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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
What I'd like to see is a memory safe JS interpreter (no JIT) - yes, it will be slow, but 90% of websites don't need JS go that fast, but JIT opens up a security can of worms. So if I go to Google docs, I can toggle spidermonkey (
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
>Actually solving a constraint graph is an NP-hard problem How big of a deal is this IRL? Assuming you have 1000 modules, how long should it take to solve the graph?
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Are you sure? While its open source, your phone won't be (since the OS is MIT licensed, your OEM won't have to give you anything ). Can you build a custom ROM without kernel sources?
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
>Personally I think we’ll see Red Hat getting acquired in the next 5 years, It would be interesting to see what would happen with linux after that, as they are one of the biggest (if not the biggest) donors to Linux, and while you&#x27
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
What happened there? In the 80s they were the next big thing. Then they finished their OS project (when the Linux kernel became available they finally had a FLOSS OS). But they never took off with their high priority projects. Is it that th
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
>Rewrite popular BSD-licensed software as GPLv3? What do they rewrite? To the best of my knowledge, they have no problem using BSD licensed software, they just won't develop BSD license software[1] (mostly, though they do approv
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Just wondering how he must feel now!
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Why is gnome still the de-facto default DM? Is it just that gnome 2 was great, so gnome 3 (despite practically a new project with a new goal) inherited that position? And not just RedHat. I would expect Debian to ship with Cinnamon or xfce
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
It's because the language was made to compile to JS, and competition to JS, so appropriate tradeoffs were made. For example: 1. JS is single-threaded, with extremely heavy threads only recently made available. So Dart is single threade
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Or languages that compile to JS (like TypeScript). Maybe one day we'll get languages compiling to Dart[1]. [1]. Although it'll be a pity. JS is stuck as a compilation target because it's a standard, and it's old, and eve
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
The thing is that the longer you wait, the harder it will be to migrate, as the codebase size grows (and once you leave beta, people assume that the language is finalized and won't be too happy being forced to refactor their code when
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Unfortunately, I kind of feel torn: On one hand, I love flutter as a concept[1]. It removes a lot of the baroque from mobile development (no need for the whole RecyclerViewer construction for every list! No Fragments! Doesn't require A
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
>As the oxidize projects continue to land this email will become more and more obsolete. There's simply no way for C++ to compete with Rust, Not everything is fixable with rust. JS, for one, is JIT compiled, so Rust wouldn't he
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Do modern tech companies ever move to mainframes?
5 points by greenhouse_gas 8y ago|9 comments
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
FFI is actually quite bad. You can't talk to native (C, C++, Go, Rust) code directly. You have to talk to Java, and if you need, from Java to Native. You also communicate to Java through serialization, rather than through shared memory
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
The secret ingredient is cash.
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
>If they'd named it sfo07s13-in-f14.google.com, then browsing to that URL sends google cookies. If it's some server from a recent acquisition that may not be up to Google's level of security, that's dangerous. Sorry,
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Better than than silently ignoring an if guard preventing an overflow, and then overflowing anyways on addition.
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
>It's undefined because in the majority of situations, it is the result of a bug, 1. If it's a bug, it should overflow or crash (implementation defined, not undefined), or do what Rust does, crash on -o0 (or, if it's illeg
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
The real issue isn't that C doesn't have a standard int overflow, but that it's undefined. What they could have done is made it implementation defined , like sizeof(int), which depends on the implementation (hardware) but
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
How does it feel having your "life's work"[1] becoming big enough to be noticed, but ignored by the mainstream? You created the first "better C" out there to get any traction, it had a perfect name (B -> C ->
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
>Vi is on every unix system Except Debian's install CD. They only have nano.
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
>Last year, afer a firejail local root exploit got released Is it worse than running Firefox without firejail?
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
> i can with zero effort and 100% confidence run any old Go code i have lying around. that's pretty awesome. I think you can do that in Rust too (post 1.0). What's more impressive is that canonical go code from five years ago
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
They can and do. For example, you can get Marshmallow on the Samsung s2, which didn't officially didn't get even Lollipop.
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
The real problem is that you can't get a phone [1] which can run upstream kernel. So while there's postmarketOS and Replicant (both trying to port regular Linux (for lack of a better word[2]) to phones), very few phones work prope
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Downside: 1. Do you really know what your apps are doing? You can't compile from source. 2. You may only use apps Apple approves. So no Firefox for you.
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
F-Droid doesn't package Binary drivers. They don't package drivers altogether, and they don't package anything they don't compile. They used to package upstream Firefox, but they don't seem to do that anymore.
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Its Google as in the code was written by Google (AOSP). But the binary is built by themselves, on their build server (As with any other custom ROM). It's like Chromium on Debian. It's Google code compiled by Debian
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by greenhouse_gas 8y ago
Can you show a benchmark where Go outperforms Rust?

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