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by akkartik 5y ago
"The QHL is not depicted as being able to move itself; it is moved passively around its environment by riding on humans, air currents, etc. However, at least a bit of mobility is implied by the presence of a magnetic actuator and by t
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by akkartik 5y ago
You're thinking of "A deepness in the sky" :) One of my favorite passages: http://akkartik.name/post/deepness
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by akkartik 5y ago
Helots were 85% of the population[1]. GP is pointing out that random skeletons don't come with residency papers describing which kind of residents they belong to. [1] Source: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16&#x2F
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by akkartik 5y ago
"A young computer engineer, known to be one of the most skillful in Westborough’s basement, said he had a fantasy about a better job than his. In it, he goes to work as a janitor for a computer company whose designs leave much to be d
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by akkartik 5y ago
Oh, that last paragraph. Are you saying the way the world writes software is totally fine? You're entitled to your opinion, but I think that's too big a chasm to bridge in this text box :) I'll just say this: one pattern shar
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by akkartik 5y ago
It's hard. Building Mu has given me more of a flavor for just how hard it is. Some limitations of Mu: * It still requires firmware. There's a whole lot of C down there. How deep do you want to go? * No mouse. This is just my own i
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by akkartik 5y ago
Have you looked into CollapseOS? It might fit your criteria if you're willing to put up with cooperative multitasking. http://collapseos.org
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by akkartik 5y ago
I was certainly aware of unikernels (on a pretty superficial level) when I started Mu. A shared goal is minimizing attack surface. However, Mu also has a second goal: minimizing the build time supply chain and making it more auditable. Ther
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by akkartik 5y ago
If you're interested in playing with Mu, there's a guided tour where I try to make the process as painless as possible: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/main/tutorial/index.md
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, that does sound like Tamil. Ligatures become necessary even for combining just 2 code points.
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yes, the vowel diacritics are definitely an issue. I'm familiar with Hindi and Tamil. Hindi's _matras_ are pretty regular, and Unifont is designed so you can just type a single diacritic in the same spot as a consonant and have th
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by akkartik 5y ago
Wow!
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by akkartik 5y ago
I definitely prioritize supporting all languages. (I don't care about flags and emoji and crap like that.) However I don't know enough yet. The current list of supported languages is enumerated at http://akkartik.github
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by akkartik 5y ago
Perhaps I should rename the registers to generic r1-r6. The trouble with automatically allocating registers is that you sometimes need to spill. And that means instructions need to work with either registers or memory. That feels like a ver
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, this was definitely a concern for me when building Mu. What do you think of the one font Mu has? It's http://unifoundry.com/unifont . I was trying to get to some minimum level of legibility while otherwise optimiz
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Ask HN: Is Google about to require 2FA on all users?
6 points by akkartik 5y ago|7 comments
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by akkartik 5y ago
<3 TUI FTW
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yes, it's unquestionably always good to know how things work.
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, it's a hard problem, and I liked that OP acknowledged that. But I liked less how it made a virtue of the bad situation. There's really no way to rest easy or be serene here.
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by akkartik 5y ago
From page 8: "We don’t switch from blue to some other specified color, because we don’t know the background color of the terminal. Some people, possibly aliens, don’t favor a dark terminal background. If the terminal background were w
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Scamp CPU: A homebrew 16-bit CPU with a homebrew Unix-like-ish operating system(github.com)
148 points by akkartik 5y ago|50 comments
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by akkartik 5y ago
unvote
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by akkartik 5y ago
"I don't see how randomly installing a Flatpak is any worse for security than compiling the source myself." It's worse because you're likely to install more packages using something like Flatpak than you would by
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by akkartik 5y ago
It's misleading to compare two contexts this different. The millennium during which writing slowly evolved was optimized for orality in a way ours is not. People learned to memorize a lot more, for example. As an approximation you may
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by akkartik 5y ago
Oh yes, good old GORILLA.BAS
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by akkartik 5y ago
+100 for Glamorous Toolkit. I actually played with it before starting Teliva, and hope to continue using it. https://github.com/akkartik/gtConwayLife
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by akkartik 5y ago
Heh, I have another project that's recreating Basic and DOS on some level. Statement-oriented language, SVGA graphics. No networking, no virtual memory, no concurrency. Unlike its forebears, though, lots of RAM and disk, which changes
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by akkartik 5y ago
Thanks for submitting my 4-week old project! Here's a 3-minute demo video showing what it's like to use it right now: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2021-11-14
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The fast-food workers’ season of rebellion(washingtonpost.com)
208 points by akkartik 5y ago|262 comments
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by akkartik 5y ago
I'd love to chat more about it. Email address in my profile. I spent a few years getting inspired by Kernel when I built my fexpr-based Lisp: http://akkartik.name/post/wart So I'd be happy to answer questions

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