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541.
by nynx 6y ago
Now that Linux is starting to be more receptive to rust (drivers only for now, but perhaps in kernel down the line), these parsers should be replaced by implementations in Rust asap.
542.
by nynx 6y ago
It's strange to me that people try to fight against legalizing assisted suicide. If there's one thing a person should have the right to do, it's to decide whether they want to continue their life or not.
543.
by nynx 6y ago
How does believing that all things are information differ from believing all things are matter? Those sound just like two sides of the same coin to me.
544.
by nynx 6y ago
Wolfram has produced a number of interesting articles, as well as a book, that explore the meta-landscape of cellular automata.
545.
by nynx 6y ago
I've heard this idea in the context of Dyson spheres/swarms. The issue is that, while they'd be invisible or dim to the eye, the areas would be very bright in infrared.
546.
by nynx 6y ago
Uh, you're both. After that, the two copies would diverge, so they'd eventually have different experiences and personalities, but with a common past. And yeah, killing one of them would be murder, if they've had a chance to d
547.
by nynx 6y ago
Sorry, I shouldn't have said something if I didn't have something good to say. Should I delete it, or just leave it?
548.
by nynx 6y ago
That's a good point.
549.
by nynx 6y ago
For example, look at rust's [0]. It claims to vary in size depending on os, but on Linux, at least, it's 20 bytes. [0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/net/enum.IpAddr.html
550.
by nynx 6y ago
No, the time isn't really what I'm referring to—ip addressing is complicated. But it shouldn't require having to work around the language to do this kind of thing.
551.
by nynx 6y ago
What an insane amount of work for something that would be fixed, in a better language, by better value types and algebraic enums.
552.
by nynx 6y ago
Some people do think that. There are whole fields of philosophy about it. > Even adhering to materialism, the problem... If you don’t require continuous experience, then this issue goes away. You certainly didn’t experience living before
553.
by nynx 6y ago
Probably not right now, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. Anyhow, a laser propelled solar sail would make the journey to, say, alpha centuri in more like 20-40 years. There's really not much point in slow travel if
554.
by nynx 6y ago
I don't really see a difference. You experience a discontinuity every night when you sleep. Of course, this entire concept is reliant on materialism. If you believe in a soul, then I'd probably find it difficult to convince you th
555.
by nynx 6y ago
There is foundational research being done on destructive brain scanning and emulation. It is decades—at a minimum—away from being more realizable. You don't need to send a generation ship, just solar sails powered by massive laser inst
556.
by nynx 6y ago
If warp drives actually are feasible (either sub or super liminal), that'd be great. However, it seems to me that it's much more likely we'll travel between stars as digitized minds that are recorporialized at the destination
557.
by nynx 6y ago
What's an alternative to async/await that's explicit about runtime costs?
558.
by nynx 6y ago
That's an evocative title.
559.
by nynx 6y ago
I feel like this needs to be more of a browser extension than a per-site thing. You'd be able to see all the places that link to this page that have been created or seen by a group that you're in.
560.
by nynx 6y ago
this is a good thing
561.
by nynx 6y ago
This is literally what web browsers are.
562.
by nynx 6y ago
What an incredibly useless article.
563.
by nynx 6y ago
What a beautiful website.
564.
by nynx 6y ago
Be careful when you say that everything can be converted to C. While that's true in a naive fashion, it gets rid of a lot of additional information. For example, Rust can sometimes beat C because it's (1) often more friendly to au
565.
by nynx 6y ago
See, that's what I also thought, but I've heard that the built-in bounds checking can be pretty buggy. I'm not an expert though. Yeah, compared to modern desktop GPUs, which can hit probably 20-30 times this, it's not th
566.
by nynx 6y ago
This seems accurate to me. Not sure why they'd be forced to remove it.
567.
by nynx 6y ago
Poor guy
568.
by nynx 6y ago
You probably won't get this performance when webgpu is finalized. It has to add bounds and sanity checks. It's unclear how much worse the perf will be.
569.
by nynx 6y ago
This is great stuff, Jeff. I sponsored athens for a while—stopped after you got funded by YC—but I'm still glad things are going well. Now that there are a couple of apps that are doing this kind of thing, I think it might be time to
570.
by nynx 6y ago
Compute shaders are already supported and I believe support for opencl kernels, which are essentially expanded compute shaders, is on the long-term roadmap.

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