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New comment by timow1337 in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

timow1337 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:50:29 +0000

Compared to C, rust compiles much slower. This might not matter on performant systems, but when resources are constrained you definitely notice it. And if the whole world is rewritten in Rust, this will have a non-significant impact on the total build time of a bunch of projects.

Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat

timow1337 — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 20:35:35 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.pimaker.at/texts/rvc1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28320336

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New comment by timow1337 in "ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks"

timow1337 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:09:28 +0000

unfortunately, the sdk doesn't work with hi applications yet. the way the screen works has changed significantly. There are community projects that make it work though: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer

New comment by timow1337 in "European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill"

timow1337 — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:30:21 +0000

Does anyone have a list of which MEPs voted for and against? I can't find it yet.

New comment by timow1337 in "Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf]"

timow1337 — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 08:03:51 +0000

The paper just describes a new method for selecting the main chain. Bitcoin uses the longest chain (with the most work) whereas this paper wants to use the block that is the child of the heaviest sub tree.

The ledger would still be a chain of blocks.

For real tree like blockchains there are a few examples such as IOTA, raiblocks and byteball.

New comment by timow1337 in "Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft"

timow1337 — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:31:12 +0000

Does anyone know a similar project but for the client side? I've always thought using c++ instead of java would improve performance a lot.

New comment by timow1337 in "Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units"

timow1337 — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 16:19:27 +0000

Too bad it doesn't support complex numbers

New comment by timow1337 in "The Slow Criminalization of Peer-To-Peer Transfers"

timow1337 — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 07:44:29 +0000

Satoshi Nakamoto also intended for the block sizes to go up after an amount of time, yet the bitcoin core team isn't willing to upgrade and tries to promote their own agenda (blockstream).

New comment by timow1337 in "Green Threads Explained"

timow1337 — Mon, 29 May 2017 20:18:55 +0000

If loops are implemented as tail calls, doesn't the call opcode get optimized away thus preventing the reduction checker from being run?

New comment by timow1337 in "Facebook fined €110M for providing misleading information on WhatsApp takeover"

timow1337 — Thu, 18 May 2017 10:11:50 +0000

I'm in favor of the ruling but I don't understand why the European commission has any authority over two american companies merging?

New comment by timow1337 in "Modern C [pdf]"

timow1337 — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:50:16 +0000

now do the second example with an unsigned type.

New comment by timow1337 in "Raspberry Pi Bare Metal Programming with Rust"

timow1337 — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:46:07 +0000

The new raspberry pi zero can be run as a device, so you could use that.