Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — Zamiel_Snawley

Zamiel_Snawley

HN member
Joined
Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 6:07 PM UTC
HN karma
364
Public activity
135 items

About Zamiel_Snawley

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #45755518

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

  2. comment
    Comment #43933351

    Thank you for posting this. Simultaneously uplifting and tragic.

  3. comment
    Comment #43926120

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

  4. comment
    Comment #43699062

    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.

  5. comment
    Comment #43457041

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

  6. comment
    Comment #43227616

    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 us…

  7. comment
    Comment #43226471

    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 …

  8. comment
    Comment #43226442

    This post does not deserve such self-righteous vitriol.

  9. comment
    Comment #43226137

    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 lea…

  10. comment
    Comment #43215818

    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…

  11. comment
    Comment #43152536

    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/annotat…

  12. comment
    Comment #43152443

    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 wo…

  13. comment
    Comment #43135400

    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.

  14. comment
    Comment #42996444

    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 ap…

  15. comment
    Comment #42904770

    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.

  16. comment
    Comment #42895592

    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.

  17. comment
    Comment #42895556

    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 pream…

  18. comment
    Comment #42895364

    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 Fr…

  19. comment
    Comment #42849332

    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…

  20. comment
    Comment #42849299

    I stand corrected, thanks.

  21. comment
    Comment #42849291

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

  22. comment
    Comment #42848597

    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.

  23. comment
    Comment #42848451

    There were many models of Pebble. The original definitely had epaper[0]. [0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-e-pape...

  24. comment
    Comment #42848436

    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 …

  25. comment
    Comment #42848362

    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 fantas…