Wrote my first metaprogram in Odin! It reads a map of collider vertices from a texture and writes them to an array that can be read by my game. The meta-programming part was surprisingly simple thanks to Odin's fmt.tprintf. I already see multiple benefits to this over comptime.

Have these people never heard of a debugger before?

You kept making the software worse.

What even is the point of Community Notes if it isn’t deployed on deceptive “news posts” like this one?

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

The only reason why Flatpak and Proton exist is because Linux Desktop is still largely a joke.

Reading history is awesome because it's like fiction but useful

"The stack" is a per-thread address space range, dynamically reserved by a kernel when a thread is created. The reason why "stack" is often presented as preferable to "heap" is that, when using a thread's stack, the expensive part of allocation - address space reservation, and preparation of physical pages for backing the address space - has already been performed when the thread was created. But kernels also provide mechanisms for doing your own address space reservation (mmap, VirtualAlloc), and there is nothing stopping you from using these to do bulk allocations up-front to create your own stacks. This can make common case allocations as cheap as "the stack", but the advantage is that you now control the semantics and lifetime of the stack you've created. Thus, it does not need to be coupled to - for example - the lifetime of a scope or function, as the thread stack is. The "stack versus heap" dichotomy is an unfortunate mythology because it seems to, in practice, communicate the idea that when a thread stack is insufficient for some purpose (allocations must exceed scope boundaries, allocations may need to exceed thread stack limits, allocations require more fine-tuned reserve/commit behavior, and so on), then the only alternative is the heap, particularly for very granular allocations. This is, again, a mythology, and it has confused the C world in particular for decades.

I'd like programmers to retire the "isn't this just reinventing <thing>?" responses. Nobody has read every Wikipedia article. Nobody agrees on every piece of terminology. Reinvention is a good & necessary thing, because it renews, updates, and clarifies ideas. It's also admirable, because it means that someone discovered something important without it being told to them already. That is a much more valuable trait than memorizing terminology and facts.

The brutal truth is that our entire system relies on abortion You can’t keep women in the work force without abortion You can’t maintain the casual sex culture and disrupt family formation without abortion Women with children find themselves dependent on men, single women find themselves dependent on the state Women are more likely to take abuse from employers, less likely to demand raises, less likely to oppose their replacement People have been conditioned to believe they couldn’t function in society without abortion, and at some level we’ve ensured that’s correct We’re far from the first civilization to base itself on child sacrifice but don’t lie to yourself, that’s exactly what we’ve done You can look back on the Mayans in horror because they did their sacrifices on an altar but they could never hope to match our level of slaughter Until the paradigm shifts there will be no popular support for it’s restriction

As demonstrated below, the only “programmers” who think all programming is just babysitting Claude are the same ones who were just copy/pasting from Stack Overflow—e.g. not really doing any programming—because the former is simply an accelerant to the latter

On the deletion of accounts

I love that the The Augsburg Confession/Apology starts out discussing the proper role of Christians in government and accidentally disproves Communism on biblical grounds.

"Got a job offer. I'll wait to hear God's call." "Got asked out on a date. I'll wait to hear God's call." "Might want to move. I'll wait to hear God's call." The call went out 2,000 years ago. God is not a magic 8-ball. Stop using faith as an excuse to freeze in place.

I left my old company because of this kind of woke agenda nonsense. The whole planet knows there are two genders, and yet companies are afraid of a tiny, loud minority and cater to their narcissistic need for attention.

I'm completely convinced at this point that the "Command Palette" is a fundamental UI concept, and should be in all applications. It should also be a built in browser concept, there should be an API for websites to push items to the command palette ("new post", "muted words" etc)

RT @JHGoodman8404: @TradEngland @lukeappleton Traditional Lutheranism is beautiful and has gravitas. No gimmicks, no theater, no softening…

I have to assume the worst of any Christian who tries to position Muslims over Protestants or Jews over Catholics. One’s position on the state of Israel should not be anywhere near as important as one’s belief in Jesus Christ.

Western civilization is awesome, actually

Guys, THIS is the pamphlet our Lutheran brother and sister in Finland are being persecuted for sharing. I say, we should make sure that it is shared everywhere! media.lhfmissions.org/file/l…

Gentle reminder that liberal democracy is a comically easy system to hack Democracy is already dicey but it only has a hope of working while it represents the will of a tightly defined people Otherwise your elites simply replace the people to maintain power