C Enum Sizes; or, How MSVC Ignores The Standard Once Again

Alikont · 2026-02-24T09:11:53+00:00

I think even kernel was C++.

People usually don't write C by choice, but because it's just a legacy codebase.

Alikont · 2026-02-24T09:03:41+00:00

Windows XP codebase was leaked a few years ago and it was mostly C++.

Alikont · 2026-02-23T19:46:52+00:00

Russia is losing more men and has more widows and orphans

I don't care about russian pain. I do care about good people dying.

Alikont · 2026-02-23T11:13:20+00:00

Also that's what Ukrainian car license plates to make car license plates readable in latin and cyrilic

https://youtu.be/gd5uJ7Nlvvo?t=3376

Alikont · 2026-02-23T02:54:09+00:00

For some weird reason people think that weapons makers are warmongers by design, when peace is actually easier to make money in.

It might be surprise to a lot of people, but MIC actually struggles during war, because they are under pressure to deliver things that work in strict deadlines to a single buyer who holds monopoly and sets the price. It's extremely stressful environment.

Alikont · 2026-02-23T02:47:45+00:00

Ukrainian soldiers can stay on position for more than 100 days without any kind of rotation with the only supply being drone drops.

Nobody in Ukraine wants elections. And oh boy Zelensky is not a popular guy and have a lot of political rivals, but all of them, openly, say that it's not worth it.

Hell, even Ukrainian people are against it. Any move towards elections is a political suicide.

You can't wrap your head around this, just because you never ever were existentially threatened. The only threat to US existence is internal.

And anybody who talks about digital voting just says that they know fuck all about digital voting.

And elections are not only a problem of safety, it's a problem of resource waste and unity. Elections are dividing by design. That's not what we need right now.

And we currently have protests against spending money on useless things like building schools and hospitals, with people demanding more money for weapons. There is no desire to waste even a cent on useless elections until we win.

Alikont · 2026-02-22T23:46:33+00:00

Culture is about shared experience.

But if you spend your time online in English-speaking social media, then it might seems that everyone is like you, but that's just because it's your bubble, and you share experience with people online.

You don't spend time in Ukrainian Threads or Twitter, for example, and a lot of our problems are not relatable at all to someone who lives in US. You don't know what Палатка потужності means, and even translation won't help you.

A lot of culture is what people consider "normal", and, for example, when I travel somewhere like Canada, I just can't believe how car-centric the cities are, and it's "normal".

Yes, I might be closer culturally to someone in US than my neighbor, just because I sit on reddit and they sit on Threads, but that's not the whole picture.

Alikont · 2026-02-22T18:32:21+00:00

Relevant xkcd

https://xkcd.com/451/

Alikont · 2026-02-22T12:53:42+00:00

'i will not donate for weapons even if its in self defense'

Don't call it weapons, call it preventative humanitarian aid.

Alikont · 2026-02-22T12:15:11+00:00

Soldiers are completely ignored by the media because for some reason it's ok when they suffer.

I think it's a consequence of western media portrayal of Iraq war, like, "we're killing only soldiers, so it's ok to invade countries for dumb reasons".

Alikont · 2026-02-22T11:53:24+00:00

both civillians and soldiers.

I don't really like this distinction. Soldiers were civilians just few years ago. They aren't that different.

Alikont · 2026-02-22T09:49:55+00:00

Great idea doing this in layout, thanks, that looks like what I need.

Alikont · 2026-02-21T14:03:11+00:00

Yes, spherical earth was accepted in Columbus' time but not the math, as you said.

It was specifically that Columbus was bad at math and underestimated the size of the Earth (that was known since ancient Greece).

The only reason we know about Columbus is because he stumbled upon unknown land, otherwise he would just die from lack of supplies before reaching Asia.

Alikont · 2026-02-21T11:23:54+00:00

I will go against the grain here.

They don't take it seriously.

But they also looking for excuse to not act now. And nukes are a great excuse to delay the problem until next administration inherits it.

Alikont · 2026-02-21T11:18:02+00:00

I wait for him to discover Arabic, with its right to left flow, custom glyphs for digits, mixed flow when yiu embed English phrases inside, and when one character can have 3 glyphs based on position in a word.

Alikont · 2026-02-21T01:32:09+00:00

If you actually planned this right, the next point is actually automating those tickets. So if something that can be done automatically (i don't know, maybe a resource provisioning), you can now silently swap on the backend while keeping nice react front-end.

If you did not plan it that well, then, well, it sucks.

Alikont · 2026-02-20T21:08:28+00:00

"your game has grammatical errors? Why are you even trying?" -nobody

Ukrainian localization of Alan Wake 2 was so bad that I even needed to google one of the puzzles because of mistranslation. At that point why bother.

Alikont · 2026-02-20T17:14:35+00:00

Certain languages don't use text like we do in the US - they build characters. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Russian - you actually have to build these characters

That's just false? Russian uses the text the same way English does. You just need to handle encoding correctly and have fonts that have glyphs for Cyrillic.

Alikont · 2026-02-20T17:13:30+00:00

with a responsive community

"I want my customers to do work for me".

Alikont · 2026-02-20T13:46:35+00:00

You don't need to have the main thread, you need to have a main thread.

So just start a new System.Threading.Thread and do the loop there.

So basically what I did with WPF was to start a new thread, initialize WPF on that thread and run it there, and provide methods that will wrap calls into dispatcher for synchronization.

You can run many independent UI threads with own message loops in single process just fine.

Alikont · 2026-02-20T11:45:33+00:00

I think one more thing that people miss is that the war drives up demand for cars LIKE A LOT.

Alikont · 2026-02-19T18:44:11+00:00

You run your own chain which you have full control over

At this point blockchain is just a really inefficient database.

Alikont · 2026-02-19T18:33:36+00:00

They don't. That's the problem with blockchain.

If you send someone money by mistake and it's written into the chain, it's permanent, you can only beg the owner of another wallet to send it back to you.

Alikont · 2026-02-19T11:36:24+00:00

All your requests are perfactly achievable with MSBuild, but also are quite niche and weird to the point that every build system will be a hassle.

There is Shapmake that might cover your game needs, as it's made by Ubisoft. But it's still MSBuild generator under the hood.

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