uasm
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Comment · 6 years ago
The "Chief Purpose Officer" at Ethos is working hard these days to keep us all well informed - http://www.circleid.com/pp/dot-org-sale
Comment · 6 years ago
> "I would recommend musl, although the style is a bit idiosyncratic in places: https://www.musl-libc.org"
Opened a random part of musl out of sheer boredom. Here's what I see:
https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/include/aio.h
A bunch of return codes #defined like so (see https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/aio/aio.c):
#define AIO_CANCELED 0 #define AIO_NOTCANCELED 1 #define AIO_ALLDONE 2
#define LIO_READ 0 #define LIO_WRITE 1 #define LIO_NOP 2
#define LIO_WAIT 0 #define LIO_NOWAIT 1
Why weren't they using an enum instead? I wouldn't sign off on this code (and I don't think it lives up to best practices).
Comment · 6 years ago
> "Tech debt is what the 2nd generation of engineers gets to complain about after the 1st gen made the product succesful at something."
Strange and snarky comment for a "Chief Technical Officer". Software constantly evolves, it's a process of continuous refinement.
Zoom's past success may have been partially attributed to "1st gen engineers" hitting the jackpot. Zoom's fate right now rests on the ability of those "2nd generation engineers" to keep the show going.
Comment · 6 years ago
Broader question - is there some-kind of support planned for a DNS-like MX address mechanism, for receiving emails via the .crypto domain?
Comment · 6 years ago
It's 2020 and locking your screen on Linux is unreliable. It's difficult to promote Linux as a worthy consumer desktop OS alternative.
Comment · 6 years ago
> "If Waymo turns trucking into an automated business (or even just reduces the number of humans needed to haul cargo), we could be in for a similar situation."
Sure.
Tuning in to last week's news - "Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors" [0]. Starsky had a demonstrable path to "reduce the number of humans needed to haul cargo". What gives?
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks.
So, a given "specification" (how a font looks to the human eye) can have many different "implementations" (ie. TTF files). The specific "implementations" themselves can be copyrighted, but somehow not the "specifications"?
If so... assume one TTF file which is copyrighted, pay-per-use license. Assume another TTF file, which is open-source, free to use and redistribute. The files both implement the "Helvetica" specification, rendering the same letters to the human eye. How "different" must the free implementation be from the paid one, for it to not be considered an infringement?
Comment · 6 years ago
> "I created this font by purchasing a Leroy Lettering set, using Inkscape to trace the scanned letterforms of one of its templates, and some FontForge Python scripting."
How does this work from a copyright/legal perspective?
Comment · 6 years ago
Stacks are used extensively across the x86 family [0]
Comment · 6 years ago
> "WASM translated to register-based bytecode. That's awesome!"
If the hardware executing this code is "stack-based" (or, does not offer enough general purpose registers to accomodate the funtion call) - this will need to be converted back to a stack-based function call (either at runtime, or beforehand). Wouldn't this intermediate WASM-to-register-based-bytecode translation be redundant then?
Comment · 6 years ago
Friendly reminder: you don't really know whether this person truly works for the NHS, as they claim. Don't divulge sensitive information to random people.
Comment · 6 years ago
> "I am on alexa 1m (50k even). I do not have a load balancer, I do not have multiple servers for redundancy. This isn't even a static site, most of our page views are the wiki, the server running all of this has 8 cores and 4 are constantly maxxed out by a non-website related process.
Most websites now and days are over engineered."
That's awesome! Mind sharing some more details? (hosting plan/CDN/etc). Or even the URL?