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by astrobe_ 2y ago
As far as browsers are concerned the actual solution is banning Javascript from regular Web. JS is basically remote code execution (even more so since JIT became the norm); it is a terrible idea that will continue to create all sorts of pro
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Yes. It is a "storm in a glass of water", as we say. Probably the client application doesn't assume cosmic bit-flipping events for its own files, which would have equally bad consequences, either. Probably the likeliness for
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
This called symbiosis. When a parasite such as a virus, a bacteria, a fungus, a plant, an insect and its host find a win-win "agreement".
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> I wonder how we can break the cycle "Hire former software engineers at management positions" would be the answer, but of course there are various factors that makes it difficult to do so. In theory, management should be held
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
The eForth I commented on indeed derives from Muench and Dr Ting [1]. About GForth, it doesn't look convincing - actually the feature looks like an afterthought (like those libraries that have been teared out of a program, e.g. libCurl
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Perhaps hex notation helps to see things better: 0xFFFF00AB. It's actually nearly 64K below the maximum. 0xAB is 171.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
The present is already non-written communication with Emojis. This supports TFA's thesis, as these forms of communication are about emotions, not thinking. Maybe it is a bit unfair to pick a media that focuses on video/image, thou
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
According to ChatGPT, there's GForth, SwiftForth, Forth-83, eForth and picoForth, but I cannot really tell how true it is. I use my own implementation, which I wish to publish someday but that's extra work for me to "anonymiz
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Application scripting. Single file, low footprint, straightforward script/application interface. Can help with debugging.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> Isn't "normie" a pejorative word (genuine question)? It depends on the context. It can be a synonym for "average" (mostly neutral) or "mediocre" (pejorative).
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
There are more useful thing to do with Forth :-P
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Their "existential luck looks no different from the "circumstantial luck" to me - an asteroid hitting the earth is indeed in the matter of being "at the wrong place at the wrong time". But as someone said here, it&#
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
You just get hooked to radio and get a weird fetish for voices ;-)
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
According to everyone, I think. E-readers exist for that precise reason, although actual books are the best according to me: no battery, more resilient, can be lent. Phones are great as dictionaries (notably foreign language dictionaries).
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
I've heard that a good reaction time is around 200 ms, some experiments seem to confirm this figure [1]. At 60Hz, a frame is displayed every 17 ms. So it would take a 12 frames animation and a trained gamer for a couple of frames to ma
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
So now the question is, why didn't it get traction in over a decade? Not excluding the possibility of an "hidden gem" here, and people in embedded tend to be conservative, but to be honest "professional" and "e
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
FSF's position is restrictive in the sense that it limits the choices you have. On non-mobile, while a lot of people agree with FSF's point of view, in practice they have to make exceptions. (There's the urban legend that you
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
I've crossed-compiled things from time-to-time along the years, and it seems to me that support has improved a bit. Some time ago it was "cross..wut?" but now it is fairly commonly supported and tested. I think it's than
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
OP's criticism was useful, because there is indeed a gap that needed to be filled and you did just that, thanks. Conversely it would have been bad to take what the article says at face value - that's how you end up believing in as
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Reading a bit their LRS wiki made me think that it's another case of a perhaps very good programmer but with some kind of mental disorder, which certainly modify how I would approach their software (trustworthiness, long term evolution
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
The next logical step is to use a machine-friendly format instead; that is a binary protocol. Even HTML and XML which were designed for readability and manual writing eventually became 'not usable enough" ("became" becau
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
I'm not the best one to answer your question, but I know there's Buildroot and Yocto - the latter being a bit "heavy" in terms of setup. I think I would go for one of those distros that focus on minimalism (Damn Small Li
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
"The new average is 107 ms smaller, which you are likely to consider as a worthy reduction, if you have experience with boot time reduction projects." Not really. The result is kind of a letdown and that was too be expected, going
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> HN won't probably like the tone of this one. But one thing I want to emphasize from the post: you don't need to be innovative I don't know anything about founding nor am I interested about it, but at least it was funny.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Yes. If one applies correctly the rules of logic on inconsistent axioms, the conclusions will be inconsistent. If one incorrectly applies logic to inconsistent axioms, the conclusions may or may not be consistent. It happens IRL sometimes;
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
The actual problem is not "destroys your soul", but rather the fact that women working for home have no financial autonomy; they depended on their husband entirely. Divorce was worse than losing your job. "Nobody works"
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
More than features, JS derives from Lisp because its author was a Scheme implementor. Otherwise function pointers are trivially done even in assembly language, and Smalltalk does have closures. Or maybe you think of the fact that JS uses pr
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
the Modern principle prescribe that one should never use software that's older than yourself. Some cults even prescribe that that one should not use a framework longer than you would wear a pair of socks.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Yes. I was surprised to see the castle of Hiroshima was still there. It was obviously rebuilt. Also AFAIK most of these constructions are made of wood, which also mean they need to be rebuilt over time. I think I also remember it is even pa
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
You are indeed correct. Funny how I mixed them up.

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