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by nivertech 10d ago
> Q. How do you port an OS from one language to a new one, pre-LLM? A. you reduce impedance mismatch, but making the new language using similar concepts and mechanisms -- You're right, this table is just a coincidence, probably d
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by nivertech 10d ago
It's clear that the authors were either inspired by the PDP-11 ISA and/or designed the language to make porting UNIX from PDP-11 Assm to it easier. UNIX for PDP-7 in Assm -> UNIX for PDP-11 in Assm -> UNIX for PDP-11 in C h
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by nivertech 13d ago
Now we know who built the Silo
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by nivertech 1mo ago
> 50 is the hardware limit this can't be true, If that hardware can run Django and Phoenix, it for sure can handle orders of magnitudes more concurrent clients than 50 even before you start tuning the OS and the runtime. > Pla
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by nivertech 1mo ago
Your "Concurrency" benchmark ends at 50 concurrent clients. Continue testing at C1K, C10K, C100K, C1M, C2M, etc. That's for a single node. Then try multiple nodes / cluster - C1M, C2M, C10M, etc. Also, all concurrent cli
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by nivertech 1mo ago
It pretends to be serious with 5 tables / charts: Django LiveView vs Phoenix LiveView: a real benchmark https://en.andros.dev/blog/80134668/django-liveview-vs-phoen...
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by nivertech 1mo ago
TL;DR: this is a toy example, so it doesn't require BEAM VM Hard to take this seriously without the loadtest with the the large number of concurrent users. For a number of users concurrently reading a long-tail blog post - you will get
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by nivertech 2mo ago
It doesn't matter CRUD, REST, 2PC, or middleware in general. From my PoV they're all technical solutions used to avoid deep modeling of the domain and its workflows, and instead trying to model the real world using generic primiti
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by nivertech 2mo ago
Natural idempotence requires deep understanding of the domain, which developers (and coding agents) do not always have. Also, it's still a limited solution, which doesn't solve the generic case. So it's each much easier to us
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by nivertech 2mo ago
To protect their homes from floods and fires, the ancient Egyptians made sacrifices and offerings to deities like Hapi (god of the Nile)[1] and Bastet[2] But this naive actuarial model with a 100% deductible is obviously far less sophistica
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by nivertech 2mo ago
In ancient Egypt, there were various trade unions, usually organized by profession One of the most interesting was the thieves' union Suppose someone stole yr carpet at night, and in the morning you'd go to the office of the head
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by nivertech 4mo ago
The Soviet computer industry had only two secrets: 1. how far behind the West it was, and 2. that there were no other secrets
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by nivertech 4mo ago
This Soviet project developed two Russian-language PLs: Robic[1] and Rapira[2]. Robic was similar to Logo, but unlike Logo, which had only one actor - a turtle, Robik had several: a Train, an Ant, a Painter, and so on Rapira was more like S
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by nivertech 4mo ago
Even if you have an insurable interest, moral hazard may arise - acting recklessly or other abuse, while knowing you are insured/covered. Somewhat similar to friendly fraud in retail/ecommerce.
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by nivertech 5mo ago
AI talk is turning into Silicon Valley pseudo-math slang. Priors, exponentials, latent space You get lines like “no priors” or “embracing exponentials” that sound smart but mostly signal status Same move as N Taleb and “convexity.” A real i
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by nivertech 5mo ago
> slow is smooth, smooth is fast
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by nivertech 5mo ago
https://paulgraham.com/articles.html
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by nivertech 5mo ago
It's better to first show truth tables, then K-maps, and only then logical formulas. But the main question is: does this FP2 have any real applications? Maybe it could be useful when only one operand is FP2? Especially for vectorized m
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by nivertech 5mo ago
What about comparison operators?
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by nivertech 5mo ago
The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from... January 23, 2026 72 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by nivertech 5mo ago
FP2 spec: 00 -> 0.0 01 -> 1.0 10 -> Inf 11 -> NaN or 00 -> 0.0 01 -> 1.0 10 -> Inf 11 -> -Inf
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by nivertech 5mo ago
The number of traditional public companies has been cut in half. The number of alternative public and semi-public companies went up exponentially (Reg CF/Reg A, crypto ICOs). After reaching some thresholds a Reg A company can become pu
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by nivertech 5mo ago
Windows (arm 64), but no official Linux (x86) support? There is only unofficial build: Claude Desktop for Debian-based Linux distributions https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian
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by nivertech 5mo ago
statistics == lies
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by nivertech 5mo ago
BTW: some early filesystems were more database-like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Management_Services They were more like BerkeleyDB and lacked Query Pla
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by nivertech 5mo ago
“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Without Atlantis?”
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by nivertech 6mo ago
The slogan of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was: "Factories to the workers, land to the peasants." If the factory is yours, then everything inside is yours ;) But it's funny how low wages under the broken Soviet economic sys
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by nivertech 6mo ago
1. The problem is with using HTTP for APIs, not with GraphQL. HTTP was designed for rich (hypertext) documents, not for APIs. So layering GraphQL or any other APIs over HTTP is a hack. 2. GraphQL is useful for small remote teams b/c of
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by nivertech 6mo ago
> After years of debate and confusion, the GraphQL Working Group has reached a historic decision: starting with the October 2027 spec release, all GraphQL responses will return random HTTP status codes between 100 and 599. > Additi
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by nivertech 6mo ago
Imagined vs discovered tasks The way to really figure out what needs to be done is to start doing real work. https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.1-chapter-10#imagined-vs-disc... imagined tasks == Jira discove

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