wilsonthewhale

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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
I recall M:N threading being attempted in the past (in some BSD systems, at least), with mixed results ultimately resulting in a move to 1:1 threading for most of them. What's different about this attempt that puts it over the old? An
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
Sourcehut (hg.sr.ht) is supports Mercurial and can also be self-hosted. Not sure how complicated it is to do so.
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
Surprising that you mention this with Clojure. Do you find the churn to be from libraries or within the project code itself? The Clojure language and core library is extremely stable, almost uncannily so. I can't think of any major uph
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
Having experienced both operating systems, Debian gets nowhere close. The Debian wiki is full of outdated articles. OpenBSD's manual pages and online FAQ combined have never failed to answer a question I've had about the base syst
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
You do realize that UBO's backup functionality relies on the browser's native data syncing functionality (and thus on Firefox Accounts, for Firefox), right?
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
This online reference is helpful: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/index.html For something more formal, the official Intel programming manuals describe what each instruction does in painstaking detail.
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
everything needs unsafe code to run, since it has to interact with the OS/CPU/outside world. Rust's main contribution is that provides ways for you to clearly section off and declare that code is "unsafe" and needs
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
it doesn't. From cppreference (whose model Rust roughly follows): "Relaxed operation: there are no synchronization or ordering constraints imposed on other reads or writes, only this operation's atomicity is guaranteed"
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
That picture gave me a big Courier vibe[1], always wished Microsoft could have made that happen. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
As far as I know, Clojure usage is on the decline at Facebook. It was only used by an acquired subsidiary (Wit), and lack of internal support meant migrating to another supported language.
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
My static site running on OpenBSD 6.5 httpd gets identified as Apache ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
Cantonese isn't just a language, it can also mean "people from Canton province"
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
there looks to be beta releases on the cardbook gitlab, so I would wait for those to get promoted to stable.
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
knowing Cantonese helps here, as both the verbs you mention are still common verbs in modern Cantonese.
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
Yup, this is the reason why both Rust and Clojure are my favorite languages. The same problem (concurrency), with solutions pretty much on opposite ends of the spectrum. One with pervasive immutability and the other with static checking.
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
Probably only true for OpenBSD. See https://youtu.be/AvSPqo3_3vM for anecdotes about the security policy of each.
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
The moment it becomes more economically viable to use renewables on a large scale than to use coal is when this stops. The tipping point isn't here yet, but it's coming. Always follow the money.
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by wilsonthewhale 7y ago
at its prime it was considered the best. it's what came after that that made it "awful"
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by wilsonthewhale 8y ago
Why the sensationalized title?
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by wilsonthewhale 8y ago
But what would you put in such an ABI beyond what's in the C ABI? Beyond basic data types, struct defintions, and function definitions, languages begin to wildly diverge almost immediately.
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by wilsonthewhale 8y ago
They're related. The ClojureScript compiler uses Google Closure as a backend and runtime library
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by wilsonthewhale 8y ago
Is LibreSSL affected?
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by wilsonthewhale 8y ago
OpenComputers is actively developed though, and arguably a more fleshed out Lua mod than CC
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by wilsonthewhale 9y ago
You're implying that the people have any choice in this.