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by azakai 9y ago
> IIRC it's currently missing out on a lot of optimization opportunity by producing wasm as transpiled asm.js. That's actually not true: the asm.js => wasm path emits better code (smaller, faster) than the wasm backend path
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by azakai 9y ago
Looks unofficial, https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7c8uc7/someone...
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by azakai 9y ago
Mozilla opposed EME very strongly. But when it was clear that Google, Microsoft and Apple all supported it and were shipping it, Mozilla was forced to ship it as well (with a flag that makes it easy to disable for users that want to).
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by azakai 9y ago
> This was basically wanted by Firefox, Apple, Microsoft and Google. Not accurate. EME was created and driven by Google, Microsoft and Netflix, as you can see here: https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/ Firefo
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by azakai 9y ago
Comparing the Web versions, I prefer Amazon Prime video to Netflix or Hulu. Its interface is faster and simpler.
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by azakai 9y ago
I thought Lyft was partnering with Waymo? Is this Drive.ai deal an additional partnership? http://mashable.com/2017/05/14/lyft-waymo-self-driving-partn...
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by azakai 9y ago
I may have misunderstood you. When you wrote > they would mention ISP's broadband monopolies and net neutrality I thought you meant they never mention either. Now it sounds like you meant they never mention them both together. It se
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by azakai 9y ago
You asked for something more specific now than you asked for earlier. But here's an article that mentions Google is a monopoly and also mentions net neutrality: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8&#
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by azakai 9y ago
> If these articles were truly concerned about tech monopolies, they would mention ISP's broadband monopolies and net neutrality. Curiously, they never do. I've seen plenty of articles talk about ISP monopolies and net neutrali
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by azakai 9y ago
I agree. I've used Bing for a long time now, starting as an experiment to see how big the difference was. In practice the difference is very small, although once a week or so I'll need to use Google to search for something.
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by azakai 9y ago
It does fix the memory fragmentation problem, in that it's almost guaranteed you'll have a contiguous range you can allocate (assuming you have enough memory in the first place). In practice this has been a serious issue. There is
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by azakai 9y ago
Very strange to hear that. Fretting is far, far harder in my experience, especially the more sophisticated chord formations. I guess for different people it's different.
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by azakai 9y ago
> Picking is much harder than fretting. Is it? I've been playing classical and folk for a long time and I think picking is far, far easier. Maybe picking is harder in other styles, like electric guitar?
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by azakai 9y ago
In addition to lessening misery, reducing the consumption of animal meat also helps prevent global warming (since animal farming is a significant contributor to the problem).
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by azakai 9y ago
They are relevant for cavities, but the article is talking about all the other issues with our teeth, like not being aligned properly. Sugar has nothing to do with those problems, according to the article.
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by azakai 9y ago
Not a win on every level: As the link says, clang is slower than Visual Studio's compiler.
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by azakai 9y ago
> Why do Walmart, Google, Oracle and UPS all consider Amazon their biggest threat? Is this true? For some of them (Walmart) I guess I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm still curious where this information comes from. Is it guesswo
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by azakai 9y ago
It's in corporations' nature to grow, just like Microsoft did in its antitrust days, and Google (and Amazon and others) are now. It can be dangerous. I don't expect corporations to stop growing by themselves. But consumers ca
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by azakai 9y ago
Why is "Google" in the title? The only connection between Google and this company is that they share a parent company, Alphabet.
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by azakai 9y ago
I mostly agree, but there are privacy and data retention issues. Running your own servers may make sense in some cases for those reasons.
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by azakai 9y ago
> Why assume a vegetarian diet? It's the most efficient in terms of land use (also water, etc.). I think the person you are responding to is trying to make the best possible case for the approach, in order to be as fair as possible.
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by azakai 9y ago
The article focuses on throughput performance, which is obviously very important, but maybe it's also worth mentioning that code size matters a lot in some cases, like delivering code on the web. If an optimizing compiler can reduce co
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by azakai 9y ago
The driver might have realized (too late) what happened, if the driver noticed the second passenger left with a backpack they didn't come in with. Then gotten scared and decided to avoid calls and lie about things.
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by azakai 9y ago
Without mentioning the size of the effect, this is meaningless. Are they 1% geekier? 10% geekier? 0.1% geekier? They provide a link to the data the study was based on, but not the actual study, so it's not obvious how to check this.
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by azakai 9y ago
Another related project is Doppio, an open source JVM written in TypeScript, https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio
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by azakai 9y ago
I was surprised by that too. Isn't it literally what Amazon excels at? Just a few days ago there was a story here saying how Amazon's lead in 2 day/1 day/same-day delivery was "unstoppable."
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by azakai 9y ago
I agree pay isn't the only factor, but country-wide averages of happiness are probably misleading here. The US average includes both very happy and very unhappy areas. In particular the US has areas that are really suffering, in ways t
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by azakai 9y ago
Amazon's success is remarkable, and yes it is adding jobs at a high rate, both internally and via contractors, third-party sellers, etc. But the bigger question is whether the Amazon job increases offset the jobs that are lost elsewher
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by azakai 9y ago
Sure, that part of Brave is focused on tech people. But all these trends start with tech people - then we recommend it and install it for our friends and family. Also, that's just part of the Brave strategy. It's going to block a
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by azakai 9y ago
> I'm just absolutely silly with glee that Google finally decided to jump on it. There is no "finally" here - this isn't new. Google Contributor is from 2014 [1]. Google and other companies have tried this idea many t

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