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by DylanSp 3y ago
I'm not that surprised at the relative lack of detail, given how quickly they released this; I'm surprised they published this much info so quickly. Calling it a postmortem is a bit of a misnomer, though. I'd expect a full po
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by DylanSp 3y ago
Interesting, thanks for the background. Reading through that GitHub issue helps me understand what other comments on here are talking about with the differences between various GCs making it difficult to have a one-size-fits-all WasmGC.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
I saw that, and it's impressive about Java; I thought it would require a similarly large runtime to .NET. From the blog post, it sounds like they're not shipping a JVM, I guess they're just shipping as little of the JRE as
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by DylanSp 3y ago
I'm impressed that this finally got built and released; I've been hearing about WASM planning to include GC for several years now, I wasn't sure if it'd ever actually happen. I'm curious how much this will help some
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by DylanSp 3y ago
It seems like the JVM has been more successful than most platforms at supporting other guest languages. Java is still dominant, but Kotlin's pretty popular (as other comments have mentioned) and Scala has a nontrivial amount of usage.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
Uranus was the next priority from the most recent decadal survey; there's a couple of missions to the outer planets that are farther along. - The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is a European probe that was launched earlier this year, it&#x
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by DylanSp 3y ago
Seconding this recommendation, it's a fascinating book.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
I don't know of anything concrete, but looking for information about Pascal's p-code approach might be useful; given its historic significance and relative prominence, there's probably some decent information about it.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
It's mentioned briefly, but another big advantage of the Z-machine was being mostly hardware-independent, which was especially important with the wide variety of computers in the early 80's. The Digital Antiquarian says that Infoc
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by DylanSp 3y ago
You probably know this, but to be clear for anyone else reading - the AGC's code was written in a mix of interpreted code and native code. Writing in native AGC assembly was necessary for the most performance-sensitive parts of the fli
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by DylanSp 3y ago
I like this term; I've heard this idea in multiple places before, but this seems like a good way of capturing the essential point (that with performance, a sufficiently large difference in degree can become a difference in kind by enab
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by DylanSp 3y ago
And even with Nau's Focused working for years , they don't uncover the backdoors in the localizers, between the sheer amount of code and whatever obfuscation Pham added.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
The pieces of highlighted text (such as "Terraform should have remained stateless" in the first sentence) aren't links, but I thought they were. The bits with just an underline ("this piece") are links, though. Side
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by DylanSp 3y ago
I really wish the Ash website made this more immediately clear; the initial description makes it sound like Ash has a broader scope than it actually does (as far as I can tell).
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by DylanSp 3y ago
I was as well, especially the yellow highlight/underline; I interpreted those as links at first.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
This looks interesting, but I'd like to double-check something - both job postings say "at our Palmer HQ facility", as opposed to your post mentioning that it's remote. Is remote allowed, or is it on-site?
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by DylanSp 3y ago
It probably got posted because it's today's featured article on Wikipedia.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
Agreed, it's an impressive accomplishment, especially on the very limited budget they had to work with.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
Yep, everyone knew that making it through the lunar night was pretty unlikely. A successful landing was always the main goal.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
He's referenced Andrade's work in the past, so that's actually a possibility, though I think he'd focus more on their military due to his focus and background.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
As great as that would be, it's well out of Devereaux's area of specialization; I don't think he'd feel like he could do that topic justice. If you look up his older series on farming, he notes in the introduction and in
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by DylanSp 3y ago
I'm probably misinterpreting the numbers, but it sounds like the 3.3 interpreter also got some significant performance improvements - if 3.3 YJIT got a 13% speedup compared to 3.2 YJIT and a 15% speedup compared to 3.3 interpreter, tha
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by DylanSp 3y ago
The Twitter post linked list links to this Github issue, which has the actual discussion: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398 . Could we get the link changed to point there?
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by DylanSp 3y ago
The Digital Antiquarian blog talks about Adams's struggles with writing when he was working with Infocom on two IF games, their _Hitchhiker's_ adaptation and _Bureaucracy_: https://www.filfre.net/2013/11/
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by DylanSp 3y ago
> There was a demon in memory. They said whoever challenged him would lose. Their programs would lock up, their machines would crash, and all their data would disintegrate. > The demon lived at the hexadecimal memory address A0000, 65
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by DylanSp 3y ago
Silicon Zeroes might be up your alley, though IIRC it starts with logic gates and builds up to more complex logic/computation, it doesn't focus on the electrical engineering side of things. https://store.steampowered.co
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by DylanSp 3y ago
Setting aside the type-in aspect, the idea of having a separate book (or other media) closely integrated with a game is interesting. I'm not sure how much sense it makes nowadays, since you can easily have a PDF/movie/etc on
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by DylanSp 3y ago
Hadean Lands is a great example of a modern take on parser-based IF, I highly recommend it.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
This is wonderfully cursed, I love it.
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by DylanSp 3y ago
Speaking as a primarily BE dev with a preference for static typing - what I love about React is that TSX makes writing view code much easier. I get type safety to check that I'm passing in all parameters I'm using, type checking

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