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by cyberax 3mo ago
Internet Explorer was _better_ than Netscape in the 90-s and the early 2000-s. Microsoft Office (and especially Excel) was just about perfect around 2003, and only degraded since then. I would argue that Office 2003 is still the best offic
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Windows NT kernel is a marvel of engineering. It's incredibly flexible, you can build crazy stuff on top of it without having access to its source code. As an example, Parallels had a version of Docker-like containers on WINDOWS in 200
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by cyberax 3mo ago
We don't need to move _all_ the people to carpooling to fix the congestion. And remember, the alternative is even worse: buses.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Uber Pool in SF was awesome when it was truly 50% of the cost. But they started hiking up the price (because they could) until it was maybe ~20% less than the full ride. And then COVID happened. > Self driving cars for individuals make t
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by cyberax 3mo ago
> Isn't "sharing a vehicle with a stranger" like, the #1 reason why most people who could use transit for a given trip choose not to? Partially. Shitty people with zero manners usually end up in low-paying jobs (or in fina
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Waymo is not doing any carpooling optimizations. They're right now a luxury service that is priced above the normal Uber ride prices. This will obviously change in future, once they start a truly mass rollout.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Yes, it is. That's why "affordable" is a bad term. There's also a problem with the way this term is used in practice. It now ended up meaning _subsidized_ housing. An average person would NOT be allowed to buy this housi
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Right now the average car occupancy during the rush hour is ~1.5 persons per car. By increasing that to 3-4 people, you can easily double the effective road capacity. This will completely resolve the congestion in the majority of metro area
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Self-driving cars will kill off your kind of real estate developers once and for all. Because there is no such thing as "affordable housing". All housing on the market is by definition "affordable". If someone buys it, t
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by cyberax 3mo ago
The first Nigerian Prince scams started over email.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
NYC's government is focused on maximizing the pain and inconvenience for its citizens. So this tracks.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Russian missiles have been mostly useless in the Ukrainian war. They are overwhelmingly used against civilian targets as a means of intimidation.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
> That the US decided to expend it's precision weapon stockpile on a conflict of choice with no ground or dumb bombing campaign to fallback on is a mystery for later generations. There is no mystery. A dumb bombing campaign requires
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Just put a fan on it. It's just 600W, so nothing super-special is needed. Or add a water cooler.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Yes. This is called the Matthew Principle: > For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
> Every single nuclear watt is being subsidised and has been for decades. So is everything else.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Yes. This is sometimes called "Carnot tax". The efficiency of any heat engine is bounded by the Carnot cycle. In simplified form, it depends on the temperature differential between the cold and the hot parts. So if your hot part i
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Sure. All kinds of people exist. However, properly designed cities like Houston, TX are well-poised to take advantage of self-driving cars. Very soon car ownership won't be necessary even in sparse cities, but with all the advantages o
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Yes. Stop toxic urbanization. Prohibit new dense housing and slowly start deconstructing the dense office space. At the same time, promote remote work with tax incentives.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Why? Just make it possible to buy "shares" in a larger battery bank, if you must. Home batteries make total sense for off-grid systems or as a backup power source. But plug-in batteries are not designed to do either.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Not necessarily. Another key here is that the allocation is triggered from the libc, while the main app uses another allocator. These kinds of issues with VM are notoriously tricky to replicate. And the main debugging method is "starin
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Andy Lutomirski seems to think that it is a bug: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CALCETrXbj__SFQMzPZhES5y6-sh4np-... I looked at the explanation, and it seems to be at very least plausible. The kernel version bisection als
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Thanks! It'd really interesting to try static Hermes with it ( https://github.com/facebook/hermes/tree/static_h ). iOS is braindead and doesn't allow JITs, so regular JavaScript is not a good option
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by cyberax 3mo ago
You can trim it quite a bit, and it also compresses quite well. The dependencies are the main issue, there's just a lot of stuff there.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Probably because musl's allocator exposes single newly faulted pages directly to the app. Other allocators tend to pre-allocate multiple pages at a time, so that the race window is narrower.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
It got traced to a race condition in munmap() in the kernel. The inefficient musl allocator simply triggers it more easily.
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by cyberax 3mo ago
Nope. It's more complicated. The store operation does not need to trigger the fault, it can happen for other reasons. What happens here is a bug in munmap() that happens in another thread. It corrupts the TLB, for a brief instant repla
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by cyberax 3mo ago
This is a pretty clear analysis if you are a kernel developer. > a thread's own store to a freshly- faulted anonymous page becomes invisible to that same thread's reload ~10 instructions later, because the page's backing i
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by cyberax 3mo ago
This is awesome! Do you think you can host something like React Native if you add a JS engine?
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Yes, that's why Servo is so exciting. It doesn't have to implement _all_ the standards, just a subset that is compatible with the full set. So that if you can develop an app within that subset and have it working in other browsers

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