creata

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by creata 9mo ago
> It cannot convince a normal person of the same. But you don't need everyone to be convinced of it first-hand. You just need everyone to trust someone who is convinced of it.
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by creata 9mo ago
For their upper house elections (which can have giant ballots), Australia uses computers in its counting, but there are humans in the process. [Here's a video from the Austalian Electoral Commission.]( https://youtu.be/9
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by creata 9mo ago
> The most charitable interpretation is that this whole project (supposed problems with CBZ, the readme, the code) is the output of an LLM. Do LLMs perform de/serialization by casting C structs to char-pointers? I would've expe
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by creata 9mo ago
Zip also has per-asset checksums, contrary to the comparison table. And what's the point of aligning the files to be "DirectStorage-ready" if they're going to be JPEGs, a format that, as far as I know, DirectStorage does
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by creata 9mo ago
venv and sandboxes are such categorically different things that painting it as a spectrum the way this article does is more misleading than helpful. I also think the article shouldn't mention chroot. From the man page: > In particul
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by creata 9mo ago
Well, I'm not sure why that matters, but you can replace .html with .org in the URL and get the Org file.
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by creata 9mo ago
Looking at the markup of some pages, such as https://orgmode.org/Changes.html , at least parts of the website seem to have been generated from Org mode.
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by creata 9mo ago
> I'm hoping to replace it with Typst This might be stupid but is there a reason you want to go through docbook and xsltproc instead of setting --pdf-engine=typst?
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by creata 9mo ago
I don't think the lack of spec is holding Org back. Markdown came out in 2004; CommonMark came out in 2014. I think Markdown was already very popular by the time CommonMark came out. The more obvious reasons are that Markdown was dead
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by creata 9mo ago
> Transpiling to C is the worst possible way of trying to address these issues. It's really not. Compiler writers, in your words, "write a whole bunch of machinery" so that the code has the intended semantics. It's no
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by creata 9mo ago
> If someone wanted to replace C, would you suggest C as a C replacement? If someone wanted to replace C, I would strongly suggest compiling something else to C, yes. That seems kind of obvious. It's how many programming languages t
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by creata 9mo ago
> with a bunch of stuff renamed And a capability system and a brand new IDL, although I'm not sure who the target audience is... > it's basically just regular assembly language This doesn't affect your point at all, but
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by creata 9mo ago
Submitters can also edit the title themselves after submitting.
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by creata 9mo ago
Why? My only guess is that the instructions don't match x86 instructions well (way too few Wasm instructions) and the runtime doesn't have enough time to compile them to x86 instructions as well as, say, GCC could.
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by creata 9mo ago
Wikipedia mentions that Wasm is faster to parse than asm.js, and I'm guessing Wasm might be smaller, but is there any other reason? I don't think there's any reason for asm.js to have resulted in slower execution than Wasm.
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by creata 9mo ago
> it's probably going to be even less pretty than transpiling to Javascript already is. I don't see how it'd be much different to compiling to JavaScript otherwise. Isn't it usually pretty clear where allocations are
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by creata 9mo ago
What was preventing the development of Figma before Wasm? For developing brand new code, I don't think there's anything fundamentally impossible without Wasm, except SIMD.
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by creata 9mo ago
Emscripten has pthreads. You can multithread it yourself using web workers and shared memory. What's missing?
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by creata 9mo ago
> a fully-featured JS replacement, targetable in any language Any language can target a combination of JS and Wasm, right now, to get a "fully-featured JS replacement". How would adding more features to Wasm improve that situat
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by creata 9mo ago
But what's the benefit of replacing containers with WASI? The performance would be worse, and it would be harder to integrate with everything else. It might be more secure, I guess.
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by creata 9mo ago
They'd be raked over the coals for the lack of accessibility, I hope.
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by creata 9mo ago
The software could do better, sure, but in this case the accountability clearly falls on the lawyers. It's their job - and it's a job that can profoundly impact people's lives, so they need to take it seriously - to redact in
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by creata 10mo ago
For people too lazy to click, the second post was: > I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. > Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then he
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by creata 10mo ago
> I'm not sure if that has any impact on how fun a game is. It might if the game has a more-than-perfunctory story, because authors often incorporate their political or religious beliefs into their stories. (This is usually a good t
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by creata 10mo ago
> The browser is just a tool, not a religion. An ad blocker is a very useful tool. Being able to block ads effectively makes the browser much better. I'm not sure how you can call that "religion". > People use Chrome
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by creata 10mo ago
Yes it does. Having a browser that truly has the user's back, without always trying to compromise the user's interests in favor of advertisers - that would be a benefit to society. I wish Firefox would be that browser.
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by creata 10mo ago
I can't be bothered addressing the rest because it's like trying to explain emotions to a robot, but if you have a poorly hinted font, you will notice, because it'll be annoyingly blurry unless you have a high DPI display.
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by creata 10mo ago
That's because it's not an article, it's a section of Butterick's book. (He also has a book at https://practicaltypography.com/ that isn't targeted at lawyers, and I think a lot of the content overl
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by creata 10mo ago
I agree! More praise: it's well-hinted, has good support for Unicode and math, and comes packaged with macOS. It should be mentioned that the x-height is much higher than the usual Times New Roman, which is usually a good thing imo, bu
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by creata 10mo ago
> each judge could apply his own preferred styling for working with it It kind of makes sense to ensure that everyone is seeing the same thing, though, which is something PDF is (relatively) good at.

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