Hacker News: fractalb

New comment by fractalb in "Unix and Multics (2019)"

fractalb — Sat, 11 May 2024 11:18:25 +0000

People then concentrate more on avoiding errors than getting things done.

New comment by fractalb in "A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World"

fractalb — Wed, 01 May 2024 08:05:49 +0000

> US can just print. How does that work? All the world’s economy is just equal to the US paper? Really?

New comment by fractalb in "Overview: What are Cpp2 and cppfront? How do I get and build cppfront?"

fractalb — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:31:02 +0000

I suspect you don't touch Go code.

New comment by fractalb in "20 Years of Gmail"

fractalb — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:14:54 +0000

> I've yet to see numbers on the probability of losing access to my email on Gmail vs another provider.

This is a great point. People often act as the other providers are 100 percent reliable without any numbers to back it up. Grass is always greener on the other side. To be fair, Google’s customer service is non-existent though.

New comment by fractalb in "The race to replace Redis"

fractalb — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:35:47 +0000

I misunderstood your comment. Yes, CLA's make it possible to change the license. I guess CLA's won't work for GPL'd software.

New comment by fractalb in "The race to replace Redis"

fractalb — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:29:42 +0000

GPL mandates that all derived software must carry the same license. No need for CLA, as I understand it.

New comment by fractalb in "The race to replace Redis"

fractalb — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:58:50 +0000

AWS, GCP have assurance that they won't need to pay for their Linux infrastructure. What is it if it wasn't for copyleft licenses(GPL)?

New comment by fractalb in "The race to replace Redis"

fractalb — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:10:05 +0000

I feel copyleft licenses look more favourable at this point of time. What’s the value of more free/business friendly licenses if you can’t guarantee that the same license will apply for all the future releases? Looks more like a bait and switch policy.

New comment by fractalb in "macOS Sonoma 14.4 might break Java on your machine"

fractalb — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:14:31 +0000

Apple should not be at fault! As simple as that.

New comment by fractalb in "Linkers and Loaders (1999) [pdf]"

fractalb — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 05:32:26 +0000

Wow. That looks neat. Thanks for the link :)

New comment by fractalb in "Linkers and Loaders (1999) [pdf]"

fractalb — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:52:13 +0000

I want to learn more about linkers and loaders. Can someone tell me if this is still relevant today? Any other books that are more recent?

New comment by fractalb in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

fractalb — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:04:59 +0000

> ChatGPT makes mistakes and is usually dumbish, but is also flexible and cheap.

People wouldn't mind it if the keyword `dumbish` has been all along there.

New comment by fractalb in "Rye Grows with UV"

fractalb — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:51:05 +0000

Physical materials(Filters here) can change the wavelength but not the frequency. So it's still the same UV/light band. You can't change that.

New comment by fractalb in "Porting to GCC 14: C language issues"

fractalb — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:54:30 +0000

Thanks for the link. As I understood it, it's just the support for the syntax that is mandatory.

> Variable length arrays with automatic storage duration are a conditional feature that implementations need not support

New comment by fractalb in "Porting to GCC 14: C language issues"

fractalb — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:48:30 +0000

VLA support is mandatory in C23? I'd like to know the rationale behind this decision. Can you provide any references? Thanks.

New comment by fractalb in "Showmax has displaced Netflix in Africa"

fractalb — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:05:47 +0000

> I see same thing in India where *analysts and experts on twitter opine how Netflix has totally failed in India due to lack of local content and poor execution.

That’s really true whether you believe it or not. However, it appears that Netflix seems to have understood this point. They are adding crazy amount of local content recently. Almost every notable local movie that has been released in the last year is available on Netflix now. Suddenly Amazon Prime has disappeared from the scene. That’s not the case some two years ago.

> for 90% of population Netflix is too expensive

There’s still nearly 140 million potential customers according to your calculation. You seem to underestimate the vastness of India. And more notably the people in India are crazy movie goers, from poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich.

New comment by fractalb in "Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions"

fractalb — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 11:12:42 +0000

Why in this particular time frame? Just before the performance reviews?

New comment by fractalb in "Python 3.13 Gets a JIT"

fractalb — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:39:17 +0000

I still scratch my head why it’s not installed by default on Windows.

New comment by fractalb in "Go: What we got right, what we got wrong"

fractalb — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:33:34 +0000

IIRC, Google tried to use Go for their Fuchsia TCP stack and then backtracked. Not a systems programming language for sure.

New comment by fractalb in "Modern C for Fedora (and the World)"

fractalb — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 13:17:08 +0000

Thanks. This helps even more. I need not go through all the packages. I'll get a fedora account now :)