anoneng

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by anoneng 2mo ago
I’m referring to use of process (sometimes with a partial assist from qualified tools, of which Rust is NOT one) for safety assurance, not the language. As is done in safety and security critical embedded contexts. eg DO-178, Common Criteri
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by anoneng 2mo ago
They weren’t “my” cubic fractals in the mid-90s any more than Paul “created” a fractal out of z^3/(z^3+1) + c in 2020. Pretty pictures on his blog are fine, giving it a name and attributing himself as its “creator” when this was well-e
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by anoneng 2mo ago
That is some hubris for Paul to claim to have “created” this fractal in December 2020. Yes he coded up and rendered some nice images from this particular function. But this class of rational maps in complex dynamics has been studied by actu
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by anoneng 2mo ago
But this isn’t about websites or just publishing articles or the weather. It’s about web applications, commerce, products, things with customers not just readers. As soon as you have an application that’s doing anything nontrivial then you
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by anoneng 2mo ago
Completely bad faith reply when your example uses zero CSS, no HTML links even, and the only script to distinguish it from a bare static text document is google analytics malware. This isn’t falling back, it is the fallback. Expecting most
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by anoneng 2mo ago
There was no “context” provided whatsoever, not even in the link.
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by anoneng 2mo ago
If you knew a lot you would stop digging.
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by anoneng 2mo ago
Oh it’s possible and people do it in embedded all the time at great expense, but that safety isn’t assured by using a “safe” language, it comes from the requirements, documentation and verification process. OpenBSD’s kernel was developed wi
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by anoneng 2mo ago
It didn’t even exist half a year ago and there is zero in the title or the linked markdown file to give any context at all as to what this “Pi” actually is or what telegram integration with “Pi” is supposed to accomplish or even any link
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by anoneng 2mo ago
Not necessarily. Rust safety relies on OS primitives and the error here is in an OS primitive itself (kernel semaphores). Yes Rust is one language that can be widely deployed in systems programming and potentially avoid classes of memory an
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by anoneng 2mo ago
Tell us you know nothing about kernel programming and trust stacks while you are at it.
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by anoneng 2mo ago
Much like many cameras process and discard the RAW sensor data after processing to pixel data if not further compressing and discarding the processed pixel data to a lossy image format, even more so the raw BAM sequencing read data is vastl
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by anoneng 2mo ago
The whole premise of the article is fallacious analogies and mixed metaphors. Yes a restaurant that poisons 2% of its customers is a bad restaurant. A restaurant that has nothing for people who are strict kosher, strict halal, strict vegan,
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by anoneng 2mo ago
I love lynx as much as anyone but it is ludicrous to expect webapp developers to support no script and no CSS.
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by anoneng 2mo ago
Right. That problem is bloat, not lack of legacy support. Adding (already bloated) legacy support to already bloated software just makes bloat worse.
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by anoneng 2mo ago
This goes to show you’ve never been anywhere near the actual development cycle of a real-world front-end web application. “So, there is a baseline "target subset of HTML/CSS" that gives you 100% coverage.” Oh really? Which su
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by anoneng 2mo ago
Seems like you’re getting hate but this is how the world works. Uber just has to support the devices that their market uses. And especially for visas the government is free to make the public bend to whatever arbitrary requirements they dev
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by anoneng 3mo ago
I would say it’s the opposite. coreutils is core utils, you cannot write shell scripts without them, they are widely and almost unavoidably used in trusted environments. They are also relatively simple. With ffmpeg, anyone who knows anythin
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by anoneng 4mo ago
SpaceX has nothing to do with any part of the Artemis II crewed lunar fly-by. They were considered and rejected. It was entirely legacy aerospace contractors. SpaceX is under contract for parts of future missions including the lunar lander.