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by tralarpa 3y ago
Is it actually possible to implement security in this OS without a complete redesign and basically redoing what all other existing OS have already done? I am aware of two ways to enforce security for applications running on the same hardwar
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> MULTIANEWARRAY Oh, I didn't know that. Weird. IIRC there are no corresponding special instructions for accesses to multidimensional arrays. > Also, the performance impact has nothing to do with the JIT What I meant: The authors
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by tralarpa 3y ago
I have never seen an adult being exposed just one hour per day to a foreign language over three month, and then suddenly producing grammatically correct meaningful sentences. And note that we are talking here about passive exposition. No te
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by tralarpa 3y ago
I guess it was just to simplify the original specification of the JVM (if two dimensional arrays are just arrays of arrays, you don't need special instructions for them). I can also imagine that the original JVM designers did not expec
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by tralarpa 3y ago
One of my kids learned a foreign language by watching cartoons in that language on youtube. We had NEVER spoken that language at home (but I can speak it). They didn't speak that language in kindergarten (he was 5 years old at that tim
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovccPopjCs
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Why would you not want to make your application's build process dependent on a dozen plugins that will no longer be compatible with each other in the next version? Are you even a real programmer? /s
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by tralarpa 3y ago
No, no, Java is old and slow. Let's compile typescript to javascript, write the user interface in React and HTML (with some parts hidden in CSS files with some selector and expression magic to make it more fun), and WebAssembly for the
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by tralarpa 3y ago
I think they are exaggerating. They will just use it to animate some images on websites. What can go wrong? Nobody would be crazy enough to program large applications in such a slow and sketchy language.
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> Only the top layer would twist, and it was used as a knob to set the mode of time, alarm, temperature. This actually looks quite nice. And using the top layer as a knob is a cool idea. https://www.coolthings.com/cube-cl
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by tralarpa 3y ago
What is "a bunch of" nowadays? My knowledge about efficient programming is still at the level of 20 years ago :) Looking at the DrawModel function, it looks like it's passing around 400 bytes of data structures for a model wi
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Isn't it very inefficient to pass structs like Model by value to functions? I guess it doesn't matter for the matrix operations since they will be probably inlined, but what about the bigger functions?
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Oh, they are using Racket. I really love that language. I think it's also great that they explain how to work with structures, instead of going the "everything is a list" aproach (the latter is, in my opinion, better suited
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Just checked, you are right. Not only the explanations of the reactor, but from the moment they arrive at the secret research facilities, the dialogs become unusually long. I don't remember well that one, probably skipped the pages as
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> tougher So much text, more like an illustrated book :) Btw, did you know that Jacobs helped Hergé redrawing the backgrounds of some of the Tintin comics after the war? And Leloup (Yoko Tsuno) also worked for Hergé before starting his o
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> Diablo 1 did effectively create the genre as far as the history of gaming is concerned Ha, no. Legend (1992), Tower of Souls (1995), Dragonstone (1994),... And that was just on the Amiga/Atari/PC. I guess people more familar
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> They been doing this since the very creation of their own browser. Before that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
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by tralarpa 4y ago
I have a 150GB temp directory on my laptop, and I don't consider myself a power user (no video/audio editing, no modern games, etc.). 256GB is really tiny, even for my mother who just keeps local copies of photos and documents et
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by tralarpa 4y ago
My bad. In the newer edition they called it "enumerated types": http://pascal.hansotten.com/uploads/books/Pascal_User_Manual... I didn't realize that "scalar types" in the first edition we
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by tralarpa 4y ago
> Most children happily run around all day and rarely develop any issues I am an adult and I definitely have kept issues from things that I did as a child. Now, seriously, isn't the body weight to joint surface ratio completely diff
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by tralarpa 4y ago
> Haskell That can be done in Haskell with algebraic data types (with constructors without arguments), no? Languages that have enums: Java, Kotlin, Dart, Ada, C (not in the first version), Pascal (not in the first version), Modula-2, Vis
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by tralarpa 4y ago
Was it? I wanted to support mgaunard point, hence the "/s".
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by tralarpa 4y ago
> Why is it not something simpler, like P(bomb exploding in a year) ^ 100 ? That would be "bomb exploding EVERY year (= this year AND next year AND ...)". What we actually want is "bomb exploding this year OR bomb explodin
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by tralarpa 4y ago
1 - (1 - 0.01)^100
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by tralarpa 4y ago
Did you know that the original Doom game was shipped in 1993 with a VM running Windows 10, just for the DirectX driver? It was the only way to do computer graphics at that time /s
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by tralarpa 4y ago
> oh, and if not for C= incredibly horrific management Thanks to that horrific management, the future of the Amiga was dead the moment it was released. No significant update of the OS for five years (KS1.0 in 1985 to KS2.0 in 1990). No s
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by tralarpa 4y ago
> It can tell you whether a submission follows some kind of logical reasoning Which means that, since those models cannot verify the correctness of facts, they will accept anything created by... those models.
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by tralarpa 4y ago
I was just hoping for a moment to have found a new reverse engineering project for the Christmas holidays, but then I see that there is already an open source implementation (Open Dune), which kind of takes the fun away (even if it was deve
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by tralarpa 4y ago
Reminds of the (older and much smaller) prototype of the Amiga chipset: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/journ... Source (with even more interesting pictures): http://www.flo
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by tralarpa 4y ago
> programming languages that appeal to mainstream developers and companies will always optimize for development teams of wildly varying skill Does emacs have a hotkey for this sentence? Or why does it keep coming up in every discussion r

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