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by hankman86 2y ago
Java Web Start always seemed like a lazy approach to bring legacy desktop apps into the web. Something you would associate with enterprise software, where end user experience apparently does not matter. I remember lengthy downloads of jar f
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by hankman86 2y ago
Some JavaScript engines used to (or maybe still do) detect asm.js compliant code and then AOT-compiled it into machine instructions. You could theoretically write asm.js code by hand. But that would have been error prone and laborious. For
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by hankman86 2y ago
It is not entirely clear from the article, but apparently, they still use Java for their calculation engine. And then transpile it into JavaScript. Which makes me wonder whether instead of porting this code base to WasmGC, a partial rewrite
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by hankman86 2y ago
I wonder if the rules of continuous improvement apply to ML models. It seems that regressions are very easy to pick up. And that with a complex task like FSD it is virtually impossible to use the established tools to safeguard the stack fro
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by hankman86 2y ago
They should teach Tesla’s “autopilot” (and its FSD upgrade) in business schools. Turns out you can sustainably push up company valuation on vapourware. You have to wonder if Tesla’s autonomous driving technology was actually ever meant to t
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by hankman86 2y ago
What is the adoption for passkeys? I do not get the impression that they will replace passwords or “social” logins anytime soon.
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by hankman86 2y ago
Companies like 1Password must be having a bad day. They have previously been held back by Apple, resulting in a poor user experience on iOS. And now Cupertino is entering into direct competition. Let’s see if Apple reaches feature parity an
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by hankman86 2y ago
His personality aside, Tesla shareholders might come to the conclusion that he has made a number of bad decisions that hurt the company’s prospects. To name a few: the Cybertruck (not being in the pickup truck market per se, but the product
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by hankman86 2y ago
The reason for why these are so cheap in China is cutthroat competition that sees manufacturers selling their cars at a loss. Chinese manufacturers are basically cleaning the slate in the domestic EV market.
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by hankman86 2y ago
If true, then why is he still the CEO? Lying to the board is a big red flag. In particular when it is withholding material information. The whole OpenAI company structure is suspect to say the least. Having a dishonest person at the helm do
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by hankman86 3y ago
Maybe volunteering for this procedure makes the patient get prioritised for a human kidney transplant?
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by hankman86 3y ago
Ethics aside, wouldn’t chimpanzees or bonobos be more suitable donors for a kidney?
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by hankman86 3y ago
Investors are waking up to the fact that they are investing into a car manufacturer, not a software stock. Also, their EV-only strategy makes them vulnerable to the slower than expected uptake of electric vehicles in many markets. Lastly, i
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by hankman86 3y ago
What makes you say that? An EV is more than the drivetrain (where Tesla’s are said to be more efficient). EVs from other manufacturers have batter suspension, noise insulation, steering etc. Have never seen their infotainment system. My BMW
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by hankman86 3y ago
Poor usability and the generally spartan interior are the reasons why I did not even look at Tesla and ordered a BMW i4 instead. Sadly, they too have moved functions like the aircon into the touch screen. But at least you still get a driver
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by hankman86 3y ago
Agree. Mazda has the best design among Japanese carmakers. They will probably end up as a sub brand of some Chinese EV maker.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Here in Australia, News Corp (owned by the same Murdoch family who is also behind Fox News) is currently running a campaign against agricultural solar. A key “argument” being that installing solar panels on fields makes it impossible to gro
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by hankman86 3y ago
Makes me wonder whether we will eventually see dedicated hardware acceleration for common server tasks such as JSON parsing.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Only if sensible people continue to run the public health authorities. You now have people that refuse to vaccinate their children against measles, COVID vaccine hesitancy is a widespread phenomenon with some people resorting to heresay rem
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by hankman86 3y ago
Australian here. We recently had a kitchen bench top made from engineered stone installed. I was previously entirely oblivious to the risks involved. Suffice it to say that we would have chosen a different material had I known the health bu
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by hankman86 3y ago
Exactly, on the slow processors of the day, the Turbo Pascal compiler absolutely sprinted through the code. A far cry from today’s complex build systems that take forever to compile a program which can do exactly the same thing.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Turbo Pascal is what got me into programming. I remember spending hundreds of German marks on a license for Borland Pascal 7.0 and later Delphi 1.0 and 2.0. I ended up developing my first “commercial” software that I sold for money. In the
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by hankman86 3y ago
Nobody except SpaceX has developed reusable rocket stages, including other US-based aerospace companies. And it is very unclear how much SpaceX really saves in launch costs.
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by hankman86 3y ago
The US government keeps funding SpaceX through a number military and civilian contracts. Not to mention the in kind support that SpaceX receives from NASA. Arianespace does not get as many publicly funded contracts that would pay for expens
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by hankman86 3y ago
It is the default choice nowadays. Most people on the Internet are not emotionally invested in whose browser they are using. They just want to use a browser that works on every site.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Google is so reliant on ads, they will probably push through with this. More ads in search, YouTube, GMail and the wider Web is the only way for them to grow revenue. More other Google businesses are small fish compared to their ad revenue.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Exactly. Being able to effectively block ads is a highly desirable feature. All it takes is a well-funded marketing campaign that educates users when Google stops supporting MV2 extensions.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Microsoft 365.
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by hankman86 3y ago
That’s actually a meaningful way for other browser makers to differentiate themselves. Notably Firefox, but potentially also Microsoft Edge. While Edge is based on Chrome, they could decide to keep supporting manifest V2 extensions.
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by hankman86 3y ago
From an end user‘s personal, YouTube‘s ad block detector is unwanted malware, running on hardware that YouTube does not own. If there is no law against that, then there should be. Let’s face it, the advertising and data harvesting revenue m

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