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by hajile 1y ago
I'd rather write JS/TS than most of the other popular languages.
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Chaining requires creating a class and ensuring everything sticks to the class and returns it properly so the chain doesn't blow up. As you add more options and do more stuff, this becomes increasingly hard to write and maintain. If I&
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by hajile 1y ago
Closures won over OOP in Javascript a long time ago (eg, React switching from classes to functions + closures), but they still keep trying to force garbage like private variables on the community. Loads of features have been added to JS tha
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by hajile 1y ago
JS devs who started around or just after covid are everywhere. JS devs with 10+ years of experience are a small fraction of the market at this point. JS devs with any number of years of experience who also understand JS (or even just CS in
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by hajile 1y ago
There's something special about the JS specs and test suite. There are very few languages where you can write/run the same piece of code across so many different runtimes without major issues.
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Java was never going to replace JS in a practical way because of security and the Java JIT taking forever to load and warm up.
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by hajile 1y ago
For the same reason someone would use Lua or MicroPython. If you're moving from a $0.50 to a $1.00 chip due to the overhead of using the higher-level language and save just one $200,000/year dev in the development process, you&#x2
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Jscript was the most evil of all the JS implementations. It's the reason why MOST of the thing people hate about JS are still in the language. They wanted to remove a bunch of the badly-designed stuff from the language, but MicroSoft h
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The rumor is that Intel might not offer 18a to external customers rather than getting rid of 18a itself. A lot of this seems to be due to their design libraries still being quite proprietary and not much to do with the viability of the proc
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When Biden came into office, he kept MOST of Trump's tariffs on China and even added a bunch of his own. Despite the marketing, the tariffs are fairly bi-partisan among the congress.
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This isn't very surprising. Intel has already been making their GPUs at TSMC for quite a while now (I believe using N4). Porting and validating that GPU to Intel fabs would be expensive and take a lot of time. There is talk about the n
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There are moves being made to test ships with modern "sails". Here's a paper published about a cargo ship fitted with 4 sails in 2010. The findings are interesting with it achieving up to 25% better fuel efficiency when using
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by hajile 1y ago
Intel's fab issues are overstated in my opinion. They were stuck on 14nm for a very long time because they bit off too much with 10nm. People act like that means ALL research in nodes smaller than 10nm must have stopped, but that'
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by hajile 1y ago
> LuaJIT supports Lua 5.1 From what I understand, LuaJIT was removed before Lua 5.2 was released, so that wasn't the reason. https://luajit.org/extensions.html LuaJIT supports most of the features of Lua versions af
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by hajile 1y ago
I accept the pay I'm offered not because it is based on the value I add, but because I know I'm getting screwed over and have no real recourse. Businesses have all the power whether you are trying to negotiate your FTE salary or a
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He removed LuaJIT from the benchmark opting to use the much slower Lua (Lua is used for small embedded stuff and LuaJIT is used for high-performance stuff with a popular recent example being the game Balatro). Here's the Vercel version
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I started out freelancing. You have to spend large amounts of time finding clients and being a salesman as you sell yourself and your services to them. Once you do that, you have to prove that you're the person you promised. Unfortunat
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Lua was designed in 1993. This was back when MS-DOS was still cutting edge and the 66MHz Pentium was cutting-edge consumer technology. Even "modern" languages often don't have features like first-class functions, closures, pr
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by hajile 1y ago
If salaries were based on value added, a lot of software dev salaries would be orders of magnitude higher.
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by hajile 1y ago
I use most of the best vim features in VS Code with their vim bindings. You'd be hard-pressed to find a popular editor without vim bindings.
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If it struggles with the representation, that makes it an even better test of the AI's thinking potential.
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If China ever succeeds in outmatching TSMC in both process and wafer output, Taiwan would have already lost as the big reason for defending them disappears.
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The whole point of MAD is that you can't prevent a second strike from also eliminating your own country. This was all worked out 70-80 years ago.
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That was when the research wasn't stable. Any nuclear scientist today knows WAY more about the do's and don'ts of creating nukes than we did when muddling through the Manhattan project. Making basic uranium nukes is time cons
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This is simply not true. Iran's religious dictator issued a Fatwa declaring nukes haram. This is why they've consistently stopped at 60% enrichment. In a religious cult, everything rides on the leadership. He can't just come
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TSMC is an economic nuke and not just by accident. The Taiwanese intentionally tried with several industries it heavily subsidized to find one where it could make itself so valuable that other countries (with nukes) would be compelled to pr
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The people in Gaza have been starving for nearly 2 years now. Israel was stopping most food trucks from entering for well over a year of Biden's presidency.
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Israel ran out of bombs. Biden sent them more so the destruction and killing could continue. Just one phone call from Biden saying STOP would have halted everything, but Biden is a self-admitted Zionist who never really wanted to stop thing
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Kamala and Biden both promised MORE war with Ukraine while already backing Israel in their genocide too. Trump promised LESS war with Ukraine while having softer backing for Israel and (generally) turning down the heat during his first pres
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This is where the logic stops. If Iran is going to behave logically with a nuke, then why is it so terrible for them to have one? If they are illogical, then why would they NOT choose to wipe out Israel and blow up a couple major US cities?

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