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by jpgvm 4y ago
I think you might be confusing parallelism with concurrency somewhat. Writing highly parallel software is only important in certain domains. However concurrency is pervasive due to I/O, you will struggle to find a domain that does no I
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by jpgvm 4y ago
No matter how connected it is a $1T total market cap (at it's peak) is just not large enough to matter. If it goes to zero it goes to zero, no large financial institutions will shed a tear other than for whatever fat fees they were mak
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Well I don't know about most people but to speak for myself I mostly write high performance network servers, databases and queues and in my world concurrency (if not parallelism) is strictly necessary. For me it's also not a recen
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by jpgvm 4y ago
The OpenJDK team is also persuing structured concurrency so we should have multiple interpretations shortly to compare. Exciting stuff for folks that write highly concurrent software.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Nothing. If I have children and they are like me (i.e on the spectrum) then I will homeschool them. School was by far the worst time of my life and also contributed the least to my success. I succeeded in spite of traditional schooling, mos
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by jpgvm 4y ago
The entire crypto market is a drop in the bucket. It could all go to zero tomorrow and not have any significant impact on anything (except maybe risk sentiment for a short period). The cheap cash situation on the other hand is the elephant
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by jpgvm 4y ago
West-aligned still trumps democratic. The West generally doesn't have a problem with authoritarianism but rather with competition or obstruction of their economic goals. When the opposite is true they will gladly turn a blind eye to an
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by jpgvm 4y ago
RIP mate. Far too good of a soul to be gone so young. Didn't get much news between his last surgery and now, which at the time was pretty upbeat having removed the tumour from his arm. Guessing it didn't stick and it metastasised
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by jpgvm 4y ago
It's possible for it to be faster over long distances because light travels faster in vacuum than in glass fibre and likely less hops in space vs terrestrially where transit would need to go via several carriers to reach far destinatio
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by jpgvm 4y ago
The regional speed differences are due to Starlink current reliance on ground stations and terrestrial backhaul. If they can get sat-sat links working and transition their backhaul onto those links that will no only eliminate the regional p
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Oh that is a good one too. I would actually kind of dig that if one could get off the ground.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
There is also the matter that between Clojure (a Lisp), Scala (an ML/FP/fraken-language), Kotlin (multi-paradigm/"modern syntax") there isn't a lot of space for new JVM languages to explore right now unless you
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Ok yeah I missed that one. That obviously happens more often than both of these actually.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Anecdotal from knowing a lot of fellow entrepreneurs in the space that pivoted into things like hazardous environment training, etc don't have any hard supporting evidence sorry. Specifically most of these companies were originally try
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by jpgvm 4y ago
This happens all to often though. Small company comes out swinging to upset the status-quo, essentially poking the bear. From there it either plays out one of two ways depending on how competent the management of the incumbent is. 1. They u
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by jpgvm 4y ago
I hate usage of verbiage like "unable to" when it's very clearly "don't wish to". Abusing language to make it seem like there is some hard barrier to you performing some task really annoys me. They clearly are
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Traditionally nothing. However Taiwan became the centre of semi-conductor manufacturing and research such that it is now crucial to the national security of almost every nation, not just the US. However the real reason why Taiwan can't
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Yeah I think it's a difference in philosophy somewhat. PostgreSQL and Linux aren't standards, they are just shared infrastructure. If Chromium was to become the same thing we could have just had WebSQL assuming maintainers agreed
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by jpgvm 4y ago
I think there is a big difference between engine monopoly vs browser monopoly, however that does depend on how well governance works for the Chromium project (I really don't know enough to assert anything concrete). Namely an engine is
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by jpgvm 4y ago
I don't think the IE comparison is apt. IE shipped on (almost) every machine, had a ton of lock in features like ActiveX, etc. MS actively abused their monopoly position to make it so preventing default installation of Netscape by OEMs
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by jpgvm 4y ago
It creates a hosted Wordpress account, i.e they don't need a custom CMS, they need Wordpress.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
As a resident of Asia I can tell you that people were wearing masks in late-January 2020, as soon as the outbreak was apparent in Wuhan. This wasn't the first rodeo for SE Asia, scars of past pandemics has made the response here much m
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.07115.pdf
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by jpgvm 4y ago
People don't take short positions against highly volatile assets like crypto because sometimes the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. The risk of a short position greatly outweighs the benefit even if you
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by jpgvm 4y ago
That is much less of a problem than the reverse scenario. Being sceptical of something doesn't necessitate a strong understanding, being an advocate does, or at least should. Remember the existing systems work and thus far crypto isn&#
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Not really. It's using a bytecode IR (intermediate representation). An IR is effectively a mid-point between JS and machine code. The benefit of using it is a) it's generally executable by the interpreter with minimal processing b
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Direction of JVM, Java and the other guest languages (Kotlin and Clojure mostly) is probably the bright spot of tech right now.
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by jpgvm 4y ago
To be fair he is coding Java. He has literally been chilling in an ecosystem that has not only stood the test of time but is seeing a big resurgence... Unless you count J2EE falling by the wayside or SOAP not being hot anymore most of Java
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Ok. As a fellow Java fan I think you need to stop painting everything new with such a broad brush, that is a recipe for depression. Sure there is lots of rubbish out there. You probably shouldn't touch Lambda with a 40-ft pole, Go is m
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by jpgvm 4y ago
Fair, I should have qualified my statement to "for JS". I don't think it's reasonable to compare to Forth/Lisp (or even Lua despite similar language capabilities) because of how pervasive JS is from a runtime perspe

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