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by ummonk 1y ago
Are you asserting that single threaded execution of concurrent code is just as performant as multi-process execution?
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by ummonk 1y ago
Do you have any insights into how processing times are going to be going forward for legal immigration? USCIS is self-funded but hearing talk that the government seems to want to engage in their cost trimming layoffs anyway?
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by ummonk 1y ago
I don't see how it undermines the intent here, or has an unintended result. It's actually reinforcing the order by forcing other teams to comply with it.
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by ummonk 1y ago
There were two more revisions (Ada 2005 and Ada 2012) with substantial additions, but I'd say the biggest jump was from Ada83 to Ada95. Tucker Taft has been the lead architect for all post-83 versions of Ada, so there's some consi
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A farewell to Ada with null (1992)(web.elastic.org)
12 points by ummonk 1y ago|4 comments
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by ummonk 1y ago
Yeah, I find that rather surprising that a university lab could fabricate a practical 14 nm chip (more than just some demonstration gates), given the billions of dollars that countries have to invest to set up even 65 nm fabs.
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by ummonk 1y ago
PCBs are something people can do in their garage. Integrated circuit fabrication is definitely something that requires a much more sophisticated lab such as a top university lab.
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by ummonk 1y ago
The point isn't that humans couldn't survive without computers, but that any even that managed to stop humans globally from manufacturing computers would be such a massively disruptive event in much more important areas than compu
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by ummonk 1y ago
Churches did a much better job of preserving knowledge through the "Dark Age" than did doomsayer prophets.
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by ummonk 1y ago
There's a lot of idiosyncratic verbiage about stuff like collapse of civilization and users vs. operators, but it's not clear to me what makes this more lightweight or hackable than a typical lightweight RTOS or even just baremeta
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by ummonk 1y ago
That’s a very ironic example given that the Steam Client is a web-app hosted in Chromium.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Replacing non-framework JS with a framework is very hard. Replacing static HTML+CSS with React is much more doable, as it isn’t too hard to transform HTML to JSX.
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by ummonk 1y ago
What do you even need JS for on that site? It looks like it should be doable with plain HTML.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Awesome! Now I just want Perplexity to acquire the AskJeeves brand.
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The AI arms race in hiring is a mess for everyone(ft.com)
7 points by ummonk 1y ago|1 comments
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by ummonk 1y ago
This is a really cool business model. You're being paid to prepare the firmware for a specific device, but will open source what you prepare.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Fair enough. I think I misinterpreted the "as new team members joined" paragraph as talking about other engineers.
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by ummonk 1y ago
I'm not sure what isn't computing. Presumably you know (or have looked up) the meaning of "semantic"? Images and videos are graphic, not semantic, content. To the extent they are rendering semantic content, that content
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by ummonk 1y ago
Images and videos are not semantic content. The alt attributes that describe them on the other hand are indeed semantic content.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Those kinds of stats typically consider people like couchsurfers to be "homeless", which is not what normal people typically consider "homeless".
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by ummonk 1y ago
Yes, being an early employee is a sucker's game in much the same way as being an angel investor.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Without keep-alive, any HTTPS request requires multiple round trips to complete.
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by ummonk 1y ago
I can't speak to the technical aspects here (I'm only familiar with nextjs not rails, so it's unclear to me how much of the article is just a reflection of the author's own comfortability with rails or a reflection of a
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by ummonk 1y ago
No, HTML is fundamentally different because (for a static site without any JS dom manipulation) it has all the semantic content, while stylesheets, images, objects, etc. are just about presentation.
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by ummonk 1y ago
I would assume cp uses ioctl (with atomic copies of individual files on filesystems that support CoW like APFS and BTRFS), whereas sqlite probably uses mmap?
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by ummonk 1y ago
Curious about the less UNIX dependent part - did you find the UNIX model (everything is a file - or more accurately everything is a serial connection) to be a poor abstraction for a hobby OS?
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by ummonk 1y ago
That is so awesome! I'd really like to see more people bringing back the spirit of early computing with much more tinkering at the computer rather than app level. I've been thinking about doing a long term hobby project of creatin
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by ummonk 1y ago
At a time when students are having their visas revoked merely for writing Op-Eds critical of Israel, it's rather ridiculous to see the pro-Israel side acting like you're the ones being persecuted everywhere.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Yeah MATTEL was the one instance where the difference wasn’t clear. I still had a gut feeling but couldn’t really justify it logically like I could for the others.
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by ummonk 1y ago
No idea which one it was but I found this one and got a perfect score. The difference is pretty obvious... https://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/index.php

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