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- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 6 days ago:
While I don’t have a direct answer, I know that my university had some courses dedicated to similar topics
www.students.cs.ubc.ca/~cs-311/…/goals.html
www.cs.ubc.ca/course-section/cpsc-411-201-2020w
www.cs.ubc.ca/~rxg/cpsc509-spring-2024/
The second one is described as
The goal of this course is to give students experience designing, implementing, and extending programming languages. Students will start from a machine language, the x86-64 CPU instruction set with Linux system calls (x64), and incrementally build a compiler for a subset of Racket to this machine language. In the process, students will practice building, extending, and maintaining a complex piece of software, and practice creating, enforcing, and exploiting abstractions formalized in programming languages.
The course assumes familiarity with basic functional programming in Racket, and some simple imperative programming in assembly.
Those links might give you something to search off of?
And what’s the purpose of developing more languages anyway?
At some level, I think it’s this:
- Comment on PdfDing Update: Signatures, dedicated website + docs 6 days ago:
Looks good!
I have one suggestion, the white text on bright green on the website is hard to read. Maybe you can pick different colors, or put borders around the characters.
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 6 days ago:
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 1 week ago:
It looks like Social is the platform that released v1, and the other ones are still in various stages of development.
docs.bonfirenetworks.org/flavours.html#what-is-a-…
My understanding is that “Bonfire Social” is very similar to Mastodon, with their own way of implementing certain features, and the other features in their funding campaign are still in development
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 1 week ago:
They launched v1.0 for platform similar to and interoperable with Mastodon, and they’re doing a funding campaign for what projects they will work on next.
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 1 week ago:
Also they have some art for those that participate:
The code is a commons, so art is offered as a reward. This campaign includes a limited‑run, hand screen‑printed artwork by Rocco Lombardi, the artist behind Bonfire’s icon and other illustrations.
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
For context, this is what reddit’s limited automod is like
www.reddit.com/r/…/full-documentation/
I’m sure we can do better. For example, being able to use variables
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Maybe they had trouble hitting that atom, and decided to surround with many other U-235 atom before trying the splits
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 3 weeks ago:
programming of physics joke
Yes
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 3 weeks ago:
I’m happy participating as a community member, and stepping up as a mod later on if the team could use some extra help. I don’t mind either way :)
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 3 weeks ago:
Oh on that note, would it be helpful to lock and redirect !newtopiefed@piefed.ca to that community?
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 3 weeks ago:
I would say the main thing is being nice and letting people explore, and providing spaces/communities for people to come back and ask questions when they have them. When people bring up issues or suggest things that they want to see, we shouldn’t crap on what they prefer their online experience to be (ex. preferred algorithms, content they want to block, etc.)
Resources wise, we created this guide and I like to link these two particular pages for fediverse/lemmy. I feel that they help give a high level overview of how things work:
- Comment on Is there a ranking showing how popular different hobbies are by country? 4 weeks ago:
I think since hobbies are nebulous and hard to compare against each other, you would need to find a study specifically looking at that. Even then, you would only get information on the specific hobbies they looked at.
Maybe you can try looking for data for specific hobbies instead of comparing them against each other? You can probably find rates of books, music, etc.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 4 weeks ago:
It’s working on my end as well!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I got the test messages I exchanged with a friend earlier, but new messages are still stuck
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Is Signal down for anyone else?
Reddit seems to be having issues as well. hah
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 4 weeks ago:
Signal seems to be down as well?
- Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issueswww.digitaltrends.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 217 comments
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 4 weeks ago:
COBOL handles the books because no one else can understand the system and it’s too much work to change after 40 years
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 4 weeks ago:
Hanneke Faber became CEO of Logitech on December 1, 2023, after leaving her role as group president at Unilever. Since joining the Swiss peripheral manufacturer, Faber has attracted attention for her unconventional ideas about how personal technology should evolve – often with a focus on benefiting shareholders and companies first.
Faber is now best known for proposing the so-called “Forever Mouse” concept – a device with constantly evolving firmware features built on base hardware that customers would purchase only once. According to Faber, users would happily pay monthly or annual subscriptions to access these software-based upgrades. However, no concrete business plans have yet been announced to bring the idea to market.
Regarding pricing, the CEO compared the mouse to a Rolex watch and the software to Logitech’s video conferencing business. A paid subscription is possible, but Faber offered no further details.
What 😄
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
Using backticks can help
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q - Submitted 4 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on How do I create my own community and is it allowed on my instance? 5 weeks ago:
While Voyager has mod tools, I’m not sure if you can create a community in the app.
You might need to do the initial setup on the website: sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Seeing lemmy all over Google search results gives me hope 5 weeks ago:
Neat
I wonder how Google (and the search engines that depend on Google) decide which person/entity to feature in the snippet. At what point would Lemmy the software replace Lemmy the person?
For example, “Swift” brings up the financial organization, while “Taylor” brings up Taylor Swift
- Comment on I Tested PerfectEssayWriterAI for a Week in October—impressed! 1 month ago:
In addition to downvoting, please report the post so that admins can take care of it.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 1 month ago:
This sounds more like a ship of Theseus style question
Is the person with amnesia still the same “person”. I assume the question would also need to enforce the type/extent of the amnesia
- Comment on Check out our new Tutorials community 1 month ago:
Appreciate it, thanks for sharing your work! :)
Another advantage of AkshrikaTutorials is that you’ll be free to make tutorials about anything in the future, not just Microsoft products
- Comment on Check out our new Tutorials community 1 month ago:
Instead of !tutorials@lemmy.zip, it would be better if you made it !mstutorials . Or else you’re going to get people posting other tutorials there
Alternatively, !akshira_tutorials if this is specifically content from your page
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Is tailscale running / logged in on those other devices? Does it auto detect the server like it did on the phone?
