M_Bakhtiari

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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Targeting multiple architectures is a solved problem, as you said with LLVM. I don't know if that's how WASM is currently implemented, as a LLVM front-end, but I'm pretty sure most implementations in fact are proper native co
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
I believe he's talking about attribution, not advertising.
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Signature wouldn't mean anything if there was no warranty. In which case warranty is what they sell and the signature is just a minor technical detail. And selling warranty on software is already a thing.
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Why wouldn't WASM implementations do native compilation? It's the norm for most modern language implementations nowadays, anything else would be silly.
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
> At this point such a contraption would be less painful than some of Apple's recent transitions (e.g. from PPC to x86). I find that hard to believe. Apple only had to build emulators for their ISA changes, just translating instruct
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
I can't help but think that browser vendors could have at least made an effort to make client certs and Kerberos authentication more user-friendly on the web. Perhaps not so useful for private consumers, but it would sure come in handy
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Maybe not a good idea to use MEMS avionics on a blimp or dirigible, then. Here's the Zeppelin NT cockpit, but I can't tell what kind of gyros they may be using: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons&#
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Is the spawning overhead comparable to that of Erlang's BEAM?
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Their sales organisation is always available to answer technical questions about the model of aircraft, but nothing of that is relevant to any of the journalists who might enquire in light of the crash, unless they are trying to play armcha
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Would you prefer the alternative, "Sorry about the crash. Allow us to run our mouths about things we are not competent to comment on given the presently available information"?
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Reminds me of the Vultures' plane in the Lucas Arts classic Full Throttle: https://lparchive.org/Full-Throttle-(Screenshot)/Update%2010...
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
> That's a massive, show-stopping problem. How so? I agree that it's a nontrivial problem to learn a piece of complex software from scratch to the point that you can offer comprehensive enterprise support for it, but how is tha
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Radical differentiation from competitors is the name of the game for entrepreneurs. Online communities in general and Hacker News in particular have every reason to push back and reject low-effort Redditisms and 4chanisms.
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
> "The cloud" is a set of APIs for provisioning but also a bunch of managed services that surround your instances, pub/sub, DNS, load balancers, managed SQL. All of this is almost designed to be a vendor lock-in. A lot of
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
> Except corporate users usually want support. What prevents anyone from offering an enterprise support program for Arch?
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
> I'd suggest building an auto-upgrade system on top of Arch (or Alpine), and go for immutable infrastructure as the selling point. That's stepping on CoreOS's toes a bit, but I haven't seen any progress from that cro
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
> The cognitive dissonance is so strong here. Where? Can you give an example of an expression of cognitive dissonance here?
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
> "the cloud" is, and always has been, antithetical to Unix (Unix being about site autonomy and simple tools working together) Does the physical hardware being on the actual premises or not really have anything to do with &quot
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Where do the stars enter into the equation in this parrot astrology?
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Does it say anywhere in that manual why the right margin is supposed to be so narrow? I find it very uncomfortable to read texts with very narrow margins.
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Is it not possible to refer to someone by the name and pronouns they refer to themselves by not because you believe in the validity of transgenderism, but because that has simply always been the social convention? Gender identity needs to p
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
SCART is another disgusting connector that European readers will be familiar with. I like the idea of combining multiple video formats with sound as a predecessor to HDMI, but the least they could have done was put a decent D-sub or the Amp
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
> For instance, call them by the names they use, and honor their preferences about their gender identity That's a backhanded way of cementing the validity of the concept of "gender expression" throughout the GNU project. I
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Aren't those icons from BeOS?
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
The problem with using just one is that geosynchronous orbital periods are one sidereal [1] day, not one solar day. So depending on the time of the year, the satellite would be in position in the wrong half of the day. On the other hand a s
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
> While the original Pentium, a superscalar x86, was an amazing piece of engineering, it was clear the big problem was the complex and messy x86 instruction set. Complex addressing modes and a minimal number of registers meant few instru
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
In this case a pair of satellites in a Tundra orbit [1] inclined to spend most of its time over this particular city seems like the right orbit for the job (as silly as it is to light a city by satellite), which is why I was curious to get
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
‎شيخ بن ريديق في فزان
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
I see. Thanks for the explanation. That’s a cause I can get behind, it would be handy for myself and my countrymen to be able to enter the US without a visa. Abolishing the equivalent border enforcement agency of Iran, not so much.
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by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Normally I’d agree, but I think prolific Silicon Valley startup Twitter playing such a big role makes it very much Hacker News material.

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