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zpplnon Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

I can't think of a single thing where I prefer a web app over a native alternative, unless it's for one-off use.

zpplnon US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified

This happens all the time in my country. The navy has all kinds of gear deployed in the sea that could be interfered with.

Edit: Looks like they were a bit late to veto it here though.

zpplnon Cloudflare was down

Especially around christmas. I was about to buy a pair of Birkenstocks. Nope, site is down. Went on to buy a microphone holder, nope, that site is down as well. :) Sure, I'll still get around to it eventually.

zpplnon IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

I'm a little bit curious about this. Where do all the hardware from the big tech giants usually go once they've upgraded?

zpplnon A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland

I my case, it is precisly said animated film. I don't remember why, but I found it incredibly off-putting for some reason. I think back on it every time someone brings up The Little Prince.

zpplnon Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

I was thinking about this just the other day. You're on your way to implementing your own real-life stealth meter! Very cool!

zpplnon Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world

Tempeh is an Indonesian staple and from what I understand pretty popular with vegans.

zpplnon Show HN: AI‑curated actual profanity list

> sv.txt

I wouldn't consider many of those terms as profanity, and especially not "very bad".

zpplnon Building a Simple Search Engine That Works

I feel at this point you'd almost be better off hand-curating a set of domains and only crawl those.

zpplnon Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back

Where I work we do (for high assurance software) systems specifications, systems design, software specifications and software design and ultimately source code.

That said, there is a bit of redundancy between software design and source code. We tend to rather get rid of the development of the latter than the former though, i.e. by having the source code be generated by some modelling tool.

zpplnon Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test

Aerospace have been dealing with /safety/ for a long time, /security/ is another matter...

zpplnon AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS

If you're that much of a slave to your tool chain you don't get to call yourself an engineer.

zpplnon Radios, how do they work? (2024)

zpplnon Should I choose Ada, SPARK, or Rust over C/C++? (2024)

It matters less than you think. The entire point of e.g. DO-178C is to achieve high assurance that the code performs it's intended function. Basically, you need to be able to trace your object code to system level requirements. You need to achieve 100% MC/DC coverage from requirements based testing. If there's something you don't cover you either remove the code, or add derived requirements (which need to be assessed by the systems safety process). Language choice doesn't remove any of the objectives you need to achieve.

Also, keep in mind that the desire to have a deterministic system puts a lot of constraint on what kind of behavior you can program anyway.

zpplnon EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners

BF4 was broken on launch, with servers crashing from people simply playing the objective. These studios have been serving people garbage for close to two decades by now. They deserve their fate.

zpplnon Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK

Elaborate?

zpplnon UNESCO to launch the first virtual museum of stolen cultural objects

The Rosetta Stone?

zpplnon Construction of new metro stations in Stockholm [video]

This is about the construction of new stations and a new line for the Stockholm metro. Video is in Swedish, but with English subtitles available.

zpplnon Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"

I share this sentiment as well, but while living in a relatively small city with only around 150k people in northern Europe. I moved out to the "suburbs" after having my first kid and find enormous quality of life in being able to have a car and a house. The city center is getting increasingly more "hostile" to car traffic but there's nothing to be had there anyway. A side from restaurants and coffee shops you can get anything you need from the shopping areas on the city outskirts. In a sense I feel this is the best of both worlds: cities for city people, suburbs for suburbians.

zpplnon YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

It's especially annoying when you're searching for things that are done very differently in different parts of the world. No, I don't want to learn how to build walls or wire up electricity from e.g. Americans.

zpplnon Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?

> clear path to AGI

What are the steps?

zpplnon We put a coding agent in a while loop

No, the org will still have to wait for the requirements, which is what they were waiting for all along.

zpplnon My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)

Care to show what you've built?

zpplnon Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

The same Valve that one day decided to put ads in spawn on de_dust2? :) They pretty much refused to fix anything related to Counter-Strike until they realized they could use it to sell the equivalent of hats.

I'd argue that the only reason Steam survived when it came out was because Valve forced people to use to play Counter-Strike. They've done better in the past 15 years though, I'll give them that!

zpplnon Vibe coding tips and tricks

Looks promising! Thanks for sharing!

zpplnon Vibe coding tips and tricks

On a slightly related note... I'm kind of out of the loop wrt coding with AI. I was trying to find some youtuber working on some interesting project using AI to get a feel for how useful it could be but didn't have much luck (I didn't get past the "top 10 AI tools to use for coding" style videos). I was thinking something in the style of tsoding if you're familiar with his projects.

zpplnon Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets

I was thinking more in terms of it being a newer design.

From what I've gathered there's some work being done on new engine designs within the FCAS program, but I have no idea how it's going.

zpplnon Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets

More specifically, we could use our own engine. Gripen E still rely on the GE F414. Europe has nothing to rival the P&W F135.

zpplnon We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries

Ehm, fairly sure you can use Jira in an air-gapped environment.

zpplnon Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered

I can recommend this episode as well. If I don't mix things up they gave some very good examples of how everyday life wasn't that much different from what it is now. Amazing how stuff like that can be communicated through identations on pieces of clay.