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Re:I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270 on Monday February 23, 2026 @10:27PM (#47132489)
Atom feed is malformed :(
He writes an excellent blog: https://samkriss.substack.com/
Re:Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:22AM (#46999532)
Re:Is WebAssembly Memory64 worth using? on Thursday January 16, 2025 @09:28AM (#42725553)
I haven't used asm.js and compared it to WASM myself, so I'm curious to understand your statements here.

Regarding runtime performance, you said "Javascript isn't drastically slower than WASM in most situations."

So are you saying that the reason WASM exists is to have faster compile times than asm.js, or marginally faster runtime perf in most situations, or drastically faster runtime perf in rare situations?

Re:Crafting Painterly Shaders on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @09:28PM (#42002493)
I witnessed a recent front page link silently get changed to point to a parody video, then silently changed back later, with the top comment that remarked on the change silently removed.

That told me all I needed to know about the moderation of this site.

Thankfully someone captured a screenshot: https://merveilles.town/@cancel/111834048502040552

You may find the Orca project quite interesting:

https://orca-app.dev/posts/230607/orca_announcement.html

Re:A beginner's guide to Git version control on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @08:40AM (#37048142)
Here's an effort that explores a non textual format for code and tooling:

https://dion.systems/gallery.html

I wish the same. In the meantime, I like using these physical USB switches to easily disconnect my webcam when not in use: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X82661H
Issue in Mozilla's bug tracker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477667

Draft of an explanatory blog post (linked from the above issue): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aIMPZVy33mn34pXBUETk4lt_...