HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

Waraqa

no profile record

Submissions

The King Of Programming Languages (1993) [pdf]

kednos.com
3 points·by Waraqa·vor 10 Monaten·1 comments

Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World (2018)

linuxjournal.com
1 points·by Waraqa·vor 10 Monaten·1 comments

comments

Waraqa
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
https://archive.is/8tLce
Waraqa
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
I still remember the shock when my father told me he had connected his laptop to the internet without a cable. I'd heard of wireless networking but didn't know it was a standard feature in laptops at the time and all you need is to find a wifi point.
Waraqa
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Does that mean the quality of the voice calls in that era was better than later systems? Since it's logical to have loss of quality when a weak signal is amplified.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
This is great news for the entire ARM ecosystem. The fact that ARM is now exceeding the best x86 CPUs marks a historical turning point, and other manufacturers are sure to follow suit.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
How did you measure it?

I saved the page as mhtml and it was only 24.4 MB
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
https://archive.is/EAInd
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
See this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359626
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
[flagged]
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
IMHO in the long term this will lead to a closed web where you are required to log-in to view any content.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
It was moved to a new path so you have to create symlinks in both locations to the new path under /usr/lib/newlib1.2/newfile.so otherwise, You can download a script that will make that for you but it will only work if you have all the dependencies for that script installed and their version numbers match the ones that the script owner had when he wrote the script.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
You are right but the fact that it will be harder to distinguish between human written and AI written text means that we will be looking for signs that indicate a human written text and will tend to prefer humanly mistakes over AI perfect tutorial.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
It's the only one that's not very good at hiding itself.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
There is an official download option inside the app. If they limit the download speed to the watching time, it won't be useful.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
>very energy efficient

If your server has a lot of idle time, ARM will always win.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
The page style doesn't look so bad even though it's using very simple HTML elements of the era. Just looking at it reminded me of the early days of HTML.

edit: It uses CSS which was invented in 1996 (according to Wikipedia). That means it was updated at a later date.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
It can only be categorized as durable after careful revision from human experts and extensive testing. This is what the article is about.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
It would be useful if there are a comparison for their resources usage especially for people who need them in constrained resources environments.
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
I wonder why his karma is less than the points of the post. doesn't karma follow the total points of one's posts and comments?
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Add to this the ability to make it cross-platform executable[1] that has no dependencies to get the perfect file format.

[1]: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
Waraqa
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
I assume an integer field is sufficient since mostly it's only the year that they know not the exact date.