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8701.
by api 7y ago
Blame desktop OS vendors for insisting on parallel universes instead of getting together and coming up with a standard API. We have standard APIs for everything but UIs it seems. Even huge companies find it prohibitive to develop an app two
8702.
by api 7y ago
React itself has a few rough edges but the functional render path design is just how UIs should be done, period. Never tried Vue. Is it similar?
8703.
by api 7y ago
IPv4 address space is too small, exhibit #34138408340314.
8704.
by api 7y ago
It's MacOS, or at least I know MacOS does that. One solution would be to run a local DNS service like Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS proxy and then enter ::1 (IPv6 loopback) as your DNS. I bet that would work, but I haven't tried it. I
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by api 7y ago
How hard would it be to re-use a lot of the ALU, MMU, and other components from the Apple A line of ARM64 chips with a different decoder and pipeline? Pretty much all modern chips "emulate" their instruction set anyway with the re
8706.
by api 7y ago
The desire to be noncomformant or know secrets is a desire for a small social in group that is relatable vs belonging to the alienating mass. This is basically why cults exist. The motive is fundamentally social. Search for Dunbar's nu
8707.
by api 7y ago
This is one of the more worrisome patent trolls. AFAIK it could apply to WebRTC, anything P2P, perhaps also Wireguard and other modern VPNs, VoIP, pretty much anything that makes a secure link on demand. Anyone familiar with the current sta
8708.
by api 7y ago
The key to understanding these and many other flagrantly irrational "beliefs" is that these things are believed for social or political reasons not simply rational ones. There is an interview floating around with a flat Earth dude
8709.
by api 7y ago
This doesn't mention charisma, and the fact that smart hardworking people often lack it. From what I have observed charisma is by far the number one factor for success. It's more significant than hard work, intelligence/IQ, a
8710.
by api 7y ago
Heh... maybe we should be very afraid when a media known for fearmongering tells us to remain calm.
8711.
by api 7y ago
Block chain and cryptocurrency is another thing that's gone from unhinged hype to heavy skepticism.
8712.
by api 7y ago
Many large companies push this stuff out for publicity and recruitment. Sometimes employees are encouraged to spend a little bit of their time on it or to brand extracurricular activities with the company name for publicity. The test for op
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What is the actual x86 instruction decode overhead?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by api 7y ago|1 comments
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by api 7y ago
One huge issue with introducing licensing in software engineering is the fact that there are a great many very competent self taught software engineers. This breaks the conventional model of how licensing works with its close coupling to un
8715.
by api 7y ago
How messy is AARCH64 compared to X64? I imagine it's less, but ARM's been around for a while too hasn't it?
8716.
by api 7y ago
The fact that it would save money may be part of the problem. The massive and very redundant health insurance bureaucracy employs a lot of people. In the realm of government contracting and large scale policy decisions like this, efficiency
8717.
by api 7y ago
I see containers, at least when used this way, as a consolidation loan for technical debt. They let you consolidate your existing debt load embodied in all your messy uninstallable ball of crap software and then max out your credit again. O
8718.
by api 7y ago
IMHO containerization exists because of this "pattern." It's a way to just take big balls of crap, roll them up along with the entire host OS image , and deploy them as a unit. Problem "solved." Of course now you h
8719.
by api 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ChoHNEgRI
8720.
by api 7y ago
Does it have RISC technology? Because RISC technology is going to change everything.
8721.
by api 7y ago
Networking is always a center of awesomeness in those companies. I've seen things like six (at least) layers of NAT for "extra security" or super fast fiber optics that are unused because someone left everything hanging off a
8722.
by api 7y ago
I came here to say this. It succeeded because it's an extraordinarily high quality piece of code! The 'lite' is even a bit of a misnomer. Properly tuned I've seen 1TB+ SQLite databases work just fine. It doesn't sca
8723.
by api 7y ago
C's weak type system proves my point. Safer code can be written in C++ IF you take advantage of its type system to implement safety features, but the language doesn't force you to do this so there is much insecure C++ code aroun
8724.
by api 7y ago
Dynamic languages with no compile time checking of fields, assertions, etc. seem inherently very dangerous to me for anything security critical or cryptographic. Sure you can write secure and correct code in them, but what happens years lat
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by api 7y ago
Don't know, but for pure numeric code these mitigations are not (AFAIK) that expensive. The main cost is incurred for any code that is syscall-heavy like I/O.
8726.
by api 7y ago
A block chain is a special sub-type of DAG in which (1) there is only one edge from each node to a predecessor, and (2) there is only one canonical path through the DAG at any given time and there exists an objective set of rules for select
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by api 7y ago
From what I've seen AMD's recent chips beat (sometimes outright destroy) Intel on multithreaded tasks, but on single-threaded tasks it's still a bit of a toss up and depends on the work load. Intel seems to still come out ahe
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by api 7y ago
> questionably licensed People don't want to pay for anything, therefore we get... > barely maintained, obscure, ... have limited 3rd party compatibility Building anything really polished that isn't those things is a huge un
8729.
by api 7y ago
Cryptocurrency prices are fake for all but the top currencies, and even there it's fairly hand-wavey. The entire domain has been totally taken over by scams and ruined by get rich quick idiots. The bubble killed cryptocurrency.
8730.
by api 7y ago
The tangle is a DAG (directed acyclic graph). A DAG is a viable data structure for a distributed database, but it has issues for a cryptocurrency where you want to maintain consensus on a single objective global ledger.

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