Notices by James Widman (jameswidman@mastodon.social)

@whitequark you mean explanations for questions like, "why is that presenter standing within a few feet of a pair of animals in a state of blood lust when he found out that each of them weighs as much as a ford mustang?"

@resistor @whitequark someone posted about this recently, and it looks like CSS might be significantly less painful these days...?

https://infosec.exchange/@rebane2001/114301515053488121

https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/

@whitequark i've felt the same way.

On one hand it definitely sounds odd to talk about scientific inquiry about the behavior of a modern human-made artifact.

But on the other hand, we have to do profiling runs and other experiments because the mere fact that humans built these machines has not endowed anyone with the ability to consistently & accurately predict the performance characteristics of hardware & software (not before we do a profiling run on a particular input, anyway).

@whitequark i have never been more annoyed-and-simultaneously-amused by an etymology:

@0xabad1dea my brain cannot help but interpret this as a normal-sized dog next to a laptop made for gnomes (or possibly smurfs)

@whitequark my reaction:

"um...

why...

oh. Oh god."

@whitequark that is unironically what the kirkites want

@neauoire @tk the big flakes can appear more when you're closer to a wildfire; possibly the Bear Gulch fire, which seems to have spread very rapidly in the past 24 hours?

https://fire.airnow.gov/#10.09/47.5465/-123.3392

Based on the air-quality layer in the weather app, it looks like the smoke from that fire covered (& is covering) a lot of the water around Victoria

@whitequark it has been a DAY, i tell you

@ned don't forget illumos!

@lanodan @navi @a1ba i don't know if this can work, but i wish we had a system programming language where you get parallelism by expressing things in a way that's similar to how targets & dependencies are expressed in a Makefile (or in a ninja.build file): you express the set of outputs required at some point, and elsewhere, you express the computation that produces those outputs, (and likewise for the dependencies of *those* computations, and so on)...

@lanodan @navi @a1ba the compiler for this language would take this high-level description and build a dependency graph, and then translate that dependency graph into uses of thread APIs for dispatching & synchronization

@mcc
> "Version 2", as I understood it, would be [...] exposing the Linux layer only via VM.

hm...

i appreciate & respect the motive here (iiuc to prioritize the manifestation of a replacement for windows, which may require some loss of compatibility with userland linux-type stuff)...

but if there is any possible way to keep native linux userland functionality, that would be very very very very very very [inhale] *very* nice...

@mcc
like, if i had a system that is like hikari's, *and* also executes linux binaries natively, then i would want to use that as a machine for software development, which would mean the union of e.g.:

- nice debuggers with GUIs for windows

- uftrace (linux only: https://github.com/namhyung/uftrace)

- DTrace for linux

- tons of experimental LLVM stuff that is linux-only (or initially-linux-only), e.g. https://discourse.llvm.org/t/tpde-llvm-10-20x-faster-llvm-o0-back-end/86664

@whitequark @mcc @xgranade @datarama sega genesis, now with CHERI instructions

@whitequark @malwareminigun cmake in particular exists because there are currently zero (0) standards for build systems.

related:
https://mastodon.social/@JamesWidman/114921402893969872

@whitequark @Soblow it seems like bazel is so awkward outside of google that, if a project is built with bazel, then it probably also ought to ship with at least one justfile:

https://github.com/casey/just

...with just-recipes defined for common tasks.

maybe worth a bug report?

@Soblow @whitequark google probably doesn't have an incentive to make it work nicely for people who don't work at google (which, if you're at google, then you have access to a lot of internal tooling & documentation, and i would bet that some of those tools/docs makes it easier to use/learn bazel)

@whitequark i wasn't aware!

do we... should we set up lamps, or...?

@dalias @futurebird "actively collaborating with the regime" seems to increase the chances that you'll eventually end up on trump's shitlist, but somewhat less so if you also add "continuously subservient"