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by jmull 3y ago
It looks like this is just in a beta version of iOS. I’ll worry if/when ios gets released like this.
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by jmull 3y ago
> This idea that AI will not impact jobs is ridiculous. Is that a very widespread idea? I haven't really seen it, though I guess I try not to hang out places on the internet where there's too much nonsense. I mainly see people
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by jmull 3y ago
Sure... but there are degrees of closeness to HTML and the closer to HTML it is, the less translation you have to do and the easier it is to deal with. That is, the closer to HTML the better. Plain javascript is a crappy way to represent HT
814.
by jmull 3y ago
You're just pointing out that svelte isn't 100% the same as HTML... That is true... but of course, if you wanted 100% HTML, you aren't looking for a framework at all. The approach in svelte is that you write the HTML parts of
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by jmull 3y ago
That's not the same because the abstraction a mature computer language provides is nearly complete (not totally complete, of course, but the situations where you ought to go digging through machine code or lower are pretty rare). Outsi
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by jmull 3y ago
I'm not a big fan of HTML itself, but I do think svelte is right to focus on it for specifying UI. That's because HTML is the native language for describing UI in the browser. No matter what you use to specify UI, you have to und
817.
by jmull 3y ago
On its own it sounds like hand-wavy marketing bs to me... Then again, svelte has a great developer experience, so I would say he's delivering on this.
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by jmull 3y ago
It's hard to tell if you're joking but in case this is meant seriously or is taken seriously... HN is heavily moderated and it certainly wouldn't be the place it is without it.
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by jmull 3y ago
Doing his job to provide for his family. How terrible.
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by jmull 3y ago
If you reduce it by 50% you save 50% waste. If you reduce it by 75% you save 75% waste. You dont' have to entirely wipe it out to save a lot of waste, just make it harder and/or more costly. Attack the supply side, attack the dema
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by jmull 3y ago
There is no single fix, of course. In situations like this you prioritize... you cut the larger things that have the least value per amount of energy used. Ending crypto mining is the easiest no-brainer in the history of energy systems.
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by jmull 3y ago
The scam app was called LassPass.
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by jmull 3y ago
What's LastPass? You and I know, but the great majority of the people in the world do not. And, of course, we only see the cases where the scam app gets through. The success rate for these scams might be pretty low, but from our perspe
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by jmull 3y ago
"responsive app can fetch smaller images" is not really exclusive to jxl though. For any format you can store an image at multiple resolutions/quality-levels and a responsive app can download the one with the size/qualit
825.
by jmull 3y ago
If you don't keep track of the high-quality originals, how much do you really care about having the highest quality? That's what I mean by "tweener" solution. You care a little about quality because you don't want t
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by jmull 3y ago
I think the situation here is something that's good for a specific user but bad for the wider community. It seems like the perfect case for an authority to step in. Think about what the rationale for having a common utility even is: a
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by jmull 3y ago
> internet-scale communities just not working well I think you have to dig into that, and figure out why internet-scale communities don't work well, and then whether or not bluesky addresses it. First of all, what does internet-sc
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by jmull 3y ago
Word to the wise: be very careful about adding semantics to unique ids that aren't inherent to the identity of the thing being identified. Over time conflicts between the id's primary job (uniquely identifying something) and the e
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by jmull 3y ago
I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I'll play devil's advocate here... > Lossless JPEG recompression (20% on average) Lossless JPEG recompression isn't that valuable because it's a "tweener" s
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by jmull 3y ago
> Why single out JPEG XL? Hopefully it isn't singled out, and any prospective support for a new image format gets the same scrutiny. The question is different for any image format that is already supported, because removing it break
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by jmull 3y ago
> "But instead this was just another development thread Google single-handedly stopped out of nothing but ego?" There's a reasonable cost/benefit argument against standardizing JPEG XL in browsers. You don't have
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by jmull 3y ago
> I don’t even understand what this comment means in this context. Not OP, but it means you should expect beta software to be broken and incomplete. How would you know this isn't due to a bug introduced in the beta? Seems as likely
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by jmull 3y ago
That's great, but not relevant to the topic of memory safety in C#, which is all I was addressing. I think you are making a point in the broader discussion of C# vs. rust, but that doesn't fit here. (And, personally, I don't
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by jmull 3y ago
It isn't, but neither is rust. Safe rust is safe from data races, but that's just one kind of potential thread safety issue -- one of the simpler kinds. It's not nothing, but not anywhere close to thread-safe.
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by jmull 3y ago
> C# doesn't have ownership/lifetimes and the kind of safety that comes with them. That's not really true. Like rust, C# is memory safe, although it comes at it in a very different way. "safe" rust does inherentl
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by jmull 3y ago
Yeah, generally, you want to validate as early as practical... catching problems sooner is better than later. I think the problem might be separation of concerns... pkl comes in early, and by design is separated from your app and the detail
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by jmull 3y ago
> let’s examine the hypocrisy of singling out bitcoin specifically It isn't being singled out though. There's widespread concern across a broad set of cases where energy is being used. Also, if you recognize that the use of ene
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by jmull 3y ago
> No, ideas are worthless, anybody can come up an unlimited number of these ideas If you're trying to create a commercial device, the idea is such tiny part of what it takes to deliver a successful product that it is close to worthl
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by jmull 3y ago
Seems like quite a stretch to suggest broad, long-term economic stagnation is due to ineffective use of software. It also doesn't really make sense that "great leaders" is a solution. There's also a final recommendation
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by jmull 3y ago
> ...not trying to prevent the use of the term. I don't even understand how it's not obvious. The post says it's just an excuse to crack down on free speech, suggesting that it has no validity as an actual idea, that the

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