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by eslaught 3y ago
LuaJIT is in a very weird place overall. Some years ago, the main developer announced that they were stepping down. A bunch of forks sprang up as a result. Meanwhile, the main developer declined to put anyone else in charge of the project,
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by eslaught 3y ago
Hm? They appear to have Stripe and crypto options too, as well as Alipay.
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by eslaught 3y ago
Doesn't hydrogen have issues with embrittlement [1]? I'm no expert, but why are they choosing that as the propellant instead of something else? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
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by eslaught 3y ago
My understanding is that Amazon runs imprints, like Audible Originals [1], that basically act like a publisher. I.e., they buy the rights, produce the audio, pay the voice actor, and the author gets some royalty (presumably smaller than 40%
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by eslaught 3y ago
A 40% cut makes sense in a world where Amazon pays the voice actor. My understanding is that is not how this works. The author pays the voice actor, or the publisher does. Amazon is paying for hosting an audio file, basically, and the dev
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by eslaught 3y ago
We use PyPy for performing verification of our software stack [1], and also for profiling tools [2]. The verification tool is basically a complete reimplementation of our main product, and therefore encodes a massive amount of business logi
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by eslaught 3y ago
If I built an ocean base 231 meters below the surface, does that mean I'd get free fresh water by sticking a membrane on the outside of my base? (Ignoring the impracticality of building an underwater base, of course.) Sounds like a coo
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by eslaught 3y ago
Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
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by eslaught 3y ago
You're exactly right: https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/asplo...
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by eslaught 3y ago
This is a common theme on HN, but it's not obvious to me if it reflects this entire period we're talking about here. Were government loans growing from 1980 to 2000? I know they have been in the last 20 years, but tuition was clea
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by eslaught 3y ago
I know people who quit and were glad that they did so. I know people who graduated, but with the realization that research wasn't for them, and they pivoted into something else. But I honestly can't think of anyone who stuck throu
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by eslaught 3y ago
https://elliottslaughter.com/ An eclectic combination of a long-running (but infrequent) blog, technical projects, and academic papers.
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by eslaught 3y ago
The original article gets into this at the end. It's easy to get into a cyclic argument here, where you posit a tool that can do "anything" and then try to derive consequences from that. What we don't know is what its a
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by eslaught 3y ago
After the controversy over naming CommonMark (where @jgm et al. caught flak over originally trying to name it Standard Markdown), I'm not surprised that he picked something totally unrelated. And really, it's not Markdown at all a
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by eslaught 3y ago
Needs a 2018 in the title. He actually implemented these ideas: https://djot.net/
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by eslaught 3y ago
Did you ever try to use the Xeon Phi? It was hideous to optimize for. The cores were in order. If you've never written code for in order cores, you may not appreciate exactly how heavily you're leaning on out of order to save your
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by eslaught 3y ago
Yes: https://api.github.com/users/<userhandle> From: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/mai...
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by eslaught 3y ago
I feel like D has gone this route of incrementally adding features (like borrow checking) to the language that, in principle, improve safety. I wonder if anyone here has more experience to know how well it has worked? One massive advantage
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by eslaught 3y ago
It's kind of wild that Apple provides code samples you can use to directly create your own VMs. Has ended up being the most straightforward way to run virtualized macOS on a macOS host that I've found, and comes with the nice bene
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What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022)(elliottslaughter.com)
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by eslaught 3y ago
Drivers are only the lowest level of the stack. You could (in principle) have a great driver ecosystem and a nonexistent user-level ecosystem. And indeed, the user-level ecosystem on AMD and Intel seems to be suffering. For example, I recen
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by eslaught 3y ago
There is a legitimate difference between accurate, honest advice that is hard to swallow, and being harsh, rude or mean. For some reason that I don't fully understand, some corners of the programming world seem to conflate the latter w
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by eslaught 3y ago
Can someone explain to me how we're only discovering these moons in 2023? Do we really not have sensitive enough instruments to see rocks over a mile in diameter in our own solar system?
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by eslaught 3y ago
I basically quit writing when I was 12 because of this. I really wish I hadn't, it took another 10 years to get the ball rolling on that again (and from there about 10 years to actually get good enough to like what I was writing). I co
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by eslaught 3y ago
I did watch The Clone Wars (note this is the 2008 TV series, not the 2003 one). The last season (especially the finale) was amazing, up there with Andor for best Star Wars content of all time. But watching the rest of it to get to that
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by eslaught 3y ago
I loved Star Wars as a kid. Then the prequels made me jaded that there could ever be anything as good as the originals. The sequels and other content did nothing to dissuade me from this. Then Andor showed up and it's like, holy cow,
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by eslaught 3y ago
You can get on the order of 10-30x speedup over NumPy by reducing the allocation of temporaries and fusing across operations. See: Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream&#
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by eslaught 3y ago
Can someone talk about what this "auth" library is that djb talks about? What is its security model? As best I can tell, it doesn't protect from MITM attacks. If so, I'm confused about what the point is.
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by eslaught 3y ago
There's a straightforward (if not necessarily easy) way to test this hypothesis. Go look at founders and see what fraction are engineers vs project managers vs sales/marketing/business/etc. in their previous careers. The
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by eslaught 3y ago
"A little while" as in how long? Re: the sibling comment, I had to switch the Chrome to see the button, but I don't know how patient I need to be, or what the interface is supposed to look like once it's ready. Edit: ok,

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