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Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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Post by ehnto »

murbard2 wrote: post #150
axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

It's cringe, but I don't find it hard to read, anymore than knowning numbers precludes me from reading "4c7u411y p0274813 3x3cu74813".

I guess I'm not as l33t as I thought I was, because I couldn't read that without having to figure out what each number was supposed to be individually.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#182

Post by jcelerier »

Razengan wrote: post #174
afarviral wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally think its kind of creative, and looks cool. Though the author might like to be aware of the discontent it causes certain individuals. This is mean but it comes accross as though you are just wanting to show off you knowledge of a different alphabet...a complainbrag. Seems unlikely you'd take the effort to bother but thats my perception.

> This is mean but it comes accross as though you are just wanting to show off you knowledge of a different alphabet There are people whose native languages are in those alphabets. Quick: How would you pronounce СССР? Hint: It would be completely wrong, because it's not English.

bold of you to assume the existence of an objective right or wrong mapping from characters to sounds

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#183

Post by jdmichal »

simias wrote: post #152

It's a very cool hack and technically interesting, but I can't say that I share the author's "serious" rationale: >So I think it's really the best of times to be optimistic about systems engineering. We agree more on sharing things in common than we ever have. There are still outliers like the plans coming out of Apple and Microsoft we hear about in the news, where they've sought to pivot PCs towards ARM. [...] >If a…

Not to mention this one:

> I couldn't resist the temptation of making it a reality, since it means that high-performance native code can be almost as pain-free as web apps.

> Please note this is intended for people who don't care about desktop GUIs, and just want stdio and sockets without devops toil.

My understanding was that people are using web-apps and electron precisely to provide cross-platform GUIs. I feel like this is really missing the forest for the mountains...

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#184

Post by miki123211 »

axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

Also a nightmare for screen reader users, who can't read the title at all and need to click the article.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#185

Post by talamown »

axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For me, it always takes some time to see it as face and still hard to understand what emotion this face presents.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#186

Post by jimmydorry »

op00to wrote: post #138
p_l wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Please explain your reasoning for this.

Not GP, but I'll take a crack at this.

The stupid game would be making your article title not an immediately obvious summary of your article.

The stupid prize would be this HN thread now that is only discussing the title, instead of the actual article.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#187

Post by simias »

rkangel wrote: post #180
simias wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK Apple mostly only licenses the ISA and then runs a completely custom implementation, so in this case that's not relevant. I think the sibling comment is more accurate: while the core of the ISA might effectively be public domain soon, there are plenty of extensions in common use that aren't. If you implement a custom x86 design without those a lot of software won't be able to run or it will run with significant…

The assumption I'd made was that they'd left the actual core mostly alone. They've gone a lot further than everyone else in what they've put around it though, e.g. large caches and other accelerators. I'd be interested in being pointed to any references as to what they've actually done, not that much information is likely to be public domain.

My source is "I know somebody who knows somebody who works in Apple's hardware design team" so take it with a grain of salt but it seems that their core is almost entirely custom, or at least customized to the point where it's effectively a different core.

And it makes sense for them to do it too, they clearly have the money and people to pull it off and it gives them a big competitive advantage. It's not for nothing that they push for ARM on the desktop as well, this way they'd have a tighter control on their ecosystem than they've had for decades (maybe ever), both soft- and hardware.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#188

Post by OOPMan »

axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

Never mind the fact that it's just super pretentious

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#189

Post by OOPMan »

marksomnian wrote: post #140
d__k wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) актуалли портабле екзекутабле 2) αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε What is easier to comprehend?

3) Actually Portable Executable There's a better option.

APE audio might come a knocking though and I'm not you sure you want to make them angry. You won't like them when they're angry...

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#190

Post by airstrike »

talamown wrote: post #185
axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For me, it always takes some time to see it as face and still hard to understand what emotion this face presents.

shrug
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