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by nahuel0x 6y ago
BigInt as added in ECMAScript 2020, you are seeing and old version: https://262.ecma-international.org/11.0/
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
JS now has BigInt, an integer type with arbitrary precision.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
> We believe JavaScript, instead of Python, could act as an ideal language for expressing mathematical ideas if the proper infrastructure existed. It would be nice to read a rationale about this.
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1c/Tyrian: Run TypeScript / NPM Modules on JVM(github.com)
1 points by nahuel0x 6y ago|0 comments
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Now take in account the ecosystems destroyed and the picture is very different. We must leave behind the humans-only perspective.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
This direction is also analogous to the historical development of programming languages, from bytecodes to textual assembly instructions to (something like) macro-assembler.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Utopias with big capitalist bosses are not utopias.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Not really, an actor can implement an FSM but it also can have an infinite number of states.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
There was an old s.f. short story about the tripulation of an space ship stuck in a planet where they found plastic-eating plants and little animals moved by gears. Somebody remembers the title/author?
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
swc is more ambitious, it wants to re-implement all of tsc type checking, not only transpiling: https://github.com/swc-project/swc/issues/571
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Giving fine-grained permissions to sandboxed libraries is the way forward, and probably a really good use case for WASM.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
a good and rational use of resources, it's not like we are in the middle of a planetary ecological disaster or a possible end-of-civilization climate change crisis. Capitalism at its finest.
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New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter(omgubuntu.co.uk)
56 points by nahuel0x 6y ago|46 comments
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
There is no V8 here, you don't need a JS VM to run WASM. It uses wasmer, a Rust based WASM VM: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
You are right, but this project (or a similar one) who uses WASM based rust nano processes has the potential to leave Go and Erlang in the dust: https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Check this: https://singularityhub.com/2021/01/19/a-language-ai-is-accur...
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RNA Memory Hypothesis(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
156 points by nahuel0x 6y ago|112 comments
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Probably he wanted to be in good terms with Hitler and get it closer to attack the USSR. Chamberlain had a very antisoviet stance (even in contrast with other cabinet members) and maybe he reasonably thought Hitler would not overextend by a
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Not only the coup against Hitler was a real possibility if Britain defended Czechoslovakia, but also the british knew about it first hand. Kleist, a german emissary of the anti-Hitler faction in the Wehrmacht, was secretly visiting Britain
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Is interesting to read the words of Trotsky just after the Munich agreement was signed, predicting the upcoming Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the upcoming war: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/10&#x
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Tapestry: Project Loom Primitives for Clojure(github.com)
2 points by nahuel0x 6y ago|0 comments
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Note, beyond all sarcasm, I adhere. At least all critical pieces like sudo must be rewritten in a safer language than C.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
"rewrite sudo in Rust" in 3,2...
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Also found MarkText, MIT Licensed: https://marktext.app/
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
I just found typora[0] and Emacs "M-x markdown-toggle-markup-hiding" :) [0] https://typora.io/
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Somebody feels we need to found a middle way between full WYSIYWG and two pane source/preview for Markdown writing?
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Sometimes fear of the unknown is very useful for survival purposes. There is a reason we evolved with it.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
> By design, CPU clocks have jitter to resist timing attacks. Where did you get that info? Never saw anything like that.
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
Maybe future historians will grab his heads when they find out we consumed the energy of a mid sized country during a climate change global existential threat just to run a big speculation digital game. In some sense, bitcoin seems to be th
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by nahuel0x 6y ago
"Grothendieck's political views were radical and pacifist, and he strongly opposed both United States intervention in Vietnam and Soviet military expansionism. He gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi w

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