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Bloaty McBloatface 1.0(blog.reverberate.org)
3 points by haberman 8y ago|0 comments
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by haberman 8y ago
I ordered a Tesla Model 3 yesterday. When I see the "Full Self-Driving Capability" checkbox at checkout time (it's an option you can pay $3,000 for right now) I just have zero confidence that they can deliver on this. Almos
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by haberman 8y ago
For those of us with Mac laptops, is there a reason that the laptop itself with TouchID and Secure Enclave can't act as a U2F security key? Maybe that is what this is? https://github.com/github/SoftU2F
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by haberman 8y ago
I absolutely love that this study was accompanied by a FAQ ( https://www.thessgac.org/faqs ). My interpretation of this FAQ is that it provides a great deal of context that would be apparent to people in the field (and theref
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by haberman 8y ago
Are you suggesting that browsers should just embed a JVM or CLR? Those are huge runtimes that evolved independently of the design constraints of the web. Java Applets were available in browsers 20 years ago and lost to JavaScript. Why wo
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by haberman 8y ago
My bad, I read about these too quickly. Still, unless you are in the CLI ecosystem, these are not very compelling propositions. WebAssembly is a response to the shortcomings of previous iterations of the universal bytecode idea.
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by haberman 8y ago
Managed C++ and C++/CLI are not C++. They will not help you if you have an existing C++ codebase, or if you want to avoid GC.
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by haberman 8y ago
> The "infrastructure" is usually a just a C header. It's more than that. These languages often come with build systems for building extensions. For example, Ruby's 'mkmf'. You just list your .o files and
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by haberman 8y ago
> To confirm, you're looking for an interpreter? I'm interested in an interpreter that is available as a library. I'm also interested in a small, standalone JIT-compiled implementation, but that seems less likely to actual
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by haberman 8y ago
I want something that could easily be embedded into dynamic languages VMs like Ruby, Python, PHP, Lua, Node.js, etc. I like Rust a lot, but for better or worse, all the infrastructure around this is currently built around C/C++.
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by haberman 8y ago
Java and the CLR are not suitable targets for C or C++ compilation. Likewise with Python Bytecode. Using LLVM is exactly what Google tried with PNaCl. It had a lot of drawbacks; WebAssembly is a much improved iteration of this idea.
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by haberman 8y ago
Are these proposals "a la carte" or does each accepted proposal make the basic WebAssembly spec bigger? Like if the GC proposal is accepted, does every WebAssembly implementation now need to support GC all the time? Or can a slim
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by haberman 8y ago
Is anyone working on a small, portable, reasonably fast standalone C implementation? I am looking for the Lua of WebAssembly implementations.
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by haberman 8y ago
Several people found my blog entry on this enlightening: http://blog.reverberate.org/2015/08/monads-demystified.html
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by haberman 8y ago
It seems that altruism can be explained without resorting to group selection. Statistically speaking over history, your group is overwhelmingly likely to be your kin. So gene selection / kin selection seems sufficient explanation for
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by haberman 8y ago
75% of women survived the Titanic, compared with 19% of men. ( http://www.icyousee.org/titanic.html ) At the massacre of Katyn, an estimated ~22,000 men and exactly 1 woman were executed by the Soviets. The West has undeniabl
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by haberman 8y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware. How are they different?
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by haberman 8y ago
> I suspect we'll see touchscreen laptops running iOS pretty soon Seems unlikely. From a 2016 interview: > MacOS is meant to be operated with a mouse and keyboard. Apple says it doesn’t make sense to lean forward to touch your Ma
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by haberman 8y ago
In particular, I find this claim questionable: "All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware." https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now... As you mention, this is tri
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by haberman 8y ago
One time I was struggling with some odd R behavior of the sort described by the author. I asked my local R expert. He told me how to fix my program, but I protested that none of it made any sense, even when explained. He didn't disa
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by haberman 8y ago
I experimented recently with writing a user-space ELF loader. Why should ELF loading need to happen in the kernel? Ok, there are some good reasons (the kernel has an easier time of single-handedly cleaning up all file descriptors, memor
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by haberman 8y ago
What 20 pound load could have saved the Titanic? Why wouldn't such a miraculous tool or part have been brought aboard already as a precaution?
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by haberman 8y ago
I've lived near Puget Sound for 18 years and I didn't know it was polluted (except gasworks park, which I know is a Superfund site).
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by haberman 8y ago
> To really answer this you should read "The Selfish Gene." I did. Well the first several chapters at least. I did not find a convincing answer to the question I am raising here. > The phenotype of a gene is not necessaril
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by haberman 8y ago
> The answer is that ants are not organisms, they are organs. The ant colony is the organism. I am confused by this, because this seems to be the "group selection" idea that is vociferously rebutted by Dawkins and others. It is
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by haberman 8y ago
I use CTRL-j and CTRL-k to cycle through my tabs. It's like j/k except for tabs instead of lines: map <C-j> :tabn<CR> map <C-k> :tabp<CR> I also alias ":split" to ":tabe",
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by haberman 8y ago
Why do you presume to say what AirBnB "should not" do? You get to run your business according to your priorities, as does AirBnB's CEO. > Plenty of successful companies managed to create a distinct brand identity using he
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by haberman 8y ago
The author is arguing for critical thinking. If a person makes an argument and we write it off because of that person's identity, that is the opposite of critical thinking. We could as easily write off the Luddites for being violent
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by haberman 8y ago
The author perceives an unjust smear against historical Luddites, and protests the way that this cuts off critical thinking about the issue of technology in our lives. They highlight that historical Luddites had noble and relatable motives
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by haberman 8y ago
What about SketchUp? I'm very new to 3d modeling, but I've been modeling my house over the last week or so in SketchUp and it seems pretty nice. Are 2d CAD and 3d modeling different kettles of fish?

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