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Re:I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @08:07AM (#48120843)
I've been dabbling with OVH and it feels very pricey and fragile. Has a very lipstick on a pig approach to whatever they used to be doing before piling into cloud.
Re:TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool on Friday March 13, 2026 @08:50AM (#47363805)
Watched the video. Why isn't the editor a TUI itself?
Re:I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:36AM (#42919215)
I found this article very interesting with regards direct WASM interpretation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01183

I produced https://github.com/peterseymour/winter on the back of it and learnt WASM is not as simple as it should be.

I ran a test yesterday on ChatGPT and co-pilot asking first if it knew of a specific paper which it confirmed and then to derive simple results from which it was completely incapable of. I know this paper is not widely referenced (ie few known results in the public domain) but has been available for over 15 years with publicly accessible code written by humans. The training set was so sparse it had no ability to "understand" or even regurgitate past the summary text which it listed almost verbatim.
Re:SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer on Sunday December 15, 2024 @09:23PM (#42427466)
A more concise and less opaque alternative https://github.com/tibru/tibru
Re:Understanding every byte in a WASM module on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @09:12AM (#38771881)
I entered into WASM assuming it was simple and minimal but there are a lot of runtime edge cases that are quite surprising. I built an interpreter that passes all the non-SIMD test cases from the official spec. Would be interesting to clean-up the spec to be a real minimal execution only core. There is a real barrier to entry for producing new lightweight implementations.

https://github.com/peterseymour/winter

Re:Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:36AM (#34567518)
I'm looking for a physical calculator
Re:Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:13AM (#34567381)
What's a good simple calculator for programmers? Easy entry/conversion of hex and binary but simple arithmetic with possible shifts. I don't need to do trigonometry.
Love this game. On completing the level this error popped up:

class java.lang.IllegalStateException:Attempting to call unbound fn: #'clojure.core/unquote

I'm running on Chromium browser on XUbuntu.

Re:What's SAP? on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:36AM (#22247624)

Proto-SaaS business needs loving home

For personal reasons I need to stop working on my business https://fit2.report but my customers have no viable alternative services. The business is small but with a few loyal customers and has the potential to be very successful if executed correctly. Customers today use the product mostly for teacher payroll but the platform is not limited to that use case, it just needs the work doing. All...

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Re:Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:11PM (#15314404)
Take a look at https://github.com/tibru/tibru for an explanation of why the underlying technology is poorly chosen and how systems of this type don't need to be esoteric
Re:Urbit in 2017 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @05:41AM (#13597290)
Be that team and take https://github.com/tibru/tibru forward
Re:Urbit in 2017 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @05:04AM (#13597134)
Check out https://github.com/tibru/tibru No primitive arithmetic operations at all, no need for jets but the same time complexity as arithmetic in C just with a higher constant factor.
Re:Urbit in 2017 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @05:00AM (#13597122)
For those using Nock and seeking an alternative take on Urbit check out this open source project https://github.com/tibru/tibru A few willing devs could take this forward with open libertarian ideals. There is nothing special about Nock and Urbit technically or mathematically.
For those blocked by ad blockers: take the title of the article, paste it into to google and then view the cached page.
I get 'Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL' on Chromium Version 37.0.2062.120 Ubuntu 12.04 (281580) (64-bit)

The live demo doesn't work for me

Re:Urbit: an operating function on Friday September 25, 2015 @04:00PM (#10280348)
For a more accessible alternative approach to all this madness see this mirror project

https://github.com/tibru/tibru

Re:Urbit: a personal cloud computer on Saturday November 15, 2014 @09:17AM (#8611710)
But looking through code there are lots of references to gc, mark and sweep. Even with acyclic data models memory has to be cleared.