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by jmmv 3y ago
How much is slow compilation caused by the compiler, and how much is it caused by the crates ecosystem and the many, many, many dependencies a project gains? I'm genuinely curious because a couple of projects I have written are not tha
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by jmmv 3y ago
Didn’t Minix support running without a MMU? And there seems to be an option to disable MMU support in Linux too. Obviously you lose on memory protection… but does that make these setups “not Unix”?
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by jmmv 3y ago
Hey folks. The excellent "FreeBSD on Firecraker" post from yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253035 ) made me remember the pain I went through many years ago to make NetBSD Multiboot-compliant (aka
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Making NetBSD Multiboot-Compatible (2007)(jmmv.dev)
54 points by jmmv 3y ago|19 comments
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FreeBSD on Firecracker(usenix.org)
346 points by jmmv 3y ago|129 comments
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by jmmv 3y ago
Reminds me of something I wrote a while back: https://jmmv.dev/2020/01/system-rewrites-and-tuning.html TLDR: when facing problems like these, it’s too easy to look at grandiose solutions and, because they look lik
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by jmmv 3y ago
That’s only for WSL1. WSL2 is “just” a VM, which I’m sad about. https://jmmv.dev/2020/11/wsl-lost-potential.html
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by jmmv 3y ago
I suppose there might be others, but I just wanted to mention http://pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/ , a conference on the pkgsrc packaging system. This had been going on for years, but seems to have stopped in 2019 due to the pa
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by jmmv 3y ago
The only time I had one on my desk on a regular basis (outside of school / university work) is when I was coding in assembly. Converting between various numeric bases was what I used it most, and it beat using a calculator program.
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Allergic to Waiting(registerspill.thorstenball.com)
4 points by jmmv 3y ago|0 comments
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The truth about Rust/WebAssembly performance [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jmmv 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmmv 3y ago
I haven't tried Thunderbird in a while, but Windows Mail, Apple Mail, and even Evolution support OAuth, which takes you through the 2FA flow of, at least, GMail and Outlook.com.
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by jmmv 3y ago
Why? I only see a tiny note on this in the About page. What motivated the fork and how different are the two from each other?
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Stupid alloc – What if memory allocation was annoying(github.com)
115 points by jmmv 3y ago|67 comments
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by jmmv 3y ago
Uhhh... the GP was written in a kinda funny way, so it just seemed fitting to plug a reference to the movie. If you want to keep sets together, power to you. My kids have a mixture of both (sets they want to keep as is and a mountain of pie
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by jmmv 3y ago
It sounds like you should watch The Lego Movie (:
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by jmmv 3y ago
This is so nice to see. Glad that FreeBSD is still alive after all these years. I guess I can share my story :) I played with some early versions of FreeBSD and OpenBSD but, at the time, I was still a Linux newbie so I wasn't comfortab
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by jmmv 3y ago
Nice! Any way we can update the description? For my case, what I sent to the original thread doesn't necessarily describe the blog :) Also, a suggestion: a raw list of usernames like this, sorted alphabetically, can lead to gamificatio
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by jmmv 3y ago
Thanks! The Bazel posts stopped for a while after I left Google, but I'm now back at a different place where I'm working with Bazel once again. So you can expect the posts on this topic to gradually come back :) (For some context,
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by jmmv 3y ago
https://jmmv.dev/ You probably have seen this in the front page sometime last week due to the "Fast machines, slow machines" post :) I started this blog during exams session back in university and I'll reach
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Goodbye Monster(goodbye.monster)
4 points by jmmv 3y ago|1 comments
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by jmmv 3y ago
Right, thanks. That’s more than I knew about how the old interpreters worked, although I suspected something along these lines. This explains why I have had so much trouble representing the language as an AST, and I tried to cover this in t
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From AST to bytecode execution in EndBASIC (2022)(jmmv.dev)
41 points by jmmv 3y ago|1 comments
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by jmmv 3y ago
Interesting. When I read the title, I thought "flattening ASTs" would refer to eliminating control structures (ifs and loops) and converting those to a flat list of instructions with jumps (gotos) between them. And the reason I th
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by jmmv 3y ago
Indifference... or lack of knowledge. I've conducted hundreds of interviews and it's interesting how many people know their O notation and how they can write code that theoretically is "efficient"... but performance is i
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by jmmv 3y ago
Fair observation about web apps vs. desktop apps / systems. So maybe the browser should intentionally slow things down when using the device-specific previews to mimic real-world behavior, instead of just changing the window size? :) I
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by jmmv 3y ago
There is a Raymond Chen post (I'll come back to add the link if I find it) that explains how the developers working on Windows 95 were only allowed to use machines with the minimum specs required by the OS. This was to ensure that the
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by jmmv 3y ago
I know it's hard to make a strong argument about this, and also to gather data on it. But there is https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/06/rust-fact-vs-ficti... , section "Rumor 5: Rust code is high qu
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by jmmv 3y ago
It'd be cool indeed, but it's a humongous task :) One of the reasons I showed the Surface Go 2 tablet is because it is running the Microsoft out-of-the-box experience. So... I'd expect 1. for it to behave nicely and 2. for Mi
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by jmmv 3y ago
Bad memory. The idea that Windows Terminal was C# was in the back of my mind for some reason but I did not verify this fact. Thanks for keeping me honest; updated the text now. PowerToys is mostly C# though, which I have also verified now.

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