azakai

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by azakai 10y ago
No, I don't think you can deny the W3C has influence. You point out examples of that influence not being absolute - which of course it isn't. It still has important influence nonetheless.
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by azakai 10y ago
> If W3C did not recommend EME then the browser vendors would just make it outside W3C. Yes, Google and Microsoft - the browser vendors that created EME - would have done so anyhow, with or without the W3C. But that is no excuse for the
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by azakai 10y ago
There is already SDL2 support for emscripten, and emscripten can compile to WebAssembly with the WASM flag flipped on. So basically just use emcc with -s WASM=1 -s USE_SDL=2 for WebAssembly + SDL2. The test_sdl2* tests in emscripten's
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by azakai 10y ago
There will be a text format, but it's important to keep expectations low, as here is what it looks like: http://webassembly.org/docs/text-format/
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by azakai 10y ago
> I expect it will approach the difficulty of minified js. WebAssembly has less structure than minified JS (instructions are a linear list - a stack machine - for example) and it is less hackable (it isn't intended to be written or
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by azakai 10y ago
> Will performance improve across the board Speaking very generally, I've never seen a major architecture change that led to a performance improvement across the board. In particular in JS which has so many corners. There are always
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by azakai 10y ago
I believe it is exactly the mechanism described in the article: X-inactivation is incomplete. Some of the genes on the "inactivated" chromosome remain active. What is new in this article is that they connected specific genes known
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by azakai 10y ago
Oh, I don't think strictness is the issue here. Sure, very possibly most vegans/vegetarians eat animal products now and then. It's hard to be 100% perfect, given how society is set up right now. I agree this is a process that
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by azakai 10y ago
I believe your data is out of date, here is Wikipedia's summary: > In 1971, 1 percent of U.S. citizens described themselves as vegetarians.[104] In 2008 Harris Interactive found that 3.2% are vegetarian and 0.5% vegan,[105] while a
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by azakai 10y ago
There is a strong argument to be made that we are at a decision point on vegetarianism. Of course we'll only know for sure in retrospect, but * Vegans and vegetarians are growing groups, especially among the young. * Food technology
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by azakai 10y ago
Yes, the small screen is great on flights and other cramped conditions. When at a desk, I sometimes connect to a large screen, but honestly I often just don't bother.
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Yes, but it is a nuance in a specialized field, so it might seem "obvious" to outsiders. The article does give the background here - there are multiple positions within evolutionary biology. All accept natural selection, of course
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I assume the lawyer would spell it all out in closing arguments. The difference is that at that time the lawyer can comment and interpret, and there isn't a witness that might respond unpredictably.
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By one point of view, our ethics evolved - as in, were created by biological evolution. And their form isn't arbitrary, just like evolution isn't - it can take many forms, but what it generates must work in order to survive, and i
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by azakai 10y ago
> Realize that all animal ethics are entirely manmade and foreign to the background of the Universe's amorality. Alternatively, some scientists and philosophers believe that ethics predate human beings - that they exist in many if n
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by azakai 10y ago
I think of alien abduction stories and related horror fiction as our species' fear of someone else doing to us what we do to animals in factory farms.
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by azakai 10y ago
The Wikipedia article summarizes it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)#The_... Basically, before 3,000 years or so, it was common for people to hear the gods talk. Somehow, that changed and it bec
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by azakai 10y ago
Perhaps, but it wouldn't explain isolated human populations, of which we have several in the relevant time frames.
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Indeed, and that's one reason why the theory is considered discredited. Still, it lives on. Not many incorrect ideas do. Perhaps it's because it is a more concise and elegant answer to several unresolved questions (why did self-aw
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by azakai 10y ago
You're not reading that link properly, but it's understandable since the link isn't the clearest. A specific version of Firefox has the 4% you mentioned, Firefox 49. Look a little lower down and you'll see Firefox 50 has
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by azakai 10y ago
First of all, by common measurements Firefox's market share is more like 13.5% [1], not the 4% you mentioned. According to that link Firefox is the #2 browser, ahead of Microsoft and Apple's browsers. Second, Mozilla is a non-prof
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by azakai 10y ago
In theory yes, a smart enough JIT could figure this out. That was in fact v8's strategy for a while. But in practice, it's just not as effective. In a small function like that things are fairly simple, but with large code it takes
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Yes, the approach shares elements with what Mozilla and later Microsoft have been doing. It derives types from asm.js annotations, and uses that to perform AOT compilation.
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> IMO, the endgame for Uber is not to raise prices; it is to reduce costs. They're betting the farm on driverless cars. What special advantage does Uber have there, though? Many companies are working on driverless cars. When that re
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by azakai 10y ago
Not sure. The main issues are that 1. The llvm wasm backend is upstream, which is good. 2. asm2wasm will likely stay better at compile times, especially for non-separate compilation (which is important for code size, which matters a lot on
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by azakai 10y ago
Note that the instructions provided here are not the recommended path, which is described on the main site: http://webassembly.org/getting-started/developers-guide/ The link here uses a nonstandard approach, which
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by azakai 10y ago
Possibly, but fully driverless cars in urban areas are likely decades away (unlike driverless trucks or driving assisting cars, which will arrive sooner). And electric is good, but there are some issues that will take more time to sort out,
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by azakai 10y ago
There isn't much debate on this anymore in biology - practically every important evolutionary biologist accepts that speciation is driven by natural selection. Of course other factors matter too, like goegraphic separation, and so fort
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Oops, thanks for the correction!
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Well, it's the universal view in evolutionary biology, in everything I've read and people I've talked to. It's also clearly stated in the opening paragraphs of the wikipedia entry for example [1]. Or were you asking why

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