Yoric

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by Yoric 3y ago
> - static reference counting (no GC, like in Rust, but with no borrowing and borrow problems); Does this mean that it's somewhat equivalent to Rust with everything behind a `Rc` or `Arc`?
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by Yoric 3y ago
Mozilla very much created Firefox, thank you very much. Also, on all your other issues, see https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo...
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by Yoric 3y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Mozilla killed Servo, much to my sorrow, because it didn't have enough money to fund it. Mozilla embedded Pocket because it was an attempt to not rely on Google's money to fund developments. The money t
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by Yoric 3y ago
Have you considered contributing to open-source projects? Some like Firefox have mentoring programs ( https://codetribute.mozilla.org/ ). Very good for the resume.
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by Yoric 3y ago
To be more precise, there is a snapshot of a subset of the algorithm available as AGPL at that address.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Good question. I don't think that there is a 1:1 mapping. If this is any datapoint, there are several companies (including the one for which I work) that offer cloud access to their quantum machines, letting other labs/companies d
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by Yoric 3y ago
Note that, in practice, quantum logic does not have quantum hardware that can run it at the moment. So that might limit the usability of such knowledge for the near future.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Clarifying because my previous message was over-ambitious: I started recently in the domain, so I'm still very much in the learning phase. Take everything I write with a pinch of salt. That being said, to the best of my understanding,
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by Yoric 3y ago
Don't joke about it. I actually think that I've seen this claim somewhere.
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by Yoric 3y ago
I've started recently in a subset of the domain and I feel that there is very strong potential in quantum computing, but there are still very important fundamental problems that have not been solved, so I believe that the hype comes to
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by Yoric 3y ago
Alas, poor me!
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by Yoric 3y ago
Yes, if you look at the Polonius repo, this quote is featured prominently :)
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by Yoric 3y ago
Probably? At the expense of not being able to update too much the OS running the thing within Docker, which by itself comes with a security risk.
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by Yoric 3y ago
My assumption is that the parent poster uses the word "syntax" for "syntax and semantics". It's a common trend.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Definitely not with Python. I'm currently maintaining a Python application and every minor version update for the language or even some of the frameworks involved comes as a high-stress process with numerous potential breakages.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Oh... Docker-based Rust builds are extremely slow in my experience. I seem to remember that caching was really, really bad.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Incidentally, "AI" (the original field called AI, not the latest definition of the term) definitely made it to 5. Except these days, we call some parts of it "SQL", other parts "the Web".
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by Yoric 3y ago
Out of curiosity, does your argument also work for drugs?
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by Yoric 3y ago
A few remarks. > You feel like you accomplished something when you come out the other side. It is some kind of dopamine inducing validation of your ability as a programmer. I think this is a very negative trait in the context of tools us
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by Yoric 3y ago
I've used a few ORMs. I've even designed a commercial ORM, many years ago. My personal experience is that the more they try to abstract away raw queries, the least useful they are. YMMV
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by Yoric 3y ago
Diesel (also in Rust world) has pretty good mappings to SQL. There are derives involved, of course, so that probably counts as macros.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Well, paying the bills when you're a company whose primary project is open-source remains an open problem.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Isn't that already the case without a CLA?
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by Yoric 3y ago
Are you telling me that there isn't already a 69.ai working on deepfake porns? I'd be surprised.
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by Yoric 3y ago
I would love to make a better world, even if I sometimes feel powerless about it. I used to think that being involved in research would help make a better world, but my research field is typically used to make programming languages or stati
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by Yoric 3y ago
I can only applaud the choice of name :)
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Coding for a Finite World(yoric.github.io)
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by Yoric 3y ago
I'm sad to read that. I can only testify that this is not my experience at all, so it might be that you're in the wrong place. In every company I've joined, I've found issues, often large ones, managed to get assigned to
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by Yoric 3y ago
That doesn't feel contradictory. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a large intersection between autism and "cranky independence".
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by Yoric 3y ago
I parsed this as injustice, but I could be wrong.

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