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by kg 1y ago
Maintaining a browser is already hard enough, it's a very tough sell to convince 3+ browser vendors to implement a new language with its own standard library and quirks in parallel without a really convincing argument. As of yet, nobod
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by kg 1y ago
Depending on the language, GC is either implemented in userspace using linear memory, or using the new GC extension to webassembly. The latter has some restrictions that mean not every language can use it and it's not a turnkey integra
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by kg 1y ago
Some translations for acronyms and terms from this post (sourced from the glossary in dotnet/runtime along with source code grepping): GC: Garbage Collector DATAS: Dynamic adaptation to application sizes UOH: User Old Heap. I can'
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by kg 1y ago
One of the main problems with refcounting is that unless your compiler/JIT are able to safely, aggressively optimize out reference increment/decrements, you can spend a ton of CPU time pointlessly bumping a counter up and down eve
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by kg 1y ago
I worry that once it turns out this doesn't actually work, there's going to be a revolving door of the 'next new Autism fix' and gradually kids with autism are going to be loaded up with more and more drugs of unproven e
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by kg 1y ago
I can afford it but I would never spend money to submit a vulnerability report. I'd need to be reporting dozens of vulnerabilities on a single site like hackerone to work up the motivation to plug in payment details and risk having the
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by kg 1y ago
> I can't speak for the board or the Ruby Central staff. But I know them and they are like me. They do this because they love Ruby and our community. I'm certain of that. I don't know how to reconcile 'they love Ruby
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by kg 1y ago
I moved to a downtown neighborhood a couple years ago, and got rid of my car when I did. This meant way more everyday walking, and I noticed an almost immediate improvement in how I felt. I'm not even walking as much as you are and it
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by kg 1y ago
> The point is, you're not suddenly facing ruinous bankrupting medical expenses. This is a powerful assumption given how expensive medicine is in the US - even with insurance - and how often people in their adulthood need medical tr
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by kg 1y ago
Vulkan layers being system-wide feels like it's specifically asking for this class of bug. If you're lucky every system-wide layer ships with PDBs... but they probably don't. I've yet to find a bug in a layer, at least,
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by kg 1y ago
I've personally run into stuff like this on Windows but I want to emphasize that the vast majority of developers won't run into these problems. It's basically the equivalent of finding a compiler bug - yes, you might, but usu
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by kg 1y ago
Bulldozing homes to make room for a highway or train is an American tradition, even if we do it less often now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses#Criticism_and_The... > Moses's critics charge that he p
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by kg 1y ago
This is why the new 100k policy allows the government the discretion to exempt their friends from the fee. Want H1Bs? Bend the knee.
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by kg 1y ago
I'll wager if you asked most people what they think "rich" is, the number they pick would not include the vast majority of people posting here on good ol' orange website. Class war is bad for everyone, yes, but it's
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by kg 1y ago
Nothing about this administration is serious.
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by kg 1y ago
Personal decisions in healthcare are about more than just abortion. For example, if miscarriages are criminalized, and access to birth control is restricted - both real things that have been attempted or have actually happened in the US as
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by kg 1y ago
The right was cancelled by the US government?
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by kg 1y ago
Thanks for bringing Wizard to my attention, the next time I need to validate wasm it's going to save me a ton of time.
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by kg 1y ago
Part of the problem is you would need to fork the base class libraries and many popular nuget packages to remove any uses of ref/in/out, along with any interior references, spans, etc. The .NET type system has allowed 'interi
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by kg 1y ago
> WebAssembly apps tend to run slower in 64-bit mode than they do in 32-bit mode. This performance penalty depends on the workload, but it can range from just 10% to over 100%—a 2x slowdown just from changing your pointer size. > This
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by kg 1y ago
I assume this is about adblock. In that case, the PC owner/user's right to control their own hardware takes priority over the content creator's desire to control other people's hardware. Without that fundamental rule, it
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by kg 1y ago
Approval rate doesn't seem to be much of a concern for modern western politicians. The current administrations in the US and some other western countries have abysmally low approval ratings and they're still in power. (This is not
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by kg 1y ago
The way I look at this question is: Is there somehow a glaring vulnerability/missed opportunity in modern capitalism that billions of people somehow haven't discovered yet? And if so, is AI going to discover it? And if so, is a ra
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by kg 1y ago
This technique is used by some existing VMs. .NET does this with a background thread and calls it 'tiered compilation', where methods are queued for recompilation at a higher (more expensive/thorough) optimization level in th
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by kg 1y ago
With how rapidly LLMs are improving, I don't know how you would construct assignments that can't be solved relatively quickly by a student feeding it into a bleeding-edge LLM. Especially since teachers often aren't PhDs and a
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by kg 1y ago
A lot of what people think of as "doing stuff" relies on years or decades of training and experience. When you pay someone to maintain part of your house or to create bespoke furniture or repair your car you're not just payin
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by kg 1y ago
Think about it this way, to be able to say that it takes place annually instead of i.e. biannually or monthly, you need a lot more than one sample per year. You need enough samples to know when it is or isn't occurring. https:/&#
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by kg 1y ago
IMO without SPIR-V, OpenGL 5 would still be at a disadvantage in many scenarios. It's possible we would have gotten widespread support for it even without Vulkan, though.
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by kg 1y ago
Multiple people died as a result of the January 6 riots. Which cities burned down in 2020? I'm curious whether I know any refugees.
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by kg 1y ago
(Disclosure: I get paid to work on .NET) The good thing is that the older techniques to minimize allocations still work, and tools like refs and ref structs make it easier to write zero-allocation code than it used to be. But it's defi

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