nicoburns

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by nicoburns 6d ago
Why would more RAM supply lead to higher consumer prices?
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by nicoburns 6d ago
It claims "no tracking, no paywalls", but I had to click through on the cookie banner prompts that doesn't have a "reject all" button to get to the website. So I guess that doesn't apply to the website, even if
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by nicoburns 8d ago
This particular case is likely an example of that. Rust used to have this problem, but it wasn't ever intended to. So IIRC it got fixed in LLVM for Rust, and this is probably now C++ taking advantage of that.
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by nicoburns 8d ago
Probably because null-terminated strings are completely avoidable, whereas some amount of UB is all but required for performance (albeit C and C++ have far too much).
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by nicoburns 9d ago
> A significant amount of poverty could be alleviated through improved resource distribution and policy, without really needing improved productivity/increased resource production. reply The concern is that AI will further reduce th
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by nicoburns 9d ago
I'd guess it makes sense that if programming is a passion for you then probably a non-tech-centric F500 company probably isn't where you'd choose to work. For context: my current company with ~400 employees (not just engineer
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by nicoburns 9d ago
> I can count on one hand how many people I've met that are into programming for the love of it That's surprising to me. It's been a majority of people I've worked with. I guess perhaps it depends heavily on where you
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by nicoburns 9d ago
This is public https://github.com/servo/project/issues/181 and https://github.com/servo/project/issues/187 . TL;DR: up to $4800/month (at a rate of $150/h depending on
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by nicoburns 9d ago
It came about because US sanctions on Huawei mean that they are unable to make contributions to any of the major browser engines which are all controlled by US entities.
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by nicoburns 9d ago
Huawei are funding Servo. They have a small full time team on it and are the main reason the project got revived in 2022.
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by nicoburns 10d ago
I have high hopes for the Rust UI ecosystem in this regard. It's implementing pretty much everything from scratch, which means that it should be able to support a standalone GUI ecosystem that doesn't depend on a system GUI toolki
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by nicoburns 11d ago
Because it was written by an LLM
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by nicoburns 12d ago
One legitimately great thing about LLMs is that it makes it feasible to add these kind of tracing instrumentations temporarily for profiling and then throw them away so they never reach source control let alone production.
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by nicoburns 16d ago
There's a huge push for this from the big companies adopting Rust. Google has been developing https://github.com/google/crubit . The older cbdingen is still usable if more limited (it's what Firefox uses for s
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by nicoburns 16d ago
Indeed, unless you're using Safari, you're almost certainly using Rust code to read this webpage.
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by nicoburns 18d ago
> what is the process of making a browser engine? what does the requirements look like I second https://browser.engineering as a resource on that. Also consider dropping into the Servo Zulip. > how is an actual html, css a
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by nicoburns 23d ago
You'd be surprised how expensive it is to render text, although unless your page is very large you won't see it being slow on modern systems.
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by nicoburns 24d ago
FYI I was able to vibe code "enough JavaScript to run the css part of WPT" in about a week. Might not work so well if you don't have a DOM or incremental rendering though, but could be worth looking into.
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by nicoburns 24d ago
> But this is absolutely NOT how this site is meant to be used. For example, Ladybird jumped from about 30% to over 70% when it added a bunch of unicode logic. That's true, but you can dive into specific categories to get a more acc
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by nicoburns 24d ago
For those interested in how the alternative browsers are doing, I just put up an alternative to https://wpt.fyi (displays the WPT test results of each browser) which is IMO easier to navigate, and shows Servo / Ladybird by
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by nicoburns 25d ago
> Why would anyone defend a billion dollar corporation so vehemently and not earn a single dime? Why I can't answer for sure, but that these people exist when it comes to Apple I am sure. I have met many of them in person.
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by nicoburns 27d ago
Part of it is also that universities mostly already tried building their own bespoke software in the 90s using 90s era technology and development practices, and got bitten by ending up with legacy software that they couldn't afford to
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by nicoburns 27d ago
Blackboard is definitely a really strong contender for the worst software I've ever had to use. When I was in uni, I went so far as to write an alternative that scraped the content from blackboard and published it on a site that I coul
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by nicoburns 28d ago
Yep, in both directions. Some projects ban use of AI entirely. Others are happy to live with slop.
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by nicoburns 1mo ago
I suppose it makes sense that "LLMglish" becomes more intelligible with familiarity. That is after all how it works with other dialects or contexts with a lot of jargon.
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by nicoburns 1mo ago
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-a... Says 1.2x for multithreaded and doesn't specify (I presume smaller) for single-threaded. That's compared to M5 not M5 Pro, so M5 Pro i
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by nicoburns 1mo ago
> Every widget, every style is built at compile time. Huh. That does sound cool. Does that mean that the XML and CSS is parsed and resolved at compile time? How does that handle dynamic content changes (e.g. content changes in response t
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by nicoburns 1mo ago
I'm going to ask the obvious question: why ADA? --- My framework (Dioxus Native - https://github.com/dioxuslabs/blitz ) would fit quite nicely into your comparison table: - Compiles to self-contained OS-native app
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by nicoburns 1mo ago
One task I've found this useful for is writing example code. Release admin (updating version numbers, etc) as well.

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