AkshitGarg

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VMScape: Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments(comsec.ethz.ch)
6 points by AkshitGarg 1y ago|0 comments
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by AkshitGarg 2y ago
I feel this benchmark compares apples to oranges in some cases. For example, for node, the author puts a million promises into the runtime event loop and uses `Promise.all` to wait for them all. This is very different from, say, the Go vers
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by AkshitGarg 3y ago
IIRC that runs a x86_64 userland (using Rosetta) on a arm64 kernel.
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by AkshitGarg 3y ago
You use attrs [1] instead. I personally find this much more readable, and prefer this. slog.Info("hello, world", slog.String("user", os.Getenv("USER"))) [1]: https://pkg.go.dev/log/s
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Tell HN: YouTube is not showing home recommendations when watch history is off
9 points by AkshitGarg 3y ago|8 comments
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by AkshitGarg 3y ago
Windows also supports containers: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...
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heavy.js: make your site heavy with a single script(github.com)
3 points by AkshitGarg 4y ago|0 comments
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
ReScript doesn't uses esbuild. It has its own compiler: https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-compiler
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
Chrome and Firefox on iOS are just skinned safari with their own sync and features. Apple does not allow third party browser engines and you absolutely have to use the one built into the system (webkit).
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
According to its README, it does run (and is tested) on WSL 2 (Ubuntu) (amd64).
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
It has been there since atleast windows 95. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/vCJF5UW.png
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
Yep you need to specify the maximum memory amount up-front. Its defined as "webassembly memory pages". Each page is 64kb. You need to specify an initial and a maximum amount. The webassembly module can call memory.grow() to grow i
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
Not the OP, but my editor colors the parenthesis red in case of an imbalance [0]. I do have a minimal amount of highlighting though. [0]: https://imgur.com/haVWset
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
I grew up with fully fledged syntax highlighting, but I still prefer to use really minimal themes as I find them to reduce cognitive overhead and eye strain. It was hard for the first few hours, but then I eventually got used to it, and now
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
While I don't fully disable syntax highlighting, I use a minimal theme [0,1] that only has highlighting for comments, strings and globals. It reduces eye strain for me, and I never find myself relying on highlighting to navigate throug
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
Not only firefox, but edge, chrome and safari too. EFF is deprecating HTTPS everywhere. See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywh...
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
> given enough work, run Python directly in Wasm It is already possible! See https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
You can use vscode's web editor [0] which allows you to open local folders and even run full LSPs for JavaScript, TypeScript and Python [0]: vscode.dev
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Show HN: Chip-8 interpreter with a fancy GUI made using C++ and Dear ImGui(github.com)
5 points by AkshitGarg 5y ago|0 comments
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
That might be unrelated to the audit database change as NPM is currently having a service outage. https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/7pqfqvkwvb58
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
The NATS protocol [0] looks pretty simple, but is text based unlike MQTT which uses a size optimized binary protocol. [0]: https://docs.nats.io/nats-protocol/nats-protocol
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
Erlang includes erlang bindings for wxWidgets as used by observer and debugger. It is certainly possible to use them for making desktop GUIs.
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
You can use WSL to mount ext4 and other filesystems supported in linux. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-disk
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
Noto uses Apache-2.0 [1] which should be fine for most stuff. [1]: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/LICENSE
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
Flutter web has issues with accessibility. They do support screen readers once you enable accessibility by pressing a button, but its rather bad right now. Also scrolling is emulated and doesn't feel great.
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
So much of this. In my CS class, I could hardly find anyone who actually had some curiosity to learn. Everyone does their homework by sharing answers on the class chat. And in team projects, either there is one person who does all the work,
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
Not to mention a lot of critical components of modern infrastructure like docker, podman and kubernetes are built using go
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
It also has a FUSE compat layer which maybe useful when porting existing *nix software
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
> impersonate you for the next 30 seconds. AFAIK some websites allow you to use the previous TOTP code for convenience for some more seconds. That makes the total time to impersonate you to be 30 (or whatever was configured while issuing
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by AkshitGarg 5y ago
It certainly recognizes the domain, but thats more of a convenience feature than a security feature. Nothing is stopping you from putting your example.com code into legit-example.com manually. Sure the extension won't do it automatical

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