Yoric

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by Yoric 2y ago
(I was the tech lead for this proposal) How would this be useful for a JS0?
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by Yoric 2y ago
FWIW, that's also more or less what SpiderMonkey has been doing for ~25 years (and I presume other JavaScript VMs).
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by Yoric 2y ago
Pretty sure that Daemons (and all other supernatural creatures from Greek myths) would be frowned upon by a religious inspector from any Abrahamic religion.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Fun fact: Father Christmas (aka Santa Claus) was put on trial in France in the 1950s, then burnt on a bonfire (in effigy), for leading good Christians away from Christmas and towards consumerism.
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by Yoric 2y ago
I remember seeing Muslim and Jewish descriptions of the Devil in various stories, they didn't particularly look like a horned man with a pitchfork. Not sure where that comes from.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Think of what TRON would do with that.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Or we get lost in DATA.
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by Yoric 2y ago
A browser written in HTML on top of a rendering engine? Mozilla had one a while ago: https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml . I'm sure it could be updated.
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by Yoric 2y ago
On the other hand, we can wipe our civilization (with or without AI) without needing anything as sophisticated as Skynet.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Sadly, it's not the real statistics. Also, it's not really good.
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by Yoric 2y ago
It's interesting, because FSD has probably driven a billion miles, but I couldn't find any useful statistics yet. So... I think it's a bit early to start believing the hype :)
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by Yoric 2y ago
But isn't it the case that Waymos are actually usable (for this purpose), while FSD/RoboTaxi isn't? Geofencing sounds like a good idea to me. It's a mean to roll things out carefully, while minimizing risk of death. If a
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by Yoric 2y ago
Many of these components have been made part of the ecosystem long after they were introduced in Firefox. Also, the more platform-specific you go for each component, the more you're going to introduce subtle incompatibilities between F
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by Yoric 2y ago
> At the end of the day web browser is just bunch of parsers and compilers working together, and some video/audio That's... an interesting reduction :) I guess it's about as true as saying that the Linux Kernel is a bunch
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by Yoric 2y ago
It was also a mess :)
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by Yoric 2y ago
Having done concurrency in Java and Rust, my experience is that Rust's concurrency primitives are an order of magnitude better than Java's. I haven't tested C#'s.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Come on, I had to outbid Ada somehow :) For what it's worth, Python was also considered at some point for use in the Firefox codebase. I don't remember the rationale for not adopting it, but I think the idea was "we all like
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by Yoric 2y ago
A long time ago, the possibility of using Java or C# in Gecko (the core of Firefox) was pondered. Java was rejected because of the huge memory requirements and the unpredictable (and sometimes lengthy) garbage-collection pauses. C# was reje
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by Yoric 2y ago
And OCaml or Haskell :)
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by Yoric 2y ago
They are allowed, but they're extremely uncommon nevertheless.
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by Yoric 2y ago
I worked on Firefox to make sure that it kept working (and in particular starting up and closing) when you reached several thousand tabs :) Might not have been a good idea in the end :)
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by Yoric 2y ago
Looks like the stuff of dreams and nightmares for a ADHD user. Am I the only one who regularly ends up a browsing session with 300 tabs? This feels like a feature I'd overuse, and which would only make my life much worse.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Oh gosh, the nightmare of hundreds of DATA lines.
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by Yoric 2y ago
I posit that programming is vulnerable, because upper management does not realize that even the most sophisticated AIs can only barely do the simplest jobs of junior developers. Of course, they're going to destroy their companies when
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by Yoric 2y ago
A toy compiler for analog quantum architectures. Also, on my spare time, a tabletop role-playing game.
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by Yoric 2y ago
In my experience, C <-> Rust works quite well, except when the C API relies too much on macros. C++ <-> Rust is much more annoying.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Answering in case this is not humor: no, it isn't. From the top of my head, quantum entanglement is something: 1/ that happens at quantum level, so typically with measurable effects on a scale smaller than one atom (way smaller th
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by Yoric 2y ago
Hey, I've heard of Element X forever, time to try it :)
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by Yoric 2y ago
Not for me?
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by Yoric 2y ago
Plus it also supports federation. Oh, and it's open-source.

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