kragen

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by kragen 1y ago
I like C, have a probably unhealthy relationship with C++ where I am amazed by what it can do and then get unrealistic expectations it keeps failing to fulfill, and don't really like Java. You know Julia Ecklar's song where she sa
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by kragen 1y ago
That's the one Cringely was saying was headed for trouble 10 years ago.
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by kragen 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a roughly accurate breakdown of AutoCAD's cost structure 34 years ago. How long have you been in the business, and what was the highest-sticker-price software you were selling?
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by kragen 1y ago
Does your brother often plot floor plans on his house floor?
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by kragen 1y ago
I believe he dedicated Speak Freely to the public domain so that anyone can use it for anything. Even more generous than you imply.
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by kragen 1y ago
Maybe I don't know what I'm doing, but I rarely get performance within an order of magnitude of single-threaded C from V8. In those other systems I usually do, unless you count Java's startup time.
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by kragen 1y ago
> How do people think JavaScript works? Very slowly. Java, OCaml, or LuaJIT would be better examples here!
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by kragen 1y ago
I prefer Piet, but it has some real drawbacks when it comes to readability: https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
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by kragen 1y ago
How easy is it to link Rust code with C compiled with Fil-C's ABI?
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by kragen 1y ago
You may be aware that one of the things Bernstein is famous for is revolutionizing mailserver security.
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by kragen 1y ago
The "Hot Diodes!" paper from 02019 that de Decker cited ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235272851... ) is promising. It points out that PV module voltage is nearly constant over
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by kragen 1y ago
No, those are beautiful! I meant actual vomit, from dogs.
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by kragen 1y ago
(02015) but both HP and IBM seem to be alive and well 10 years later, even if their products are dog vomit. This phrase "confusing the scoreboard with the game" is golden! IL14 is a lot better than Cringely's commentary on it
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by kragen 1y ago
Thanks!
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by kragen 1y ago
Apt has been painfully slow since I started using Debian last millennium, but I suspect it's not because it uses a lot of CPU, or it would be snappy by now.
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by kragen 1y ago
Thanks for checking! I was wondering.
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by kragen 1y ago
I think Fil-C is for people who are using software that has already been written, not for people who are trying to pick what language to write new software in. A substantial amount of software has, after all, already been written.
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by kragen 1y ago
Sunlight is free, nichrome nearly so. For these low temperatures any metal would work if you make it thin enough.
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by kragen 1y ago
Not sure, JPEGs were fine in Netscape on my 60 MIPS 5x86-133 29 years ago. Mortification of the flesh to do penance for the sin of humanity tasting the forbidden fruit of knowledge may be their main target.
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by kragen 1y ago
Only when you cook, though, except for the fridge, which produces very little heat.
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by kragen 1y ago
Rated at 1000 watt hours ?
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by kragen 1y ago
Some design alternatives: • Use lime cement rather than portland cement for the mortar. Portland will be damaged over time by the 120° temperature and may spall explosively, causing injury, particularly if you embed nichrome heating elemen
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by kragen 1y ago
That's 4000 pages, small enough that you could easily lift it. You could read it all in a week, though that wouldn't be enough time to understand much of it. It's half the size of glibc and a hundredth the size of Firefox o
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by kragen 1y ago
To summarize, he's sufficiently impressed with it that he's embarking on an attempt to rebuild an entire Debian system with it, and he's written some software (a GC shim library and build scripts) that are likely to be of int
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by kragen 1y ago
So far we haven't found a viable alternative; CHERI has holes in its temporal integrity guarantees.
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by kragen 1y ago
After consulting the datasheet, I think the most things you can do in a single pioasm instruction would be a conditional decrementing JMP with side-set, wrap, and delay: • decrement the X or Y register; • conditionally jump to a specified t
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by kragen 1y ago
Exactamente.
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by kragen 1y ago
This is what happens if you make a proprietary app central to your vocation: sooner or later you learn you are a houseguest, not a homeowner.
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by kragen 1y ago
It's comforting to see that capabilities with mandatory access control have become the new normal.
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by kragen 1y ago
Heh. I missed that.

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