pavlov

38 ms·

781.
by pavlov 2y ago
Hmm? It’s not like a JavaScript exception crashes the entire browser tab. Client-side JS is event-driven. An unhandled exception stops processing for that event, but doesn’t block other events.
782.
by pavlov 2y ago
WP Engine is both Mullenweg’s uncle and stepfather? It’s all starting to make sense.
783.
by pavlov 2y ago
The United States also has a long history of issues with what is modern Canada. They attempted an invasion in 1812. That’s the kind of ancient nonsense that nationalists love to dig up.
784.
by pavlov 2y ago
Jokes aside, the recent MAGA talk of buying Greenland and taking over the Panama Canal and annexing Canada is an example of the same kind of vindictive nationalist mindset that rose in Russia after 2000. Nobody in Russia cared about Ukraine
785.
by pavlov 2y ago
What’s the end-user segment where Lua is more widely known than JavaScript? Game dev, possibly (even that seems highly debatable). But the article was making the case that Lua should be more widely used outside of that niche.
786.
by pavlov 2y ago
My humble opinion is that most applications that need scripting should just embed JavaScript. It has a massive advantage in the existing ecosystem. People don’t always love it, but millions of them already know it. You don’t need to re-lear
787.
by pavlov 2y ago
Apparently the 1858 epoch comes from an astronomy standard calendar called the Julian Day, where day zero was in 4713 BC: https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~rkj/crazytime.txt To make these dates fit in computer memory in t
788.
by pavlov 2y ago
What exactly is the confusion? Does “parameter efficient fine-tuning” mean anything in context of the other Lora? If not, then it’s probably obvious which one this is about.
789.
by pavlov 2y ago
MicroStrategy is publicly listed, which is kind of special. I don’t think there’s a lot of celebrity investor hedge funds that are public. Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is listed in London and trades at a substantial discount to net asset v
790.
by pavlov 2y ago
MicroStrategy’s stock price seems to roughly parallel the price of Bitcoin during this bull market. They are not a simple leveraged Bitcoin fund, but something more complicated where the founder’s personality plays a big role. So I guess th
791.
by pavlov 2y ago
Back in the late 1990s, multi-language support was part of the original design of the <script> tag. Microsoft’s market-leading browser defaulted to VBScript rather than JavaScript. But of course people wanted interoperability rather t
792.
by pavlov 2y ago
MicroStrategy seems heavily leveraged, which creates extra risk on the downside. If the underlying asset doubles, MicroStrategy roughly doubles. But if the underlying asset goes down by 50%, MicroStrategy is stuck paying interest on loans i
793.
by pavlov 2y ago
Curiously there’s someone else in this same comment thread also using PNW without explaining the abbreviation. It’s giving me Baader-Meinhof phenomenon vibes. Anyway, for the benefit of non-Americans, the “PNW” is basically Seattle and Port
794.
by pavlov 2y ago
Is it really better to print “Unhandled exception” or “Internal server error”? Sometimes there just isn’t more context available to an error. This was even more the case 30 years ago, when errors were often nothing more than a numeric code
795.
by pavlov 2y ago
What can I say, "Report Spam" seems to work for me. I'm just a customer of Fastmail.
796.
by pavlov 2y ago
There is a "Report Spam" function which is two clicks away (it's in the "More" menu).
797.
by pavlov 2y ago
> “That's why arrays-of-structs are considered cache friendly” Sounds like you mean structs-of-arrays?
798.
by pavlov 2y ago
Do Apple and Google stop you from opening a web browser and navigating to any web site? Because that was the trillion-dollar vision for mobile operator owned WAP portals around 1999. They would completely control access to online services o
799.
by pavlov 2y ago
Both are true: WAP was technically a well-intentioned (if poorly designed) solution to a real problem, while also being a cynical power grab by the operators. The problem turned out to be more short-lived than anyone imagined in 1999, and f
800.
by pavlov 2y ago
> “HTTP is also too inefficient for wireless use. By using a semantically equivalent, but binary and compressed format it is possible to reduce the protocol overhead to a few bytes per request, instead of up to hundreds of bytes.” Arou
801.
by pavlov 2y ago
“Assume the role of an expert in naming things. You know, a… what do they call those people again… there must be a name for it”
802.
by pavlov 2y ago
CD-ROMs were extremely slow from a modern point of view. The original 1x speed was 150 KB/s, or 1.2 Mbps. That’s like trying to stream over a 3G mobile network with substantial packet loss, except it’s physically inside your computer.
803.
by pavlov 2y ago
> “In fact it is known that DOS 2.0 could not be built on PCs at all, and was built on DEC mainframes.” Nitpick, but DEC never made a mainframe. Their products like the PDP-11 were considered minicomputers (even though the CPU was the
804.
by pavlov 2y ago
Sure. HN is very actively moderated, and most people here probably agree that it’s worth it. (Those who don’t like it presumably don’t stay here.) But at the massive scale of Meta or ByteDance, there is a difference between removing problem
805.
by pavlov 2y ago
There's also a heavy element of manual curation in TikTok. They have people putting their fingers on the scales to decide what content gets promoted. Where are those people, and what's their agenda? Who knows. Releasing the recomm
806.
by pavlov 2y ago
Thank you for the gracious reply, it’s very much appreciated. The reason I have strong feelings about this topic is that I want America to continue succeeding, and I wanted to be part of it but it didn’t make practical sense for me. When I
807.
by pavlov 2y ago
The static “papers please” mindset killed the Soviet Union and many other empires before it. Americans somehow managed to avoid it for over two centuries. I know you don’t want my opinion, but you probably shouldn’t give up on that achievem
808.
by pavlov 2y ago
I’m crying about that in my beer tonight, getting paid a Silicon Valley salary by an American company while living in my home country. You have made it so complicated and unattractive to stay in the country that you don’t care about losing
809.
by pavlov 2y ago
What reasonable requests? There isn’t (yet) a task force that goes door to door in Manhattan knocking on doors and checking immigrants’ papers. We are Finnish citizens and if the passports really had been lost, we could always get new ones
810.
by pavlov 2y ago
When I was in the US with visas for my four-person family, we FedExed our passports to Finland where my parents put them in a different envelope and mailed them to the US embassy. Ten days later the embassy mailed back the passports with th

More ›