Jarkko Sakkinen
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
songs that stick in your brains forever once you hear them for the first time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlgmH5q9uNk
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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Unfortunately many new open source projects have performance benchmarks that seem to be heritage of Apple marketing.
Zed editor is a great example of this. There's so many moving parts missing here that I could write a book just listing those one by one ;-) This is objectively marketing propaganda because absolute timing values without context and environment do not have any other meaning than giving preferred impression.
Examples of reasonable ways to analyze performance can be found from e.g. https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf.
Zed editor is a great example of this. There's so many moving parts missing here that I could write a book just listing those one by one ;-) This is objectively marketing propaganda because absolute timing values without context and environment do not have any other meaning than giving preferred impression.
Examples of reasonable ways to analyze performance can be found from e.g. https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf.
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The last draw was complains in some places of Vim doing "incompatible changes" with Neovim. The universal law is that the upstream defines what is compatible and then it is up to forks to keep in phase. If there is compatibility issue, one can only blame the fork. Over the top disrespectful tbh...
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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@railmeat @cuchaz Servo having a new life was best part of this story. I learned about Rust first time at LinuxCon EU 2014 but the presentation was about Servo. Rust was introduced as a tool to realize Servo.
It is really only web engine that has a realistic chance for feature par with Gecko and WebKit, which is purely open source, so it is in my opinion somewhat exciting.
It is really only web engine that has a realistic chance for feature par with Gecko and WebKit, which is purely open source, so it is in my opinion somewhat exciting.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoI guess I’ve activated to post random stories about #vim lately ;-) There’s so much hate for it, especially from some members #neovim community, so I just want to show that there is also other side of the story. In other words, there are people who pick “just” Vim purely based on technical advantages.
It is a bit over year since Bram Moolenaar died so I guess this is also good timing in that sense (RIP) ;-) Remembering that by migrating my vim files to vim9script 🍾
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Edited 1 year ago
On #macOS, I’ve found that best way for me to manage #vim installation specifically is to just download the dmg and install pkg given that it auto-updates and contains all the command-line versions (instead of using homebrew or macports):
$ ls -1 /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin
gview
gvim
gvimdiff
gvimtutor
mview
mvim
mvimdiff
mvimtutor
view
vim
vimdiff
vimtutor
xxd
Jarkko Sakkinen
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When comparing micro-architectures in general so that it makes any possible sense, at minimum comparative analysis of advantages of disadvantages would be appropriate.
Not sure if I dare to say this but what a load of nonsense.
Just to name an example, the standard for RISC-V with MMU is unfinished and ambiguous to the point that how a SiFive CPU's do stuff is more of a guideline than the specs. The commercial weight if AFAIK more in the compute core area where you just "fork" the hardware description and make it your own.
Not slandering RISC-V per se, I actually like many thing in that ISA, just saying that it is not *even* comparative to x86 and ARM at this point of time. E.g. OpenMIPS would have been (if there had been any analysis of other ISA's than x86).
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/21/why-x86-needs-to-die/
Not sure if I dare to say this but what a load of nonsense.
Just to name an example, the standard for RISC-V with MMU is unfinished and ambiguous to the point that how a SiFive CPU's do stuff is more of a guideline than the specs. The commercial weight if AFAIK more in the compute core area where you just "fork" the hardware description and make it your own.
Not slandering RISC-V per se, I actually like many thing in that ISA, just saying that it is not *even* comparative to x86 and ARM at this point of time. E.g. OpenMIPS would have been (if there had been any analysis of other ISA's than x86).
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/21/why-x86-needs-to-die/
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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@cuchaz I've moved on macOS to Safari and probably move to GNOME Web on Linux. The key element is that I've engineered myself out of browser sync feature and extensions by migrating all my passwords to https://www.passwordstore.org/. I still use browsers password manager for convenience and cache but not as an archive. I.e. they are not synced and I can delete all the passwords any time, as pass has the archive.
Other than I don't really care what the browser is as long as it is fairly modern (e.g. WebKit based). Safari and GNOME Web are reasonable, and I'd think that as they are not the selling product, they also minimize the harm, as it is not intended to make profit in any significant figures.
That said, not sure if I would trust Edge on Windows ;-)
Other than I don't really care what the browser is as long as it is fairly modern (e.g. WebKit based). Safari and GNOME Web are reasonable, and I'd think that as they are not the selling product, they also minimize the harm, as it is not intended to make profit in any significant figures.
That said, not sure if I would trust Edge on Windows ;-)
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