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by afiori 1y ago
Is that a problem with nuclear or with building almost no new ones in the last 25 years?
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by afiori 1y ago
and if you have too many threads running you could have slowdowns in the system that prevent the race condition from happening
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by afiori 1y ago
that is terrible for performance and some operations have external requirements to be sync
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by afiori 1y ago
Async/await became ergonomic and widespread only recently, I am sure there were async systems in the '80 but for example nodejs focus on non blocking I/O changed how a lot of people thought about servers and concurrency (whet
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by afiori 1y ago
My limited knowledge of Cap'n'Proto (read the docs once years ago) server and clients can peer stubs, so that is server C receives a stub originated from server A via client B then C can try to call A directly.
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by afiori 1y ago
I think many are failing to come up with a more likely explanation for > For me, the ultimate laptop bag is one that looks nothing like a laptop bag; it should look like nothing special at all.
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by afiori 1y ago
they are saying that a H1B worker is in practice gonna get paid 100k less, cost 100k more to the employer, or something in between.
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by afiori 1y ago
Also it could have been completely different and incompatible roles
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by afiori 1y ago
I was always a fan of the Wheel of Law where every week a random law is selected and tweaked by chatGPT. If you do not know the laws of tommorow you cannot game them and also makes long term planning way more exciting.
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by afiori 1y ago
Marketing is a very wide field, even focusing on good service and good product is a form of marketing
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by afiori 1y ago
The only sane configuration language is something similar to gron https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
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by afiori 1y ago
I too would like to make this move, but one of the considerations stopping me is the risk associated with payments Google: anonymous inscrutable guillotine Fastmail: payments fail and I do not notice for too long
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by afiori 1y ago
I agree, but my point is that a language can be useful even if it does not have access to everything
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by afiori 1y ago
For server applications true, but the reason browsers made wasm was because they needed a safer/portable/standardizable alternative to PNaCl
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by afiori 1y ago
Wasm is sandboxed at pretty much the same security boundary as js there is nothing a DOM-enabled wasm module could do (security/privacy wise) that JavaScript can't already do
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by afiori 1y ago
The two main benefits of wasm GC are that compilers can avoid implementing or compiling a full GC but also that the guest and the host can share structured data types
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by afiori 1y ago
The three main camps of wasm use cases are ( in no particular order ) 1. Non browser application (lightweight cloud, plugins, sandboxing) 2. Performance kernels (like compiling a game/rendering engine or AI stuff) 3. Compiling js-like
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by afiori 1y ago
Sorta, in practical terms once WASI is ready the browsers can define a DOM world in WIT and maybe support components using it
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by afiori 1y ago
You can't even run wasm in browsers without JavaScript, it is not a supported <script /> type Anyway I am quite sure that you could almost completely get rid of js glue code by importing the static Reflect methods and a few
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by afiori 1y ago
While it can function as an FFI (it is indeed the basis of WASI) the component model is more about composability and interfaces
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by afiori 1y ago
The practical argument is that while initially the DOM API was developed to be language agnostic with more of an eye to Java/C++ than JavaScript since a while ago this is no longer the case and many web APIs use JavaScript data types a
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by afiori 1y ago
Webgl can't access the dom either
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by afiori 1y ago
I am not sure what you actually want but it sounds like something where the component model (the backbone of WASI) might help. It defines a framework to allow modules to communicate with structured data types by allowing each module to deci
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by afiori 1y ago
I suspect the versioning is going to replicate the JavaScript version system where versions are just sets of features that a runtime can support or not, I am not sure how feature discovery works in wasm though
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by afiori 1y ago
Honestly you could allocate a new memory for every page :-)
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by afiori 1y ago
> can not be repurposed later whether it can be repurposed is worth little in being wasteful if >99% go to the landfill. > I think we'd see that (a) might end up being less wasteful. Monetarily? sure. Environmentally? unlikely
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by afiori 1y ago
in typewriters i think you could easily make longer dashes by concatenating shorter ones.
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by afiori 1y ago
Considering the 18 billions price tag and the current mixing of user data between meta and WhatsApp I believe that meta has now revenue streams in mind than just the API pricing
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by afiori 1y ago
Because browsers only remember the last set of open windows reliably. So if I were to split the 5 tabs I usually need for work in 3 windows I would routinely lose a bunch of them.
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by afiori 1y ago
> Lots of banks use Oracle to record fund transfers, but Oracle doesn’t transfer any funds. because it is the banks that do the transfer, so they need to have liquidity > Bitcoin doesn’t transfer funds, it’s just a shared ledger of wh

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