Yoric

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by Yoric 3y ago
I think that's mostly because there hasn't been any new mainstream language with the feature set and compilation model needed to port fundamental system components for a while. I remember lengthy debates about porting just about e
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by Yoric 3y ago
Both of them use linear types and something kinda vaguely like Rust move semantics (and, in the case of Hobbes, time & space sandboxes) to guarantee statically that code will execute within given time and/or space bounds. I also wr
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by Yoric 3y ago
I remember the Java community attempting to rewrite the world in Java (Jazilla, anyone?) I remember web browsers written in Perl. We live in a world where everything is being rewritten in JavaScript. etc.
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by Yoric 3y ago
I'm thinking of languages such as Camelot or Hobbes. I'm sure that there are new things, I haven't followed the field actively for ~15 years.
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by Yoric 3y ago
To be fair, I've seen this happen with every language community.
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by Yoric 3y ago
> There is currently no way to measure bad code that fails under load until it does so in production. FWIW, techniques to perform such measures have existed for ~30 years in PL research (some of Rust's type system comes from this ki
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by Yoric 3y ago
> Moving safely means moving slow, and that costs more - it's as simple as that. Plus it would also automatically disqualify like 80% of the workforce, due to the need for a proper formal education and certification, which would lit
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by Yoric 3y ago
Would you consider Canada, France or India to be Soviet realities?
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by Yoric 3y ago
Could you point me to the source?
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by Yoric 3y ago
In France, https://www.internet-signalement.gouv.fr/PharosS1/ .
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by Yoric 3y ago
I remember browsing through the Twitter Files and finding nothing interesting in them. Yes, all social media have open channels with law enforcement. That's because social media have legal obligations and when someone comes to a modera
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by Yoric 3y ago
I've been part of a moderation team in a (much) smaller context. Most people want to do good work, but in the end, we're all human, so of course anybody could be influenced, especially in such volatile situations. How far people a
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by Yoric 3y ago
I suspect that we're closer to 1,000 per second.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Interesting. Are you talking of monetary cost or energy/raw material cost? If it's the former, that might be very dependent on market conditions.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Note that Windows also has weird sync IO in unexpected places, e.g. when normalizing file paths (unless this has changed since I last coded using kernelXX.dll).
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by Yoric 3y ago
I don't know if this counts, but I haven't bought any brand new device for maybe 10 years. I do buy refurbished stuff once in a while, though.
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by Yoric 3y ago
It wasn't an argument at all, just an attempt to understand what you meant.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what would be the benefit?
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by Yoric 3y ago
Well, that escalated quickly.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what are you talking about? Large parts of Western Europe have been using nuclear energy since the 70s without problem. There will be difficulties, of course: the plants are growing old and drought does affect nuclear ener
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by Yoric 3y ago
Green hydrogen, produced by electrolysis, requires a source of energy (also, if my memory serves, platinum). Do you mean that one can use hydrogen as storage to bridge the gap between daylight/wind/tides/... periods?
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by Yoric 3y ago
I could be wrong, but I believe that France recycles nuclear waste.
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by Yoric 3y ago
> I can tell you that your feeling of wasted potential isn't just a consequence of how you were treated. Most people in this situation have it. Yup. I was reasonably well-treated as a gifted kid (well, still bullied to death, but at
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by Yoric 3y ago
If I recall correctly, there is an etymological reason for this. I seem to remember that the foc (it's a sail) is named after the phoque (the seal). And the foc is the sail that takes the wind from behind. I'll let you fill in the
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by Yoric 3y ago
How is that incoherent? Just because a system is bad doesn't mean it won't get used, especially if companies or institutions feel that they can save money in the process. I've lived in several countries and have witnessed how
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by Yoric 3y ago
Well, as usual, use whatever language fits your needs best. But Rust's main benefit is not performance, it is safety. There are very few languages in the industry that I feel have my back when it comes to reliability and one of them is
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by Yoric 3y ago
Oh, yes, I've fallen afoul of that a few years ago. A booking for one adult (not in the stereotypical partygoer age range) and one child (definitely not in that age range) and of course Airbnb decided that it was a party and there was
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by Yoric 3y ago
Well, this looks a bit early to make a strong opinion on the language, but it's always nice to see a new take on low-level-meets-safe! While I'm personally a big fan of Rust, it's clear that there are still many alternative a
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by Yoric 3y ago
There are tools that let you basically write an interpreter and a compiler at the same time, so perhaps it's that?
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by Yoric 3y ago
If I read correctly your message, you seem to assume that Firefox is a variant of Chromium. That's not the case.

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