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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Mobile devices in the field typically have _more_ cores that desktop devices. The Firefox hardware report is strongly influenced by there being a lot more desktop than mobile Firefox users. As you note, the modal number of cores on mobile
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In the limit, you could implement a DSL in C++ that would allow you to implement CSS. Or you could implement Rust in C++. As you say, you can do whatever you want in C++. The only question is how much time and effort it would take and wheth
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Well, right, that's why the Firefox CSS implementation actually aims to be parallelized and has been for years. I'm just saying that the wins from that on current hardware are not as large as one would hope. And that the increas
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Fwiw, I've seen a number of cases of the other way around: the WebKit/Chrome CSS implementation had some shortcuts for performance reasons that caused them to not follow the spec, where Firefox did. The link you posted just indica
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For that last one: it's much faster in many cases, because Chrome's engine is not parallelized. Back when I was last measuring this, stylo's single-thread performance was comparable to Chrome's or a bit faster in some ca
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
When the time cost of getting it right and _keeping_ it right exceeds the amount of time actually available in a day, the result is equivalent to "the language is not up to the task". I mean, you can implement anything you want in
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> wood stove for water heater Even ignoring the CO2 aspect, the particulate emissions from this would be quite problematic in any sort of dense area. Not to mention what fraction of those particulates would end up inside the house... Al
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I would much rather not normalize naming and shaming and bullying, personally. Can't tell how much of your comment is irony, of course. :)
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To be clear, journalists approximately never get to pick the title. Editors do that. Who should also have integrity, of course, but the clickbait incentives are very strong...
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Or 30% truth and 70% confirmation bias, as the case may be....
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I think it's important to believe you can improve, and that most people can improve with practice. This avoids the very real problem of people self-limiting in unnecessary ways. I think that telling people people that they can achieve
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
I think you're spot on, for what it's worth. The context for my comment above is that I have a math PhD, and even then a lot of the articles are an unnecessarily tough read. For the general public they are pretty impenetrable..
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
If I had examples off the top of my head, I would have cited them. I'll see if I can find time to do some digging through my browser history, but this is a multi-hour endeavor that you're asking for here, so I might not be able t
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No, when I say "limited government" I mean just that. A government that has certain powers, but not others. This is not just about enforcement of laws, it's about which laws are allowed to exist in the first place, and about
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I don't know that I've ever seen anything strictly _wrong_ in an article about mathematics, but I've certainly seen articles giving equations without defining what any of the variables are and using using very field-specific
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Because there is a qualitative difference between "limited government" and "no government"?
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Just looking at UCLA employees sorted by gross pay is interesting; Tao ends up around #192 on the list. Mostly due to the medical school, plus some people with titles like "INTERCOL ATH HEAD COACH EX" and "INTERCOL ATH COACH
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> I have to discount their math abilities. Do you? The implication that "applied math" doesn't involve math abilities is an interesting one, but doesn't have bearing on reality. There is a good bit of interesting, a
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Yes, this can be a pain. There are some contracting companies that handle this for you, but that can involve hiring people in other countries as contractors, not employees, having an extra intermediary that handles their payroll and whose
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
It depends. If you have to redo the work multiple times because of miscommunications, that can easily eat up salary savings. If you can't hire the best people because of some of the aggravations involved, you may get a worse quality p
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
> In the last 10+ years fiscal spending has been half-hearted and anemic See, this is one of those claims that is interesting to me because I never see anyone proposing what a "non-anemic" level would look like. No matter what
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
True, but for the US, for example, energy consumption has been pretty much flat for the last 20 years, and decreasing in per-capita terms. See https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-28/beyond...
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Unfortunately, Keynesians also made predictions (like fiscal spending moving rates off the zero bound, austerity hurting economic growth, etc) which did not turn out to be true, due to monetary offset. That is, Keynsians tend to over-focus
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There are a lot of assumptions going into that implication. My experience with working remotely, on globally distributed teams, for about 20 years now is: * Synchronous high-bandwidth communication (read: meeting, ideally with a shared whi
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I disagree about people being mostly sane about this stuff, for what it's worth. We may have very different filter bubbles....
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I'm not sure about the "tech hotspot" angle, but https://www.econlib.org/homeless-camping-in-austin-a-modest-... while somewhat satirical may well have a point about the "why"...
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
How are you defining "way too much policing"? Just looking at Western Europe (arbitrarily defined, granted, and leaving out some really small countries) in the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou
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> even after he discovered She, fwiw.
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It's for two (well, at least two) reasons: one is to prevent things like this. The other is that in generally doing case-insensitive stuff for non-ASCII is language-dependent. For example, in English "i" and "I" ar

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