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Toner interviewed about Altman's firing: "We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter."(threads.net)
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by ngrilly 2y ago
I read too fast and thought you wrote something like "I like Lua so dang please look at it" :)
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What is the autonomy? How many hours of "normal" use should we expect?
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by ngrilly 2y ago
Go is doing much better on memory use because 1) it is AOT compiled, 2) it tries to allocate as much as possible on the stack (escape analysis), 3) it supports value types (the items of an array and the fields of a struct are contiguous in
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by ngrilly 2y ago
I’d say the biggest problem of interpreted, JIT compiled, and GCed languages is not the speed; it’s the RAM use. I agree that quite often we don’t need the speed of close-to-the-metal. But there is something wrong with most programs eating
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by ngrilly 2y ago
This paper from 2020 has been peer reviewed: https://openreview.net/forum?id=uKZsVyFKbaj
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by ngrilly 2y ago
It is quite amazing that after we had so many talented researchers working for decades on this problem, the authors were able to come up with such an elegant and simple solution. Another proof that research is very necessary and useful.
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It's great that ISO is offering this possibility! But then, why don't we have more ISO standards freely available? Is it because the contributors don't want them to be free available, in order to sell books or trainings?
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by ngrilly 2y ago
If the ISO is not willing to change their mind on that question, then let's work with other standard organizations. ISO doesn't have a monopoly, as we've seen with the IETF and the W3C. I've been in the situation of buyi
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by ngrilly 2y ago
> Dive into the Standard: read the 628-page ISO GQL standard (cost: 217 CHF) for a comprehensive understanding of the language’s specifications. You want to make this a standard? Then make it free. We live in 2024 in a world where most o
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by ngrilly 2y ago
They are saying the opposite: we follow existing standards as much as possible.
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by ngrilly 2y ago
If I understand correctly, the SQLite library would be embedded in a sidecar processes that would run on the same machine as the app main process, instead of having the SQLite library embedded directly in the app main process? But then, wha
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by ngrilly 2y ago
That’s unfortunate. Good to know. Thanks for sharing.
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by ngrilly 2y ago
Are you sure that dot files aren't synced? According to other users, they are synced, but not visible in the iCloud web interface and the iOS Files app: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255263958 https:/
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by ngrilly 2y ago
Search works with end-to-end encryption enabled? Even for files not available locally?
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by ngrilly 2y ago
Considering that the language is "not done yet", I think the documentation is quite ok for now. But I'd really like a proper language specification, similar to https://go.dev/ref/spec , updated in lockste
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by ngrilly 3y ago
As usual, Ars Technica's coverage is much better. Thanks for the link!
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by ngrilly 3y ago
V8 is a runtime for JS exactly like the JVM is a runtime for Java and CLR is for C#. Which means that whatever sandboxing V8 needs, the JVM and the CLR would need it as well. I don't know what makes you think that the JVM and the CLR h
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by ngrilly 3y ago
My mistake. Thanks for correcting.
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Yes, this is quite fascinating how GC replaced manual memory management in most apps over the last 20~30 years.
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by ngrilly 3y ago
> Also, given that tracing GCs are used by ~90% the market, they hardly require justification anymore; they've won by a large margin over the application space (which constitutes most of software). Tracing GCs have clearly proven th
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by ngrilly 3y ago
Having been following PostgreSQL's development and casually reading pgsql-hackers for years, Simon Riggs is a name I immediately associate to PostgreSQL. It's clear he will be missed. Rest in peace.
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by ngrilly 3y ago
PostgreSQL's development never looked like design by committee.
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by ngrilly 3y ago
How do you define it? Is it different from what the related Wikipedia page is saying? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_trust_security_model
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by ngrilly 3y ago
You're right. If we define zero trust as not trusting by default the users, their devices, and the network perimeter, then yes it's compatible with TLS interception. But if the rationale is that vulnerabilities can happen anywhere
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by ngrilly 3y ago
> Citation needed. I'm wondering as well. My guess: these practices are not mandated by law, but by industry "standards" that are part of contractual agreements, and required by a customer or an insure company, for example
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by ngrilly 3y ago
> Can't enterprises just MITM the traffic and sign it with a CA the clients trust? This is what Zscaler is doing. I know because my company was (unfortunately) using this.
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Those organizations are claiming they rely on zero-trust principles, and yet they fully trust a proxy placed between their users and Internet, able to replace all the TLS certificates of the origin servers with its own certificates, in orde
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by ngrilly 3y ago
Exactly. Which means other processes running on the same server can cause latency on disk access but also on RAM, which was the point I was trying to make :)
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> Async await can express exactly the same thing as goroutines without any alteration in structures, so by definition it cannot be “less readable” because the code is exactly the same. I agree that in many cases the "structure"

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