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by oso2k 11y ago
The suckless guys have their webkit-based browser, surf [0]. [0] http://surf.suckless.org/
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by oso2k 11y ago
Lowendbox is your friend [0]. [0] http://lowendbox.com/
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by oso2k 11y ago
I would say Haystack looks a bit more complex. To me, Bullet looks more like a modern caching server.
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Could you explain how virtual memory makes a process more secure? My intuition is that it would be another source of contention to manage (like CPU, RAM, IO, etc). Maybe you're considering non-sequential address space an improvement f
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4MB buffer to be exact [0]. [0] https://books.google.com/books?id=K8vUkpOXhN4C&pg=PA950&lpg=...
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by oso2k 11y ago
I agree that sbrk/brk are nearly deprecated. But not all allocators I studied use mprotect or mmap. Most reference material (old OS books & blogs) still refer to sbrk/brk and/or malloc when discussing reference counters
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Turbofan is an additional layer of optimization after Crankshaft.
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Original HN announcement/discussion [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8974024 ]. CFLAGS additions produce smaller binaries. HelloWorld in 608 bytes (i386) and 792 bytes (x86_64). An example of sbrk/brk provi
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Show HN: Tiny C runtime Linux (rt0), HelloWorld 0.6k (i386), sbrk example added(github.com)
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> One way to help identify misattributed quotes is to look in the historical record. Sometimes people 50 years ago quoted unknown person X as the source of a quote, where people now quote older and more famous person Y. > Because of t
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by oso2k 11y ago
And google books is authoritative? Napoleon was oldest the attribution I could find. I actually believe the quote is far older the 1970, maybe homer or some other writer from antiquity describing Alexander the Great. Maybe Plutarch. Gra
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by oso2k 11y ago
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." [0] -- George Orwell, 1984 "History is written by the victors." [1] -- Napolean [0] http://www.goodreads.com/
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by oso2k 11y ago
There's also quite a few other testing libs available in the clibs repo [0]. [0] https://github.com/clibs/clib/wiki/Packages#testingquality-a...
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by oso2k 11y ago
In 1998, one could have also used Nano-X Windows (nee Microwindows)[0][1] for much of the same function GUI functionality. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwindows#Overview [1] http://www.microwindows.
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by oso2k 11y ago
JPL (& many other NASA centers) collaborate quite regularly with the International Space Community. ESA [0] being the prime example (Cassini-Huygens[1], MER [2], etc.). This also includes commercial collaborators as well like SpaceX,
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by oso2k 11y ago
I'll first refer you to my previous post about Clean Room Operations at JPL [0]. All equipment leaving Earth is sterilized. The thoroughness of sterilization varies from project to project, instrument to instrument, and the agreed to
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by oso2k 11y ago
Thought so. I've seen CL used in odd ways on the v8-users list so I got confused. Thanks!
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Could I ask you a dumb question? What does CL stand for?
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Could you explain what you mean by easier?
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The earlier film, Sneakers [1] had some of the same ethos embedded, especially in the climax. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
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by oso2k 11y ago
It's a bit ironic that the original author's website's favicon looks a lot like a Microsoft Windows 95 icon.
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by oso2k 11y ago
I was a kid when this card came out. And it was a big deal amongst me and my friends when I found one in a pack. Seemed like such a surprising this back then in light of the Tipper Gore anti-rap movement and other conservative movements o
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by oso2k 11y ago
This seems a lot more complicated than what I implemented in rt0 [0]. [0] https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0
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by oso2k 11y ago
Hahaha...I had always chalked that up to my old CRT TV and the hardware of the time.
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They don't pay taxes in Bay Area? $100K/year - 35% - $1K/month = $53K/year $100K/year - 35% - $2.4K/month = $36.2K/year $130K/year - 35% - $2.4K/month = $55.7K/year
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Like markdown, 3+ leading spaces. mov rax, 0xdeadbeef
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You can extract the differences by looking at my librt0 [0] project. You can also see a minimal amd64 version in C here [1]. [0] https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0/blob/master/src/lib/syscall....
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SIMD does stand for Single Instruction Multiple Data [0]. So, the hardware performs some linear algebra operation on one or more vectors. Whether the vector is stored in unique registers, combined registers (as described above), or memory
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It's hard not to personalize things like what Oliver Hunt said in [0], "The issue here isn't "can we make multiple vms live in webkit" it's "can we expose multiple languages to the web", to the former
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Things like this are good for a basis of understanding. But if you need help figuring how to tie stuff all together, the suckless[0] guys are masters of brevity. [0] http://git.suckless.org/dwm/tree/Makefile

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