Readit Newsdrpyser22 commented on From Erlang to Lunatic mattpo.pe/posts/from-erla... · Posted by u/bkolobara
Doesn't Lunatic support anything that compiles to WASM? Why insist on using Rust when one's running into pain points with it?
No language is perfect, thats kind of the point of the author going from erlang to gleam to rust.
drpyser22 commented on Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine? · Posted by u/jamesfisher
Yes!
I'm in a team that works on a pet prog lang for distributed systems, and we did some research of using an existing package managing systems. We've settled on NPM for now, but god I wish there would be a better generic package manager out there.
Did you compare nix to npm? Is there a good comparison out there?
drpyser22 commented on (In)Security of the “Pass” password manager rot256.dev/post/pass/... · Posted by u/NicolaiS
There is nothing invalid about the observation. (not a strawman)
The intended userbase of pass is clearly not non-tech-savvy/non-security aware philipinno mothers, so your remark is irrelevant.
drpyser22 commented on Directly access your physical memory (dev/mem) bakhi.github.io/devmem/... · Posted by u/blueblueue
To be pedantic, that’s provided by bash, not devfs. You wouldn’t be able to do it like this from e.g. a C program.
You mean that bash interprets the path and creates the socket itself?
drpyser22 commented on Weird Laptops are Coming – CES 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=k3Lly... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
An e-ink laptop would not be consumer friendly due to einks low refresh rate unless it was running a significant amount of custom software and the demand wouldn’t be there for a business to make it worth it.
I also love eink. Maybe if there was a FOSS OS built around eink?
Do you need a whole OS, or just a specialized WM/Display manager? I assume a text based interface(e.g. console) world be the simplest to support?
drpyser22 commented on Powering the lunar base, version 2 caseyhandmer.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/6177c40f
I'm not an expert or anything, but is this making the assumption that there is 0 loss? You put 1Kw into a microwave transmitter on earth and expect to get 1Kw out of the receiver on the moon?
That's preposterous - I would be surprised if you get more than 5% of the power considering the losses in the transmitter, receiver (and related circuitry), not to mention the atmosphere itself plus whatever little bits get in the way (like, I don't know, the thousands of Starlink satellites and other space junk).
The two parts article does acknowledge inefficiencies and losses, but dismisses them
drpyser22 commented on Powering the lunar base, version 2 caseyhandmer.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/6177c40f
I think space based solar is probably the way to go. Starship will make launch so cheap it’ll be worth getting the panels into perpetual sunlight.
According to the article author it requires costly infrastructure on the moon, compared to their proposal of beaming energy through microwave from Earth.
> though I am in a minority at work
This should tell you something. Taking the time to name it nicely now costs almost nothing vs wasting your time trying to prove it can be refactored later and then doing that refactor later. Why? What are you getting out this? Taking 1 second to name it nicely vs the time it costs for everyone to listen to you "make a case for brevity", just please don't be that person. No one likes or respects that person more even when you are right.
I disagree that naming something correctly always takes no time. Sometimes a useful and correct name is non-obvious, or repetitive, or you're trying to name something abstract or generic.