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Background: * https://github.com/ptitSeb/gl4es/blob/master/README.md * https://emscripten.org/docs/porting/multimedia_and_graphics/...

While troubleshooting I came across the GitHub source code here: https://github.com/ColdGrub1384/LibTerm Attempting to compile a small program, the first barrier I came across star…

Echoing the sentiment from reddit: the article lacks any numbers regarding performance and power so we cannot do meaningful analysis. At best we can estimate a lower bound for the …

> the story for performance-per-watt under load appears less clear. Is this referring specifically to their in-order cores (Cortex-A53, A35), out-of-order cores (Cortex-A72, A73), …

A relevant read for someone to seriously consider the "Neither!" answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20695806 "The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Andro…

I would assume positive intent. There are some answers to give perspective if you read further down in the ticket, like this one: ----------------- kinnison commented on Jun 6 We d…

> Is or was he ever affiliated with AWS? Does not appear to be affiliated, but launched "Last week in AWS" more than 2 years ago so may know a thing or two. https://www.linkedin.co…

> Why didn't the author sign it? Discussed here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup.rs/issues/1568 It boils down to that the authors have not gotten around to it and are not exper…

Thanks. I'm using React Native + Expo for now, so the syntax there "ios": { "config" { "usesNonExemptEncryption": false } } in app.json

> I'm curious why it isn't based on qemu-user. I've also wondered what it would take to do multi-architecture dynamic linking in qemu-user. Such a capability would avoid one shortc…

Good question. ptitSeb's work tends to target armv7 as that's the architecture used by OpenPandora. I don't know if this design currently depends on specifics of the armhf ABI vs a…

I guess it's theoretically possible to emulate the x86 Widevine DRM plugin while running other browser code natively. However, there's already an easier way to run Netflix on a Pi …

Good question. iSH appears to be a true emulator with syscall translation much like qemu-user, so it's versatile but wouldn't run a game library like SDL natively.

For each new app release, a typical app developer might upload with Application Loader, log in to App Store Connect (2FA), babysit-refresh until the icon goes from "Processing" to …

Thanks for linking that as well as your earlier HN posts about Box86: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19389120 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19400920 I think there …