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by zellyn 2y ago
TigerBeetle and Ghostty are probably the most famous.
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by zellyn 2y ago
One notable thing about Zig (and Andrew) is their willingness to rethink everything, and a lack of fear of digging all the way down and building their own versions of underpinning things. They believe incremental compilation should be an op
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by zellyn 2y ago
Bluesky is trying to figure out how to outsource algorithms and let you decide which to use. Highly recommended podcast episode: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/scaling-blu...
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by zellyn 2y ago
I figured ZFS would do the low-level redundancy, but I was under the impression that Crucible does the higher-level stuff, and I don't know much about it.
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by zellyn 2y ago
Hmmm. Now I'm not sure what to think. Despite the flack he gets, I've thought most of what he wrote was reasonable, including the Stallman Report — although it's been a long while since I read it carefully. I'm curious a
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by zellyn 2y ago
I _think_ their storage layer is fault tolerant. Not sure though. Hopefully one of them will weigh in here.
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by zellyn 2y ago
I think Oxide's stuff does live migration, but I don't know how well it runs on non-Oxide hardware.
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by zellyn 2y ago
To be fair (and I'm a big fan of Drew), it seems unlikely that Jack could have prevented the sale of Twitter to Musk. I'm part-way through the book “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter” by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, an
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by zellyn 2y ago
The sketch generation is wild… and apparently comes for free.
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by zellyn 2y ago
You might enjoy reading up on EYG and/or listening to podcast appearances of the creator…
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by zellyn 2y ago
This is so fun. One note: on iOS Safari on my iPhone, it really believes I’m trying to select everything, do drag and drop, etc. I’m sure someone here knows the proper CSS incantation.
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by zellyn 2y ago
It’s ugly as anything, with xeroxes of mismatched assembly listings, but the Apple II Red Book is one of the most beautiful manuals ever. It told you so much about the ROM routines, and inside the back cover was a fold-out circuit diagram o
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by zellyn 2y ago
For Apple II, this has hardly any. If you're looking for some, good places to start are: * Internet Archive * http://mirrors.apple2.org.za and especially http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/Apple%20II%20Documentati
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by zellyn 2y ago
Well, it's Zed specifically that I want to be able to use, just with at least Emacs keybindings, and at most a skunkworks Emacs.
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by zellyn 2y ago
I want someone to add a Guile scheme interpreter to Zed and quietly turn it into an Emacs. I'd love to use Zed, but can't give up my Emacs keybindings and ability to describe-{mode,function,variable,etc}
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by zellyn 2y ago
At my high school in South Africa, in the late 80s/early 90s, we had a two-week schedule, so you had to remember not only which day it was, but whether it was week one or week two!
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by zellyn 2y ago
Do what Woz did and write a Sweet16 interpreter for the machine! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16
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by zellyn 2y ago
Just got my MPK61 hooked up this week… I’ll have to give it a try. The set of people that have MIDI capable keyboards and want to improve musically is vanishingly small compared to those without, true, but it’s clearly a lucrative market if
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by zellyn 2y ago
I think Kevin Buzzard et al are aiming for a future where big, complicated proofs not accompanied by code are considered suspicious. I wonder if being able to drill all the way down on the proof will alleviate much of the torture you mentio
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by zellyn 2y ago
Ah, thanks!
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by zellyn 2y ago
Yep. Basically the same reason there are so many lua implementations, or WASM ones.
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by zellyn 2y ago
Fair. That study on writing only new things in Rust was surprising! https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s... I do think for an OS/Kernel, it's worth having everything in a memory-s
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by zellyn 2y ago
It can be very valuable to know that if you put the same files in, you get _exactly_ byte-for-byte identical artifacts out of your build system. Even letting your language access the actual current date/time can break that. (IIRC, I do
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by zellyn 2y ago
Also, I think the Rust version was built as a side-project, then handed off to Facebook. With regards to Fuchsia… I used to think building a new OS from the ground up was madness. Now I think _not_ doing that eventually is madness. I'd
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by zellyn 2y ago
One of my hobbies while at Google (2010-2015) was to watch the multiple failed attempts to get rid of Borg Config Language and actual Python in Blaze. It took a lot of work until they eventually succeeded. You're probably underestimati
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by zellyn 2y ago
Starlark, unfortunately, does not really support (Python style) types yet. Facebook's version has some kind of types, but ideally Starlark would just learn to do mypy types.
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by zellyn 2y ago
What you describe is really what all programming languages, compilers, interpreters, etc. look like. Layers and layers of indirection, with the goal of making the interface simple while hiding implementation complexity, all the way down to
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by zellyn 2y ago
Thanks! That did it.
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by zellyn 2y ago
You can also use something like DES3 to get a bijection. Easier if it fits in 64 bits so you only need one block.
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by zellyn 2y ago
Am I doing something wrong? I get 94.9% for 243/256 243 is pretty good. You have to go up to 3^17 = 129140163 < 2^27 = 134217728 to beat it: 1 3 4 2 1 75.0%* 2

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