jezek2

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by jezek2 4d ago
How come that MacPorts supports macOS versions all the way back to 10.5 Leopard in the latest version?
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by jezek2 4d ago
Yes, it's not a new idea. See Microsoft Singularity research OS for a more recent example. You would still have slower than native execution speed, security problems with Spectre attacks (in HW process isolation it's avoided by no
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by jezek2 4d ago
To me AI seems to be similar to drugs. It can be used responsibly (eg. medical use), some users are total junkies. There are huge social/economical impacts. It has similar anti stances, even proposing legislative bans (should we relive
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by jezek2 4d ago
I agree, the policy should be to not allow low quality submissions and have clear copyright status. There are some nuances that needs to be addressed though. With LLMs it's too easy to replicate implementation of algorithm that is copy
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by jezek2 4d ago
Such speedup is not plausible at all. It had to be a flawed benchmark relying on some API being very slow in userspace (probably on purpose, not using it the right way). The raw execution speed of WASM can't change much just because it
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by jezek2 8d ago
Good, now you can cut your bill again by 94% by renting a normal VPS with unlimited traffic. The traffic is about 100x more expensive on "the cloud" and it killed all the ideas I had for cloud usage. Clouds are not worth it, even
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by jezek2 10d ago
Great article, WebAssembly is such a good technology when you have use case for it. I've just finished creating a WASM 1.0 implementation (simple JIT on x86 and x86_64) for plugin usage and I'm looking on how to support more langu
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by jezek2 28d ago
It can be also a temporary obstacle until they get rid of Linux kernel and replace it with kernel from Fuchsia or something.
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by jezek2 28d ago
It stopped working for me years ago. The homepage loaded but couldn't see the archived pages or submit anything. Some kind of "protection" or something. So I moved on and never used the service again.
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by jezek2 28d ago
It's clear to me: the request is about sending a particular version of the source code. No other versions, so no history.
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by jezek2 29d ago
This is not true. Glibc supports symbol versioning. You can use it to select old versions of used symbols. The result is a binary that can work on 20 year old distros the same as on the latest, compiled with latest compiler and Glibc. You c
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by jezek2 29d ago
Except it won't show for signed+notarized apps. It's just a minor obstacle to deliver malware. Even stuff on App Store has malware in it. If security was a concern, these hoops would be for all apps, not just unsigned. It just sho
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by jezek2 1mo ago
And here is a reaction by an actual nuclear engineer. He has many good reactions to other videos as well, not limited to just nuclear stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vncf70UBsr4
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by jezek2 1mo ago
I don't know, here in the real world, so far the EU's regulations of Apple has shown Google that it can safely make Android a closed platform. Before there was uncertainty that Google didn't want to test. This is possible bec
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by jezek2 1mo ago
I don't, it's hard to read with the 'T' between date/time and has too many variants.
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by jezek2 1mo ago
How do you think Google is able to track users? It's in part because of fools like you who puts their tracking script into the website. You're actively aiding this. You're not required to do so, not for indexing in search eng
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by jezek2 7mo ago
I don't think it's wise to use it for anything. Even when chatting with an LLM you would have to check everything yourself which nobody would truly do. The generated code can't be really trusted (and nobody will review everyt
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by jezek2 7mo ago
Thanks, it might be useful for macOS support of non-native widgets in my GUI library. I did some parsing but got stuck at some point. Seems a better choice to just parse the files than using private APIs as I couldn't see much of the d
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by jezek2 7mo ago
Interestingly I've never used Visual Studio on Windows (only for a brief time for ARM based PDAs where I could experience the infamous MFC which was okay to me despite the hate). I've used Borland C++ and Watcom C/C++ back in
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by jezek2 7mo ago
I think the issues you're referring to are related to C++ ABI which is inherently incompatible between different compilers (and sometimes versions). This can be sometimes issue for plugins, though sane programs always use C wrappers. I
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by jezek2 7mo ago
But that's the point, I don't want the same style executable as Visual Studio. Having to distribute bunch of DLLs and having worse compatibility is pretty bad. A major part of the incompatibility with older versions of Windows is
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by jezek2 7mo ago
I wish open source projects would support MingW or at least not actively blocking it's usage. It's a good compiler that provides an excellent compatibility without the need of any extra runtime DLLs. I don't understand how op
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by jezek2 7mo ago
I use MingW without any extra libs (no msys), it just uses the ancient msvcrt.dll that is present in all Windows versions, so my programs work even on Windows 2000. Additionally the cross-compiler on Linux also produces binaries with no ext
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by jezek2 7mo ago
Clearing of the secrets is a separate issue from memory allocation mechanism. It must be done all the way from the encryption layer to the program to avoid the leaks. This is typically not done, only certain parts such as handling of the cr
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by jezek2 9mo ago
You can do it with HW accelerated emulation like Apple did with M1 CPUs. They implemented x86 compatible behavior in HW so the emulation has very good performance. Another approach was Transmeta where the target ISA was microcoded, therefor
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by jezek2 9mo ago
In my case, as a developer of a programming language that can compile to all supported platforms from any platform the signing (and notarization) is simply incompatible with the process. Not only is such signing all about control (the Epic
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by jezek2 9mo ago
I would say quite a lot of users because even the previous simple method of right clicking wasn't that known even by power users. Lot of them just selected "allow applications from anyone" in the settings (most likely just te
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by jezek2 9mo ago
I solved it by putting a "How to install.rtf" file alongside the program. Another alternative would be to bundle this app: https://github.com/alienator88/Sentinel It allows to easily unlock it by drag'n&
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by jezek2 10mo ago
Try "killall -STOP photoanalysisd", this will pause the process instead of killing it (which would result in restarting it by launchd). You can unpause it by using "-CONT".
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by jezek2 10mo ago
We've had a small amount (just 3) with plenty of space and it was fun to observe them, all sort of interesting behaviors. My favorite thing is them cooperating against a common enemy (a dog that was eating their food sometimes, which w

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