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by aapoalas 10mo ago
Author here if anyone wants to throw rotten tomatoes at me :)
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by aapoalas 10mo ago
Hmm, I at least received a refund on the tablet; I think half of it was paid out and half of it I opted to use as payment for Sailfish X. An email I have stored from July 4th 2017 mentions "the tablet refund tool", so there seems
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by aapoalas 10mo ago
I low-key hate myself for this, but I went and preorder. I've been waiting for SFOS to come to my Xperia 10 IV but that seems to still be in beta, and after quite a few years it'd be hard to switch over ask well... But I have to t
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by aapoalas 11mo ago
Are you asserting that the report is lying, and that a majority of the flight hours aren't actually being used for all those mentioned low priority purposes? If so, is your assertion based on the helicopters being used a few times a ni
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Absolutely not trying to minimise your experience, but I found it really funny somehow how different (and still same) human life truly is depending on where you were born and how you have lived. I've never had a 160 kg Bavarian nutsack
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by aapoalas 1y ago
I think you can install it on Xperia X 10 III, and IV (which I have) is in a long-toothed beta.
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by aapoalas 1y ago
I have a (knock-off) Moomin character as my tag: now it is again quickly recognisable at a distance.
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Finnish sauna enthusiast here: going to same sex sauna naked is absolutely common (although you'll also find people who avoid it), but mixed sauna is less commonly done. Amongst technical university students it used to be effectively u
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by aapoalas 1y ago
I guess one possible avenue of thought is that when I opened the linked article, I had a few seconds to start reading before I got one full screen modal dialog, followed by another 1/5th height popup dialog on top of that to click away
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by aapoalas 1y ago
I do like the idea of this, but after writing a longer response explaining my positive view on this I came to a different conclusion: I was thinking this'd be a possibly useful measure for programs running on CPUs with contention, wher
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by aapoalas 1y ago
I'm a big fan of local proverbs / vernacular in go, enough to ask about them on Reddit quite a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/7fgru4/local_go_vern... Maybe you'll f
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Heh, HnG definitely does think all Koreans have slits for eyes.
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The Diary of a Datum (2005) [pdf](dominoweb.draco.res.ibm.com)
2 points by aapoalas 1y ago|1 comments
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Researchers at IBM analysed the path that a single data field in an XML document takes in an application, entering as a byte buffer from a database query result and getting converted multiple times to eventually exit as part of the generate
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by aapoalas 1y ago
One famous example is Igalia, doing Open Source consulting for various companies, including Google, Apple, and others. They're a worker owned co-op and have grown very nicely over the years.
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by aapoalas 1y ago
I merged support for JavaScript object "shapes" in my Nova JavaScript engine last week; now I just have to clean up some of the ugly parts of the API (and maybe do some performance adjacent changes), and then it's time to use
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by aapoalas 1y ago
oxc_parser uses bumpalo (IIRC) to compile an AST into arena from a string. I think the String is outside the arena though, but their lifetimes are "mixed together" into a single 'a, so lifetime-wise it's the same horror
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by aapoalas 1y ago
To the author, I would be a borrow checker apologist or perhaps extremist. I will take that mantle gladly: I am very much of the opinion that a systems programming language without a borrow checker[^1] will not find itself holding C++-like
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by aapoalas 1y ago
If you start making assumptions based on indices, you can turn logical errors into memory safety errors. ie. whenever you use unsafe with the SAFETY comment above it mentioning an index, you'd better be damn sure that index is valid. T
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Actually; I'm not sure I'm wrong. If Copy was automatically derived based on fields of a struct (without the user explicitly asking for it with `#[derive(Copy)]` that is, as the parent comment suggested the OP is asking for), then
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Oh, good point yeah; I wasn't thinking of Drop clashing with Copy, but just about the fields that make up a `Vec`.
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by aapoalas 1y ago
You can always use `Box<dyn Any>` to get the same result in Rust :)
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Auto-deriving Copy would also mean that there needs to be an escape-hatch: eg. Vec would auto-derive Copy.
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by aapoalas 1y ago
As a Tampere native working with a lot of old Symbian folks, it's good that you remember the dinners :) Hope you liked the city in general, we certainly do!
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by aapoalas 1y ago
I honestly think it'll rather be memory usage, rather than performance. Building an engine that benchmarks better than V8, SpiderMonkey, or JSC is a multi-year effort with a very high chance of failure. Maybe Nova's data-oriented
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Embedding isn't a foremost concern currently, but it _is_ a concern. It is fairly likely that I might attempt embedding Nova (with minimal JS features) into a C++ application later this year; this work would probably result in the kind
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Yeah, only place for ECS-style layout would probably be in the interpreter, but a Wasm interpreter might not be the thing one wants to do.
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Hi, thanks for the question. No particular reason: it might be the one we settle on eventually. For now, Wasm hasn't been in my focus and thus hasn't received any work. When it does become a focus, it might rather be brought in as
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by aapoalas 1y ago
I will! :) But, an apology is also in order: the 70% number on our website is more misleading than I thought it is. Our test runner skips entirely Annex B[1] _and_ Intl tests; one could perhaps view the 70% number then as "percentage
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by aapoalas 1y ago
Oops, sorry! https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4394-abus...

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