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by gf000 4mo ago
Slightly off topic -- java-related wiki pages are notoriously bad and possibly biased for some reason. They are laughably outdated and have a bunch of non-objective sentences that paint a much worse picture of the language than deserved.
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by gf000 4mo ago
Then what is it that you are saying? That I should use JMH to determine the best layout for my helper class that will be initialized 3 times? Like most of the software (by line of code) is boring plumbing from one service to another with so
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by gf000 4mo ago
And java uses very little CPU compared to most other languages. It's right after manual memory managed languages like C/C++, and is the first managed language according to a paper about how "green" each language is. Bu
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by gf000 4mo ago
It doesn't even run "JavaTM", but some bastard child that is in like ~5 years delay compared to OpenJDK.
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by gf000 5mo ago
It's a bit like the web. You have a pretty slow moving list of "protocols" that are well-supported by everyone, and some "new experimental" ones that are only supported by one or two.
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by gf000 5mo ago
> I have faith in Debian for filtering out rogue applications Sorry but all I can say to that is: lol As for security, it's easy/possible to cut holes into a solid wall. But if your whole system is swiss cheese, you can't
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by gf000 5mo ago
Well, it's like new car doesn't start but you have forgotten to put fuel into it, and now blame the car. This is Linux desktop, like if you have never had a black screen before then I'm not sure what you expect. One culprit c
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by gf000 5mo ago
I'm not questioning what you are saying, but Wayland's only requirement is DRM, which is a Linux kernel capability that is supported for basically everything that you can push some sort of display cable into. It's for buffer
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by gf000 5mo ago
So one audio server managed to provide a shim for another audio server, great. But it absolutely doesn't follow from that that pulseaudio was somehow bad. There was more than a decade where audio drivers were slowly getting bug fixes t
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by gf000 5mo ago
My point wasn't that pulseaudio is flawless, it's just that it has a much worse name than it deserves.
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by gf000 5mo ago
Linux kernel, X server, web browsers all seriously violate the Unix philosophy. And to be perfectly honest, it's nothing more than a philosophy - it's not some universal truth, e.g. a browser by definition is not doing "one s
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by gf000 5mo ago
Well, for ALSA and pulseaudio, the latter more or less just surfaced the tons of bugs in the underlying, at the time very shitty audio drivers. Remember, only pulseaudio is a sound server, so ALSA wasn't even exercising many of the mor
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by gf000 5mo ago
It hasn't been swept away by Oracle, far from it. It's development is just no longer coupled to the OpenJDK release cycle, which benefits both projects.
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by gf000 5mo ago
Of course, what would be a point of talking about an overly specific statement that has no relevance here?
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by gf000 5mo ago
What's the latency difference between a long running process issuing a network call in Java vs rust? This is such a short time that it is completely overshadowed by noise (OS doing something else, what other software is running etc) As
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by gf000 5mo ago
How is it any faster than something written in say, Java?
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by gf000 5mo ago
> let me add a div so I have a place for my CSS class As opposed to what exactly? HTML doesn't let you lay out stuff properly without at least some structural divs that have no meaning. If we have the proper aria properties for exam
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by gf000 5mo ago
Even the root comment mentions the exact same failure mode: > If you need extra elements for styling at that point, you might use a div or span (but you should ask yourself if there's something better first). This is IMO not worse t
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by gf000 5mo ago
"Solving" is one thing, adaption is another.
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by gf000 5mo ago
There are many languages with similarly strong type systems - Scala, Kotlin, OCaml, etc (and nowadays, even Java). A GC may also be an advantage in that the LLMs may get it right in less tries.
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by gf000 5mo ago
> look and feel exactly the same as every other widget in the system Which is what? Windows natively has like 4 official looks. You can click around the 2 (!) settings programs and pop open windows for basically every framework windows
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by gf000 5mo ago
There are still UX research. It's just that the collective "we" has changed and we can/may build on some existing design decisions. You are always designing something with a target audience in mind, and the next, e.g. mo
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by gf000 5mo ago
They absolutely do their best, but this is not possible in the general case . And as I said, it's also true to a smaller degree for banking and other software as well, but is not even software-specific. A plane also can't be engi
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by gf000 5mo ago
I don't get your comment. The GC is part of the runtime, to it user code is data. But the JIT compiler and other internal details of the runtime are its code, and there are very real cross-cutting concerns, like the JIT compilers o
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by gf000 5mo ago
I don't think that's a useful mental model for software in general. There are software that works like this (e.g. a website's unrelated pages and their logic), but in general composing simple functions can result in vastly no
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by gf000 5mo ago
Even with temperature set to zero, I believe due to FP operations not being commutative you may still get non-determinism, so what I am talking about (as mentioned, very pedantically) is mostly the theory.
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by gf000 5mo ago
I don't know, I really love a well-typeset books/papers. Especially when they feature figures that are deliberately placed close to the relevant section in the text, it's just not something we can replicate with HTML, that ca
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by gf000 5mo ago
I'm being deliberately pedantic, but depending on what kind of representation we use for the neural network (due to rounding) as well as the choice of inference (that is, given a distribution for next token, which one to choose), it c
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by gf000 5mo ago
In what way would it be more complicated? This is pretty basic concurrent programming, we routinely have much much more complex concurrent designs.. Hell, a telegram bot can handle that just fine.
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by gf000 5mo ago
That's not the point. It being done in a local shop for a few bucks with no small letter text saying that "we may break your screen in half because this thing can't be repaired properly". It mentions that it should not u

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