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WASM to PS Compiler

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Thought process:

> WASM to PS compiler. Huh, PS meaning PowerShell?

> Oh, PS meaning PostScript.

> Wait, PS meaning PostScript?!

Turing completeness never fails to deliver program translation surprises.

So it’s a print driver only for WASM source code? Yes, I had the same thought, but it turned out to be Photoshop ;p

Am I too old when PS means PostScript to me by default?

The only thing you are is too correct.

I think it's a matter of environment, not age. If you're more used to the Windows ecosystem, you'd think of PowerShell by default; if you're more used to the Linux ecosystem, you'd think of PostScript by default. PowerShell (and dotnet in general) doesn't have much relevance to those who run Linux exclusively, while PostScript doesn't have as much relevance to those who run Windows exclusively (unless you have to deal with certain kinds of printers).

Even on Windows I've used PostScript many times more than I've used PowerShell.

I was thinking it meant WASM on the PlayStation haha. I seen that there's some project before but haven't been following it to use WASM for the binaries on Linux. So ARM or Intel programs could be compiled to WASM and only the host operating system would need to be compiled natively, which sounds like a very cool concept if it gained more support.

I thought it meant PureScript

Back in college I wrote some Postscript code to change gnuplot to do some 3D stuff that I needed for a visualization project. Fortunately, I don't remember it at all.

Bring back NeWS and we can eliminate the browser entirely.

Timely. I've been looking for ways to abuse the HP ink-junkie in the corner.

That one speaks PostScript? I though most inkjet printers relied heavily on drivers to supply the next line to print and have no capacity (compute or memory) to rasterize a complete page and for that reason don't need PostScript either.

Most do now, as "driverless printing" (sending some PS to an IPP URL) has come into vogue.

> but none target the untapped potential of the shitty PostScript interpreter your printer has

Maybe because the options for interaction with the output are non-existing ;)

You just need too hook it up to a prescript scanner

How to access its ethernet port?

Brilliant :)

Sounds like a PrintNightmare.

> The so-called compiler implemented uses the dumbest possible implementation

I love remarkably blunt comments in code. The Quake III code that caused the uproar recently with Copilot probably being the most famous example.

> The Quake III code that caused the uproar recently with Copilot

I've been in the hospital for a few days. Fill me in?

Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments (1 day ago, 626 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287

The code in question, with the “remarkably blunt comments” 'edgeform refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...

Ha, that's amazing.

To be fair (if this is even a defense), that algorithm is famous, as is its source, so "leading" the AI in that direction just got it to keep going in that direction.

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