding. Looks like a real interesting language with some good features without being verbose or ugly.

The backstory is interesting, though I wish it covered more the rationale behind the language and the thought-process that went into its design.

I especially like that track covers everything from switch statements to if-else statements in a nice concise way.

Curious if the 1 based arrays get confusing in @low mode.

As far as the benchmarks go, I didn't see, was there any other languages compared?

Very interesting and polished. I see that it's got a regex engine written in Pilang as well. I'm curious if there's any benchmarks or comparisons. I'd like to see how big the runtime is, etc.

With a 17kb jbig2 decoder all you need is a few one-bit images (a page of a book scan) for it to save bandwidth.

With a 60kb codec2 decoder you need about 2 minutes of audio to start saving.

But the target is dictionary apps with thousands of seconds of audio and thousands of images.

I think you mean Ed, the standard editor.

http://Bellard.org is peak web design. Change my mind.

You can also get really small file sizes by ignoring frameworks and porting unsupported codecs to wasm.

I ported jbig2 (17kb uncompressed) and codec2 (60kb uncompressed) to wasm which enables me to use really small image and audio files in my web app. I also made a custom read only database and search engine with built-in zstd decompressor (39kb uncompressed). It probably wouldn't run on a psp though.

I like optimizing and making things small. I want to use neural audio codecs for even better compression but the model sizes and compute complexity are major hurdles and muddy the vision.

I was so disappointed that Ghostty doesn't properly render Khmer text. Abugidas are important and you have to be able to render the symbols non-linearly. Cosmic term is the only terminal I've seen that actually works. But it's a bit slow on my 14 year old laptop.

Kitty doesn't work, alacrity doesn't work, foot doesn't work, gnome terminal doesn't work, xfce terminal doesn't work, urxvt doesn't work, xterm doesn't work, the list goes on.

Oop is just Unix philosophy misapplied. Unix philosophy is that each program does one thing and you chain them together. In OOP you have each class do one thing, but at that scale it can become very messy.

The whole period of Obama's presidency was also skipped.

The largest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia, it's quite odd that it wasn't included in Trump's Muslim ban. Obama's administration was the one that made the list of the seven countries that were banned before Trump even became president.

39kb includes the zstd decoder which is statically compiled into it. I'm not targeting microcontrollers, but I am targeting smartphones in areas with bad internet connections, so every kilobyte saved is nice. I also just like to optimize things and make them minimal while still being powerful. I don't handle tls, GitHub pages handles all that, I'm just using it to host a static pwa.

If it uses indexedb under the hood, indexedb is ridiculously slow on first write but subsequent loads are very fast, if you're loading data you would have to load it via some other method first before putting it in indexedb, in order to make it fast.

Linear is 21mb of minified JavaScript which is an awful lot. I made a dictionary progressive web app recently that just needed read only databases, so I rolled my own simple system complete with zstd compression all in a 38kb wasm module.

I was using the original zstd rust crate for my web app, but I couldn't get my module any smaller than 150kb, but when I switched to C for web app I was able to do a whole lot of optimizing and culling until I got it down to 39kb.

I wanted to like Rust, but I was using unsafe code for performance and such anyway that it made more sense to switch to C.

I too love meta. My feed is only my friends and people I follow. It's definitely not 90% sponsored posts.

With the sans serif font I assumed it was someone complaining that Weird Al Yankovic was normal now or changing his name.

This isn't just a decompilation, this is a full port. Even supports Android.

iOS doesn't allow for native code execution (or JIT compilers) in apps like Android does (they don't like anything that could be used for sideloading) so the termux equivalents are ridiculously slow. I tried using ffmpeg on someone's ipad one time and it went so slow (about 100 times slower) that I ended up launching a web server, downloading the file to my phone and running ffmpeg there and then transferring it back.

If you get an Android you can use termux and do literally anything. I like to write websites, write newsletters in vim and run a jekyll instance, transcode video with ffmpeg, etc.

I use dwm and brave and 10 tabs or so and I'm usually at about 2-3gb of RAM used.

Inspired by BusyBox 9 years ago I wrote a multicall binary that you rename and manipulate to solve puzzles and learn to use the shell in the process. I should do more with it.

https://github.com/tnelsond/learn-linux-commandline

I meant to reply to John who was asking where someone was getting the 32768 number from. No idea if it's true, but that's the significance of that number.

Yeah that's the lore page does look like there's no downvoting submissions then and people are just trolling.

It's the maximum value of a signed 16 bit integer. But there's a GitHub page that explains hn lore.

Tvtropes really just categorizes and explains every possible archetype whether that's character, plot, or just anything that appears in a story. People lose a ridiculous amount of time reading all the tropes. A trope is like a cliché but it's not, because cliché's are hated whereas tropes can go either way.

For individual notes there's https://tvtropes.org

I was writing emscripten and getting lots of errors and problems and it wouldn't run at all, but rust with bindgen just kinda worked automatically.

My theory is that LLMs have the brains of hipster coders with their proclivity for rust and node etc.

Someone really should do some tests.

I was trying to get my c wasm module down in size and emmalloc is pretty small, but it requires a lot of js glue to make it work, but using a small allocator like walloc requires no glue and it's insanely small. I got my module down from 27kb to 17kb.

I'm gonna read this article and try making my own allocator next.