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Re:Iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @05:20PM (#48376468)
Hi Rain, have you considered fuzzing? and if not, why?

(Thanks for cargo-nextest btw!)

Re:Greek Alphabet Cards on Saturday May 16, 2026 @10:26AM (#48160549)
> However, I haven’t found any such cards for Greek characters, so I think mine are the first in Greek.

Huh? A simple web search shows many, many, many results.

Re:A deep dive into QEMU: The Tiny Code Generator (TCG), part 1 on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:11AM (#46204059)
(2021).

Keep in mind that TCG API and internals have no stable guarantees, so if you cross-reference with current QEMU code you are bound to find differences.

Re:Writing a Hypervisor in 1k Lines on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:02AM (#45112152)
Seconding the other comments that recommend architecture manuals and guides.

For Aarch64, Arm's official guide is pretty good https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102142/latest/

Very little free time unfortunately... Haven't spent many hours on this project.
Writing a JIT and a disassembler are completely separate topics than emulating a system, don't you agree? :D (The article only talks about structuring a system emulator.)

The disassembler is my next step, since it's the easiest to tackle. Swapping binja for a custom solution on the existing code would be relatively straightforward.

The JIT is a completely different beast, it's essentially the IR -> codegen steps of a compiler (meaning without parsing, syntax/lexical analysis, object generation). Seeing as I wanted to target both x86_64 and aarch64 hosts, using an existing solution would get me started faster before I eventually write my own.

My plan is to split the JIT backends and keep cranelift for x86_64 support, but have my own aarch64 JIT also.

You have to pick your battles and assign priorities, you cannot re-invent everything at once.

(Author here)

Yes! I also started with using vm_memory traits in the beginning but delayed it till I refactor my memory subsystem. When we get that in upstream QEMU it might be possible to share this implementation as well as future devices.
Re:QEMU 10.1.0 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @08:54AM (#45038989)
Yes, it's possible and supported. QEMU can emulate an aarch64 system, and Google provides aarch64 Android builds for virtual machines specifically, called "Cuttlefish". Search for keywords "Android Cuttlefish QEMU" for instructions.
Re:The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:03AM (#45011807)
The only book I have that came with a barf bag. More books should do this.
Re:Greek Particles (1990) on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @10:53AM (#43833528)
I agree it depends on the writer and their cultural and educational background. Another example is Thucydides (which as also a native Greek speaker, find funny that anglophones pronounce as Thoo-see-dee-dees, but I digress). Thucydides was considered even in eras closer to him than to as as too abstract/verbose.

Meanwhile Plutarch enriches the laconic myth corpus by reporting that the Lacedaemonians were content with replying to a letter with only the words "About what you wrote: no." Writing style is part of the message.

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...

Growing up bilingual, I personally always found Greek more verbose than English even in brevity. It's good for avoiding ambiguity and getting your intent across but sometimes bad for colloquial communication.

Re: on Monday December 16, 2024 @03:14AM (#42429003)
First published in the Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 56, 2021, pp.160-73.

This study focuses on artist-designed frames at the end of the 19th century, many of which are preserved in the Havemeyer collection at the Metropolitan Museum, with a particular emphasis on a material known at the time as pâte coulante, unique in its ability to render extraordinary profiles, some of which could not have been realized by any other method available at the time. Although frames in pâte coulante can be seen surrounding the works of many late 19th century and early 20th century paintings, this study refers to the few superb examples available for study in the Metropolitan Museum and in private collections, which in many cases surround works by Edgar Degas. For artists like Degas, this method became crucial for executing radical frame designs. To reinforce the argument that the process of template-cut pâte coulante granted artists and framemakers the freedom to turn any design into a reliable and serviceable moulding, replicas of period mouldings were recreated using the available historic information, and the results gleaned from this technical study are included here.

You are mixing up two concepts here, that of the domesticated species and the domesticated individual animal. The article talks about the former. The latter means taming an individual of a species. Dogs are by definition domesticated wolves and depend on humans for survival in general.
Erlang was implemented in Prolog and ran on top of it (as a prolog DSL? Not sure to be honest.), until the workloads increased and they switched to a VM model (the BEAM).
To add to other comments, a positive thing with Latin and Greek jargon is that it's not intentionally obtuse, but a combination of stem words aiming to make up literal terms. Anesthesia for example means literally "not feeling". If there wasn't an influence of the classics to the natural sciences it could be notfeeling or notfeel in English.
Re:Hidden dependencies in Linux binaries on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @09:31AM (#40051630)
It's basically allowing you to use the vulkan API on the virtualized guest, by writing vulkan API commands in a ring buffer in memory that is visible both by guest and host. These memory regions are only alive and accessible as long as the allocation lives, which is controlled by virtio control commands (in specific, create, map, unmap, destroy BLOB where a blob is the shared memory allocation).

This allows textures shaders and generally large amounts of data to skip being copied to and from the virtqueues, which is the usual method of virtio communication.

So to answer your question, if you use the Vulkan API on a guest to for example query the available Vulkan devices, if the correct mesa library is installed and virtio-gpu Venus is available, you will be able to use resources on the host with the Vulkan API.

I'm sorry for your loss. I'm not a medical practitioner but it sounds like the experience triggered a psychotic "break" in your friend? It's a sad but real possibility with psychedelics that more people should be aware of.
Where do you think you are, right now? This is a *link* aggregator.
Re:Hidden dependencies in Linux binaries on Sunday April 14, 2024 @02:36PM (#40033271)
virtio-gpu with vulkan command passthrough to host, https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/venus.html
Re:Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @06:35AM (#39978006)
Temporarily embarrassed feudal lords.
Re:The Lord of the Rings Family Tree on Thursday March 28, 2024 @03:49AM (#39848675)
Tolkien (or his son Christopher) had said that names are meant to be unique in this world. See the matter of Glorfindel.
Re:The Lord of the Rings Family Tree on Thursday March 28, 2024 @03:47AM (#39848667)
An inconsistency Tolkien "solved" is most notably Glorfindel. The name was used twice in early drafts so he decided to merge those two persons even though they appears eras apart, and the first one had died. He did it by introducing the concept of reincarnation for the elves.
Re:Ask HN: How to run an old-school mailing list? on Friday March 22, 2024 @06:20PM (#39795458)
I've been writing a new mailing lists manager on and off over the years. Deliverability and failure tolerance and recovery scare me a lot regarding mailing lists.

My project is by no means ready for production but people interested to contribute are always welcome:

https://github.com/meli/mailpot

Dogfooded mailing lists and archives:

https://lists.meli-email.org/

Re:What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:54AM (#39522180)
The intricate matter of the name of the Greeks :)

To be pedantic, the soldiers might have probably said Hellenes, not Greek (γραικοί). But Roman was also a common ethnonym back then, used by the Ottoman society. In Greek (Helleneke) it was spelled Ρωμιός https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B9%CF%8... . The point of confusion was probably that, I suppose?

I grew up in Greece, no one uses any name other than Hellene anymore. To the point that "Greek" sounds more English than Greek to a native Greek speaker.

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