TickleSteve (u/TickleSteve)

TickleSteve commented on Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) github.com/universal-tool... · Posted by u/edweis

maybe we could implement a UTCP->REST bridge for another unnecessary abstraction layer..

TickleSteve commented on Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm? morethanmoore.substack.co... · Posted by u/rpiguy

nubinetwork · a month ago

100x more efficient at what cost? If it's slower than a Pentium 2, nobody's gonna want it, except for the embedded users...

TickleSteve · a month ago

there are orders of magnitudes more embedded processor sales than desktop CPUs.... So the answer really is... lots of people will want it.

TickleSteve commented on On doing hard things parv.bearblog.dev/kayakin... · Posted by u/speckx

JohnMakin · a month ago

It must be my body type or something but I've often heard people talk about tipping over in kayaks and whenever I am in one it feels actually impossible to me. Is it really that easy to tip over? I don't feel I need to "balance" at all.

TickleSteve · a month ago

K1 (racing) kayaks are unstable and very narrow, most other types are fairly stable tho.

TickleSteve commented on NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks neural-os.com/... · Posted by u/yuntian

vivzkestrel · a month ago

What does it mean when you say "operating system powered by neural network"? Does it have a kernel space and user space with hard defined boundaries or is the network determining what function call is being made and switches the space based on it? what about security? what about networking? what about program execution? how does this actually work?

TickleSteve · a month ago

What they mean is UI, not OS.

The purpose of an OS is to manage the resources of the computer, CPU, RAM, devices, etc. This is simply a UI generated by an NN.

TickleSteve commented on Learn Makefiles makefiletutorial.com/... · Posted by u/dsego

ulbu · 2 months ago

and another alternative: just

https://github.com/casey/just

TickleSteve · 2 months ago

Stop with the alternatives... just use make for this task.

Seriously. :o)

TickleSteve commented on Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python runpyxl.com/gpio... · Posted by u/hwpythonner

TickleSteve · 4 months ago

There is a long history of CPUs tailored to specific languages:

- Lisp/lispm

- Ada/iAPX

- C/ARM

- Java/Jazelle

Most don't really take off or go in different directions as the language goes out of fashion.

TickleSteve commented on Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils altusintel.com/public-yyc... · Posted by u/donnachangstein

whatagreatboy · 4 months ago

I think this is a good experiment. 25.10 is not an LTS, people who want stability are using LTS anyway.

TickleSteve · 4 months ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but the next LTS will be 26.04 which would give them 6 months to get maturity and stability... For such an important set of utilities, that seems unlikely.

TickleSteve commented on Ask HN: Why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers? · Posted by u/mettamage

TickleSteve · 4 months ago

Risk.

Contractors get paid for the time they're not in work.

I've been on both sides and have always been lucky in that I've gone from contract to contract but that is certainly not guaranteed.

TickleSteve commented on Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive tansanrao.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/tansanrao

laurencerowe · 5 months ago

Isn’t FreeBSD a monolithic kernel? I don’t believe it provides the compartmentalisation that you talk about.

As I understand it Mach was based on BSD and was effectively a hybrid with much of the existing BSD kernel running as a single big task under the microkernel. Darwin has since updated the BSD kernel under microkernel with the current developments from FreeBSD.

TickleSteve · 5 months ago

Mach was never based on BSD, it replaced it. Mach is the descendant of the Accent and Aleph kernels. BSD came into the frame for the userland tools.

"Mach was developed as a replacement for the kernel in the BSD version of Unix," (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel))

Interestingly, MkLinux was the same type of project but for Linux instead of BSD (i.e. Linux userland with Mach kernel).

TickleSteve commented on Investigating MacPaint's Source Code ztoz.blog/posts/macpaint-... · Posted by u/zdw

userbinator · 5 months ago

Doesn't sound like something a native nor non-native English speaker would write.

TickleSteve · 5 months ago

The correct phrase is "mechanical sympathy" but it means effectively the same. Its relatively well known in software optimisation and means tailoring the design of the software to match the characteristics of the hardware.

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