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by foldr 1y ago
> As for perf - 4x is the worst case and that number is out there because I reported it I love the concept of Fil-C but I find that with the latest release, a Fil-C build of QuickJS executes bytecode around 30x slower than a regular bui
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by foldr 1y ago
The issue has always been that people who don’t trust Apple interpret everything that Apple does in the worst possible light. I make no comment here on whether such suspicion is justified. But let’s imagine that the current behavior (showi
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by foldr 1y ago
The reduceRight is just a bit of cute FP code golf. All it’s saying is that chaining an empty list of middleware yields an ‘OK’ response, and that the first middleware is passed a function which, when called, executes the remaining middlewa
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by foldr 1y ago
I’ve found Fil-C 0.670 to be around 30x slower than a regular build, with -O1 vs. -O2 not making much difference. Perhaps it is very dependent on the kind of code. IIRC the author of Fil-C (which I think is an incredible project, to be clea
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by foldr 1y ago
Although I think JC is right in this case, I'm not convinced that he had any kind of insight that wouldn't have already been obvious to the OS experts hired on the team. Writing a new OS is going to be really difficult? No shit! I
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by foldr 1y ago
The people working on it may not have agreed that it was likely to fail. But in any case, almost all interesting projects are likely to fail. Of course it is objectively unlikely that a project to write a new OS will succeed. I expect the p
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by foldr 1y ago
Clearly he didn't have veto power on the project he's talking about.
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by foldr 1y ago
Reading between the lines, it sounds like he got reported for giving a lot of what might kindly be described as unsolicited advice. The guy left Meta ages ago, but he apparently still can't let this one go. If you're in the middle
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by foldr 1y ago
>There are no mechanisms where discriminatory pricing kicks in, and only the foreign students pay for the additional capacity. There is exactly such a mechanism. The foreign students pay more! I don't have the exact figures to crunc
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by foldr 1y ago
A university's capacity isn't static. The money that comes in from foreign students can pay for additional capacity. You're talking as if every university was allocated a fixed number of seats in 1955 and now we all have to f
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by foldr 1y ago
> Did NPR report the thousands of percent that it increased by over the past many years? Yep. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/26/g-s1-35654/trump-internationa...
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by foldr 1y ago
> Something similar happened recently with A320 Are you sure? I can’t seem to find any references to any such incident.
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by foldr 1y ago
> That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law. This part of it could hardly have been retained unaltered.
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by foldr 1y ago
Bars in the US routinely ID people who are obviously over the age of 21. And then they get weird about foreign passports because...well, because America, I guess. I've sometimes been refused entry despite being clearly over 21 and havi
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by foldr 1y ago
Sure, but in that case they are not working 'overtime', they are just working in the absence of any effective regulations governing reasonable working hours.
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by foldr 1y ago
Overtime can't be assumed by definition. If it's an expectation, it should be written into the contracted working hours, and then it's not overtime. (Or if there are no contracted working hours, then overtime could only be de
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by foldr 1y ago
It's easy for criticisms of a scientific study to look valid if you've only read the criticisms and not the study, and if you lack the expertise and context to evaluate them. One of the authors has posted a response briefly explai
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by foldr 1y ago
Sure, Apple doesn’t have a monopoly on nice displays, but they’ll sell you a laptop with a high DPI display for $1000. It’s hard to get a laptop with a comparable display for much less. And if you save any money you’ll pay for it in perform
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by foldr 1y ago
You can definitely see the resolution difference between a 1080p 13" display and a 13" 'retina' display. You may not care about it, but I think it's uncontroversial that it's a visible difference.
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by foldr 1y ago
This has a WXUGA display, i.e. 1920x1200. It’s not comparable to the high DPI display on the MacBook Pro.
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by foldr 1y ago
That's a good point! The growth in arrests shown in the article I linked starts in 2017, though. I think internet usage has gone up significantly by some measures since 2017, but whether or not that's sufficient to explain the inc
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by foldr 1y ago
The flip side of this is that convictions under the Communications Act have gone down compared to 2010, so it's a mixed picture: https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off... It is hard to get good da
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by foldr 1y ago
It's a two party system in the sense that only two parties have a chance of winning any given UK general election, but the popular vote is quite widely distributed among parties. In the last election, 33.7% of people voted Labour and 2
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by foldr 1y ago
Lots of people told Liz Truss that the budget would lead to a crisis in confidence in the markets. Even more people would have told her if she hasn’t decided to go ahead without an OBR assessment. Whether or not someone was able to foresee
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by foldr 1y ago
Truss wasn’t ‘aware’ because she ignored the warnings that she received. Why hasn’t the same thing happened under Labour? For various reasons, (not least that their economic policy isn’t stark raving bonkers), but largely because they’ve ta
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by foldr 1y ago
Exactly. Any moral compromise can be justified if it’s necessary to fund your startup.
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by foldr 1y ago
The issue isn't that AI has no value but that the amount of money invested in it is out of proportion to the value it's going to generate within a reasonable time frame. Useful new technologies are invented all the time. But not m
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by foldr 1y ago
Fundamentally it was due to Liz Truss ignoring all the experts who told her exactly what was going to happen. However, I think the episode illustrates how economic policy can be overly constrained by the short term reactions of markets. Tho
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by foldr 1y ago
From the article: > The amount of interest the government pays on national debt also varies from month to month So your figure for June is not obviously inconsistent with a total of 111 billion per year.
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by foldr 1y ago
> that makes debt repayment the second largest chunk of government expenditure after the NHS. Are you sure about this? If you scroll down to the pie chart on the following page, health is not the largest chunk of expenditure (that’s soc

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