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Interesting, it's similar to what I've done recently in Koffi 3, which is an FFI package for Node.js. I made my own C FFI layer, I did not use libffi. This works great, and got me …

The official solutions, node-ffi and node-ffi-napi, are extremely slow, with an overhead hundred of times higher than it should be. I don't know what they do to be so slow. I'm mak…

I think that in a proper API, we could have: int process_handle = spawn("/bin/true", SP_PAUSED); // create process but don't execute, and return a handle // most API would take a p…

Interesting, thanks for the tip! I'm gonna give it a go during the weekend.

I share this opinion as well. For centralized-repo style, which is what most teams need, the Git model has three problems: - It is hard to use. There's a reason most teams have a s…

No, I mean that the scale of whale oil use was very very small compared to the scale of fossil fuels. So small, in fact, that if whale oil was on the graph I've linked above, you w…

The volume of whale oil used back in the 19th century is laughably anecdotic compared to petroleum. When we talk about our energy needs, scale matters a lot. So yes, when it comes …

Worldwide, most of the energy that comes from wind and solar is a tiny fraction of the primary energy supply mix. Where it's growing it's mostly used for additional energy, not to …

Where the hell do you get your news from? The "massive wind and solar boom" exists only in the media. There's a rule of thumb you can follow here: the importance of a technology / …

You are right, there is pretty much nothing in biology that is. Humans are no exception, but until recently it was not a big problem because we did not have the power to significan…

> People are scared of nuclear energy for the same reason that they're scared of taking an airplane. Even though it's technically and statistically very safe, the perceived risk ap…

Many / most people exisiting now also fail to grasp how bad the future will get on our current course. They fail to realize that modern life is anything but a short-term artefact o…

> Ultimately all life on Earth will die when the sun burns out or otherwise significantly changes its output. The only hope humanity has to outlive this is taking to the stars, and…

Maybe, but I hope there are better arguments for the current system than "it works better than the Soviet Union". All you have done here is establish that an extremely dysfunctiona…

Burning through the vast energy and natural resources at our disposal is what has allowed us to "lift" so many people out of poverty. "Proposerity" and "progress" are not a miracle…

Probably nothing. This is wide-scale bike-shedding[1], basically. The real problems our unsustainable civilization faces (population overshoot, energy and fossil fuel shortage, eco…

Past civilizations did not fail because they slowed down. They slowed down while they were failing . I mean, this is what failing is. They failed at getting enough food and energy …

"The pace of the world is here to stay, people will just figure out how to sustain it with new stuff". I don't know how you can think that. The pace of our world requires incredibl…

That's interesting, thanks for the information, I'll probably spend a good portion of tomorrow reading up on this. Geoengineering is scary. Honestly, I am extremely pessimistic abo…

27% is better, though from a quick look it applies only to the US, and in Europe it looks closer to 15%. I need to take time tomorrow to find good sources on this. I'm not convince…

It was an answer to parent's "It's simply a matter of scaling up." comment. I agree with you that the exact same fact is true of nuclear. And wind too, while we're at it. I don't t…

Photovoltaic capacity is expected to be around 4674 GW in 2050 (currently around 150, I think) [1]. Let's be optimistic and say it'll actually be around 20000 GW, just for the fun …

Of course, everyone that does not buy into the myth of the Star Trek future that surely awaits mankind has to be a religious fool. Perhaps some of us have realised that, like many …

I don't hate them. I've used python more than once, and will continue to do so. And I think it's great teaching material. It's a good scripting language. But I think its drawbacks …