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remy_luisanton Mill CPU is Immune to Spectre, Meltdown [pdf]

Vaporware does tend to be pretty bug-free.

remy_luisanton Compiler bug in MSVC?

Try compiling without treating warnings as errors, maybe?

remy_luisanton Welcome to NEOM: The world's most ambitious project

Given the hype those get, I thought it would be a new blockchain.

Thankfully not, but it does remind me of this, somehow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa

remy_luisanton Ask HN: How to get into a CS masters program without a strong academic record?

Probably a much better question is "why", for which the answer is: "You probably don't want to".

If you care about the learning: You can learn all that stuff for yourself.

If you care about getting a credential: You are in a field which doesn't care as much about those as other fields do.

If you want to teach and need the credential for teaching: Get therapy, teaching is a great way to live and an awful way to earn money.

remy_luisanton Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S

Stupid question from an idiot from communist Canada: Can't you just import the bloody pills from somewhere that isn't the USA?

remy_luisanton Ask HN: Entrepreneurship to escape depression?

I may not believe in depression, but I'm trying to do this in response to having a hard time in life (issues with well-paid employment and belonging) while severely autistic/Asperger's.

It isn't helping much for finding a place in the world, but the activity this is generating is making me much happier. I have realised how powerful I am. I am actually pretty awesome to be doing the things that I'm doing. That feels good!

Not much luck with earning money though. I'm fine with it, my part-time job provides for me well enough. If money is an issue, you may want to first try to get some financial stability before you take a leap into creating something of your own.

EDIT: Post an anonymized resume here. Can't hurt. Worst case scenario you'll get some feedback.

remy_luisanton An Open Letter to Intel

Another question is: Does the ME use SQLite? Some other database? If so, how many times is it bundled in there?

https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

I wonder how drh would feel about it.

remy_luisanton OCaml release 4.06.0

I have always wanted to try OCaml, but there sure are a lot of things marked as breaking changes. Makes me a touch nervous.

Is this normal for OCaml?

remy_luisanton Ask HN: Why not release software versions with yyyy.mm.dd.hh?

Stable branches come to mind. How would you version those?

remy_luisanton Get a new mac address on boot

Good grief. Couldn't you have made the fonts less legible? I'm having too easy of a time reading.

Might have tried white on white, with a gray drop shadow. Still technically readable without highlighting!

remy_luisanton Ask HN: Is there any psychological test for choosing programming domain?

Courage.

Try things. I have done web dev (front and backend), low-level OS stuff, game dev, math simulations, teaching, VLSI, etc...

In the end, looks like teaching and game development is what stuck. Took me years to discover this, but I'm happy with it.

If something does not appeal to you after trying it? Don't do it, go and do something else.

Be your own test.

remy_luisanton Don't Say Velcro

Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

I won't have it any other way.

The "not starving to death" thing is a bit of an issue on the way there... Well, I have savings, but...

And if I get a horrid job, then I won't have the energy. :P

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

https://luisant.ca/Remy_CV_public.pdf

Well, fuck my life. Here goes, posted on the site too.

This required way more courage than anything else I have done in the last few months, even after I censored it to death.

Thanks for the good words, guys. I know you are right. Even though I hate to agree with you, you are right. I hate to do this, but you are right.

So it is done.

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

I am. It won't work if the employer is not silly/carefree enough.

Good fucking luck, no? :P

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

Right. You guys are right. I'll do that next time around.

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

My pleasure, I'm glad you liked it! :)

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

I have an article about it: https://luisant.ca/brotli-css

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

Aww... Thanks!

My pleasure! All from scratch, designed for nothing but readability.

I am building textbooks on the same code, so the blog is a great stress and user test.

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

And I will mention it one more time: I totally agree with you. It needs to be said.

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

I'm working on one, though I'm not sure if it will ever see the light of the day. I have four months of free time and if someone would feed and house me for that time, I'd do it and open source it.

Any sponsors? No? Didn't think so. Not even you, big G? Aww...

For now some minifiers do sort the values, which helps.

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

Unless you are inlining your CSS.

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

Nice catch. Yeah, I do something like that too in my own code, though it does not cause issues when minified.

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

I had an article about that too. If you have to do just one, you should go with zopfli or brotli instead of minifying. Having both minification and some kind of compression on top does help the file sizes.

https://luisant.ca/brotli-css

Also, purifycss and uncss are your friends to cut stuff down, to reduce the final load for the user.

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

Yeah, crass is pretty amazing.

Have you seen my post on the Remynifier, where I do exactly that?

https://luisant.ca/remynifier

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

I thought about it, but I'm way too shy for that.

Not like it would lead to anywhere either, you know. :P

Two years of teaching university, MSc in computing, love of automation, combinatiorial optimization without any significant amount of deep math skill, circuit design, gate array stuff, low-level CPU optimization stuff, hardware counters, microcontrollers, SQLite, Julia language, C, shell, a bunch more programming languages, basic CSS and HTML, Mustache templates, Linux. No JavaScript. The whole of luisant.ca is done by hand and from scratch, so you can see what I can do with that. Also statistics.

I'm uncommonly silly and not at all serious, while still standing up for what I believe is right, even if everyone disagrees with me. I do integrity though and while I can stand my ground, I will yield to good evidence any day.

I wear goofy clothes to work, usually very colourful stuff. Don't expect conformity.

And I have no love greater than the one for the cause of nature conservation, and all research that goes with that.

That's about me in a nutshell.

Told you nothing will come of it. :P

remy_luisanton What CSS minifiers also leave behind

Author here.

Wow. #1 on HN. Wow.

I'd usually hang around a bit more, but I'm really tired. I posted this past my midnight. 00:51 now, and I'm fading fast.

Thanks for all the love, everyone. I'll come over tomorrow (12 hours from now, or so) to answer any questions or to pick up any corrections.

remy_luisanton Kernel – Fix cluster_write() inefficiency

Couldn't they dump out the list of all individual write commands sent to the disk and have seen that the writes are in a suboptimal pattern? This would have been one of the first things I would have done when testing a file system of any kind: Make sure the thing writes what I want to be written and in the way I want it to be written.

remy_luisanton Show HN: An HTML/CSS/JS toggle switch with happy and sad emojis

That's adorable.

I wonder how using such a toggle could change the user behavior. I had a bit of a hard time turning the face into a sad face. I really liked it much better at green. It would be easier to convince me to pay money with this toggle.

Then again, I'm a sucker for happy faces and cute things, so maybe I'm just weak to this kind of thing.