Zamiel_Snawley

I don’t think they need a shell unless uv itself requires it, the shebang is handled by the exec syscall.

Thank you for posting this. Simultaneously uplifting and tragic.

Pi is equal to 3 for sufficiently small values of pi, and sufficiently large values of 3.

Do those criticisms of Rosetta hold for Rosetta 2?

I assumed the author was talking about the x86 emulator released for the arm migration a few years ago, not the powerpc one.

Genode is an actively developed, general purpose desktop operating system that works today, and can use seL4, among other kernels.

Because they’ve had twenty years to figure out how to generate sustainable revenue while being propped up by Google. Mozilla got themselves into this situation, why should their users overlook the removal of the only real advantage of Firefox?

They _should_ collapse if the only way for them to continue is to abandon their mission.

That much revenue from a single source was always a significant vulnerability, a vulnerability that leadership failed to address. Poor leadership and wasteful spending is the problem, not revenue.

I’m not informed enough to analyze the real cost of developing a web browser.

However, Microsoft’s mission is profits for shareholders so their calculus ought to be different than Mozilla’s.

It makes sense for a profit-seeking entity to surrender if they don’t see a path for a return on the investment, not so for Mozilla.

This post does not deserve such self-righteous vitriol.

I think this is the best economic function of open source—it forces innovation by elimination of rent seeking.

If you sit on your laurels, someone will make a solution thats at least 70% as good for free.

They really don’t need more revenue. They are nominally a not-for-profit and in 2023, they had 250 million cash and a billion more in investments.

They’ve taken billions of dollars from Google since 2005, and now they’re turning their back on user privacy.

No. The Supreme Court has laid out well defined meanings for all the components of that phrase[0], and it is quite a high bar.

[0] https://constitution.findlaw.com/article3/annotation24.html

Well the number of BTC went from zero to ~twenty million in that time, not really zero inflation.

If the treasury could credibly say “we will only ever print 2^64 dollars”, that wouldn’t make it inflation free, just a maximum possible denominator.

That would not be treason, by a long shot.

Treason is the only crime defined in the constitution, and it is quite a high bar.

Electromagnets for the rotor cause significantly more heating, exactly where it is hardest cool, and where the heat is most likely to seep into the load.

For high torque density applications, heat dissipation is often the limiting factor on duty cycle.

Also, the slip rings capable of passing high current to an electromagnet rotor are expensive and less robust than permanent magnets.

Essentially: it’s possible but I haven’t seen an application where it’s practical.

Shouldn’t knowing how big it’s supposed to be make it easier to stop a zip bomb? Just stop decompressing once you hit the size from the header.

LLMs are pretty good at using the standard utilities.

That, combined with reading the man pages if it doesn’t work first try has been really effective for me.

You can write executable “scripts” in C by JIT compiling them with the shebang.

Tcc has the `-run` flag for easily doing this with a normal-ish shebang.

With a nasty polyglot preamble of C and bash at the top of your file, you can do it with any compiler.

In my experience, Linux works quite well on laptops that are intended to run it.

I’ve only tried the System 76 Lemur Pro and the Framework 13, both of which worked smoothly. The Framework has better build quality, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who wants to try a Linux laptop.

I’d say Nvidia is selling shovel factories (training hardware), OpenAI is renting shovels (trained models as a service), and DeepSeek gave everyone a shovel for free.

But Nvidia is also selling steroids (inference hardware) that everyone will need to use their new free shovels.

This analogy may have gotten out of hand.

I stand corrected, thanks.

You’re right! I got my wires crossed with Azure and AWS.

If you’re expecting to pop a bubble I think you’d buy options ahead of time to take advantage, instead of waiting for a recovery that may never come.

There were many models of Pebble. The original definitely had epaper[0].

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-e-pape...

I’ve never heard that RTOSs are the future in general. With that said, there are a lot of great RTOS options out there today.

1) PREEMPT_RT recently brought realtime capability to mainline Linux[0].

2) Amazon open sourced the safety-certified ThreadX[1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PREEMPT_RT

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX

Isn’t it valuable to Google to keep potential competitors from getting expensive IP for free?

“PebbleOS took dozens of engineers working over 4 years to build, alongside our fantastic product and QA teams. Reproducing that for new hardware would take a long time.” [0]

[0] https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back

What is the intended use case for such a processor?

It’s trivial to reformat the source code into a donut shape.

Nuitka(and a couple other python distribution techniques) tripped my employer’s antivirus.

The packaging/deployment of python keeps me from using it for anything other than one-off, disposable programs.

Mastodon has a completely different architecture.

In Activity Pub each node is essentially the full stack of what ATProto breaks up into individual entities. This means that each node in the fediverse is incented to connect to other nodes in the network, to provide good coverage to their users.

Running native or emulated doesn’t really matter if the performance is good enough.

Better translation layers are what made the Steam Deck possible.