Hacker News: implr

New comment by implr in "Why Oxide Chose Illumos"

implr — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:59:04 +0000

They already have another RFD for this: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0508

and on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41268043

New comment by implr in "Yes, there are more driverless Waymos in S.F"

implr — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:29:42 +0000

They just poured $5B into it, that's a decent runway.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/alphabet-to-invest-another...

New comment by implr in "The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar"

implr — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:29:12 +0000

Until recently the Swiss National Bank was mostly concerned with pushing the franc down, they had the lowest rates in Europe (and after the recent raise they're still negative at -0.25%), after many years of this they've accumulated over a trillion USD in foreign reserves. Trading in the other direction and keeping CHF up should be fairly easy for them.

New comment by implr in "Bottles – Run Windows software and games on Linux"

implr — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 10:49:05 +0000

Not only there isn't any sandboxing, the lack of it is how WINE works - wine's low-level dlls (kernel32.dll for example) just call out to linux libs, or syscall directly.

New comment by implr in "Telephone Central Office Building Pictures"

implr — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 11:30:13 +0000

More likely to be sold or leased out, and the server is somewhere far away. Basically all telephony nowadays is VOIP, even if you have an old fashioned landline it'll be analog only at the last mile.

New comment by implr in "AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana"

implr — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:26:32 +0000

Elastic isn't an open source project after the license change.

New comment by implr in "Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077"

implr — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 07:39:15 +0000

On AMD the GPU driver stack is unlikely to be materially different from Stadia, I doubt Google is using anything else than (possibly customized/patched) amdgpu+mesa.

New comment by implr in "Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email"

implr — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:48:13 +0000

KMail uses QtWebEngine, which is effectively Chromium.

New comment by implr in "Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Support"

implr — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:47:46 +0000

That is much more difficult, might require various unsupported hacks and for a truly robust solution you'd need two GPUs. For games having a Vulkan or DX12 (via DXVK) renderer, wine can be as fast as native Windows with almost none of the hassle. DOOM(2016) is a very good example.

New comment by implr in "4Chan Is Turning 15–And Remains the Internet's Teenager"

implr — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:13:05 +0000

/pol/ has grown a lot louder and prominent in the past few years though, to the point where even many seasoned 4chan posters are annoyed by them. "go back to /pol/" is a complaint you can now see on almost every board.

New comment by implr in "Upcoming HDMI 2.1 Features"

implr — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 01:24:30 +0000

Those are usually quite expensive. If HDMI requires 48Gb/s capable transceiver chips to be built into every TV, they will get really cheap very fast. It might not be a viable solution in the end, but it could work for some applications.

New comment by implr in "Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit"

implr — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 16:26:16 +0000

If you're in Europe, RIPE still hands out ipv4 /22's to new members. Their fee is 1400EUR/year though, so not that cheap.

New comment by implr in "Iterators and Streams in Rust and Haskell"

implr — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 02:23:17 +0000

If you pass -march=skylake it will get even more monstrous, with AVX: https://godbolt.org/g/v7iKF3

New comment by implr in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

implr — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:50:07 +0000

This seems relevant https://i.imgur.com/l4kjNba.png

New comment by implr in "Systemd v228 local root exploit"

implr — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:59:00 +0000

polkit doesn't typically run on server installations, so this isn't that bad.

New comment by implr in "Systemd v228 local root exploit"

implr — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:13:08 +0000

>We would like to see that systemd upstream retrieves CVE's themself for their own bugs, even if its believed that its just a local DoS.

So not only they didn't notice this was exploitable, they also seem to think that a local DoS is not enough for a CVE or a public report. Excellent.

New comment by implr in "Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository"

implr — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:05:22 +0000

The Chromium codesearch instance is public: https://cs.chromium.org/

New comment by implr in "Some thoughts on hidden services"

implr — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 13:49:31 +0000

To block a certain hidden service on a relay you need to know what is the hidden service you are relaying data to (obviously), which completely defeats all anonymity - a 'first hop' relay would basically be able to make a list of all hidden services visited by clients connected to it.

New comment by implr in "Volumetric Particle Flow"

implr — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:46:45 +0000

They did two much more impressive demos[1][2] with this technology, including drawing complex geometry using only point sprites, on DX9(no compute shaders). It's remarkable that those five year old demos could easily do flows, shading and blending on milions of particles in real time, while this JS version starts dropping frames at 262K.

[1] Agenda Circling Forth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5w7Gh7WBjw

[2] Ceasefire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grqb1aIa_4s

New comment by implr in "Volumetric Particle Flow"

implr — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:36:32 +0000

That is GLSL, the language pixel, vertex (and other) shaders are written in.