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Thats awesome! Recently I was looking into making apps for my smartwatch that don't exist (like watch display with multiple timezones), and infrastructure to make your own apps is very poor.

One thing I wish for is Rust support, since its running Linux it should be possible, isn't it?


It would be possible to use Rust. Nobody got around working on it tbh. But simple things like your mentioned watchface idea are really quick to do in QML.

>I really dislike javascript, it is so loose that I marvel that people are able to write big chunks of software in it. I have no interest in trying.

Because they use Typescript.

>The stop-the-world garbage collection is a big pain for games

There is a number of languages that allow manual memory management: Zig, Nim, Rust and few others


> There is a number of languages that allow manual memory management: ... Nim

Nim not only has support for manual memory management, but there're several gc modes that are not stop-the-world.

Also, since Nim 2, the stdlib now is using ARC by default, which is deterministic and has advantages over conventional garbage collection.


I like how you call peaceful protests when people throw huge rocks, break city infrastructure and damage property and take 0 accountability for it. And most likely don't pay taxes to fix it up later.

How convenient it must be to blame officers instead of bad actors just because you agree with their side.

This is purely pushing political agenda, you just covering it up.


Since you're so eager to construe his support for peaceful protest as support for civil unrest, I therefore think it's fair if I construe your defence of ICE to mean support for their extrajudicial executions and the people who dress up as ICE (ie: masked men dragging people at gunpoint into unmarked vans) to kidnap and rape people.


You can construe what you want, but I don't put my political (or any other views) into unrelated posts and try to conceal/justify it later.

My point is not about the views - its still free internet and most of us live in free speech countries - its about putting it out there while being fully aware that many people will read the news post about a popular language and then talking how its not a political statement.


You seem to have vastly misread his comment in your defensiveness: 1) his comment is not a concealment or a justification, it's an elaboration. This is more than mere semantic nitpick: he doesn't need to justify anything to you or conceal anything from you; he is not seeking your approval. Similarly 2) nor did he say it's "not a political statement", he said it "isn't some hypothetical political agenda", which to me has the extremely obvious meaning that it's not a virtue signal or other ulterior motive, that he may actually be dead by next week. If anything, he's confirming without a doubt that he included politics in his devlog, not denying it. Did his inclusion of "Abolish ICE" at the very bottom of his devlog really put you so off-kilter? Good grief, go outside.

Thats curious, there are multiple Russian and even Soviet-era characters which I don't think western people know about.


The two language options are English and Russian.


I learned of this site via HN a few years back and someone mentioned that the author must be Russian and mentioned the characters from Kin Dza Dza. A quick search revealed the film is freely available on Youtube with English subtitles. It's a great film and thankful for floor796 in revealing it as well as being an amazing work of art.


You can click characters to show who they are, as well.


Definitely too many to be random. I think they are all mostly soviet era things, no? So the author is likely an émigré from the USSR.


Why émigré? He is probably Russian.


Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it would be more correct to say that the author/artist is likely from a country that uses the Cyrillic script.


>..the site’s developer Pavel Sannikau is always working on new rooms for floor796. Sannikau is a 36-year-old web programmer living in Belarus

From 2023 article https://www.cartoonbrew.com/tools-of-the-trade/floors796-pav...

The guy was active on Reddit a week ago https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1pqktaj/new_block_56_...


Author is from Minsk, Belarus. This information is in his profile on Artstation


I just spotted Steven Segal is munching on a carrot.


I mean its just an email, a bunch of characters, why get mad about it.


A shrapnel is just a piece of metal. Why get mad about it.


Yes, its just a piece of metal, are you trying to imply something related with using shrapnel to damage something? Well you can't use email in the same way.


Yes, email needs to be used differently in order to cause damage.


In which way that email, in the subject, caused any damage


>and you probably considered the sun, moon and five planets as gods.

I find it strange that today knowing much more about sun and moon we don't consider them as gods. Today we know for sure they are the origin of all life on this planet and yet many cultures decided to go for an abstract intangeable entities instead of what is directly in front of us and can't be debated.


> How did ancient cultures know when the solstice was

Solstice is a small thing they figured long ago, there are things they managed that are much more complex than that. In India there are whole temples dedicated to astronomy and built to align with different celestial geometries.


Its cringe to see something for enthusiasts cost 2k$ and have a keyboard layout from 100 years ago. I expect nothing less than ortholinear with thumb clusters


>nobody else tried a "boot to game library" PC,

Since Valve owns the library it makes sense that people will trust their solution and it has more chance for succcess


> It's things like relationships, satisfying work, accomplishment. (and many, many more)

Thats absolutely wrong and this is the reason why nothing works and being happy became and endless quest in the western culture.

In the eastern spiritual tradition they found the exact ways of managing body, mind, emotions and energy to reach highest peaks of bliss and ecstasy, and I speak from my own experience, its possible to feel so good that no amount of money, relationships, fame, power, whatever other things you can imagine will make you ever feel.

Because the real thing is happening inside, all the outside things you use to try to provoke inner experience, but it only works for a little bit.

Here its explained in a better way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY5l0k6BTvc


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