FriendOfFalcons

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

NATO advised to have important stuff evacuated and preparations were actually taken to move the mriya.

According to the SBU, the Mriya aircraft was in good technical condition on the eve of Russia's full-scale invasion, the Hostomel Airport had sufficient fuel for the flight, and the crew was ready for departure.

"However, the former General Director of Antonov State Enterprise did not issue the relevant order and ignored the reports and proposals of his subordinates," reads the report.

From https://news.yahoo.com/ex-head-antonov-company-charged-150147165.html

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

I like Nim and many concepts of it with the big point of discussion being that function names get normalized (helloWorld === hello_world).

But I feel like that Nim is a language without purpose. It's all nice and cool on paper, but it has no use case where I think "I have to do it in Nim".

Go is known for making small, fast startup web apps, Python for making small one time tasks or Data work, Rust low level programming if you like functional programming, PHP if you want yo setup a website as fast as possible.

But Nim doesn't have this, it doesn't have a library that's better than in all other languages. It's nice but what for?

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

Nim is not transpiled. Transpilation means translation between equal levels of abstraction. The C code generated by Nim is not something most people would do anything with.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

It’s lacking the huge community python has though.

And where did Rust, Python etc get their huge community from in the first place? From being jack of all trades? No, because they were the best fit for their use case. After they established themselves there, they became widely good.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

The "microsoft rival", as it is called in the headline, is alfaview, a company that offers GDPR compliant video conferencing software.

And they complain that Teams gets bundled with Office by default which givea this an advantage over other (their) product.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

Problem solving is basically patent. After all what is stopping a megacorp from using the same solution but in such a way that doesn't copy the exact work? Software for example, with current IP law, clean room reverse engineering is completely legal.

Think of how Tribute of Panem and Divergent almost have the exact same story beats but are still separate IP. IP protects singular works, like authors and their books, artists and their work.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

I'm seeing more and more videos of falconers using Kestrels to hunt down starlings. They're a real problem.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

I used the chat feature semi-regularly to chat with people about more private stuff. It was mostly about exchanging in creative endeavours, sharing what we had before posting it to Reddit.

So I am a bit moved now that they want to delete it.

But I also hated Reddit's implementation of it. Under certain circumstances it wouldn't load older messages and worst of all it was only available on the official app, not even their mobile web app. So continuing my chats forced me to use my desktop, or to try out the app which was horrible.

At this point, let Reddit burn in their mistakes and hopefully the others will make it better.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

This is actually a very cool and insightful blog post. I'd have liked if the code was worked better into the written text however. I mean it didn't dive deep into it's Java usage or the specifics of the JVM, other than it being very well optimized for short lived objects.

However, the precise performance numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. I'd classify this as a micro benchmark and those can often be influenced by stuff like cache locality and other small details and could look quite different on other machines.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

I'm not so sure if the JVM startup was the culprit in your situation. The Computer Language Benchmarks Game shows that even for short runtimes, the startup doesn't affect their performance numbers that much

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

Oh, I'm dumb. Thanks for clearing this up :)

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

The people hosting lemmy ml are also hosting the instance lemmygrad.ml You can look around there. Those are tankies.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

Yeah, it's something else reading on a Lemmy instance, under a hammer and sickle how the worst thing Putin does is "transphobia". And how the west is doing lying propaganda because Kinzhal could never be intercepted by the inferior Patriot.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

Lemmy is written in Rust. I currently don't know if there is fediverse server software written in Go tbh

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

I only know of a handful of cases where branchless programming is actually being used. And those are really niche ones.

So no. The average programmer really doesn't need to use it, probably ever.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

The manufacturer is chinese, so that's why most offers are from chinese resellers.

I think it would be the best advice to buy directly from their online store

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

I have an RG353V and I freaking love this thing.

The past few years I barely played games at all. It's only when I got my little device that I noticed how much I liked playing anywhere: On my couch, on my seat, in my bed or during travel.

It really reignited my love of games.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

Sure, a lot of retro games, especially from the SNES: Super Metroid, LoZ AlttP, the Mario All Stas Collection.

But also like GBA games like Pokémon RomHacks or Mario vs Donkey Kong.

But I also really enjoy playing some Portmaster games. I actually spent most of my time now playing Shovel Knight lol. But I also have fun that Sonic fan games are easily installed. I played a bit the Sonic fan game Sonic Robo Blast 2

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

I love cute birdies. And this logo looks so awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your work :)

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

Absolut unverständlich. Wölfe sind wunderbare Tiere und die Gefahr für Menschen ist minimal.

Außerdem sind sie eigentlich ein wichtiger Teil des Ökosystems. Die Jagdkultur in Deutschland geht definitiv zu weit.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

If we randomly assume they were halfway down (no idea on where they actually were but as a blind guess 50% is a good starting point)

The wreck was found 500m away from the wreck of the Titanic, the Titan descends in a curve and not straight downwards, gives pretty good indication that they were near the depth of the ocean floor. Combine that with the fact that they descended faster than anticipated and that they lost communication right around the time they were supposed to reach the lowet point, I think they were close to the ocean floor.

But cautiously saying half is probably better.

FriendOfFalcons, 11 months ago

Apparently they learned a lot from r/subredditsimulator

FriendOfFalcons, 11 months ago

They had no problem selling the 3DS (versus the DS) or even the 3DS XL or new 3DS.

I think they will ride a bit on the success of the Switch but will make it clear that it is a new system.

FriendOfFalcons, 10 months ago

I have some great fun playing Pokémon RomHacks like Unbound or GS Chronicles.

Otherwise I started playing the original Mega Man Battle Network titles for the GBA.