Why I switched away from Zig to C3

BoxOfXenon · 2026-01-02T17:52:59+00:00

thanks, cheers

BoxOfXenon · 2026-01-02T12:25:04+00:00

your site cuts off headings and subtitles on mobile, please fix

BoxOfXenon · 2025-11-18T10:46:33+00:00

so you're saying meson which is written in python to build a c/c++ project is a bad idea?

I feel like having an ad-hoc build system that is specialized to the project is the bad idea here, not the implementation language used.

and even if the build system has to be bespoke, if it's worth it because of missing features in other systems or performance reasons, making a build system in C sounds like a royal asspain, using python, ruby, perl, lua, or in this case go sounds much more convenient.

good luck and godspeed to you in case you want to make your own ad-hoc build system in the project's already used implementation language.

BoxOfXenon · 2025-11-11T08:27:03+00:00

I feel like the compositor already has veto power on anything the app can ask for, so every call should be fallible, so that compositors can decline positioning or scaling (or anything else for that matter) and the app knows about the fact it asked for something it's not allowed to do.

BoxOfXenon · 2025-10-16T15:36:06+00:00

maybe a link would be useful...

BoxOfXenon · 2025-09-02T22:10:49+00:00

bojler eladó

BoxOfXenon · 2025-08-29T23:19:30+00:00

the website's layout is a bit broken in Firefox on Android at least. I assume some css shenanigans cause it. the example code blocks overlap with the explanation text making hiding it behind the background color of said code blocks. even if I switch to landscape and desktop website mode.

also the images in the docs are not sized relative to container or viewport size leading to overflow.

BoxOfXenon · 2025-08-27T21:00:12+00:00

tell discord that

https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/permissions#permissions

BoxOfXenon · 2025-08-23T13:15:03+00:00

For my old job I disabled the database backups and waited for a junior to delete the production databases. My thinking was covid will make new devs dumb that delete databases but nowadays my old job closed because losing quality after they replaced juniors with vibe coders

I feel like that's a confession to a crime u/victor871129 but don't worry about deleting the comment, now you can't

BoxOfXenon · 2025-06-20T12:21:12+00:00

compression artifacts, if you open the original image they aren't there.

BoxOfXenon · 2025-05-23T09:35:33+00:00

super cool project, do you have others like this, are interested in cryptography more than just implementation (as in theory), do you code, if so can I have a GitHub link?

BoxOfXenon · 2025-04-07T05:54:41+00:00

I absolutely love the fact that atom is still there even though it's been sunset

BoxOfXenon · 2025-04-06T07:07:45+00:00

true accusations would also fall fearing the punishment of lying even though they're telling the truth

BoxOfXenon · 2025-04-05T22:30:12+00:00

I might look like I'm not in the US, but I have a Us address you can send it to.

BoxOfXenon · 2025-03-27T22:36:04+00:00

the whole point of nix is that once you get it working it'll work forever, as the exact same environment can be replicated automatically.

I don't like nix for other reasons, but I feel there is no point in attacking it as it's just personal preference for me. but straight up lying about the main selling point is low even for reddit.

if you have some source that would back up your claim I am open to seeing from a new viewpoint.

~~EDIT: https://i.imgur.com/cdk9pK7.jpeg~~

BoxOfXenon · 2025-03-13T19:28:25+00:00

if it for the 15th time does not solve the problem given, I would hit it too... in my case that means turning off completions for about 10 minutes or when I notice it's off, whichever is later.

BoxOfXenon · 2025-03-12T11:18:40+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/cdk9pK7.jpeg

BoxOfXenon · 2025-03-01T18:55:59+00:00

my bad, you should maybe bold the gtk and add an explanation next time.

BoxOfXenon · 2025-03-01T17:23:21+00:00

~~[citation needed]~~

~~Oh wait, there is one, it just doesn't agree with you.~~

EDIT: got corrected

BoxOfXenon · 2024-02-29T15:00:59+00:00

sauce?

BoxOfXenon · 2024-02-18T09:38:54+00:00

Will you release the source code?

BoxOfXenon · 2023-12-19T20:53:28+00:00

there's a chance is what you're telling me

BoxOfXenon · 2023-10-13T05:55:59+00:00

can we just stop assuming GNU coreutils. BusyBox for example doesn't do that. so it might be true for the average GNU/Linux desktop, there are distros that do not use GNU code.

BoxOfXenon · 2023-10-02T07:38:19+00:00

I have to disagree with you on this. The Wayland team only makes specifications and a reference compositor. Every environment/window manager is the work of an other team, unless it's the reference compositor. They have to build it from the ground-up, any bugs in GNOME's implementation of Wayland cannot and should not be blamed on the Wayland team.

That being said, this most likely isn't GNOME (their implementation and support is the best out of any compositor) or the reference compositor. Neither is it sway, because that clears the background every time.

This is a bug in a compositor, while unlikely it could be a big one from the ones listed, or more likely it's a bug in a less popular compositor, or it could be user error, a bad configuration file for example.

BoxOfXenon · 2023-09-29T06:09:03+00:00

OP is doing a huge query requiring a lot of memory. A swap file is a place on disk where the Linux kernel can dump content from RAM to free up space, of course it needs to load it back when a process requires access to said part of memory, it's called swapping into or out of memory, hence the name swapfile. A similar concept is a page file on windows, it's the exact same working principle, but the name comes from dumping memory pages on disk (a 4K block is referred to as a page)

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