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Which you appear to be the developer of from other comments in this thread. Not saying it's bad, but it's self-promotion rather than organic preference.
Re:Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time on Thursday September 04, 2025 @03:43AM (#45124681)
I felt you could really tell his enthusiasm was for the arts.

Which is fine, of course, everyone has preferences; but the contrast with the much more rote science episodes did make me a little sad.

Re:How I Use Kagi on Thursday July 17, 2025 @03:03PM (#44596896)
Disappointing response. Guess I'll continue to avoid Kagi.
Re:Tailscale Is Pretty Useful on Saturday March 08, 2025 @03:37PM (#43303308)
> - OpenZiti does not require inbound ports or hole punching, it builds outbound only connections via an overlay which looks sort of similar to DERP (but better with app specific encryption, routing, flow control, smart routing etc). This overlay also removes need for complex FW rules, ACLs, public DNS, L4 loadbalancers, etc.

The routers that you deploy to make up the overlay still need inbound ports though, right? I thought that's what 10080 was doing.

Re:Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge on Sunday January 19, 2025 @02:30AM (#42754725)
Their communication really is all over the place. Even the name is really awkward in English.

(And yes, not everything should be forced to be English and it's apparently supposed to be Esperanto; but nothing else on the site is so that's not how most people will parse it).

Re:Executing ARM Jazelle (JVM Bytecode) on the Wii's Starlet on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @01:43AM (#42253563)
I was working there at the time and even internally Jazelle documentation was hidden. Very odd for what it is.
Re:Kagi: Announcing The Assistant on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:00PM (#41450745)
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Re:Clang vs. Clang on Saturday August 03, 2024 @12:20PM (#41147491)
I'm vaguely sympathetic to these crypto people's end goals (talking about things like constant time evaluation & secret hiding), but it's really not what general purpose compilers are even thinking about most of the time so I doubt it'll ever be more than a hack that mostly works.

They'll probably need some kind of specialized compiler of their own if they want to be serious about it. Or carry on with asm.

Traefik's YAML does a particularly bad job at keeping syntax (such as it is) separate from user-defined labels, I feel.

Very difficult to just look at a file and see which bits are labels for the sake of it, and which bits are direct instructions to builtin features.

Re:All 7 planets could fit between Earth and the Moon on Saturday January 27, 2024 @04:17AM (#39153979)
I’ve put a warning sign over the big red button so we should be fine.
Doesn’t matter how amenable it is, if it’s a room temperature superconductor wires will be made out of it. We’d make wires out of jelly for that.
Re:Retro Computer Museum – Leicester, UK on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:28PM (#35980048)
I'm imagining you tacking it on foot now.
Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 on Friday April 22, 2022 @06:17AM (#31119949)
The hoops they had to go through to get PIC address calculations to work make it quite weird. Because `auipc` adds an offset from its `pc`, the corresponding `add` or `lw` relocation needs refer back to that instruction rather than the symbol it's actually looking for.

The poor ELF specification ends up quite tortured by this, IMO.

It has been all along.
Re:Wikipedia is up (2001) on Sunday May 09, 2021 @02:14PM (#27098248)
It’s a pretty notorious hideout for cranks, both benign and weird nationalist ones.
Re:Aristotle's first mover theorem is is a number theory on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @12:55AM (#9966273)
Grade A bullshit. You should get in contact with any farmers you know, they'd pay good money for this quality merchandise.