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by haberman 4y ago
What are people’s opinions of PopOS? I tried it one after reading a good review, but the experience had enough bumps that I resolved to just do Ubuntu next time.
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by haberman 4y ago
> People seems to be under the illusion that this stuff is easy, or obvious. Sure. In 2022. I mentioned that Ruby had this for "upwards of 20 years." I was vague on the timeline because I didn't know for sure how long it
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by haberman 4y ago
I don't know the history here, but it seems like Python could have saved a lot of pain by jumping straight to this solution (which has been in Ruby for upwards of 20 years), instead of going via two solutions that seem strictly worse (
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by haberman 4y ago
No, most compilers ignore the register keyword, see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10675111
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by haberman 4y ago
Mike's primary complaint is bad register allocation. It is very important to keep the most important state consistently in registers. In my experience, compilers still struggle to do good register allocation in big and branchy functi
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by haberman 4y ago
Yes our solution was to make all fallback functions into tail calls. It solves the problem, but requires a lot of discipline and can be a bit awkward. I recently saw this, which is a very interesting approach for using non-tail-call fallba
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by haberman 4y ago
> I developed a unique way to write interpreters based on threaded code jumps and basic block versioning when I made MiniVM ( https://github.com/FastVM/minivm ). It was both larger and more dynamic than WebAssembly. I
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by haberman 4y ago
> I wonder if wasm3 is using musttail with opaque function calls in the instruction handlers. It will demolish performance, which is why I am only using computed gotos in mine (when available). Even switch-case is faster than musttail wh
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by haberman 4y ago
Their statement glorified the shooting and bragged of the "beautiful shot placement." https://web.archive.org/web/20200630012725/https://twitter.c...
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by haberman 4y ago
> The short answer is because cops defend cops, including bad cops. Show me a group that doesn't do this. In Seattle's 2020 cop-free zone CHOP/CHAZ, the self-appointed "security forces" killed an unarmed 16-year-
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by haberman 4y ago
Google maps lets you mute announcements: https://youtu.be/eSjv8m7lv30?t=45
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by haberman 4y ago
> Indeed, when people say "let's keep politics out of it", they're in effect trying to quell any challenge to the status quo, which arguably is inherently political, and this should probably be called out more often.
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by haberman 4y ago
That makes sense, but GP was calling resistive heating inefficient compared with propane or wood heat, which doesn't make sense to me.
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by haberman 4y ago
What is inefficient about resistive heat? Isn't electricity->heat basically 100% efficient? Maybe you are saying that heat->electricity->heat is inefficient, since most electricity is produced from heat inefficiently. I always
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by haberman 4y ago
It sounds like a recipe for a world of unfettered tribalism, where every space has explicit in-groups and out-groups, and nobody ever has to come into contact with someone who will challenge their beliefs, and where group shibboleths (even
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by haberman 4y ago
> It's always "free speech for me, not for thee" with these people. That's what pretty much everybody is doing at this point. Elon's critics rightly point out the problems with his arbitrary rule by fiat, but w
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by haberman 4y ago
> Not labeling people who disagree with you as “part of a professional managerial class” / people who don’t want to work (propaganda) I see, you get to label others with pejoratives like "propaganda", but others are not al
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by haberman 4y ago
Please tell me, how is one supposed to engage with the "argument" that their personal experience and resulting belief is a "propaganda driven falsehood." That's not an argument, it is pure name calling, and doesn&#
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by haberman 4y ago
I agree. Principles are the only way out of this. People need to feel faith that an evenhanded application of impartial standards will protect both them and their ideological foes alike. Whatever privacy standards are established need to
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by haberman 4y ago
Agree. Which makes it all the more frustrating that popular press focuses on irrelevant distractions, like the fact that if you try really hard, you can defeat the protections designed to ensure that the driver is ready to take over: http
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by haberman 4y ago
> Simply making homelessness less visible has come to be what constitutes “success.” New York City consistently has the nation’s highest homelessness rate, but it’s not as much of an Election Day issue as it is on the West Coast. That’s
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by haberman 4y ago
I understand the need to have heuristics like this, but the hazard is that it allows bad behavior to go unchecked. If people with "good" affiliations circle the wagons, ignoring or downplaying the issue, how will bad behavior eve
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by haberman 4y ago
The other kids are still paid to be educated, using the per-pupil funds that are allotted to those children. What you are saying is that the per-pupil funds allotted to the child who is no longer in public school must still go to the public
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by haberman 4y ago
Nothing in your comment addresses the contradiction that was the subject of my comment.
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by haberman 4y ago
If you dismiss the concerns of wide swaths of parents about how their kids are being educated, but you also want to forbid them from taking their business elsewhere, you're basically saying they should be confined to an institution tha
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by haberman 4y ago
Upthread you argued that small school districts are "vulnerable to being captured by a small local enclave of fundies." Here you argue that such a thing is impossible, that state-wide standards and the first amendment would preve
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by haberman 4y ago
But some charter school networks, such as Success Academy in NYC, are overwhelmingly attended by low-income students.
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by haberman 4y ago
> you'll get to hear rant after rant from that side's best and brightest. Nothing endears me to school choice more than hearing this kind of condescension and dismissiveness towards people who want what is best for their childr
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by haberman 4y ago
That makes sense, thanks. It sounds like a key difference is that Extism is trying to be portable to both web and standalone WASM runtimes. And maybe part of the motivation for a new WASI-like API is that WASI doesn't aspire to be po
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by haberman 4y ago
I'm trying to figure out what Extism is actually providing here. The underlying runtime appears to be Wasmtime, an existing project that you can use separately. For the system API, Extism supports WASI (a POSIX-like API for WASM) which

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