azakai

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by azakai 8y ago
Yeah, AssemblyScript is great! Huge potential there.
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by azakai 8y ago
I think Rust and C/C++ are in the same boat here: both can produce tiny wasm binaries of 100 bytes or less. Here's a post about Emscripten generating a 42 byte binary from C: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01&
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by azakai 8y ago
A GC is bundled in the wasm. (see the function names beginning with "gc*")
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by azakai 8y ago
Yes, SDL2 works equally well in Emscripten in both asm.js and wasm.
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by azakai 8y ago
Adding a "click to start the experience" button changes the experience. In particular, some users might not see the button if it's subtle, and be unimpressed or think the site is broken. And if the button is not subtle that&#
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by azakai 9y ago
> You don't have to give up any of the Rust language. I don't know Rust that well, but what about unwinding and multithreading for example - don't you need to give those Rust features up if you don't want to ship any
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by azakai 9y ago
I'm not aware of any plans to support a malloc/free API currently. GC plans are already underway. Thinking about it, it's actually not that obvious how to support a malloc/free API. It seems like it would need to be det
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by azakai 9y ago
C# etc. shipping a runtime is a current limitation of wasm and those ports to wasm. But in principle once wasm has GC support they can also compile to tiny binaries. Not for everything, of course - if you use certain C#/Java/Kotli
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by azakai 9y ago
Regarding 1, that seems surprising: biology has had many mathematical proofs and models (for almost a century now, e.g. Fisher) explaining why evolution works. Evolution works in nature for non-hand-wavey reasons, doesn't the same logi
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by azakai 9y ago
Maybe I'm one of those users? I've been getting two ads before almost every YouTube video for weeks now. Even more annoyingly, the first ad still says, falsely, "your video will start in .. seconds" or "you can skip
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by azakai 9y ago
The Electric Dreams episode "Safe and Sound" also explores these issues, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6980876/
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by azakai 9y ago
> Or maybe people are naturally more attracted to the extremes [..] What if youtube was just giving people what they want That's part of it, but I think the point is more subtle. YouTube shows the content that will keep people on Yo
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by azakai 9y ago
You can run DOSBox in your browser, the Internet Archive has a bunch of games emulated that way, https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
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by azakai 9y ago
Makes sense, but is the same also true for birds then?
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by azakai 9y ago
> I thought all the benchmarks indicated that WASM is still slower than JS. No, wasm is almost always faster than JS, and that has been the case for a while. Maybe you're thinking about some very specific aspect of performance or be
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by azakai 9y ago
> “Being happy requires a fair amount of self-referential thinking, whereas being in pain or being unhappy doesn’t require that in the same way,” he suggested. “To be happy, you have to know that you’re happy. This doesn't seem righ
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by azakai 9y ago
Sounds like you were seeing an old emscripten SDK bug, where it compiled LLVM+clang unnecessarily and with debug info (which is very slow). Currently there shouldn't be anything like that, it will download a binary build of LLVM+clang
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by azakai 9y ago
It depends how much time they put into it. No one checks how many games they play, so one player could play only on weekends while another might also play a few hours every evening.
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by azakai 9y ago
You're assuming those are random numbers. As the article says, they are only semi-random (that's one of the big surprises they found). And you can see from the numbers that it's not just Mitchell's values that deviate fr
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by azakai 9y ago
Are there thousands of smashes per game? (I'm not a Donkey Kong player.) Yes, the RNG is not perfect, as the article says, > the points derived from those enemy smashes are assigned semi-randomly (which apparently solves an old myst
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by azakai 9y ago
Yes, the longer the game is the closer the average will be to the true average. But given a fixed or bounded game length, you can play enough games to get as much deviation from the average as you want. Again, the numbers need to be run. Th
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by azakai 9y ago
Exactly. If a game has an element of chance, then a player's top scores will tend to be top scores in part because of luck helping there (same reason as why regression toward the mean [1] exists). In such a game if each player can choo
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by azakai 9y ago
The claim that it's statistically unlikely to get those random numbers isn't entirely clear. When asked how unlikely it is, the response is "extremely unlikely", but it's important to quantify that. It's possib
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by azakai 9y ago
Actually emscripten should be getting incremental linking soon. It depends on upstream components, the LLVM wasm backend and lld. Those are almost ready now. In other words, the emscripten integration for those components is the easy work,
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by azakai 9y ago
I'd like to understand you better, I don't think I do yet. From the user's perspective, isn't emcc a C++ compiler that directly compiles to wasm? There are some internal IRs along the way, but you shouldn't notice t
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by azakai 9y ago
What felt clumsy or bloated to you in the toolchain? We'd love to improve it, specific feedback would be very helpful.
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by azakai 9y ago
It's actually worse than that. I thought Google didn't support some YouTube API access Amazon was using. But no, Google is selectively blocking access to the website: > "Echo Show and Fire TV now display a standard web vie
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by azakai 9y ago
> Intelligence expansion can only come from a co-evolution of the mind, its sensorimotor modalities, and its environment. This is misleading. It's true in a sense - the environment does matter - but artificial intelligence can creat
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by azakai 9y ago
Well, the "asm.js to wasm" path actually isn't pure asm.js anymore. We added i64 support and other things a while back, as intrinsics. So the asm2wasm path isn't limited by asm.js. It's weird ;) but it produces good
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by azakai 9y ago
It should be possible to reduce that a bunch more, 65kB sounds high. Running the binaryen optimizer on that wasm shrinks it by 6%. Probably more can be done on the Rust side.

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