TheMode

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by TheMode 3y ago
This is because you are still assuming software being developed the same way. Could you give me an example of potential risk that is absolutely impossible to solve no matter how we change the entire computing process (from users running the
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by TheMode 3y ago
It is indeed not possible if we keep making software the same way. But it doesn't have to be.
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by TheMode 3y ago
I fully understand your concerns, but still I believe that you aren't asking yourself the right question. Why do you need to port newer Android versions on older devices at all? It seems like the real problem to me. Why do running newe
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by TheMode 3y ago
> Every single useful device on earth that is connected to the internet needs to be updated regularly. Could you explain me why? I am not saying that developer should simply make software bug free, I know that this is impossible, I howev
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by TheMode 3y ago
I believe that the root problems are programs having direct access to environment, being compiled down to hardware instructions, and these instructions not being easily interpretable (without having access to an already made interpreter) T
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by TheMode 3y ago
I will likely have some software compatibility/security issue by using a 10y old phone. Theoretically I do not have to, but software is designed with constant internal requirement changes.
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by TheMode 3y ago
I would rather call it a workaround. They are doing the exact same thing everyone do, but for longer. Which I guess is better, but they are not tackling the root of the problem.
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by TheMode 3y ago
That's not solving anything at all, what we need is hardware that doesn't need to have its software updated constantly. If you cannot have that, I wouldn't consider it ""sustainable"". There is nothing sus
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by TheMode 3y ago
Is the hardware really the bottleneck to sustainable device? The software seems more much important but nobody is tackling it. Having a phone with a new battery doesn't matter if I can't run the same apps as others.
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by TheMode 3y ago
The fact that I do not understand at all what these services are for by looking at their landing page is kinda funny.
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by TheMode 3y ago
My main point is that you shouldn't depend on code to be able to run the program, but on the spec. Hence the emphasize on the spec being simple to implement. There is no way to ensure that a vm/compiler will last forever, especial
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by TheMode 3y ago
Raw assembly is theoretically portable as well, why do you want the source? My problem with these is that they are cross-platform only as long as the maintainers decide they are, you aren't gonna write a vulkan software impl from scrat
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by TheMode 3y ago
What we need are programs compiled down to some minimal instruction sets, simplifying the implementation of custom vm able to run such software. The source does not mean anything if there is no working compiler, or if the compiler doesn&#x2
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by TheMode 3y ago
Kinda doubt they will achieve parity. Even if they do, for how long? The problem is that the spec is a moving target, you cannot justify maintaining a platform indefinitely while a complete version exist on the side.
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by TheMode 3y ago
The stakes are different. Back in the day they lived more independent life, these crazy things they believed in didn't really matter as only the people from your close geographic area would be affected. Giving conflicting informations
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by TheMode 3y ago
Isn't lambda calculus heavily parallelizable? Perhaps not as much with our current CPUs, but couldn't we have dedicated hardware?
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by TheMode 3y ago
[0] and [1] seem pretty promising to me, although I believe that the problem come from the fact that these languages do not expose a way to describe a sequence of bits, which may make them not lambda calculus anymore, but probably much more
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by TheMode 3y ago
Have you ever thought of using a version of binary lambda calculus as your spec? I see you mentioned it as a joke ISA, but not as the possibly simplest backend
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by TheMode 3y ago
Dying because no code is written in it, or dying because nobody is able to run it isn't the same. We shouldn't prevent language from dying, but they shouldn't either due to lack of maintenance.
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by TheMode 3y ago
We do not need to future-proof languages, we need to make them replaceable and able to interact with each other. I believe the biggest problem to be environment/io access. It will be the bottleneck of most new language implementations
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by TheMode 3y ago
It is definitely lazy and superficial, but it does not necessarily make for a terrible indicator. We are much more receptive to color than small shape variation, by removing the former you are preventing (or at the very least mitigating) co
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by TheMode 3y ago
"my own people" in this case means "people that look like me, and have a somewhat similar culture/lifestyle". So obviously it is a bit unclear and you won't be able to get a perfect list of allowed/not all
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by TheMode 3y ago
And if they didn't do anything you'd have said that these mods are too proud to move away from power for a few days and absolutely cannot listen to their community.
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by TheMode 3y ago
All software have many dependencies (IMO for very wrong reason), if you can find a way to build a static system where nothing need to be updated good for you, but I doubt that this is the majority of use-case. Will this device be able to lo
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by TheMode 3y ago
I may agree with the idea, but it is pure fiction. Instead of begging companies to be nice, we should figure out how to change our entire software paradigm so it becomes impossible.
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by TheMode 3y ago
I do not use a washing machine, but that's not the point. Do I need to have some sort of primitive lifestyle to dare say a lot of what we have shouldn't be a guarantee? Don't understand why you need to get aggressive. I didn&
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by TheMode 3y ago
Perhaps that we do not need the same standard of living
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by TheMode 3y ago
Hope you are digging your own fuel
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by TheMode 3y ago
Not arguing about that specific project as I do not know anything about it, but not figuring out how to run software seems like a pretty big design issue. You can't always blame the user
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by TheMode 3y ago
What we need is understandable laptop/hardware, not open-source. Open-source is a step toward this goal but it shouldn't be the target. Framework laptops could be considered as open-source, but I am not convinced that I could unde

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