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by brian_herman 1889 days ago
The prophesy has come true... https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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mywacaday 1888 days ago
If we are living in a simulation it's slightly more troubling that it might be running in a browser.
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ineedasername 1888 days ago
It would explain why time seems to go by so slow when a person is bored: Not many people want to watch that simulation, so lack of CPU cycles slows everything down.
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stjohnswarts 1888 days ago
I always hoped we were running in a VM written in Rust rather than python or javascript. But it's hard to explain the platypus with a rust based one...
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mywacaday 1887 days ago
If we are in a simulation how could we force a buffer overflow and what would it look like to us
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eliasbagley 1886 days ago
you'd probably need a particle accelerator or something
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josephg 1888 days ago
Does it run Firefox? I’d love to see a browser in a browser, just to experience mediocrity in all its awful glory.

Networking would be tricky, but you could encapsulate TCP over a custom websocket tunnel.

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exikyut 1888 days ago
No, but it does run NetSurf: http://www.boxedwine.org/app/netsurf/

...with exactly the caveat you described, because the wasm port doesn't support websockets yet.

Alternatively you can run *cough* IE6 in JSLinux.

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anthk 1888 days ago
You can run w2k and probably XP under TinyEmu JS.
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marvin8 1888 days ago
v86 has Firefox: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=archlinux&c=./networking.sh;ech...
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ant6n 1888 days ago
I think I actually saw this talk live. What are the chances. Definitely worth checking out, it’s pretty fun.
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brian_herman 1886 days ago
Wow I am so jealous!
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re 1888 days ago
Is there a relevant timestamp for those of us not wanting to invest 30 minutes in the full talk?
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ToFab123 1888 days ago
No. Not really. It a fascinating talk to watch so you are not going to totally waste those 30 minutes.
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phoe-krk 1888 days ago
Yes, 0:00-29:23. The point of the talk is not laid out during a single moment; it's more like a story that unfolds over time, allowing the reader to understand its implications bit by bit.
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EvilEy3 1888 days ago
What prophesy? It is written in C++.
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pjmlp 1888 days ago
WebAssembly like all bytecode formats, doesn't care about the source language.
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EvilEy3 1888 days ago
WebAssembly doesn't make it JavaScript application either. It is merely runtime.
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pjmlp 1888 days ago
Shipped as part of most JavaScript runtimes, originally.
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