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If I'm not mistaken cockpit is web UI and doesn't run native code, important differences.

LLM-based coding is enabling so much! The crazy weekend project now can have compilation to native code and web assembly, allow server-side or client-side rendering, manage multipl…

I've found Claude Code with Opus 4.5+ to be excellent at generating test cases that exercise the different features, and even push into the edge cases. You sometimes need to nudge …

They usually end up upgrading most instance types to new graviton generations, it just takes time to do the full rollout.

yosefk had the ultimate take on this: https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...

Oops, sorry about carelessly throwing the "cringe" label at that. Thanks for the transcript which allowed me to enjoy the content, which I did find very interesting. I haven't watc…

He is no Jim Keller, and the mostly[1] automated transcript makes it read cringe, but it is not at all devoid of content. Some examples of very interesting, non-obvious content: * …

The white keys form a sequence of notes (frequencies) that is known as the diatonic scale. It's the foundation underlying all popular western music. It is not random or arbitrary, …

surely not a coincidence

Such a needlessly negative article. PCIe 5.0 is early, peripherals are scarce-to-non-existant, and existing rigs are not infinitely flexible. Otherwise, it all looks pretty good to…

I'm so grateful to him, his early work was a massive influence for me as a kid. I lent one of Dewdney's books to a neighbor friend's dad, an architect, and he gave me my first paid…

what's the connection?

Nitro "virtual NVME" device are mostly (only?) for EBS -- remote network storage, transparently managed, using a separate network backbone, and presented to the host as a regular l…

Beautiful, I love it, congratulations! I started my programming journey with Basic on a ZX Spectrum +, then Z80 assembly language, then 8086 and the rest from there... 40 years of …

I've often heard about the Linear B mystery and its final decipherment, but never in so much detail. That was fun. Now, when will there be something similar for the Iberian languag…

Probably because changing the software to use a different read pattern is doable in a few weeks/months on your existing systems, and changing anything in the flash controller is a …

Oh so it's a GCC-specific thing... that explains it. In any case, congratulations on the lisp! It's beautiful code. I wish my current codebase was that beautiful. I mean, it's a lo…

Beautiful. Also, after 30+ years of writing C and C++, I learned one thing by casually browsing the source code: you can use a preprocessor macro in an #include statement. Thanks.

I have written and been using that same smart pointer type for years, under the pretty horrible name of holder_cloner_t (at least it's clear). It is indeed the right solution to a …

I used reader view in Safari.

I've always thought this really-well-written old post by Yosef Kreinin is quite enlightened regarding the reality of Forth (even if a bit snarky, as usual from him): https://yosefk…

It is variant of the northwestern Iberian alphabet, a derivative of the Phoenician alphabet as you mentioned, and Iberian writing has been decoded for a while now (not the language…

Because they are two separate skillsets.

Ray Kurzweil: "The day it starts working, we're doomed". Reality: "We got convincing front-facing deep fakes! Sideways? Don't worry, it will be ready in just 24 months!"