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We added the transpiled code in a new branch at https://github.com/immunant/ioq3/tree/transpiled/quake3-rs and also a more cleaned up refactored code base at https://github.com/imm…

We added the transpiled code in a new branch at https://github.com/immunant/ioq3/tree/transpiled/quake3-rs and also a more cleaned up refactored code base at https://github.com/imm…

Author here: I wanted to let everyone know we made some small edits to the text, and added two new branches to our repository: transpiled containing the raw transpiler output [1], …

Right, I see that now. Adding an additional layer of RSA and per-file keys is an interesting twist. Generating a public/private key pair instead of a symmetric key seems to let the…

> Just ship your ransomware with the attacker's public key, generate a symmetric key K locally, encrypt the data with K, encrypt K with the public key, offer to decrypt K for a ran…

I don't know the exact details of how WannaCry encrypts the files, but ransomware generally works like this: when hitting a new machine, it generates a random key K1 and then encry…

There doesn't seem to be anything dynamic about the algorithm in the article. They still need to precompute the perfect hash function(s) from the entire input data, whereas the has…

> And who runs foreign policy? How do state secrets work? Is there still a president and a bureaucracy and cabinet ministers? All of those seem tied to the Executive branch, wherea…

I was following and agreeing with you (and was going to upvote you), until the last 2 sentences. You could have made your point without bashing "CS types" and CS/engineering educat…

1. and 2. are OK points, but your point 3. is atrocious. In my opinion, destructive behavior isn't really a legitimate form of protest, and as rubidium wrote, you'd be hurting peop…

> Historically, states and credit-based money came first. THEN came the unit of account and medium of exchange money that you are talking about. Actually, the Wikipedia page on "fi…

Anything that is valuable, fungible and divisible could be used as money (you could even use barrels of oil). For examples, see [1]. Again, a great contemporary example is Bitcoin …

Money is both a "unit of account" and "medium of exchange". You can certainly have both of those without government. In some societies, people used seashells, salt, gold coins, or …

AFAIK, V8 already has 3 tiers: full-codegen (the basic non-optimizing JIT), crankshaft and turbofan. With ignition, they're replacing full-codegen with an interpreter. It's strange…

size_t is also unsigned (no idea why). The signed equivalent is ssize_t. Edit: Sorry, missed the "i-- > 0" at first. The code works, but not because of changing "unsigned" to "size…

If you mean run RPython code as regular Python code, that doesn't always catch typing problems. For example, returning a None where an int is expected works fine in Python, not so …

I used RPython on my own interpreter project a few years ago (stopped working on it around 2013). It's a very interesting approach to writing interpreters/JIT compilers, and produc…

> It's an open question. For the last 6 years I've refused to set foot in US (and even declined free tickets to a very important tech conference in my field) because of your unpred…

> Out of curiosity, an example? The only programs I've compiled that remotely approach an hour are the Linux kernel, GCC, and ATLAS. Don't know about GP, but I can think of a few m…

Earlier discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9732827

I mean the writing is identical, but the pronounciation varies wildly.