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tqh··on Rcarmo/haiku-ARM64-build: Build environment and automation
Oh nice!
tqh··on From /etc. to Database?
I don't have a reddit account, but that is pretty much what etcd was built to do. IIRC it was built for CoreOS to handle lots of linux machines. Later Kubernetes started using it for its metadata storage. It is as a distributed key-value store with clients which can map parts to filesystem, or do pub-sub.
tqh··on How I make a living working on SerenityOS
Mostly "Please understand that I’m publishing this for transparency, not to brag about making so much or complain about not making enough." and such.
tqh··on How I make a living working on SerenityOS
As written in the article talking salaries in Sweden is avoided, so there are probably many offers in that range. The recommendation is for Sweden in general though, not Stockholm. It is for any kind of engineer, where IT is above average.
tqh··on How I make a living working on SerenityOS
It is not. If you studied three years at University you should ask for at least 35 300 kr a month before taxes. If you worked for five years you should earn a lot more. See https://www.sverigesingenjorer.se/lon/lonestatistik/ingangsl...

So donate more...

tqh··on IconVG is a compact, binary format for simple vector graphics
IIRC HVIF is designed to render in one pass as well targeting to be both small and fast. It also use non-standard floating point, to be even more compact. And has more than two level of details. So guessing HVIF is a lot better except for tooling outside Haiku :)

Here is an article from 2006 about HVIF: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2006-11-06_icon_facts/

tqh··on Why hasn't Presto become industry standard?
This might be outdated info:

  * Two different Prestos, prestodb and prestosql for maximum confusion. (I think one renamed)
  * Making Controller highly available by default is hard
  * Autoscaling workers is not simple
  * Code very dependent on its own webframework that tries to do everything and lacks docs.
  * Resource planner for multiple queries is lacking
  * Worker configuration takes a lot of skill
All of these could be solved, but in most cases you can find other solutions where you get a simpler set of problems.
tqh··on Haiku activity report – November and December 2020
ARM port is dead, long live the ARM64 port :)
tqh··on Ask HN: Is Docker-Compose Dead?
I think so, since v2 and v3 are two different things they made a mess of things. It should have been two different specs. Continuing with docker-compose name is just bad, release any improvements in a clean spec.
tqh··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to Netscape 4.0/5.0 code?
I think it became the Mozilla web browser. Later Phoenix was created from Mozilla. Phoenix was renamed to Firebird. Firebird was renamed to Firefox.

All of them had NSPR which was the Netscape Portable Runtime.

tqh··on Amazon EC2 T4g Instances
"Users on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal) can take advantage of additional optimizations found on newer ARM-based processors. The large-system extensions (LSE) are enabled by using the included libc6-lse package, which can result in orders of magnitude performance improvements." From https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-aws-graviton2
tqh··on Giesbrecht: Sweden did it right, we did it wrong – Winnipeg Sun
As a Swede I think it is important to remember that Sweden is quite sparsely populated.
tqh··on When to use var in Java 10
Another benefit is it removes a lot of otherwise unneccessary imports.

I think var should be used anywhere where the righthand-side expression is clear. Compare var str = new String(); to var waat = HERE.be().dragons("purple");

And with Spring-like classes like 'StaticFactoryBananaMakerBuilder', declaring the class makes it less readable.

tqh··on Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
Haiku has it own set of API's, that is a bit different than other platforms (message passing, multi-threaded). The UI API's is defined in the Interface Kit. See https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/api/

Here is the code for the Magnify App in Haiku: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/src/apps/magnify/...

tqh··on Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
The style is not just for visual purposes: Stacking and tiling is a hidden gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-6YmGd30A
tqh··on Did doom visit the Swedes yesterday as planned?
Since everyone is so interested in Sweden, SVT has some nice graphs: https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/the-spread-of-the-corona...
tqh··on Ask HN: Is there a NoSQL database with SQL-like queries?
Foundation DB might fit the bill: https://www.foundationdb.org/
tqh··on Skia Cross-Platform Graphics Library (iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, and Linux)
Such a shame they removed all the docs about porting to new platforms long ago.
tqh··on IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm Running on Haiku
We only have plans for a desktop OS.
tqh··on What makes BeOS and Haiku unique
Half of them are BeOS screenshots, which doesn't seem to have subpixel or anti-alias..
tqh··on Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio
Would be nice to see some MS projects become open source if they are serious. Edge?
tqh··on How to Design Software Good
Writing good software is hard I guess :)
tqh··on Introducing DNS Resolver, 1.1.1.1 (not a joke)
No mention of IP v6 at all in the post but luckily they did better on their docs at https://1.1.1.1/ It is 2018, IP v4 isn't really something you should use other than as a fallback.

"For IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111,2606:4700:4700::1001"

tqh··on Dell launches 2018 XPS 13 laptop (this time it's even thinner)
I was hoping for a Ryzen version.
tqh··on Ask HN: What would be your ideal phone (smartphone)
A Nexus One with modern specs.
tqh··on Resources on how to write a UEFI application from scratch?
I wrote this: https://github.com/tqh/efi-example It's using the linker script and headers from GNU-EFI. Also check Zircon bootloader https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/zircon/tree/master/bootloa... It is Googles UEFI loader that works on x86-64 and arm-64. It's quite new, and has it's own linker script.
tqh··on Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares
Firefox development process is so bad/slow. New features will take ages to appear. Mercury, Bugzilla are old relics and the review process is from the 90's and very strange. I think that is one of the reasons they copied functions to XPCOM instead of fixing them in NSPR. It was easier to add new stuff than get a review to fix existing code.
tqh··on Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service
Amazon TimeSync is probably a lot more than NTP as well. It must be part of XEN/hw as it is not yet available on the Nitro based instances. That it provide's an NTP endpoint is just the top of the cake...
tqh··on Blade Runner 2049 underperformance at box office a 'mystery' to Denis Villeneuve
After Ghost in the Shell i don't watch remakes in cinema. I'll watch it when it comes to Netflix.
tqh··on Efficient strlen implementation in C (2007)
I can't see where that was written. Only that malicious users may read past the end.
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