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awwaiidon WebAssembly: Adding Python support to WASM language runtimes

Exploring and providing new and different approaches is worthwhile, and I doubt the tradeoffs of each technology is identical.

awwaiidon Rails on Docker

The

  <<XYZ
  ...
  XYZ

syntax for multi-line strings is worth learning since it is used in shell, ruby, php, and others. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_document . You get to pick the "EOF" delimiter.

awwaiidon It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over

Reading this is a very very different experience when you are actually reading the noscript text due to non-js feed reader. I read the whole thing before realizing that all the Alex Jones stuff never mentioned Minecraft.

awwaiidon The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun

... you mean the US, possibly allies? Not only is that broad enough to be meaningless, I don't know offhand of any military going to someone's house to require them (by force I assume) to change their GitHub repo name. What are you getting at?

awwaiidon A 9-line summary of textbook physics

Further down in the thread, crank or not, I found this note on their 'strand' theory very convincing from a FSM perspective:

"Today is the first of April. Imagine strands as fluctuating, scaled-down, uncuttable, massless, endless, knot-free, cooked spaghetti"

awwaiidon My First Impressions of Web3

I thought web2 aka web-2.0 was AJAX+Unobtrusive JavaScript aka XHR+jquery aka SPAs. I guess we rolled The Cloud (rented server time) back into that at some point?

awwaiidon Show HN: Digger.dev – A PaaS that generates Terraform, in your AWS account

How does this compare to https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer -- looks like it is more continuously updating and user friendly?

awwaiidon Searching for RH Counterexamples

This .... is delightful! There are several posts in the series. Thank you for your work!

awwaiidon My first Z80 assembly language program

IIRC my commodore 64/128 manual came with BASIC and some assembly documentation. Different world when your turn on the machine and ... Get basically a REPL.

I did the same thing as the author, wrote BASIC until I needed a faster inner loop (doing some simulation like cellwar or something) and picked up asm to make it (just the inner loop) faster.

awwaiidon An Unbelievable Demo

The license of the previous code didn't magically become the GPL altogether, instead it by default became un-distributable. They were required to (a) stop distribution of the existing code since it at best had no clear license, and (b) if they wanted, going forward remedy the license by clearly making it GPL or doing the rewrite of the dependency. Or even reach out to the library author and ask for an LGPL or other alternative - there is sometimes (often?) some flexibility there.

The built-in conflict resolution in the GPL is no-distribution.

awwaiidon Ransomware – Unauthorized access to Fujifilm servers

Maybe they keylog and incrementally hash everything including password subset? Seems implausible.

awwaiidon Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative

If it is an internal tool what is the problem?

awwaiidon Stripe Payment Links

... don't they use stripe as their shopify-branded processor?

awwaiidon Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic

Here is the one I look at (might need desktop version), https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

awwaiidon Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic

I recall articles about it last September. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm

awwaiidon Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols

Survival of the fittest! Hahaha

awwaiidon Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)

I recently read, and recommend, The Dream Machine - great walk throught this and many related topics and events. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1732265119

awwaiidon Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI

Codeship does this too with their `jet` command.

awwaiidon Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what?

The buZzzzwords these days are: NoCode/LowCode tool for data insights.

Generally I suggest deleting most of the text above the screenshots.

awwaiidon If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser

What do you mean? I think on iOS it is still rendering with Safari.

awwaiidon Shrinking Income Inequality

Unless we do this on purpose -- UBI or purposeful unemployment with the target of utopia.

awwaiidon Systemd 248 RC3: systemd-oomd is now considered fully supported

Yesterday I ran into this nice article on using cgroups to contain firefox memory usage, https://dev.to/msugakov/taking-firefox-memory-usage-under-co...

awwaiidon The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science

awwaiidon Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (2019)

I think of this often, and generally call it the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox -- in addition to perceived absorbtion for stakeholders, I think the estimators too find more details the closer they look.

awwaiidon New model could explain old cholesterol mystery

I'd expect taking statins to then increase risk of heart failure, were it that simple.

awwaiidon Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store

An important lesson from my openmoko days - "sorry I didn't get your call sweetie, see I needed a new video driver for my window manager animations so I recompiled my kernel and that broke the modem..." ....... turns out to not be a good excuse for missing significant-others calls on a regular basis!

awwaiidon Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in stores

I wonder if twitter used so much hardware when it was on rails.

awwaiidon A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

I think that in some ways the semantics of Raku are closer to Ruby than to Perl5. https://docs.raku.org/language/rb-nutshell is a ruby-to-raku walk through. Among other things, Raku has first-class Roles that I think Ruby should consider adopting. In Raku the sigils (symbols prefixing variables) give an immediate indicator as to a general role that the variable implements -- so $ for single-values, @ for lists, % for dictionaries (hashes), & for callables. That adds a lot of "noise" that makes Raku look different, but under that it is like a lot of modern dynamic OO languages ... lots of objects and method invocations with a few JSON like built in types.

awwaiidon A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

There are a TON of experiments and language mash-ups in Raku. Let's see here.... Types can include guard clauses that are evaluated at runtime. Typed multi-dispatch on top of that. In addition to normal "sets" it has "junctions", like some sort of funky quantum superposition or something. In theory those can be made parallel at some point. Stuff like that.

One that is particularly funky is the "whatever-star". This is a "" char that can be used in a few places to mean more or less... whatever. For example:

    <4 5 6 7>.map(-> $x { $x + 7 }) # result: (11 12 13 14)

That stabby inline lambda there can be sugared down in a lot of ways, including with the whatever-star:
<4 5 6 7>.map(* + 7) # result: (11 12 13 14)
... I've not seen anything quite like that in other languages, not sure if it is a new invention or if only nobody else is crazy enough to try it. And yes, you can use multiplication next to it to make it look crazier:
<4 5 6 7>.map(* * 7) # result: (28 35 42 49)
(also yes, ( * *) will take two inputs and multiply them.)

I will note though that dwelling on these crazy/fun edge cases is amusing, but programs can look quite a bit more like a basic ruby app (with sigils) if you so desire.

awwaiidon TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

KHTML came from kde before apple times