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by floxy 2mo ago
What fraction of Oregon electrical generation is exported to other states? No mention in the article of Oregon's extensive hydroelectric generation or wind farms in the eastern part of the state. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by floxy 2mo ago
Apple can create a clone for their wall-garden when they want to catch up to the times.
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by floxy 2mo ago
>wildly underestimate how many engineers work on Chrome. It is completely insane how many people work on Chrome. It seems like it is time to deprecate web browsers and do something different. Like you get a frame-buffer to draw on with
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RSA-260 Factored(johndcook.com)
6 points by floxy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by floxy 2mo ago
Anyone care to guesstimate how much effort there would be in creating an actually-secure curl and openssl? Using something like Common Lisp or Lean, instead of C.
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by floxy 2mo ago
I as skeptical as the next guy when it comes to the claim that ambient audio modulates the fluorescent light. But I could sure use more details on what analysis was done to the photos. Sounds like there were several photos taken, say 100m
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by floxy 3mo ago
I distinctly remember paying $40 per megabyte at Costco to upgrade my Cyrix 486-40 from 4MB to 8MB (maybe 1994 or so).
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by floxy 3mo ago
>Where may I see the advantage in the long run, in any dimension? The advantage of what?
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by floxy 3mo ago
I suppose I could envision a scenario like: Service A has a "reset your password" option. Someone with a "user@popular-unicode-domain.com" tries to use this option. Normally this fails when mangled-popular-unicode-doma
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by floxy 3mo ago
I don't think that is a reasonable request for a response to a comment post, but in my experience, many lisp macro advocates come from other procedural / OO languages and aren't well acquainted with other programming paradigm
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by floxy 3mo ago
Or you could wrap arguments in lambdas (anonymous functions) for eagerly-evaluted languages. Lisp unfortunately has a bulky syntax for lambdas, compared to something like Smalltalk. Of course, you can fix this with reader macros in Common
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by floxy 3mo ago
If you want to get to the meat of the issue, without the extraneous stuff, you might also tackle: Godel's Theorem Simplified. https://www.amazon.com/Godels-Theorem-Simplified-Harry-Gensl...
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by floxy 3mo ago
I'm interested in reading more about how reader macros make `eval` better/useful.
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by floxy 3mo ago
Looking forward to reading the results of your benchmarking Hurd vs. Linux.
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by floxy 3mo ago
I'm having a hard time believing that data centers are chomping at the bit to use the Hurd.
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by floxy 3mo ago
>small enough to fit entirely in the L2 cache Shouldn't the "hot" path fit in the L1 of a "modern" processor (100 kB+)?
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by floxy 3mo ago
If people really cared about performance, we'd be doing something other than the bloated way we have been doing things. https://winworldpc.com/product/qnx/144mb-demo
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by floxy 3mo ago
So for an I/O heavy program like a web browser, what percentage of CPU time is spent in syscalls? Someone must have that data for Firefox. 1%? 10%? And then that moves to 1.1% (or 11%)? And then every other program is even less aff
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by floxy 3mo ago
Hurd is like 36 years old at this point. More like adding 20% to a 10 second operation, compared to adding 20% to a 10ms operation.
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by floxy 3mo ago
Is that a bottleneck anymore? Maybe something that was appreciable in 1994 isn't a big performance hit in 2026?
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by floxy 3mo ago
Thanks
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by floxy 3mo ago
>a rename might affect indentation I think I need to see an example.
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by floxy 3mo ago
>copy-pasting Underappreciated benefit of side benefit of indentation based languages: no copy-pasta.
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by floxy 4mo ago
Is this not a slam-dunk libel case?
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by floxy 4mo ago
Anyone have the source for the three Waymo serious injuries or deaths? I feel like I would have heard about these on HN. Only thing I've heard of is one feline fatality and a school-aged pedestrian who was bumped, but appeared not to
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by floxy 4mo ago
1234567890 x 111111 ------------ 1234567890 12345678900 123456789000 1234567890000 12345678900000 + 123456789000000 --------------
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by floxy 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Rivest_algorithm
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by floxy 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29
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by floxy 4mo ago
Seems like: https://github.com/J-jaeyoung/bad-epoll ...is the source material. I'm not a kernel guy; I'm not following how this works: "With that control, the exploit gains an arbitrary read of kernel m
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by floxy 4mo ago
Is there a source of average price per wedding over time, since say 1800? $12,000 still sounds over the top, even accounting for inflation.

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