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by quux 9mo ago
There's a few threads about this in the Swift forums, here's a couple: https://forums.swift.org/t/ladybird-browser-and-swift-garbag... https://forums.swift.org/t/ladybird-browser-event-lo
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by quux 9mo ago
You don't strictly have to use Xcode to use swift, there's a good LSP for use in other editors. That said, if you're using Swift to build an app, you're probably still going to want to use Xcode for building and debuggin
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by quux 9mo ago
That is the plan, but they are stalled on that effort by difficulties getting Swift's memory model (reference counting) to play nice with Ladybird's (garbage collection) I think there was some work with the Swift team at Apple to
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by quux 9mo ago
Is there a Mac version of this? I could honestly use it
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by quux 9mo ago
The designers planned on using a shift register in the 6522 VIA chips to implement fast serial loading, but an undocumented bug in that chip forced them to fall back to the slow bit banging version that shipped
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by quux 9mo ago
Yes you can, back in the day this is how fast loaders worked, they uploaded an optimized serial protocol to the ram on the drive and called into it.
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by quux 10mo ago
I kept waiting for the payoff to be "The optimizer reduced the entire series of if statements to a single instruction"
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by quux 11mo ago
Rust even works on 8-bit via the LLVM-MOS backend for MOS 6502 :)
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by quux 11mo ago
Looking at the list of affected architectures: Alpha (alpha), Motorola 680x0 (m68k), PA-RISC (hppa), and SuperH (sh4) I think these are much much more likely to be run by enthusiasts than someone needing an affordable computer.
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by quux 11mo ago
yes
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by quux 1y ago
IIRC he works (worked) for Verily, and previously was at Valve working on their VR hardware. He's also mentioned having a business pre-Valve that made MRI safe controllers for users to interact with computers while inside an MRI machin
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by quux 1y ago
I'm going to disagree with the "Asking a Lot of Questions" section. One of the best engineers I've ever worked with, who was at the Principal level, was completely unafraid to ask questions, no matter how basic one might
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by quux 1y ago
The yt-dlp devs also talk about this openly, in GitHub issues and elsewhere. I think there have been multiple front page stories about how yt-dlp works here on HN over the last few years.
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by quux 1y ago
I appreciate you
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by quux 1y ago
Can someone explain why we measure these datacenters in Gigawatts rather than something that actually measures compute like flops or whatever the AI equivalent of flops is? To put it another way, I don't know anything but I could proba
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by quux 1y ago
And thanks to these old endpoints that can’t be changed yt-dlp is able to function
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How do aircraft systems communicate? (ARINC 429) [video](youtube.com)
5 points by quux 1y ago|0 comments
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by quux 1y ago
That feature is called "reachability" and is designed to let the user access controls at the top of the screen with their thumb. It's a nice idea but triggers unintentionally too often IMO. https://support.apple.co
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Would You Work '996'? The Hustle Culture Trend Is Taking Hold in Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
3 points by quux 1y ago|6 comments
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by quux 1y ago
They are running the JS in Deno, a sandboxed JS runtime.
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by quux 1y ago
This is an incredibly tragic story to read, I think it's incredibly reckless to have bots like this deployed, maybe even criminal.
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by quux 1y ago
Depends on how much weight you can support on your lap
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by quux 1y ago
https://archive.is/QoWZ3
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by quux 1y ago
Yep they did. I think those dlls are have their origin in NeXT’s Openstep for Windows product, which let you develop windows apps using the NeXT APIs.
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by quux 1y ago
I'm hoping to hear some good news at WWDC for swift development in editors other than Xcode (VSCode, Neovim, etc.) Last year they said "we need to meet backend developers where they are" and announced plans to improve sourcek
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by quux 2y ago
Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/economy/trump-re...
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by quux 2y ago
Gift article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/business/economy/white-co...
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by quux 2y ago
My feeling is that if Swift didn't have the requirement of very tight interop with Objective-C there would have only been one kind of object. Maybe just structs with the option of heap allocation/reference counting or something li
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by quux 2y ago
Nice! Ok maybe Jakt can be used for more non-trivial stuff than I gave it credit for :) Worth mentioning that the Jakt compiler is self hosting as well
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by quux 2y ago
Ah ok, sorry was unaware.

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