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by spijdar 5y ago
Okay, that's fair. It's a different kind of representation than what I was thinking of, though, meaning general exposure of an idea to some kind of broader audience. From an individual's perspective, being in a bubble is grea
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by spijdar 5y ago
I don't think it's objectionable, I just think it's relevant to the discussion. I think most people use the word "representation" to mean a topic or idea being seen/floated within a larger audience, e.g. "
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by spijdar 5y ago
Sure, it "gets rid of people" by isolating them into bubbles and makes sure people who don't want to see it, well, won't see it. Is it "representation" if it's only seen by people who want to see it? I t
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by spijdar 5y ago
Orwell disliked Communism with a capital C, probably influenced by his participation in the Spanish civil war fighting alongside the Soviet Russians, but his allegiance was clearly to very leftist socialist causes, leaning towards the ana
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by spijdar 5y ago
Sure there are (for some definition of "most important parts). Take a look at GNUstep for a start. Some MacOS frameworks like WebKit are also open sourced from Apple itself. As an example of how this works in practice, the disassembler
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by spijdar 5y ago
The way I parsed that when I first read it, I took it to mean that the filename of the lisp interpreter was "malbolgelisp-v1.1.mb" and was somewhere else in the repo, not in the 7zip archive with the interpreter binaries. I see wh
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by spijdar 5y ago
That may be so, but GitHub has an individual file limit of 100MB, and practically speaking, most people don't want/expect to open a 150 MB text file in their browsers, so I think this is a good compromise (though it might be worth
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by spijdar 5y ago
Worth pointing out Plan9's C was itself sort of its own language. I think it was a strict subset, but I can't remember all the details. The preprocessor was much simpler, that much I remember.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Worth pointing out that modern Greek has borrowed a lot of words from other languages, including the Romance languages. For instance, the color grey is 'γκρίζος/grizos', from the Romance language words for gray (the more anci
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by spijdar 5y ago
> Goodbye, Itanic. You were a strange, unloved little detour, better known for the good designs you killed than for any successes of your own. Few will miss you. It does, albeit indirectly, and not by name. Poor Alpha and PA-RISC...
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by spijdar 5y ago
They definitely "can" port it, but would they? I believe HP is internally using Linux for more and more things -- the question is if there are enough customers paying for HP-UX to make porting worth it, or if they are legally able
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by spijdar 5y ago
That's odd. I assumed it would act like, well, an input box akin to the one I'm typing this comment in, but it's not. At the very least, Ctrl + Backspace doesn't work (on Firefox on Linux) to delete entire words, which w
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by spijdar 5y ago
Interestingly, that document states that "PUAs are not considered malware." PUA detection and removal also seems to be a separate toggle from general malware protection, so running Set-MpPreference -PUAProtection Disabled F
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by spijdar 5y ago
Does the analogy really work, though? Is RAM more akin to tires or some other component like the fuel tank? I'd argue existence of interchangeable commodity components in computing has been very abnormal and because of the direction
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by spijdar 5y ago
Well, for that matter the original C on PDP-11 wouldn't have either, it also only had one integer size. We should all just blame ISO C ;-)
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by spijdar 5y ago
... do Android kernels normally build with and allow non-privileged users to make namespaces? I'd be really surprised.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Makes me wonder how much revenue Perlin ended up getting from that patent, and if he'd consider it worth it in hindsight.
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by spijdar 5y ago
> Once this is done, it should "just work;" Unless it doesn't cough ppc32 cough Nowadays you have to contend with Rust, LLVM, Skia, and the other porting headaches... There are XPCOM stubs for a lot of platforms in Moz
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by spijdar 5y ago
Won't run on 64 bit only OSes. OSes with 32 bit multilib runtimes will do fine. Worth pointing out that those are becoming increasingly uncommon, with Apple already having dropped it, and Microsoft dropping it from Windows 11 (EDIT:
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by spijdar 5y ago
While ICC did do AMD processors dirty by intentionally disabling optimizations that they (technically) supported in a clearly subversive move, this "worked" much better as a tactic because ICC did legitimately produce better code
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by spijdar 5y ago
So I won't pretend to be anywhere close to having the domain knowledge to really understand this, but this feels like a sort of more logical extreme version of the rational behind VLIW processors like Itanium, e.g. "remove hard lo
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by spijdar 5y ago
Encryption without signing is arguably more useful than not encrypting at all, although there's an argument that non-signed encryption gives a false sense of security that encourages bad practice. However, > we need to encrypt the i
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by spijdar 5y ago
Ah, twins! I can barely imagine, just had one girl in Jan 2020 (right in time for the pandemic...) and took a few months of (sadly, unpaid) leave. It really was like a full-time job for two. Congrats btw!
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by spijdar 5y ago
Even weirder, according to that Wikipedia article, it doesn't appear to be necessary, or has very non-obvious implications when it's removed. Yet, it's present in almost all eucaryote cells...
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by spijdar 5y ago
To add on to this -- the about page acknowledges how "many are confused" about the name but effectively brushes it off because "kerberos is a good name", then "it's not actually kerberos, but kerberos.io",
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by spijdar 5y ago
This is being downvoted, but it touches on a really interesting phenomena we may eventually see, a sort of "arms race" where people try to make their code useless to machine learning, but simultaneously make it useless to people w
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by spijdar 5y ago
Not sure if you're already aware, but attempts at making nuclear jet engines (for the purposes of putting on a jet aircraft) were attempted in the 50s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion A
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by spijdar 5y ago
While I appreciate the analogy, like others have pointed out, it's kind of broken as gcc is designed to be buildable by other C compilers, or at least, it's not impossible to bootstrap from a simpler C compiler. A closer analogy w
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by spijdar 5y ago
As someone who's an idiot about machine learning, is it possible to run this code in reverse? e.g. take the generated (or novel) vectors and convert them back into audio/waveforms?
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by spijdar 5y ago
> But having used busybox utils on a daily basis I truly do not understand how people can use them daily and not go insane. There's a continuum here, and that's what makes this project interesting to me. Busybox is very minim

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