mcronce

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by mcronce 27d ago
> Rust made the mistake of thinking it can be low level AND safe. It tried to have the cake and eat it too. That will be its downfall. Ridiculous take
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by mcronce 3mo ago
You think that an LLM provides "love"?
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by mcronce 9mo ago
FOSS has been a thing for decades longer than LLMs have even been a vague notion.
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by mcronce 1y ago
You know you can just use a compiled language with statically checked types, right?
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by mcronce 2y ago
I don't think that's a commonly touted benefit of Rust. You certainly can build a statically linked binary with musl libc (in many circumstances, at least), but it's not the default. The default is a binary that statically
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by mcronce 2y ago
For sure. Context switching tasks is certainly a lot cheaper than context switching threads, but it isn't free.
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by mcronce 2y ago
The learning effort thing is a solid point. I think what I play most these days is Super Mario World romhacks. Obviously the level design and whatnot aren't the same as the original, but the controls and physics are and I learned tho
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by mcronce 2y ago
...which changes the economics of sending the spam email. Surely some of them will be "valuable" enough to send even with the added cost; however, a measure doesn't need to be 100% effective to be useful.
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by mcronce 2y ago
You're describing rustc_codegen_gcc
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by mcronce 2y ago
It's been a bit since I've added it to an existing project, but at least as of a year or so ago, the Rust implementation (tracing + tracing-opentelemetry + opentelemetry-jaeger specifically for that project) was similar. The impac
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by mcronce 2y ago
It is interesting. A subset of functionally (in this case) will build a superset of programs
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by mcronce 2y ago
It certainly didn't worsen my opinion of the Asahi Linux folks. On the contrary, I commend them for standing up for what they feel is right. I also doubt they really care whether or not any particular HN reader has a positive or negat
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by mcronce 2y ago
What? All you need to do is resubmit the request without a Referer header. For me, using Firefox, this meant clicking in the address bar, changing nothing, and hitting enter. That's hardly "no ability to do anything about it&quo
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by mcronce 2y ago
That's what bindgen is for, as was mentioned in the original comment you replied to.
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by mcronce 2y ago
This follows the "debt" analogy pretty well - it's effectively the interest you have to pay on your technical debt
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by mcronce 2y ago
I think I'd love to read a fantasy book based on this premise
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by mcronce 2y ago
Even if the bus/protocol is limited to "only" disk I/O, you could still have the controller interpret reads/writes to certain addresses as requests for other actions, including interaction with other hardware on the
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by mcronce 2y ago
I agree. I love the Steam Controller. It's not great for everything (e.g. Super Mario World kaizo romhacks have, IME, required a real D-pad instead of the trackpad) but it's really nice for a ton of games.
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by mcronce 2y ago
> No longer can you just throw something out there, no matter how stupid Obviously this is not the context you're talking about, but I find this issue with brainstorming type sessions these days as well these days. Not just work se
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by mcronce 3y ago
Exactly this. I had COVID two years ago, the flu last year, and COVID again a couple months ago. Last year's flu was absolutely miserable; just as bad as COVID was the first time around. I really don't want either one. Putting
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by mcronce 3y ago
A Plumber for All Seasons is a top-tier standard romhack. Very cool to see the creator working on something even more ambitious.
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by mcronce 3y ago
I did a few of those tours when I lived out there. They were very cool
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by mcronce 3y ago
That statistic isn't particularly relevant to people who don't drink and ride
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by mcronce 3y ago
Because I also want to run performant apps.
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by mcronce 3y ago
I agree. And it's not even like "we displayed Doom on X" would be uninteresting , it's just a significant difference from actually running it on X.
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by mcronce 3y ago
They still don't have a register-based calling convention on architectures other than x86-64, right? Or is that information out of date?
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by mcronce 3y ago
Not solving all security issues isn't the same as not solving security issues. I'd rather my financial data be handled by software written in something that solves many whole classes of vulnerabilities than something that solve
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by mcronce 3y ago
I run Ceph in my lab. It's pretty heavy on CPU, but it works well as long as you're willing to spring for fast networking (at least 10Gb, ideally 40+) and at least a few nodes with 6+ disks each if you're using spinners. Yo
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by mcronce 3y ago
I worked for a shop back in 2005-2006 that did some portion of their sales on eBay. eBay was constantly holding thousands of their dollars for, from what I recall, not any substantive reason. The stalking referenced in OP is a bit of a sur
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by mcronce 3y ago
I care enough to violate TOS by bridging (some of) them to my Matrix server and chatting through a Matrix client instead. But absolutely not enough to (A) write one, and (B) attempt to acquire market share.

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