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by kelas 3y ago
> C is not elegant okay, tastes differ, but it remains what it was in one of its original definitions: a sufficiently portable assembly. > #include hell / modularity okay, so rust has cargo, so we’re all better now, right? but wh
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by kelas 3y ago
okay, fair. i only got misled by the title of the post, which claims all-rust xv6 port. now that we cleared the userland part, here’s what I’m contemplating on the kernel side. i can’t think of anything simpler and more staple than this, so
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by kelas 3y ago
more very valid points. > should’ve been if it could’ve, it would’ve, but reality is such that k&r gave us this lingua franca, and not that other one. the very fabric which holds the entire humpty dumpty together is still mostly writ
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by kelas 3y ago
> Why is that? you said it best - the “tinkering” part is a small thing that makes all the difference when one is first led up to a computer. > if it's hidden, it doesn't matter right… and if you ignore it, maybe it’ll go aw
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by kelas 3y ago
> just not enough an OS but of course, which is why a typical assignment would be like “and now implement a NIC driver”. cloning kernel.org is definitely a better way to learn something relevant, depending on one’s definition of “somethi
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by kelas 3y ago
> easy on macOS afaik macOS currently targets two architectures. just how smooth is the apple silicon ride, i wonder?
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by kelas 3y ago
(all points taken, all valid in their own right) yes, riscv arch is a relatively new thing, which now quietly powers every modern nvidia gpu, led to a final demise of MIPS, and for whatever reason made MIT PDOS abandon x86 as their OS teach
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by kelas 3y ago
> elegance matters absolutely, but no need for strong violence. ANSI C and RISC-V are doing fine. > x86-64 which is not dying true. technically speaking, it is long gone - any Intel CPU since about Pentium Pro is actually a well-hidde
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Lemniscate, done right.(kel.as)
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by kelas 5y ago
One of the most remarkable curves.
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by kelas 6y ago
> We can all compile C to wasm now. yes, true. some people did indeed port not just python3 to wsm, but also llvm (not sure about llvm9 to run dex/jax/vax, but still). the practicality of such heroics is questioned by s
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by kelas 6y ago
hey @icsa > [these regexps] look [suspiciously] like algebra! where do i sign! it is 2021, and the following universal truth still evaluates to false for them: x=x+1 0 what do they mean by "no it isn't"? what is
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by kelas 6y ago
indeed. previously on prison break: ============= shoyer on Oct 26, 2019 [–] The practical counterpoint to Dex is Jax, by many of the same authors: https://github.com/google/jax I’m optimistic that we’ll eventually be
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by kelas 6y ago
hey neighbour also this! we've gotten really lazy around here, so we just take and cut. here's our new RegExp() for that, as @elbab below would definitely agree if he knew which way to read it. easy does it: 3^24#1. fun fac
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by kelas 6y ago
> to each its own wow, that's a pretty famous nazi camp entrée. didn't hear that one in a while. > i don't like regex no. this is just not how this works. this just ain't so. you are confused. but that's fine.
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by kelas 6y ago
this is so much better than the average hn comment. you so much better made me rethink everything. thank you. k.
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by kelas 6y ago
arguably, also that: https://kparc.io/k/#(%2B'%3A%2C)%5C~!10%20%20%20%2Fpascal's%... what's cleaner syntax for that, please? under wsm32? on your local voice-talking apparatus? (take your time. for some
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by kelas 6y ago
hey geo i guess what we're missing is: "1. day one install llvm 9..." which must explain the jit awesomeness. must come very handy in production. also, the final punchline in the readme ("this research maverick is not ye
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by kelas 6y ago
> article [by @kelas is all about] how good he as at writing them funny to see how this is still relevant. i'm sorry to say, but anyone who read this ancient piece at least marginally past tl;dr would know that your conclusion can&#
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by kelas 7y ago
well done aaron https://kparc.io/kc
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by kelas 12y ago
If we were looking for a really striking level of abstraction, we could say surveillance is probably as old as prostitution. But you will agree Snowden did a lot to help general population understand where we are today. Definitely not Kansa
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by kelas 12y ago
No offense, you really seem to make a fundamentally false assumption about what your money has to tell about your inner process. But personalities aside, lets talk mass markets. Think of a random teenage girl who shopped for Alphabits 4 hou
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by kelas 12y ago
No, I doubt they have. What's more likely is that you took an option to to opt-out from any further communication from Facebook, something they reluctantly offered when all attempts to connect with you emotionally failed.
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by kelas 12y ago
Sure we all leave footprints with companies we are customers of. But lets talk about intentions for a second. How would you like a credit card company which is selling information about things you really wanted to buy, but never actually di
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by kelas 12y ago
Desperate trash talk, I agree. Amusing, yes. But really, language breaks down trying to describe the epic scale of a tragedy we are watching from the front row for many years now, one called Facebook. There is no practical way to tell one b
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by kelas 12y ago
True, true. The only difference is that somehow Google still maintains a straight face telling people they are not guinea pigs in their next study. Zuck never had that option in the first place, their only strategy is to maintain grip on th
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by kelas 12y ago
Trillions of flies can't be wrong - elephant dung is awesome.
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by kelas 12y ago
Enjoyable. A rare opportunity to witness an expression of someone who got p0wned well beyond his level of comprehension. Look how he strokes his pen in disbelief, that poor German dude. "I know those switches", Mein Gott. As of to
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by kelas 12y ago
My point is that a proper name for this particular rip-off would be Project Ramanujan, hosted on a second-level domain where it belongs. Fancy jQuery whistles are not helping, either. But of course its a good thing. The more Apple rip-offs
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by kelas 12y ago
Two words: Project Euler.

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