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mrcslws

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About mrcslws

probablymarcus.com

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    Comment #48728141

    Ha, I’ve thought the same thing.

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    Comment #48726611

    It's too slow. I mention this in the video at 1:20 - 1:50.

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    Comment #48726545

    If you can SSH to a machine, you can use Outer Loop and Outer Shell, without having to do any sudo commands or expose anything new to the network. The browser + SSH client combined…

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    Comment #48725649

    Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not hating on Cockpit, but Outer Loop (with Outer Shell) has solved a lot more of the stack. Cockpit accepts the constraints of living in existing…

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    Comment #48724217

    Thanks :) I wrote a previous blog post that discussed WASM in the FAQ: https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/05/10/like-a-web-view...

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    Comment #48724063

    I think it's okay as long as: - sockets are blocked by default, until they are added to an allow-list explicitly on the server side - True sudo awareness ensures root sockets aren'…

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    Comment #48722922

    Also a blog post about it, with its own video: https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/05/10/like-a-web-view... It's a fun heretical idea, moving away from a "cross-platform" web to…

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    Comment #48722855

    I think there are different clusters of people who use servers, SSH, etc. I'm closer to the cluster that uses them for deep learning experiments, GPU kernel optimization, robot dev…

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    Comment #48722683

    In all cases, the code is pre-compiled. A user never waits for anything to compile. When Outer Loop installs Outer Shell, it downloads pre-compiled binaries to the server. For Linu…

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    Comment #48722266

    Quick response regarding security: On various Mozilla forums that I saw, the discussion was basically: 1. We can't just allow the browser to connect to any socket, since many eithe…

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    Comment #48722145

    Sure, I just added YouTube mirror link to the post: https://youtu.be/e40PLLuZ5KI (The one on the website is the standard browser video player, not custom.)

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    Comment #48721765

    I wondered if this would be controversial. It all depends where you grew up. > Cairo, like Chicago, had a new shell (Microsoft’s favorite word for the user interface for launching …

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    Comment #48652816

    I can confirm, this is how Adam talks.

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    Show HN: A browser for Mac that connects to private web apps over SSH

    Here's a blog post about how it works: "Web apps over SSH can be surprisingly good" https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2025/10/10/web-apps-over-s...

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    Comment #44791716

    Ha, after writing this post I found a Wikipedia article on this effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_motion_blur

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    Comment #44683938

    From the blog post: "more than 99% of them had no activity in the last month" https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li... This is a classic product data decisio…

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    Comment #38040451

    There may be tricks that I don't know about. One quick experimental answer I can give: if I change to looping over the sums and rerun Benchmark 3, my time in the aten::sum CUDA ker…

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    Comment #38032308

    Yeah, one unspoken theme of this blog post is "look how nice torch.compile" is :) Fun fact, I had to put in extra work to get torch.compile working with my code, for understandable…