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by alcover 6y ago
I have a humble feeling Zig has a super bright future. Simplicity, seemingly perfect C interop,... As a mere apprentice of 'low-level' programming, I have no intention of learning Rust. It's certainly brilliant though and und
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by alcover 6y ago
OK but attributes like the mohawk are 'playful' in this setting. It distinguishes its bearer by making him look aggressive while still being a good, collaborative member. On the opposite, ML could indicate that in spite of one&#
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by alcover 6y ago
How would we collectively react if ML proves accurate in classifying anti-social traits or worse ? Mythomania, narcissic perversion, pedofilia, etc ? Employers, condos, schools, many communities will want to ML-screen candidates, be it offi
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by alcover 6y ago
Sorry for my platitude but ML is only a tool. Nefarious usage gets counter-balnced by e.g. identifying tumours.
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by alcover 6y ago
Yes it's addiction for many users. They're hooked on notifications, not disabling them even though it interrupts real-life conversations, sleep, scenery enjoying, etc..
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by alcover 6y ago
A girl was sitting next to me on a train. For the whole one hour journey she scrolled and switched between apps in a spasmodic manner. At times she would lay the phone down for a few secs then resume at once. It looked sick. It looked like
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by alcover 6y ago
I use it day-to-day. No problem. As a rule, when JS is not mandatory I block it.
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by alcover 6y ago
Agreed. It's O(n) inefficient. I guess looping though chars up to `size` would perform better on average. I see this `strlcpy` recommanded everywhere.
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by alcover 6y ago
That is pretty insightful. Do you have an email ?
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by alcover 6y ago
Wouldn't any worthy graph explorer handle cycles ?
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by alcover 6y ago
Considerations about fingerprint in this thread made me think that if I had crypto wallets, I would change relevant file names and extensions, and patch binaries to get hashes unrecognizable by a stealer implant.
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by alcover 6y ago
Even 100MB is crazy. I know RAM is cheap but the absurdity of that amount is beyond me.
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by alcover 6y ago
18 scripts, 3 webfonts. For a short text. Didn't allow, didn't read.
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by alcover 6y ago
dragonwriter is right. In C for ex. const int* p means the value pointed at can't change, but int* const p means you can't reaffect p
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by alcover 6y ago
Web service in C ? dealing with http queries, strings, regexp, json... is a lot of (unsafe) work..
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by alcover 6y ago
> duck typing hacky language It may be possible to keep duck typing for objects while introducing fast unambiguous primitives like int64_t ? > Why not something like Go? Because JS syntax is very nice - that's my premise. Moreove
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by alcover 6y ago
I meant server web application. The one in Node/Go/Python where you will write your business logic then `http.listen()`. See what I mean ? JS matters most client-side anyway.
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by alcover 6y ago
> which I’m still scratching my head about. I'm no type theorist and - per wikipedia - 'strong' is not precisely defined. 'Static' may be closer to my idea : a JS where `typeof` and Number.isInteger are of no use
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by alcover 6y ago
Thanks, I read it. It is like I thought : holding different optimisation versions of the same code... that is overly complicated in my (naive) view.
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by alcover 6y ago
> ask yourself _why_ you think you need strongly typed JS Because I -and everyone- need a faster, less energy-wasting JS. > Are type errors the most common source of errors in JS? They happen. And could be caught at compile-time under
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by alcover 6y ago
> When I want stronger typing, I have C Not in the browser.. Nor in the app/server.
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by alcover 6y ago
> making use of this typing knowledge That makes JIT a complicated business, for you still have to accept any value. So two versions of the func would have to coexist ? One strong and one weak ? I'm no JS/JIT expert..
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Ask HN: JS++ ? Why not make a new, strongly typed JavaScript ?
8 points by alcover 6y ago|39 comments
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by alcover 6y ago
Nice initiative! A few remarks : - the intro text is way too long - you contradict yourselves about stdout : `Log messages, errors, and so on should all be sent to stderr.` `Don’t treat stderr like a log file, at least not by default.
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by alcover 6y ago
I fear they won't. Some crowds only need a spark to explode. They won't wait for counter-evidence. They just need a pretext.
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by alcover 6y ago
If the video weren't fake, would that somehow make the murder of Rohingya acceptable? Your answer is astray. What is at stake is evident : one can now provoke riots and deaths from thin air (and bits).
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by alcover 6y ago
Exactly. Cheater of real rank R would set target rank R' = R+delta. Once officially at R', set R'' = R'+delta. And so on by modest increments.
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by alcover 6y ago
I wonder how much XSS and others are automatizable. Beating markup escaping for example. A program may be able to infer the transformation used by comparing input and rendition, then confirm when JS execution is achieved.
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Maybe we should still setup a trading account and buy ? Who knows where the stock will climb if Intel's image degrades further ?
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> I told all my friends to buy AMD stock. I thought I should buy AMD when the Intel security bugs appeared. Then with the success of AMD's new line of procs, I thought even more so. I didn't do it because I got lazy to study ho

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