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What does it mean to be a programming language, anyhow? (2021) [pdf]

dl.acm.org
1 points·by hun3·6 months ago·0 comments

Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf] (2024)

boardgametextbook.com
3 points·by hun3·6 months ago·1 comments

Is the nervous system a democracy? (2016)

scientificamerican.com
2 points·by hun3·6 months ago·0 comments

Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024)

yosefk.com
92 points·by hun3·6 months ago·13 comments

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hun3
·19 days ago·discuss
> The OS is a thin layer providing an abstract and consistent interface regardless of the hardware configuration.

This is called a hardware abstraction layer, not OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_abstraction
hun3
·19 days ago·discuss
System WebView but Electron is now the system
hun3
·19 days ago·discuss
The operating system has historically trusted the applications not to do dumb things too much.

Only now we're witnessing the consequences much more frequently thanks to accelerated slop.
hun3
·21 days ago·discuss
(zenzi)³

I mean zenzi-cubic
hun3
·last month·discuss
China has proxies that sell cheaper access to frontier models in exchange for permission to train on your data.
hun3
·last month·discuss
Right.

As an example: Oracle and PostgreSQL don't have dirty reads: READ UNCOMMITTED does nothing. MySQL's concurrency model depends on the engine.
hun3
·last month·discuss
What keeps users themselves from vibe-coding their own software?

If you don't own quality, why should I pay? You're just a middleman at that point.
hun3
·last month·discuss
If you squint hard enough, you'll notice your bank account serves as an IPC semaphore replenishing API credit balances.

Your wallet is now a real-time communication channel.
hun3
·2 months ago·discuss
_RealShipOpts has a constructor.
hun3
·2 months ago·discuss
With consent, yes.
hun3
·2 months ago·discuss
No, "virtual machine" alone doesn't make things safer.

Shrink your attack surface.

Use a completely locked down seccomp. Use nsjail or gVisor for containers. Use microvm or libkrun for full OS.

Lesser attack surface is what matters. Virtualization is only half of the story.
hun3
·2 months ago·discuss
Avoiding problems outside your business problem domain, and can therefore guide the AI more effectively towards building the right thing.
hun3
·2 months ago·discuss
(Note that this still assumes that each biased-coin toss is i.i.d.)
hun3
·2 months ago·discuss
They are orthogonal.

Suppose you have 100ms audio latency and no wait time. Then, natural pause will trigger response immediately but you won't notice it has started until after ~200ms (round-trip time). Twice as annoying.
hun3
·3 months ago·discuss
But it's still a bit more difficult to sue them for leaking your company's data.

At least for now.
hun3
·3 months ago·discuss
You can write unambiguous (UB-free) code and the compiler's output will be deterministic. There will even be a spec that explains how your source maps to your program's behavior. LLM has neither.

Also, if you need to control performance, you still need to know how CPU cache and branch prediction works, both of which exists at the abstraction level of assembly.
hun3
·3 months ago·discuss
How can you read a language you didn't learn?
hun3
·3 months ago·discuss
PatchGuard would like to have a word with you.
hun3
·3 months ago·discuss
Ironic, since Unix is itself an embodiment of "worse is better."
hun3
·3 months ago·discuss
I used floating timestamps as some kind of an identity. If there is ever a conflict, I just increase it by 1 ulp until it doesn't collide with anything. Sorry.