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by muglug 3y ago
The IE 6 to Firefox migration started about 20 years ago. The world of browsers today is _very_ different. You may not like Google's influence, but they don't hold back technical innovation in the way that Microsoft did with IE 6.
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The vast majority of users absolutely don't care about data residency or "privacy", however you interpret that word. You can convince individuals to care, but good luck convincing a large group. What can happen (and has happe
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Who knows whether it will be successful, but (as the article says) Apple have created the first commercially-available device that has all the necessary components for an immersive VR/AR/XR experience. If this range of devices doe
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Sure, but how good can it get with transformers? Is there some upper bound imposed by this overall approach? We don't know that yet, either.
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For the most part the new samples still sound like melodic nonsense — in all but one of the examples the melody doesn't fit properly with the chords underneath. It really does feel like the output of a music blender. The style transfer
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by muglug 3y ago
> The average American only made 60K in 2022 The average American does not run an organisation that delivered food for 90 million meals to residents of the greater Boston area last year. > to the average voter, this salary is obscene
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by muglug 3y ago
It was a great video, and a great paper. As someone who writes quite a lot of Hack, I'm selfishly interested in whether you plan to open-source this work (not the weights, obviously, but everything else).
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by muglug 3y ago
That CEO runs an organisation that delivered food for 90 million meals to residents of the greater Boston area last year (according to them). That salary is on par with a senior engineer at a big tech company who, one might reasonably argue
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by muglug 3y ago
Progamming language evangelism is basically a zero-sum game. Some languages don't really intrude on one another's territory — e.g. not that many people are rewriting Ruby programs in Rust — but some very directly compete. So if yo
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by muglug 3y ago
Chatbots can be really useful. At my org we use a chatbot for pull requests — you get pinged by the bot when the PR is ready to merge, with a button in the chat interface that merges the PR — no need to open GitHub and locate the big green
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by muglug 3y ago
I predict there will be another six months of these sorts of articles, accompanied by a raft of LLM-powered features that aren't nearly as transformative as the people currently hyping AI are telling us to expect. The engineers I know
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Neckties are a great example. They're a good rejoinder to Musk's recent farcical argument that since most blue-collar workers cannot work remotely, it's immoral for white-collar workers to resist Return-To-Office mandates [1]
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Yeah, but it's easier to complain about a different region's government.
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My understanding was that TypeScript would be more parellisable than Flow, which itself is plenty parallelisable: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.08021.pdf
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by muglug 3y ago
The approach is simple (I've implemented it, and so have many others): It takes three steps. Steps 1 and 3 are parellisable, and 2 should be very quick: 1. Convert every file in the repository to an AST, and perform static reflection o
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by muglug 3y ago
Nobody is married to Node.
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> If you ask a Chinese citizen what their biggest problem is, many of them would say too much federalism. Presumably that’s because protesting against the central government endangers not just your own livelihood but also the livelihoods
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by muglug 3y ago
cURL is written in C, and also (definitionally) IO-bound so the benefits of rewriting aren’t obvious perf-wise. JS linters running in Node are mostly CPU-bound. You can get an order-of-magnitude improvement from writing those tools in Rust.
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Yeah, that helps them stay close to the community and prevents any air of superiority that can come from writing Rust. But, while I’m sure it was really important initially, there are now very many test cases and early-adopters to help prev
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This is really impressive work, which can benefit other large JS tools. I realise this is sort of a dead horse, but rewriting the Typescript checker in Rust would not be an impossible task for a team as well-resourced as Microsoft’s. I know
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> Psalm has been a god send on the project I’m working on. Thanks!
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I have rewritten more-or-less the same tool, 100KLOC, in Rust and PHP. I can't tell you about Python or Node.js Use PHP if - you're in a hurry and you already either know PHP, or the script is going to call other PHP code you&#x27
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> To note, you'll need strict mode for type hints to be useful This is not really true — those type hints can be read by static analysis tools, preventing you from many of the issues that would also be caught in strict mode at runti
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I have fixed lines of code that cost many multiples of this in compute cost. At $previous_company, user-initiated account deletions were only soft deletes, and we were supposed to actually delete data 60 days after the request (in case peop
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The problem of VR goes beyond hardware innovation: most people don’t want to completely shut themselves off from the world for hours on end.
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> Absolute pitch is a curse for musicians. I wouldn't go that far — it was occasionally advantageous for me as a singer, when sight-reading music with a ton of weird intervals (e.g. Poulenc's Quatre Motets).
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That’s a very strange response. There are a ton of trivial reasons why it’s important for future natural language interfaces to understand ambiguity. If I tell my friendly omnipotent AI friend “I hope I never hear from Dave again” there are
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The enemy of this entire thesis is the layers of additional complexity required by such “innovation”. Each layer has its own API and update mechanisms, all of which slow down developer productivity (especially when inheriting a project you
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> Neither one is a different language. Both merely add type annotations to an otherwise pristine ECMAScript code base. This isn’t really a matter of debate — Microsoft describes TypeScript as a programming language distinct from JavaScri
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Every so often a language comes out that allows frontend developers to put something other than "JavaScript developer" on their CV. First CoffeeScript, then Flow and TypeScript, then ReasonML, and now Rust with WASM & web macr

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