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by j-pb 5y ago
The author list and W3C document are pretty much irrelevant, the actual working group is what counts. After thinking about it some more, I've come to the conclusion that I've actually not been strong enough in my initial accusatio
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by j-pb 5y ago
WebGPU is a textbook case of Embrace Extend Extinguish performed by Apple to kill Kronos and SPIRV, and everybody is cheering it on. Crazy.
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by j-pb 5y ago
This reminds me of some of Startrek's greatest quotes: There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions. - Jean Luc Picard and When has justice ever been as simple as a rul
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by j-pb 5y ago
Kinda, but much more than that and the ergonomics are quite different as the entire language is basically available. For example in Zigs comptime, types are first class citizens which can be queried and operated on. This gives you generics
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by j-pb 5y ago
Rust doesn't reuse concepts well. The different capabilities and subsystems are all build from disjoint building blocks, which you could call modular in a sense, but it doesn't make them easy to use, learn, or joyful. The module s
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by j-pb 5y ago
Hey Yury, Cool stuff! How do you folks solve the large amount of joins that are the result of graph queries? Any worst-case-optimal multi-way-join secret sauce :D? Also, with DBs like Datomic competing in the same area, do you have an immut
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by j-pb 5y ago
Given the ruling that's doubtful, as there is no reason why it should be outsourced. "Datensparsamkeit"/Data-frugality is also part of GDRP, and completely besides the point of google fonts not being a service, nor consp
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by j-pb 5y ago
I don't understand where you get this whole "service" idea from, but it clearly shows that you've never actually interacted with google fonts in any way. Any different "service", would have the EXACT SAME ISSUE
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by j-pb 5y ago
Ignoring the fact that the underlying semantics of that data description are still fundamentally misguided and broken... What you've outlined is the common misconception by the Semantic Web community about what constitutes a living and
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by j-pb 5y ago
With all due respect, your response doesn't make much sense. Google fonts is primarily a github repo with specifically licenced fonts. Google paid a lot of the artists and foundries behind these fonts for an open licence. Therefor ther
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by j-pb 5y ago
If you've ever had the pleasure of dealing with the licensing nightmare of foundries, it's quite easy to see that a small group within google had enough and started the project. We've literally spend tens of thousands of doll
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by j-pb 5y ago
A standard for shorter URI/URN identifiers: https://www.w3.org/TR/curie/ It's needed because of the "readable resource name" criterion I also mentioned. Most of the complexity in RDF is actuall
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by j-pb 5y ago
* Layers upon layers of complexity: Implementing CURIs alone is a non trivial task, although all that's really needed to describe entities and attributes is 128bit UUIDs. * There is no good build-in way for authentication and trust. *
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by j-pb 5y ago
Kudos, this really feels like one of those ideas whose time has come. I'm tinkering on something very similar for longer than I care do admit, except I took on the daunting task of replacing RDF, and I'm sufficiently disillusioned
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by j-pb 5y ago
> Are you saying that the direct mapping requirements I quoted above have been abandoned? Yes. See these quotes: Apple: "Having an isolated focus on SPIR-V is not a good perspective, we have MSL etc. to consider too" ... Apple:
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by j-pb 5y ago
Apple + Mozilla did a bait and switch on developers in a textbook case of: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish The original google proposal was to simply use SPIRV. A compromise was then settled for the intermediary language to be isomorphic to SPI
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by j-pb 5y ago
That was the original sales pitch which has been abandoned in favour of "Lets make a Rust-like language for shaders!". It's a textbook case of: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Google tried to save it, but that proposal was reject
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by j-pb 5y ago
> It’s designed to be efficiently implemented on top of the vendor APIs, so platform vendors can’t block it. Their choice of inventing their own shading language instead of using the ONE standard that the industry finally could agree on
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by j-pb 5y ago
Yeah, it's frustratingly difficult to investigate these avenues of thought, because they are almost by definition out of our grasp. Even worse the barrier to esoteric pseudo-science is very thin.
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by j-pb 5y ago
The incompleteness proof comes to a russel paradox like contradiction, caused by a sentence of the form "I am not proovable." encoded via goedel numbering onto peano atrithmetic. But proof by contradiction itself is problematic,
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by j-pb 5y ago
You missed my point. Incompleteness means that there are true statments for which there are no proofs. But that doesn't preclude proofs that are beyond the proof system that you proofed incompleteness for. A non discete/symbolic p
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by j-pb 5y ago
I often wonder if we simply constructed math the wrong way around. People tend to mentally construct the natural numbers from set theory, wholes from naturals, rationals from wholes, reals from rationals and so on. But what if there is some
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by j-pb 5y ago
A whole pile of joins, that naturally arises if you want to combine data from a ton of domains. Triple stores are essentially relational databases in 6th normal form. But relational databases like SQLite don't have good join algorithms
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by j-pb 5y ago
> only lobbyists of the corporations to get even richer, and corrupt politicians who profit from it. German here. You might have the right conclusion but but the wrong fomula. Germany has been governed by conservatives for the last 20 ye
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by j-pb 5y ago
The mess we're in, in terms of software security and reliability, when it comes to the infrastructure that runs our world is a textbook case-study on how a free market with profit incentives is neither an efficient nor effective driver
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by j-pb 5y ago
> one tends to want to work with the code rather than just looking at data I've observed the opposite trend. The more senior people get the more they care about the data and less about the code. Programming = Datastructures + Algori
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by j-pb 5y ago
SQL made relational programming possible, when computer were too slow to do declarative programming. The modern aproach would be something more highlevel/declarative like Datalog, but given the context SQL made a good tradeoff in terms
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by j-pb 5y ago
50 years ago, these people were quite common. There were only mathematicians and engineers, but programmers didn't exist yet. The good: Excel, Dataflow Diagrams (commonly found in game, music and arts), SQL, Declarative Dataflow Paradi
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by j-pb 5y ago
> * what to do with a chain of reasoning if a previously asserted fact was retracted (i.e. when being questioned by the system, you realise that a previous answer was wrong) Mixing up the concepts of "forgetting" (a monotonic o
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by j-pb 5y ago
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