jcranmer

39 ms·

721.
by jcranmer 1y ago
> it's strange and disappointing that in the vast space and history of FOSS tools, a proper open source browser never took off. What makes you disqualify Firefox from being a "proper open source browser"?
722.
by jcranmer 1y ago
I'll go a step further and point out that someone who is not only willing to parrot these views but has a fairly detailed rationale for why they believe them are so devoted to those views that I'd find a disavowal of them somewhat
723.
by jcranmer 1y ago
For the most part, yes.
724.
by jcranmer 1y ago
> But this long-winded rant [1] defending WW2 Germany? "Reactionary" doesn't even begin to describe it. Holy. Fucking. Crap. I never thought that I would find someone in the modern day attempt to defend that Germany didn&#
725.
by jcranmer 1y ago
The main repository's README has essentially a somewhat skeevy general undertone of "we accept all contributions from all kinds of people, but anyone who disagrees with me is clearly an evil paid corporate shill out to get me.&quo
726.
by jcranmer 1y ago
If he doesn't have any interest in making as much money as he can, why did he put so much effort in defending his exorbitant compensation package in court?
727.
by jcranmer 1y ago
Funny that I and my coworkers have figured out how to make the office not an "unpleasant sterile place" without doing so in a way that alienates so many classes of people.
728.
by jcranmer 1y ago
Even if you restrict yourself to talking about men, asexual and gay men exist. And honestly, I suspect that such people are more common among developers than among the base population.
729.
by jcranmer 1y ago
Offhand, I don't have any cases. The cases where they're the most likely to occur is in the codegen pipeline, but codegen is already acknowledged to be a situation where you have non-optional passes that have to occur in a parti
730.
by jcranmer 1y ago
Many passes in LLVM tend to assume that the IR is in some sort of poorly-defined canonical form. For example a loop transformation might bother to only handle loops where the latch and exiting block are one and the same, or assume the exist
731.
by jcranmer 1y ago
I'd imagine that it's going to end up both getting somewhat better and somewhat worse. 2011 is around the time that programmers start taking undefined behavior seriously as an actual bug in their code and not in the compiler, espe
732.
by jcranmer 1y ago
There's a two step-process to stochiometry. The first step, as people have elaborated below, is combust the compound and measure the weights of various oxides, which (after the atomic masses of the relevant elements were settled around
733.
by jcranmer 1y ago
His blog has a category just for discussing Alzheimer's, and he's been talking about ever since he started blogging. So here's a post from 2002 where he points out (somewhat obliquely) that amyloid isn't a proven hypothe
734.
by jcranmer 1y ago
Technologically, probably not. The first invention of the Industrial Revolution isn't a steam engine, it's the flying shuttle, and the Romans are using far more primitive looms than 18th century Europe is, and I'm not sure th
735.
by jcranmer 1y ago
That's not true! We see the invention and diffusion of labor-saving devices throughout the entire history of the Roman Empire!
736.
by jcranmer 1y ago
> kicked off the industrial revolution early. Short answer: no. Longer answer: read https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus... (which covers it better than I could, from an actual hist
737.
by jcranmer 1y ago
> Grateful for any thoughts on pacing, historical plausibility, or character depth. Originally, I thought you were suggesting an endogenous Roman industrial revolution, which, no, that's not historically plausible (see https:/
738.
by jcranmer 1y ago
> FireFoxOS could have won the battle by just existing. 5% of the smartphone market would be worth much more than only 5% of the browser market. "Just existing" isn't enough to get you to 5% of the market. At the time Mozi
739.
by jcranmer 1y ago
The way I've previously internalized it is CMS is bad principally because it's generic container of general generalizablity (on multiple levels, even) and the fundamentally wrong notion that signature and encryption are fully orth
740.
by jcranmer 1y ago
With email, you necessarily leak the triple (to, from, date): no matter how good your cryptosystem is, that information can be pulled from the mailserver logs (and if you don't leak that triple, spam deluge is unsolvable). As a practic
741.
by jcranmer 1y ago
> BTW: anyone aware of LLVM optimizer passimplementations that can deal with MBAs ? Your best bet is InstCombine, but likely most of the MBA patterns aren't going to be InstCombine patterns because who writes that kind of code? In p
742.
by jcranmer 1y ago
To be honest, I've never heard of Bash's @Q solution before today--I can't find it in https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ , which is my usual goto guide for "how do I do $ADVANCED_FEATURE in bas
743.
by jcranmer 1y ago
I'll admit that my knowledge of signed/encrypted email is mostly from S/MIME (and underlying CMS), so I'm curious if you could enlighten me on what PGP is doing that is so much more insane than that.
744.
by jcranmer 1y ago
The article spends a lot of time dancing around its central points rather than addressing them directly, but the basic problems with shell boil down to this: There's two ways to think of "running a command:" 1. A list of stri
745.
by jcranmer 1y ago
Calling someone "on the first peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve" is patronizing them.
746.
by jcranmer 1y ago
Hacker News is a social media site for people to talk about (usually) tech-related news. It might be hosted by, and fully run by, a tech startup incubator, but Y Combinator isn't exactly a household name, and the only real indication t
747.
by jcranmer 1y ago
It is possible that he had a brain fart. But Musk makes a lot of statements, and he's repeatedly demonstrated that he is the kind of person who wants to project an image of himself that is smarter than he is. There's a trend of pe
748.
by jcranmer 1y ago
That would be a surprise, since Windows XP and newer are based on Windows NT, not the Windows 9x family (Windows 95, 98, and Me).
749.
by jcranmer 1y ago
If this were true, cities would have abandoned mass transit for taxi system decades ago. The requirement for there to be a warm body driving a taxi isn't among the prime causes of its inefficiency.
750.
by jcranmer 1y ago
The reason why I say RISC-V is probably most influenced by MIPS is because RISC-V places a rather heavy emphasis on being a "pure" RISC design. (Also, RISC-V was designed by a university team, not industry!) Some of the core cri

More ›