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by akkartik 5y ago
God knows man pages aren't perfect. But they're what all the extraterrestrial beings around you are reading to create the docs with examples that suit you better when you perform searches on the internet.
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by akkartik 5y ago
This is really cool, to the extent that I'm surprised I've never heard of it. Are universities still using it in coursework?
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by akkartik 5y ago
I'm curious about the hardware it runs on, and didn't immediately find answers on Google. Could you talk about what hardware is on a usual system and what device drivers need to do for screen, serial port, disk drives, etc.? Does
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by akkartik 5y ago
Ok then, agree to disagree. Not being aware of merely interesting work is not ignorance or a shame. One nonlinear phenomenon is not by default relevant to another. Checking what someone cited is "Science!" not Science.
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by akkartik 5y ago
Perhaps you could elaborate on some concrete benefits that reading up on some antecedents provide here. Has there been any work combining A-life with GoL? I've got some passing familiarity with the A-life literature, and I'm not a
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by akkartik 5y ago
This is awesome.
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by akkartik 5y ago
Since software is so easy to change, nobody bothers verifying it. The more we put into software, the more room there is for cutting corners in testing because, "we can always send out a firmware upgrade later." Me, I'd rather
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by akkartik 5y ago
Hard to justify a paid service from a company without customer support: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27339588
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by akkartik 5y ago
Examples?
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by akkartik 5y ago
It has always been thus. 2002: http://paulgraham.com/icad.html 2003: http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html 2006: http://paulgraham.com/love.html 2007: http://paulgraham.com/head.
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by akkartik 5y ago
> Does gain of function research yield more high impact papers than more benign types of virology research? The article puts "high-impact" in quotes. The thesis as I understood it is not that gain-of-function research is higher
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by akkartik 5y ago
Nice. Though it might be nicer to take a pattern like "Start" rather than the count.
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by akkartik 5y ago
I'm in the market for this, albeit for different reasons. Perhaps coincidentally, right after Google announced ending their free storage their sync started acting up for me. Even though I'm a _paying_ customer. In that circumstanc
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by akkartik 5y ago
On a tangent, I've been building a software stack from scratch, and I recently learned how to print out a call stack in machine code: https://wiki.osdev.org/Stack_Trace
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by akkartik 5y ago
Has something like this ever been possible with Common Lisp and say Emacs?
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah. The standard avoids obvious guarantees because of some computer you never heard of. And then compiler writers use the standard as license to mess with the guarantee on _your_ computer.
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by akkartik 5y ago
Random example from searching right now: https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/unsigned-integers-and-...
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by akkartik 5y ago
As a kind of extreme example, I've gone off and duplicated a whole computing stack because I think C is the wrong abstraction. For example, the way signed and unsigned numbers are defined in the C standard really over-complicates simpl
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by akkartik 5y ago
Most privacy policies say that continued use constitutes acceptance. Does anybody know why this update requires explicit acceptance? What's in it that's so serious?
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by akkartik 5y ago
> The main use case for qemu-user is.. running programs for one CPU architecture on another.. most people don’t realize that you can run a qemu-user emulator which targets the same architecture as the host. I believe there is one importa
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by akkartik 6y ago
> Both end up having impacts on the thing they observe. A print() call can cause microscopic delays that are enough to cause a race condition not to trigger, as can waiting on a breakpoint, etc. I seldom encounter a program that is sensi
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Debug Programs by Modifying Them(merveilles.town)
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by akkartik 6y ago
Great example of the benefits of crash-only software. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper...
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by akkartik 6y ago
I loved this comment and also your https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26646153#26669166 . I'm curious what you think of my https://github.com/akkartik/mu
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by akkartik 6y ago
> With modern coding, though, where things are broken down into modular chunks, LP, I think, breaks down. I wonder if it makes sense to blame our culture of extreme modularization here, rather than LP. Somewhere out there is a parallel u
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by akkartik 6y ago
Imagine someone taking control of your door and telling you you need to pay them $50 at a random bitcoin address before you can open it. $50 isn't a reasonable payoff for most carjackings, but this isn't like a carjacking. They&#x
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by akkartik 6y ago
Why does it have to be a neighbor? It says "internet" on the tin. Do you have confidence that random people on the internet can't do the equivalent of a port-scan on you? The other way I think of it is, I don't use it ri
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by akkartik 6y ago
Can you elaborate on what break this is that you desire? What would you like to have happen?
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by akkartik 6y ago
Why do people trust any IoT devices these days? Shouldn't we be trying to reduce our exposure to (inevitably insecure) software? What benefits does it provide that are worth the unbounded risks?
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by akkartik 6y ago
Yeah. I wonder what fraction of searches actually end with no clicks, just the requestor bouncing from the search results page. Anecdotally, I suspect that metric is also trending in the wrong direction.

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