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starman100 | 6 years ago | on: A list of companies using Elm in production

Virtual Airwaves uses it for their web-based walkie-talkie WebRTC client with a custom endpoint (in Erlang!) that emulates radio.

(This link takes you to public channel 1) https://cb.virtualairwaves.com/channel/1

More information here: https://virtualairwaves.com/

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: I was seven words away from being spear-phished

This attitude is exactly what the spear-fisher is hoping for! Mac people, especially, think their OS is "secure by design" (as Apple says it is) and there's no way they can be attacked.

Take another look at the article! This took advantage of a Firefox 0day that really could run software outside the brower's sandbox just by clicking on a link.

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: I was seven words away from being spear-phished

This "spear" was also for a MacOS vulnerability. No doubt most Mac people think they're immune to viruses and malware, making this even more effective.

It is very well thought out attack.

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions

My Windows 10 machine runs 32-bit apps alongside 64-bit apps just fine. It's no big deal on the Intel architecture. Why is this such a hard thing for Apple to do?

(I can also run most 16-bit apps!)

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench

You've _never_ seen a correctable error reported in 20 years? I think your AMD motherboard isn't handling these errors right. That's much more likely than you've never had 1 in 20 years.

See google's study: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench

That's our impression, too. There are AMD Motherboards that take ECC memory, but we've never seen them act on ECC errors that were uncorrectable (the correctably errors are handled, but uncorrectable errors aren't reported!).

We will only use Intel Xeon for our work because of this. You'll get about 1 bit flip/GB/year. With 128 GB or more in our standard builds, this would be more than 2/week. We just can't have that uncertainty in the data we provide.

And while Cinebench is a useful benchmark, all our heavy number crunching is done on NVidia 2080 architecture so the fact that AMD may have an advantage on some cases isn't that interesting for us. Perhaps if you're a gamer, who doesn't care about an occasional bitflip, looking to squeeze the last drop of value out for his dollar....

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: Apple explores moving 15-30% of production capacity from China

Maybe, just maybe, tariffs aren't such a bad idea. Yes, we realize it's really just a "tax on everything" but by making it a little less cost-effective to move manufacturing to China, we may bring more jobs and money back into the United States.

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: Documentation to set up a simple macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM

Wow! I didn't know that. I "switched back" when there was no pro/NVidia option available to me about 7 years ago.

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

Nobody at the U.S. Mint would be any more "embarrassed" than anyone else over a misprint on U.S. currency.

But these people, part of the U.S. Treasury, might be: https://moneyfactory.gov/

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: Facebook urged to pause Libra crypto-currency project

But, to the actual end users, Libra is no different than, say, writing a check. It doesn't matter to me how the banks themselves shuffle their funds back and forth when I give a check to someone.

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: Documentation to set up a simple macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM

You could also be running this on Linux that happens to be running on Apple hardware.

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM

Just use Erlang with Dialyzer. It's not quite as nice as a lanugage with types built-in, but if you're strict about using it, it does work. I won't code without it.

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM

Putting an Erlang-like language on the JVM would really lose all the advantages of Erlang, wouldn't it. The syntax, while very useful, isn't the real strength of the language. It's the BEAM.

starman100 | 6 years ago | on: Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM

Interesting. I'd really like to see Pytherl. Use the easy-to-learn Python syntax, as best as possible, but on the BEAM. I think that would be even better than Elixir for getting people on board.