fathyb
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Comment · 2 years ago
> On macOS memory can be paged to/from disk. On iOS it isn’t and applications must free memory when asked or be terminated
Not sure what you meant by that, you always could `mmap` files into memory on iOS. Back in the 32 bits days there was a ~700 MB limit due to the address space, but there aren't anymore nowadays with 64 bits. If `didReceiveMemoryWarning` is called on your app, then you need to free resident memory but the kernel will take care of dumping file-backed memory pages for you.
Comment · 2 years ago
Apple advertised the first iPhone to run OS X: https://youtu.be/VQKMoT-6XSg?t=506
Comment · 2 years ago
> on the server that is hosting this service
I’m not sure if it changed, but last time I heard HN was running on FreeBSD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
> just imagine how much performance could be gained if game vendors didn't ignore it
In the case of FreeBSD, Sony used it as the base for the OS on PlayStation since PS3.
Comment · 2 years ago
If anybody is interesting in learning more about that smearing campaing: https://www.ajiunit.com/investigation/the-labour-files
> An investigation based on the largest leak of documents in British political history. The Labour Files examines thousands of internal documents, emails and social media messages to reveal how senior officials in one of the two parties of government in the UK ran a coup by stealth against the elected leader of the party.
Comment · 2 years ago
Agreed. For spicier chords also recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio on the same set check out Mona Lisa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIDX18Xl16s
Comment · 2 years ago
Link for Europe: https://archive.ph/IHdjm
Comment · 2 years ago
Now imagine how limited computers are with their ability to count to only 1.
Comment · 2 years ago
Isn't because in Cars the character itself is the IP, not the actor? For example, if Owen Wilson started cosplaying as the Cars character and making money out of it, he could be sued.
Reminds me of an Archer bit: https://youtu.be/c9uuITbtl-g?t=2
- Oh my god, Slim Goodbody!
- No! No, this is absolutely not that trademark character. Just a unitard with the systems of the human body on it. On a guy.
- On a guy named TV's Michael Gray.
Comment · 2 years ago
> I don’t know if signatures are verified before or after running but the binary probably won’t even run without being signed by a paying Apple Developer anyways.
It's before. You can code sign and verify macOS binaries with any certificate you wish, including a self-signed one (useful in case you want your private iTerm fork). Note the plugin should be signed with the same certificate as the iTerm app [1], just using a paid account won't work.
[1] https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/blob/b0e6b336a6be9bca00...
Comment · 2 years ago
Isn't opioid addiction the root cause? People dying of fentanyl are mostly opioid addicts who started with prescription meds [1] such as Oxycontin.
Heroin is close to fent in lethality, and oxycodone is next in line [2].
[1] https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/prescript...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_09-508.pdf - Figure 1.
Comment · 2 years ago
I didn't know browser vendors supported WASI! I said that as some of us do not use WASI at all, just WebAssembly itself, so they can save some time by not reading this if they're not interested in WASI and/or its limitations.
Comment · 2 years ago
I agree, my personal take: if you don't want to get your hands dirty, WebAssembly is not ready for you yet. It'll take at least 5 more years before the tooling gets into a state where things should just work (especially DWARF support). I mean, we still cannot free memory! (actually there is a crazy way by recreating a new WebAssembly instance with a shrunk'd `ArrayBuffer`, but it requires you writing your own memory allocator)
My point is: if you're comfortable working with a slightly obscure microcontroller, then you won't have much problems. LLVM supports WebAssembly out of the box, so it mostly feels like programming for one of those.
Anecdotally: we run a large Rust app in under 1 MB of WebAssembly at Zscaler.
Comment · 2 years ago
> If you are using WebAssembly in a web browser then you are good, WASI does not concern you.
In case you absolutely do not care for WASI but love WebAssembly for the web.