garganzol

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by garganzol 3d ago
I don't quite trust this class of devices to be programmed in China by who knows who. KVMs are among those things that need authentic, business-registered suppliers that hold a trackable reputational responsibility.
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by garganzol 4d ago
Kickstarter = never in stock. What's the point in all these PR pieces when there is no product?
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by garganzol 4d ago
100x speed improvement of math operations by 8087 is not an overestimation. The difference for apps relying on math was crazy back then. I experienced this first-hand on my 80286 machine, where it was 3-second vs 300-second calculation resu
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by garganzol 5d ago
Ego is insulted, they're raging but it changes nothing. Math is beautiful exactly because it discerns right from wrong with 100% accuracy, while all the emotions and "flexible interpretations" are redirected to /dev&#x2F
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by garganzol 22d ago
Where this approach might shine right now is .o/.obj files for assemblers/compilers/linkers. Instead of using COFF/ELF/whatever binary voodoo, a relational DB container makes most of the previously hard things trivi
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by garganzol 23d ago
Exactly, a guaranteed alignment and continuity of a blob makes it memory-mappable allowing to avoid copying the data back and forth.
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by garganzol 23d ago
Don't pay too much attention to the inner-circle feedback. Some people subconsciously use the tone of reception to control you, especially peers/colleagues are prone to this. They see someone having a bright idea, and they genuine
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by garganzol 23d ago
Another option is to adapt a database engine to support page-aligned blobs, which is probably not that hard to achieve.
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by garganzol 23d ago
The copied vs. mapped memory situation is the only deal breaker in this experiment. Otherwise, file format unification would be a big step forward. The PE/COFF executable file format used by Windows (and some older Unix systems) is a r
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by garganzol 1mo ago
In real life, an imaginary "leadership" quickly evaporates upon the first hurdle of any kind until proven otherwise by real actions. If I was in your shoes, I would be very careful with blanket statements like these.
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by garganzol 1mo ago
I do not see any value proposition in this - if I need a sandbox, I make one with Dockerfile, Bubblewrap or virtualization. What I am missing? An enforced required login is a net negative value - it means rug pulls in the future.
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by garganzol 1mo ago
I'm intrigued by how it runs on those machines in terms of performance. Maybe you have some real-time videos?
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by garganzol 1mo ago
True, that piece can be optimized better, but quality of the assembly code in general is not far away from what I had been writing in 1993-96. Back then, push/pops in function prologues/epilogues were a sign of experienced assembl
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by garganzol 1mo ago
I know a guy who founded an AI-based startup well before ChatGPT, and recently I saw some of his public messages where he stands as an ultimate anti-AI proponent. Meanwhile, his startup that received multi-million dollar funding and develop
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by garganzol 1mo ago
This is a psychological phenomenon going on right now in the world around AI: gaslight your competitors into doubt and disbelief, then win. I presume that there were similar movements during 1950-1980s who tried to gaslight the publics agai
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by garganzol 1mo ago
LLM writes a better ASM then a C compiler? From running the demo in the browser, it seems so performance-wise and size-wise, but the ultimate test should be performed on a real hardware that I have no direct access to. Anyone can validate t
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by garganzol 1mo ago
Exactly this. It's a well-known statistics that macOS users have ~2x better conversion rate into paying customers, while the rest of the equation is determined by the OS market shares. (I am surprised that such a simple formula creates
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by garganzol 2mo ago
While she has some experience, she well may be a total outsider for the assigned role. This is often the case in Satya's Microsoft. Spontaneous program managers from that special village somewhere in the world (nepotism) who have near
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by garganzol 2mo ago
This is a bizarre claim to make in this case, AI tech is used on all platforms universally.
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by garganzol 2mo ago
The product you've built the animation for is only for macOS, which is a pity cause it has a way wider appeal than macOS market share is. You have low-hanging fruits right there, don't miss them.
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by garganzol 2mo ago
Shallow, haphazardly-written books full of mistakes were a thing even back then. It looks like the publication process expensiveness wasn't a good-enough filter since 1970s.
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by garganzol 2mo ago
Potentially interesting website, but it's impossible to use due to ads plague.
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by garganzol 2mo ago
For a context: France relies heavily on automotive transport, plus it's a home to enormous agricultural sector, tractors are literally everywhere in the country during the summer. To a certain degree, structurally it resembles USA a lo
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by garganzol 2mo ago
Claude always was slightly lobotomized - instead of solving problems intellectually, it often prefers to be a middle-level code monkey. Maybe this was a part of the implicit safe mode from the very beginning. Cursor/Codex always work b
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by garganzol 3mo ago
I did mathematics on paper, and informatics on computers. Some of my peers weren't so lucky, so they had to do informatics on paper only. Needless to say that the magnitude of progress we were getting in informatics had day and night d
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by garganzol 3mo ago
I already saw it in my life: a ban on calculators, a ban on computers. But after a short period of rejection, everybody starts to embrace the new tech. Instead of bans we were getting computer classes in schools.
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by garganzol 3mo ago
All those "submit your website" tricks attract posers. As a result, we have lots of noise with no associated value. (And yes, you can surely downvote this message because it touches your tender ego)
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by garganzol 3mo ago
For what it's worth, RAM encryption belongs to professional SKUs. It's the right business decision that should have been made from from the very beginning. For most consumer users, RAM encryption primarily adds power consumption a
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by garganzol 3mo ago
> way to do interop between languages This problem stems from the lack of a standardized component model. WASM is merely another casualty of that deficiency - one among hundreds of affected technologies. The alliance is attempting to sol
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by garganzol 3mo ago
WASM component model is internal to the WASM project, isn't it? As such, it provides interoperability for one and only ecosystem (WASM), and thus has no chances to be perceived worthy and universal enough for people to care, that'

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