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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Cloudflare was also originally built on it and even used it at scale (it was the primary platform when they IPO). My understanding is that only in the last few years have they begun replacing it was a custom Rust stack.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
OT: does anyone know what the terminology is for the design style of the OpenBSD artwork for v7.6, linked below, where it looks like it was screen printed / water colors (if you zoom in to see the color detail) https://www.o
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
But this assumes the person wouldn’t have withdrawn their funds, during that period of time.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Dumb question: why are creditors getting paid more than they are owed?
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How much of this article is rooted in hard drives with physically mechanical spinning disk latency assumptions, vs ssd/nvme?
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
I imagine that if you’re suing one company over trademark infringement, you need to demonstrate that you aren’t solely singling just one party out.
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Inventing WWW is arguably the single greatest economic development in the history of mankind.
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Have you gone to a National Park? (assuming you live in the US) You can get similar amazement here on earth, normally within 1-day drive of where most people live, by just visiting a National Park. We take for granted the beauty of Earth, a
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Curation. Much like how SharePoint at most companies turn into a zombie wasteland of random unorganized documents, this also happens with Notion. All of these types of products need their customers to effectively have someone dedicated to c
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
I hear yeah. But there is virtually no language as easy to learn as Lua. You can learn the whole language in 30-min. Seriously. It’s so small you can fit the entire standard library in your head.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
> how slow Apple adopt technology. Aren’t they only slow to adopt new display technology. Everything else they either lead or are on par with, no? Biometrics, Spatial Audio, health sensors, SOS phone calls, etc.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Isn't this literally the business model of AP News (Associated Press)? https://apnews.com They sell stories to other news outlets to publish on their own website.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Slight OT: I thought WordPress. com migrated away from using “WordPress” nearly a decade ago (to a custom nodejs app) https://wordpress.com/blog/2015/11/23/the-story-behind-the-n...
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In the Las Vegas slider, the Lake Mead before/after difference is startling.
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Octopuses are practically alien. They can: - shape shift into so many different forms and shapes. - "invisibility", by instantanously changing colors & it's own skin texture, to match surrounds. - can regrow entire body p
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
But don't syscalls require C/C++ data structures & type definitions. So while not technically "requiring" C/C++, if your language cannot map exactly to C/C++ data structs & type definitions - it won&#x2
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Doesn't libc interface requirement of C/C++ use, create massive downstream challenges for other languages to gain super mass adoption (at the OS level).
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FoundationDB Isn’t “redis to sqlite” effectively what foundationDB? https://www.foundationdb.org/
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Just yesterday I asked @jart, here on HN, about Cosmo & OpenBSD. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41627889 APE was mentioned and some interesting tidbits in the GitHub link provided in the HN comment above.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Does Cosmo support for OpenBSD change at all due to pinsyscalls? https://man.openbsd.org/pinsyscalls.2
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
> The PSF had $4,356,000 revenue In some ways, this makes me even more impressed with Zig. And possibly a signal other believe Zig will have an outsized impact. Zig foundation raised ~$500k last year, which is 1/9th PSF. Yet if I ha
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Cosmo gives you what you described above and it’s <10kb https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
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Super Mario Bros was just 40KB https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213421
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
> I wonder if some sort of exotic life could evolve Some might say humans are exotic life that evolved.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
"Corruption" is a strong word here. Tax Abatements are a long, well understood practice that's been leveraged by city/state/federal governments for decades to incentivize desired outcomes. Look at Electric Vehicles
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
That's exactly why I asked. If the government approached Apple, to offer them a special (specific to Apple) tax deal in exchange for X ... why is Apple now being held accountable for Ireland doings.
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What’s interesting is that it’s common for governments to give tax incentives to companies that will result in driving more economic value for their region. Eg Ireland might give a tax incentive if a large Fortune 500 company hires X people
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Here’s the link you intended: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-16-pr...
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
It sounds like you'd rather sacrifice Function over Form ... in which case - the iPhone SE checks most of your boxes. Note: I don't disagree with what you're saying. But Apple also creates multiple models for different users
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Just curious, what specifically were you hoping for - from a product that is 17-years old?

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