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151.
by nynx 4y ago
I don’t understand why a consortium would need a lot of funding if all it is doing is standardizing something that private companies have put together.
152.
by nynx 4y ago
I absolutely hate to see consortiums patent and license out standards. I sort of get it if it’s a company patenting it, but a consortium should be separate from the business side of it.
153.
by nynx 4y ago
.stack definitely seems like a mistake in the context of Webassembly. I’d be interested in seeing the justification for it.
154.
by nynx 4y ago
Incredible how bad the security posture is for companies like this. This should be illegal.
155.
by nynx 4y ago
Definitely worth watching
156.
by nynx 4y ago
Moving ram over to pcie makes a lot of sense. Glad that’s on the roadmap.
157.
by nynx 4y ago
It’s so cool that you’re on HN! I’m a huge fan of your work and it helped me feel comfortable with aiming to be a generalist.
158.
by nynx 4y ago
There’s no implicit behavior here. It won’t compile if you don’t explicitly move the string into the closure.
159.
by nynx 4y ago
Also, O(n) doesn’t mean much when the CPU can execute hundreds of checks in a few tens of cycles.
160.
by nynx 4y ago
Definitely can be useful, but keep in mind that performance will usually be worse for function tables.
161.
by nynx 4y ago
Playacting as philosophy—enjoyable read though.
162.
by nynx 4y ago
Peak exit speed: 33.2 km/s. I can’t help but think maybe the way to do an interstellar probe like this would be project Orion.
163.
by nynx 4y ago
Fascinating, might try implementing this on an FPGA.
164.
by nynx 4y ago
Wow, this is fascinating. I wonder if hardware could be designed to do this really efficiently.
165.
by nynx 4y ago
That’s exciting.
166.
by nynx 4y ago
In a better world, that would be illegal.
167.
by nynx 4y ago
The list of specs definitely sound fake, but maybe they actually did figure out how to statically schedule VLIW instructions well. I guess we’ll see in a year or two.
168.
by nynx 4y ago
That abstract reads like a university press release.
169.
by nynx 4y ago
Vec and allocators aren’t usually used for embedded rust since the std library can be disabled. (Though the _core_ library is still accessible)
170.
by nynx 4y ago
I wonder if it would be a good idea for Rust to switch to mold for debug compilation.
171.
by nynx 4y ago
From the literature I’ve read, that doesn’t seem right. If we cut all emissions to zero by 2050, total temperature rise would be more like 2C afaik.
172.
by nynx 4y ago
It’s nice to submit to call of civilizational collapse every once in a while, but it’s not a realistic view. Yes, climate change is going to affect billions of people, but from what I can tell, things are moving in the right direction and w
173.
by nynx 4y ago
This is a small part of why I majored in engineering (Engineering Science/Physics) instead of comp sci. It seemed like a very oppressive environment to learn in, especially when I already had years of experience with programming.
174.
by nynx 4y ago
Imagine thinking that software patents are legitimate.
175.
by nynx 4y ago
What ends up in what cache needs to be programmable in the same way as ram and storage.
176.
by nynx 4y ago
Perhaps tritium in the watch hands.
177.
by nynx 4y ago
Not the same thing, but I’d love to see an open-source XRF gun.
178.
by nynx 4y ago
There must be some way to structure contracts to allow for cost of developing new technologies yet incentivizes minimizing that cost.
179.
by nynx 4y ago
It’s a chore because the alternative in C is to do things perfectly without the machine doubling checking your work. That assumption does not hold with tools other than C.
180.
by nynx 4y ago
Rust absolutely benefits embedded software. A big reason is that the type system allows libraries to let you enforce invariants at compile time. For example, your i2c controller only supports two specific pins and they have to be in a speci

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