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by azakai 9y ago
Hard to be sure without measurements, but emscripten uses LLVM's optimizer and the binaryen optimizer, and AssemblyScript can benefit from the latter. So the question is how much the LLVM optimizer could help this type of code. For exa
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by azakai 9y ago
The text format has been finalized, you can see examples of it here: http://webassembly.org/docs/text-format/
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by azakai 9y ago
There isn't such a polyfill. There is currently no good tool to translate wasm into asm.js (or general JS) on the client. The best that exists is to run the wasm in a wasm interpreter, very slowly. In theory a translator could be writt
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by azakai 9y ago
One of my professors actually made the opposite point: that in CS, the compiler will give you an error. You can fix it and move on to the next. While in math (he was a math prof), the paper doesn't object to your writing nonsense. If y
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by azakai 9y ago
One major factor not mentioned here is that the number of college graduates in a field is not just determined by how many apply to it, nor the author's #6 (reactionary faculty that fail large amounts of people). There is also how many
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by azakai 9y ago
> sexual selection is natural selection It's a matter of definition, I think. Darwin made a distinction between natural selection and sexual selection, > Sexual selection was first proposed by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Spec
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by azakai 10y ago
Actually Google spends more on lobbying than Microsoft, and has for a while now. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3024945/major-tech-companies-... Google spent almost twice as much as Microsoft in 2015, for example.
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by azakai 10y ago
Yes, Obsidian, Mozilla's proposal, is based on Vulkan, https://github.com/KhronosGroup/WebGLNext-Proposals/tree/mas...
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by azakai 10y ago
Not necessarily in a high-rise. Basically a building or bunch of buildings with apartments that a single company owns and maintains and rents out. They tend to have a leasing office.
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by azakai 10y ago
A random sample of 400 is enough to give a good estimate, regardless of the size of the population. This is a non-intuitive result from statistics. The standard deviation - the average expected error - does not actually depend on the popu
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by azakai 10y ago
Every apartment complex I've looked at (bay area) has required me to leave my photo ID with them at the leasing office while one of them took me on a tour to show me the apartment.
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by azakai 10y ago
If so, it seems very confusing that the header is "Install Size".
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by azakai 10y ago
Side note, > Christianity and Darwinism are generally opposed That's not fair to Christianity. For example, the largest Christian group, the Catholic church, is in no way opposed to Darwinism https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by azakai 10y ago
Also bad, they only mention support for 2 browsers, Chrome and Safari.
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by azakai 10y ago
But you print out the paper just once and save many glasses thanks to that. Your data suggests it breaks even at 48, which indicates this makes sense.
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by azakai 10y ago
It's true that in the short term this can seem like a step forward - we went from bad to slightly less bad. But it's also harmful and dangerous in the long term for all the reasons being discussed.
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by azakai 10y ago
First, the DRM is still not standard. Only the interface to it is. Every browser must still deal directly with the DRM provider and hope to reach an agreement with them, both technically and financially. As a result, only certain platforms
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by azakai 10y ago
That's not where the linked article ends, though, that's just page 2 out of 6: > Utah experienced a less dramatic, but still impressive 71 percent decrease in chronic homelessness since 2005. Yet should we trust even the point
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by azakai 10y ago
Oh ok, yeah, if you preload the binary, it's a good measurement (of parsing + optimization). And yeah, it's common that most code is not used early. Browsers are implementing baseline JITs to help there, so they only fully optimiz
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by azakai 10y ago
That's not quite measuring the same thing, as it includes the download of the wasm (which will then depend on the webserver, e.g., the simple python one people use for debugging is super-convenient but not that fast). You can force syn
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by azakai 10y ago
Cool. And if you see slowness on more than one browser, please file a bug, it could be something in the toolchain we need to fix (if it's fast in one browser but slow in another, the slow one probably just needs to improve).
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by azakai 10y ago
Startup time is a known issue specifically on Chrome. It's being focused on, so improvements are expected.
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by azakai 10y ago
More processes do have benefits, but they increase memory usage, as measured in that link.
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by azakai 10y ago
Another good example is Oz (which coincidentally started and ended the same years as Buffy).
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by azakai 10y ago
> How long something has been around is often a good way to determine how much longer it will be around in the future. Might be some correlation there, but probably it's mostly unrelated. We did many things for a super-long time the
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by azakai 10y ago
To add to that, in principle Emscripten could use gcc and this backend instead of clang and an LLVM backend. Emscripten itself abstracts over the backend details (it's supported 3 different backends in its history, and currently suppor
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by azakai 10y ago
We still have incompatible and proprietary DRM implementations. EME only standardizes the interface between them and the browser. The DRM itself is completely unspecified here - that's the problem.
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by azakai 10y ago
Additional factors were Napster and the rise of file-sharing services. While I agree the history and context is different, I don't see a fundamental difference between the two.
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by azakai 10y ago
It's more like standardizing a road that only Google, Microsoft and Apple and their partners can drive on. An open standard is one that anyone can implement. EME is not open in that way - it just standardizes a small part, the interfac
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by azakai 10y ago
Perhaps, it could go either way, but it did work out with music. It could have worked with movies too.

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