Anarch157a (u/Anarch157a)

Anarch157a commented on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) javascript.tm/letter... · Posted by u/pavelai

The last time this was brought up, "WebScript" was mentioned as a possible alternative name. (Like WebAssembly, WebSockets, WebRTC, etc.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45297066

Anarch157a · 12 days ago

My personal favourite is "JayScript".

Anarch157a commented on Why xor eax, eax? xania.org/202512/01-xor-e... · Posted by u/hasheddan

eb0la · 15 days ago

I remember a lot of code zeroing registrers, dating at least back from the IBM PC XT days (before the 80286).

If you decode the instruction, it makes sense to use XOR:

- mov ax, 0 - needs 4 bytes (66 b8 00 00) - xor ax,ax - needs 3 bytes (66 31 c0)

This extra byte in a machine with less than 1 Megabyte of memory did id matter.

In 386 processors it was also - mov eax,0 - needs 5 bytes (b8 00 00 00 00) - xor eax,eax - needs 2 bytes (31 c0)

Here Intel made the decision to use only 2 bytes. I bet this helps both the instruction decoder and (of course) saves more memory than the old 8086 instruction.

Anarch157a · 15 days ago

I don't know enough of the 8086 so I don't know if this works the same, but on the Z80 (which means it was probably true for the 8080 too), XOR A would also clear pretty much all bits on the flag register, meaning the flags would be in a known state before doing something that could affect them.

Anarch157a commented on A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center igorslab.de/en/a-day-at-h... · Posted by u/speckx

ArtTimeInvestor · a month ago

Hetzner is awesome.

I wish they would go public.

Would be very interesting to see how their business is doing compared to IONOS and OVH.

We need more public cloud companies in Europe.

Anarch157a · a month ago

The last thing we need is more enshitification on this space.

I just migrated my selfhosted email server to Hetzner and I don't want them turning into monstrosity like AWS or Azure, with theit miriad of ways to nickel and dime the customers.

Anarch157a commented on AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

dylan604 · 2 months ago

at the end of the last tech bubble, Herman Miller chairs were available for cheap. wonder what the score from the ashes will come this round?

Anarch157a · 2 months ago

dirt cheap Nvidia GPUs, perhaps ?

Anarch157a commented on Leaf miners identified as oldest insect plague in the history of Earth phys.org/news/2025-09-lea... · Posted by u/janandonly

treve · 3 months ago

Not a scientist or science reporter, but it strikes me that the headline (and content) of the article should include 'that we know of'. Is that silly of me, or is it expected from the reader to know that this is always implied?

Anarch157a · 3 months ago

That's the catch phrase of zoology youtuber Lindsay Nikole. https://youtube.com/@LindsayNikole

Anarch157a commented on iFixit iPhone Air teardown ifixit.com/News/113171/ip... · Posted by u/zdw

georgelyon · 3 months ago

I betting $10 Apple’s foldable will be two iPhone Airs where one side has 0 bezel hinged together with extreme mechanical precision and maybe some fairy dust to make the gap when unfolded unnoticeable.

This creates a foldable with no durability issues and no “crease” problems. Also the two halves of the display could be on the outside when folded, avoiding the need for a third display and getting a rear display for free. I would buy 3 of these.

Anarch157a · 3 months ago

Having both screens on the outside doesn't let you use the main cameras when folded, Apple would never do that.

Anarch157a commented on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail" eff.org/pages/when-knowin... · Posted by u/01-_-

quickthrowman · 3 months ago

Don’t forget about Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England!

Anarch157a · 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy,_Savoie

Anarch157a commented on U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis minesnewsroom.com/news/us... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

bjourne · 3 months ago

It is not realistic to expect a modern supply chain to be completely uninterruptible. The US has large stockpiles of (not very) rare earth metals and there are multiple ways of acquiring them in case China stops exporting. If China ever embargoes rare earth metals, the US can embargo Windows updates. Who do you think will last the longest?

Anarch157a · 3 months ago

It's much easier to smuggle a USB drive with Windows updates than it is a few tonnes of metal.

Then China will switch a billion desktops to Linux and the US will still need rare earths.

Anarch157a commented on The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years atlasoftheuniverse.com/12... · Posted by u/algorithmista

14 · 3 months ago

When I try to explain to someone just how big and massive our universe is I usually fall back to the Voyager 1 satellite which was launched almost 50 years ago. I like to tell people that it is traveling at an amazing 17km per second! Even at such an amazing speed it has still only just traveled approx 1 light day. At such a speed it will travel about 1 light year every 18,000 years.

Then I like to say the nearest next start is roughly 4 light years away. So even at 17km per second, or about 10.5 miles per second, it will still take approx 72,000 years for it to reach the nearest star.

That star is 4 light years away and our galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. The next galaxy is about 2.5 million light years away!!! So at the incredible speeds of one of our fastest man made objects it would take something like 45 billion years to just get to the next galaxy!

Seeing how the known universe is estimated at over 46 billion light years in size and looking back on the other numbers I wrote it quickly becomes apparent that to travel across the galaxies one would need to be able to reach unbelievably unimaginable speeds. Even the speed of light as you mention would not be even close to fast enough to get anywhere significant.

On a side tangent I was always a trekie back in the day. I know their warp drive was faster then light but now I almost want to go back and look at the math of how fast they must have been going to be going the distances they were going.

Anarch157a · 3 months ago

That is assuming the objects will be at the same place relative to us, which is not true. Like reaching Andromeda. Voyager I will reach oyr neighbouring galaxy in roughly 4.5 billion years, not 45, that's because Androneda is moving in our direction. Reaching Proxima Centaury would take longer than your estimation because of it's orbit around Alpha Centauri A/B.

Estimating time-to-arrival when your destination is also moving at ludicrous speeds is incredibly difficult.

Anarch157a commented on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything wsj.com/business/retail/t... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

declan_roberts · 4 months ago

South America doesn't produce enough soy beans for them to replace America even if China bought every single ounce of soy.

When it comes to soy, America has enormous leverage and China already accepted they're negotiating from a position of weakness.

Anarch157a · 4 months ago

If China has a monopsony on soy beans, then they nogociate from a position if power, because the US either sells on their terms or see the beans rot.