yoklov

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rust engineer. previously firefox, cloudflare, and some gamedev companies you havent heard of
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Comment · 2 months ago
This is certainly copying off Rust's homework...
Comment · 2 months ago
Caves of Qud had it right all along.
Comment · 6 months ago
I'm not sure using pytorch counts as "from scratch" anymore. I'm not saying you should avoid the stdlib or anything crazy, but at the point where you're pulling in for-purpose libraries it really doesn't seem like "from scratch" to me.
Comment · 5 years ago
Oh, so, I recently had opportunity to play around with this some, a bit over the past week. My initial questions were along the lines of:

1. What's the point? In end-to-end encryption situations usually the concern is around data storage (perhaps), but for just sending messages typically TLS is enough (or seems it, anyway, from my perspective as a non-security engineer)

2. The codebase seems to have separate C, Rust, and Elixir versions. Are they interchangeable, or do they serve different purposes?

Of these I only have rough answers. For the first, it seems like this solves the problem where, say, a single TLS connection isn't enough to get the data all the way to where it's needed (perhaps you need to go over bluetooth, or do multiple steps of HTTP, etc).

And for the second, well, I'm not sure. I think the C implementation might be equivalent, and be being replaced by the Rust one?

Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah, a big benefit of SQLite is the fact that it's embeddable, and easily can be communicated with from any language that can FFI out to C (which is to say, essentially any language)

This... Loses that.

Comment · 6 years ago
No real reason to call nintendo out here, every console i know of has been that way for many generations.
Comment · 6 years ago
What are your recommendations for japanese, out of curiosity
Comment · 6 years ago
It is something I miss a great deal when on other OSes
Comment · 6 years ago
Sounds like much more work than implementing a wasm vm+runtime. Besides, isn’t it owned by a company who is notoriously litigious against reimplementations?
Comment · 6 years ago
a single existing implementation is a problem, not a feature for the web platform
Comment · 6 years ago
Can you not disable wasm? That seems like an oversight that should be fixed if so.
Comment · 6 years ago
GURPS is way to crunchy (numbers focused) for me, personally, but I'm seconding the Sprawl recommendation.

Hack The Planet is another great modern cyberpunk RPG, based on the Forged in the Dark rule set.

Comment · 6 years ago
I think it’s just pref/user_pref and such. Despite the name it is not a js file and is not parsed like one. I think the file extension is entirely vestigial.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Neither really. It doesn’t have direct access to a canvas API or to the DOM, but you can proxy calls through javascript. There’s a plan to allow avoiding this overhead, but it’s fairly early.

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