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by jart 2y ago
All the things you mentioned, like discrimination, sound like ways that companies safeguard against losing money, not earning it like I asked. They all also sound like money losers to me in practice. For example, if someone refuses to hire
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by jart 2y ago
If there's a lot of money to be made, could you give some concrete examples with that have wide applicability? Ideally I'd like to hear something better than just selling it to an advertiser or data broker.
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by jart 2y ago
It's important to specify which OS is being used because spawning goes a lot faster on Linux which has vfork(). If 40 spawns per second is the Linux speed, then I don't even want to know what that looks like on Darwin and OpenBSD.
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by jart 2y ago
What's wrong with assembly? What's wrong with aligning a pointer and turning the sanitizer off if need be? If you're making machine specific assumptions then you should be programming against the machine rather than the langu
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by jart 2y ago
What about tools like ASAN? I want it to be able to tell me if I read a single character out of bounds. Tools like ASAN can't do this if the language gets rid of undefined behavior. The reason why undefined behavior is undefined is bec
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by jart 2y ago
Didn't Elon kill Twitter's search feature though? He probably didn't want reporters abusing the platform to write smear pieces. Now thanks to Elon and journalists being terrible, everything gets flushed down the memory hole a
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by jart 2y ago
On the other end of the spectrum there's companies like Ford that track and sell the driving data of every user for $1 per user per year when that user paid them $1000s of dollars. Then there's Microsoft, which charges you for Win
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by jart 2y ago
Cosmopolitan Libc --ftrace on my workstation logs 1 million lines per second for a program written in C like `python -c "print('hello')" --ftrace`. If I do clang-19 --ftrace which is written in C++ then it does 476 thous
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by jart 2y ago
Oh no! Facebook knows who I am! No they are not selling me. How can they sell my attention to advertisers when I don't look at their ads? How can they influence me if I don't engage with their algorithm? You're the one who&#x
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by jart 2y ago
That issue was fixed last month. I've freshened up the cocmd binary for you! https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/e18fe1e1127f30db...
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by jart 2y ago
> It is commonly understood, even by technically unsophisticated computer users, that if you have a piece of software that works on your Macintosh, and you move it over onto a Windows machine, it will not run. That this would, in fact, b
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by jart 2y ago
I'm perfectly happy with them draining the life essence out of the people crazy enough to still use Facebook, if they're funneling the profits into advancing human progress with AI. It's an Alfred Nobel kind of thing to do.
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by jart 2y ago
Yeah Linux still works exactly this way. The modern WIN32 API even works that way too. When you ReadConsoleInput() it gives you teletypewriter style keyboard codes. When I wrote a termios driver for Cosmopolitan to have a Linux-style shell
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by jart 2y ago
> so the only way to mark a character as invalid was to rewind the tape and punch out all the holes in that position So that's why \177 (DEL) is the loneliest control character. Wow. Thank you!
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by jart 2y ago
Hey at least we got the astral planes. https://justine.lol/dox/unicode.txt
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by jart 2y ago
Thanks and don't worry about it. The Hacker News community has always been so welcoming and supportive to me. I'm really lucky to have had the opportunity to serve you all these last four years. If you think this was an incident,
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by jart 2y ago
We only introduced Android support a few releases ago. I'd love to see Cosmo working on iOS too.
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by jart 2y ago
<3
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by jart 2y ago
It's not an interesting point, it's a willful misinterpretation of the intent of the standard made by someone who wasn't there. The worst thing about bigots is they usually hide it and grasp for other more socially acceptable
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by jart 2y ago
Absolutely. Just download and extract cosmocc-3.5.8.zip and use its cosmoc++ command instead of g++. By default it'll use LLVM's libcxx STL although we've been working on our own versions of classes like std::set (called ctl:
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by jart 2y ago
The author could have gotten their point across better if they said that LLMs aren't good at focusing on the things they deem important. LLMs absolutely understand things. Otherwise it'd be impossible to work at all. But like pe
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by jart 2y ago
I minimized it by hand to make it more maintainable, to me at least.
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by jart 2y ago
FWIW here's all 700 lines of Blink's x86 decoder. https://github.com/jart/blink/blob/master/blink/x86.c
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by jart 2y ago
> the MIPS relocation synthesizer is a thousand lines of absolute eldritch horrors Wow I only really know amd64, arm64, and i8086. What is it about MIPS that makes it so evil?
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by jart 2y ago
What exists in life besides work?
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by jart 2y ago
> https://kagi.com/smallweb Is a fun alternative way to discover new content. Thanks for this. It's the best thing since webring. I recently switched to Kagi. I didn't know they were patrons of the spirit of th
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by jart 2y ago
Staying one step ahead of HR and lawyers? They monitor everything you do over email.
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by jart 2y ago
What on earth is modern Perl? I tried asking my search engine. I got nothing that showed me examples of what the code looks like. Is there really a popular faction in the Perl community that's evolving the language in a different direc
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by jart 2y ago
It's trivial if you can compile the binary with `cc -static -r` and you don't need to extract dwarf data too. If relocations are stripped, you're fine so long as you can count on st_size being present (i.e. doesn't conta
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by jart 2y ago
Something like that really deserves to be written in C so you don't need to install Ghidra to use it. The way I imagine it working is if I want the function `foo` then I'd say `objsuck -ffoo -ofoo.o prog.elf` and it'd look at

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