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the official specification for Nock, the assembly language used by the Urbit virtual machine, fits on a t-shirt: The Nock specification is only 200 words long It can be compressed to 371 bytes Nock is a low-level, homoiconic combinator language that's similar to JVM code. It's designed to be simple, and is interpreted by Vere. Hoon is the practical layer of Urbit, and it compiles itself to Nock, the simple layer.

gnarbarianon The genesis of today's recruiting crisis

maybe you can get in as a contractor?

gnarbarianon Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)

Any word why they scrapped the booster catch?

gnarbarianon WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator

it's still not well supported on Linux unfortunately either

gnarbarianon Sqlite3 WebAssembly

https://wasi.dev/

wow I didn't know this was a thing. thanks for filling me in!

gnarbarianon Sqlite3 WebAssembly

How long until we see WebAssembly/WebGPU become a platform independent choice for deploying server side code as well?

gnarbarianon Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub

this is why centralized "free" services like discord and github are a big risk to projects that exist in a legal gray area.

hard to beat a physical server you own in a data center you have a contract with.

gnarbarianon SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS

I declined a job offer from Boeing recently because they can't execute anymore. Complete clown show run by accountants.

gnarbarianon Our Android app is frozen in carbonite

Progressive Web App.

you don't need app stores

gnarbarianon Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make

this is what I do. are you really any more discoverable there?

I don't think so.

gnarbarianon Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make

If targeting Android people should first consider if their app can work as a PWA.

Try and do it. if you run into a deal breaking issue with PWA features, then wrap it in a minimalist app shell.

Best case: everything works on Android and iOS and it's also a website.

Worst case: you will end up doing some platform specific code and dealing with the app stores like you were going to do anyway.

Average Case: everything will work on android and some things will be broken on iOS.

gnarbarianon Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff: 'likely unlawful'

it's 28 days at the FAA.

gnarbarianon Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in July 2024?

Alaska and it's no longer existent.

gnarbarianon Why I left Google

I've been there and it is a terrible place to be. unable to be productive where you are and simultaneously too exhausted mentally to extract yourself from it.

gnarbarianon Why I left Google

I think experiences like this provide a framework for us to confront and then move on from problems we are avoiding. the same goes for tarot or self help books or religions or even any abstract processes.

we inscribe ourselves into the narrative and populate it (subconsciously?) with our biggest issues. The narrative plays out and provides us with solutions to our conundrum. I believe this is how religions, cults, management paradigms (and even computer science design patterns) and are born.

All of it is just a trick we play on ourselves to get out of analysis paralysis.

gnarbarianon A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4

your expectations are unreasonable.

I think that if you are expecting Linux to work perfectly when there is no keyboard on a notoriously Linux hostile proprietary device maybe you should step up and write the driver for it yourself.

nobody is getting paid to specifically maintain the weird workarounds required to support the surface and your problem can be avoided by spending a nickel at the salvation army.

it might even work without one! I know the latest Ubuntu detects a touchscreen on my Thinkpad and provides an onscreen keyboard by default.

edit:

I sincerely believe that the best way forward is for people who use Linux to vote with their wallet and buy products from the companies who are not actively hostile to it.

I apply this logic to nearly ever device I buy and it results in less waste because I buy stuff I can actually fix! see this:

https://github.com/ubernaut/maintainable-device-scorecard