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by 4ad 7y ago
No, it wasn't. Pcc is just kencc ran through a special mode and with special APE libraries. It has nothing to do with S. C. Johnson's pcc. > The pcc command acts as a front end to the Plan 9 C compilers and loaders. http:&#x2F
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by 4ad 7y ago
Pcc was never used in Plan 9. The Plan 9 C compilers[1][2] were written by Ken Thompson, and later reused in the Go toolchain. [1] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/compiler [2] http:/&#x2F
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by 4ad 7y ago
My first HDD has a 540MB drive, I ran DOS. Eventually I upgraded to newer computers, and I opened the old drive, and put in on the wall on display. It stood there for at least a decade, possible 15 years, before I moved to a different coun
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by 4ad 7y ago
The Apple Watch is hundreds of times bigger in volume and putting eSIM inside was a huge engineering challenge, one that still comes with MANY caveats. I don't see how it's feasible to put eSIM in earphones with current and next-g
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by 4ad 7y ago
> Did Solaris and macOS also do that for security reasons? (A linked article mentions ABI instability as the reason, but maybe there's more to it.) That's all there is to it (I did the Solaris port).
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by 4ad 7y ago
Since wine is using it, it seems it's not gated enough.
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by 4ad 7y ago
My speculation is that it's for the upcoming arm64 transition (yet another speculation). It's easier to make one emulator, than two.
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by 4ad 7y ago
Indeed, eBPF is not turing complete.
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by 4ad 7y ago
People Data Labs?
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by 4ad 7y ago
Can I do a GDPR request for the data about myself? How?
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by 4ad 7y ago
> Governments weren't calling for an end to encryption when PGP was the best most people had. Actually during the first crypto wars, that's exactly what they did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_P
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by 4ad 7y ago
https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html
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by 4ad 7y ago
Yeah, the law is on your (customer's) side in the EU also. Unfortunately people don't know that, so banks can afford to bully their customers into renouncing their claims. Technically if you are the type of person who knows how to
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by 4ad 7y ago
See my edit about hw tokens. To me hw tokens are bad, not only because of the UI/UX disaster explained in the link above, but because I have to have the damn thing with me. Also, batteries ran out while I was in the US for 4 months, an
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by 4ad 7y ago
3dsecure is security theater, I hate it so much. It doesn't matter if you have 3dsecure, because a scammer can use your card on some site that doesn't use 3dsecure. All 3dsecure does is making it harder for me to pay to legitmate
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by 4ad 7y ago
You are assuming that people only do chargeback in the case of some kind of fraud where other people stole your card details and spent your money. That is not the case. There are many other reasons to do a chargeback, far more reasons in fa
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by 4ad 7y ago
Anectodal, etc, but I could never get a chargeback in Europe. In the US it was always very easy. In the EU I couldn't get a chargeback even when the company said they mistakenly charged me twice, and that I should do a chargeback. I kn
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by 4ad 7y ago
Because US banks prefer to keep customers happy, unlike EU banks.
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by 4ad 7y ago
Cool, I am very interested in seeing Go work on all platforms!
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by 4ad 7y ago
I have written the Go arm64 and sparc64 compilers, as well as several other proprietary production compilers for several languages. The Dragon Book is the best, for sure, and in my opinion essential material. Many people find its style too
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by 4ad 7y ago
Absolutely agreed, To add to that, I will post a link to a comment I made in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21256125 .
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by 4ad 7y ago
They are great. I gifted them to my non-tech friends and they have thoroughly enjoyed them and learned something.
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by 4ad 7y ago
The author is mistaken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21363496
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by 4ad 7y ago
> What many don’t realize is that the double slit experiment (with particles), proposed by Feynman in 1963, was for decades only a thought experiment. Finally, in 2013, it was successfully performed with electrons. Total crackpot, electr
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by 4ad 7y ago
It's no different in any way whatsoever.
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by 4ad 7y ago
On SPARC V9 the stack and frame pointers don't point to the top of stack, they point 2047 bytes (0x7ff) away from it. SPARC has 13-bit signed immediates, and much of that range would be wasted if the stack and frame pointers pointed to
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by 4ad 7y ago
This is what I use. In Unix it just works (TM). If you have an ssh client in windows, it also works with Remote Desktop via ssh port forwarding. In lieu of a (configured) ssh client on Windows, you can send the other person a self-contained
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by 4ad 7y ago
Of course that anyone is free to disagree for any reason, but after having written assembly for about 10 architectures, including several compilers, I definitely prefer SPARC to anything else. The current SPARC V9 ISA spec is about 1/1
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by 4ad 7y ago
See my parallel reply.
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by 4ad 7y ago
Having written the SPARC64 compiler and runtime for Go (and the Solaris port), I assure you I know the difference between SPARC V8 and SPARC V9. It appears that I have been mislead, back in 2005 when OpenSPARC was released somebody from Sun

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