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by whizzter 7mo ago
And honestly at this point it's mostly a historical artifact, if we write that kind of stuff then sure we need to care but to produce modern stuff is a honestly massive waste of time at this point. FWIW I doing hobby-stuff for Amiga&#x
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by whizzter 7mo ago
As troublesome digital tools are in practice, the stories of "tech execs refusing digital tools for their kids" is a trope often promoted/created by kindly put fringe actors.
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Yes, there are a lot of people who wants it backwards due to their own experiences. That said, we had some vision of learning with tailored gamified learning apps, and that has come to be in a certain cases but imho it sometimes also provid
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Avalonia is a native UI toolkit (kinda WPF inspired).
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by whizzter 7mo ago
I played a lot of Civ1, Colonization and Civ 2. First time I tried Civ 3 I lost some city due to some culture or religious influence and ragequit (I was also working my first job at that point so didn't have as much time to spare). Pla
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by whizzter 7mo ago
It's on that list of things I would've love to do with infinite time. Especially as it actually had a hotseat multiplayer-mode that would be awesome to put in a networked context (iirc it might've been a hack enabled with a h
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by whizzter 7mo ago
I actually wrote some stuff directly because I was young, poor and stupid. First year in uni my windows laptop broke, had to lug around a heavy second hand underpowered ppc powerbook and wrote some application I needed that I didn't wa
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Not to mention that the complexity of X11 shots through the roof once shared buffers comes into play. X11 was ok for it's time, but fundamentally it's an really outdated design to solve 80s/90s issues over the network in the
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Most CPU's has signed and unsigned right shift instructions (left shift is the same), so yes it works (You can test this in C by casting a signed to unsigned before shifting). The biggest caveat is that right shifting -1 still produces
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by whizzter 7mo ago
It's not ideal, the api is kind of low-yet-high-level and that brings some complications. Move backpressure handling onto the task producer and use a SharedArrayBuffer between the producer and worker, where the worker atomically update
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by whizzter 7mo ago
It's all about security, see my other comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480080
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by whizzter 7mo ago
No, they're threads as far as the OS is concerned (they'll map to OS threads) and actually _do_ share physical process and memory (that's how SharedArrayBuffer works). However, apart from atomic "plain" memory no ob
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Optimizing the wrong thing, probably wanted to shave customer support costs by having lower call volumes, but those that need support probably were hanging onto the calls since nobody that can fix things calls support (so no savings) AND re
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by whizzter 7mo ago
The Grim Reaper wished that Chuck Norris had only come to play chess with him!
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Theoretically yes, however still limited by how well the FreeBSD Linux layer handles syscalls. A year or so back I tried running .NET (just binaries, not via a container) since the port wasn't as far along as today and it crashed due t
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by whizzter 7mo ago
I've fixed too many linux-isms in code manually over the years, pkg/ports does what it should but since *nix tradition relies on hardcoded paths I often wanted out-of-tree builds for various software. And that's the thing, as
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by whizzter 7mo ago
My current home server passed 10 years in the autnum, but I've been running FreeBSD on servers since around 2000. The main gripe is probably Docker and/or software depending on Linux-isms that can't be run natively without re
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Sadly JS has ways around it that is far from obvious since you can chain effects over multiple files that leads to running code. Like the following example (you can paste it into node to verify), could be spread out over multiple source fil
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by whizzter 7mo ago
We might've lucked out here, there is some signature data on ID cards today and official _plans_ to make a government backed signing service, but practically _nobody_ uses them in practice to just revoking all those keys will be a mino
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by whizzter 7mo ago
As a Swede this is giving me shudders, the statements reeks of paper-pushers and certification-chasers that don't seem to understand fundamental risks of how how threat actors can move around once having established footholds, hopefull
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Masks didn't work for people needing an immediate cure, but it was never that, it always was a multiplier, and even an multiplier with only 30% efficiency would translate to 4x reduction in spread through 4 levels. And that reduction w
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Only if the LLM knows the inputs connected to particular outputs, pre-digital era or classified material might not be available, neither informal discussions with other experts. Most importantly, negative but unused signals might not be ava
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by whizzter 7mo ago
We're a small shop so nothing of that sort, it's more of larger Figma projects and modern web-apps being hogs. Honestly, these days compiling feels like really lightweight work in terms of memory compared to so much else.
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by whizzter 7mo ago
I bought an 16e last week with the same chipset, just tested and it handles realtime recording of 4k at 60fps with HEVC (camera is "48mp" so the source is 8k camera source material). Pretty sure most of the encoding/decoding
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Same old story, too much support requests and bad actors making it hard to make money off opensource. This is one case where we really should support the original product, you can buy a perpetual licence of a pittance and they just 2 guys c
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by whizzter 7mo ago
Yeah that github name made my spider senses tingle, large scale credentials harvesting?
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by whizzter 8mo ago
16gb is plenty, an intern we had ran a M1 Mac with 8gb of memory and running a browser concurrently with Figma made everything slow down to the point where he went around asking for advice.
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by whizzter 8mo ago
1: Education market 2: Avoiding cannibalizing their own products
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Definetly, my kids at different schools had iPad's and Chromebooks. The kid with the iPad was using an external keyboard most of the time iirc.
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by whizzter 8mo ago
2: I'd say it's about the same, same RAM/SSD sizes, maybe an M1 chip is faster than A18 but limitations will come from running out of ram/disk Had an intern working with us, basically couldn't have an browser runnin

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