mc_woods

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by mc_woods 2mo ago
I came here to say this. Part of learning is social interaction. Learning happens on both sides, from the teacher and the student. In a world of AI everywhere, off-line social interaction will be the major currency. We're all going to
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by mc_woods 2y ago
Yup. WASM lacks the "domain specific" acceleration available to native code. So you miss out on any hardware codec support. Same is true for openSSL, there is a bunch of encryption acceleration in modern CPUs that WASM can't
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by mc_woods 3y ago
There are compelling applications for WASM in the embedded space, here we run C / C++ applications and WASM supports this well. We can also run other languages compiled to WASM too. On the server side this is less clear. Typically we d
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by mc_woods 3y ago
unfortunately wasi-threads is deprecated. You'll need to wait for threading support from "core-wasm" and that's a while off, there is no date on the horizon for this, as far as I know. WASI-threads is not compatible with
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by mc_woods 3y ago
The WebAssembly standard breaks into two parts, "core WASM" which is the spec the browsers use and everyone else. Then in the non-browser space there is WASI (system interface specification). The WASI-Preview 2 standard uses compo
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by mc_woods 3y ago
No, blogging won't return. Not in the same way as before. In the days of the dial up modem the written word was king. Twitter originally had SMS as a communication mechanism. But look at what the younger generations do, the use the int
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by mc_woods 3y ago
Yes and the Neobanks, both N26 and Revolute rely on fact that financial regulators across the block recognise each other, so N26 regulated in Germany can operate in Ireland. Etc.
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by mc_woods 3y ago
From a technology point of view there is a lesson in how a company controls the media it's customers consume. How alternative sources of data get discredited and how untrusted the information found online is. The result, when you can&#
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by mc_woods 3y ago
> Next thing you know each wasm assembly will need a package format to ship assets with and have the app server provide common resources to all assemblies, e.g. db connection pools, some notion of security, etc. You mean in a OCI image,
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by mc_woods 4y ago
That's civil war talk right there... :)
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by mc_woods 4y ago
Reminds me of when Microsoft and Sony where going head to head with consoles, and Microsoft tried to introduce a marketplace for selling or sharing a game. The resulting advert from Sony; One guys says to the other "Here just take it&q
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by mc_woods 4y ago
Public buy printers. Good printers last a long time. Printer company offers online services (drivers / patches / APIs - see original post) which have on gong cost. But revenue stops after printer is sold. Printer company's re
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by mc_woods 4y ago
Harsh, but fair.
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by mc_woods 4y ago
I worked on Symbian aka EPOC around the early to mid 2000. Trips down to London to visit their offices. I'm still connected to some of the guys on Facebook from that time. It was one of my first roles outside of Uni, boy getting expose
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UK MI5 Launches Tool to Stop Spies on LinkedIn(news.sky.com)
3 points by mc_woods 4y ago|0 comments
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by mc_woods 5y ago
If what he says is true, then legally, the issue is with Google. It is Google he had the contract with. The contract allowed Google to terminate his data service, which they did. However, it is Google to which he pays his money and with whi
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by mc_woods 5y ago
Many see just the headline, draw conclusion and may then repost / share, many more read only the headline. Click-bate headlines will fall foul. Robby (article author) - just write more accurate titles and the fact-checkers can't a
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by mc_woods 5y ago
UK prawn laws? - proposed and then dropped?
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by mc_woods 5y ago
You've just reminded me of how much I rely upon a free service provide something so critical to my everyday life. Time to move to a paid service where I can have someone to call when issues like this turn up.
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by mc_woods 5y ago
@bananabat This is awesome, your write up put the biggest freaking smile on my face. Like you, it is something I've always wanted to do and put off, now 43 and still got to get back to my dream. I love that you've got your first g
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Show HN: RobotSpelling, a tool for elementry kids to learn a their own speed(robotspelling.com)
3 points by mc_woods 5y ago|1 comments
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by mc_woods 5y ago
Each week, my sons aged 9 (3rd grade) and 7 (2nd grade) receive a set of words to remember and every Friday they get a spelling test. Neither of them are big fans of spelling tests. My eldest son, Ben hates being told that he is wrong. So,
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by mc_woods 5y ago
Unikernels are probably best compared to RTOS that are used in embedded systems. They dramatically reduce the guest operating system overhead for virtual machines. As the weight of the isolation technology gets smaller, we are going to see
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by mc_woods 6y ago
You know, I've been doing a lot of linux / ssh work recently, and I'd love to have something in the console that could give me more of a graphical interface. The midnight commander is good, but a file manager, document previe