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by rictic 8y ago
Possibly! But trickier than it seems at first. For types to help with optimization, those types have to be correct and reliable (i.e. sound). If every line of your app and all of its dependencies are sound, then you should expect a speedup.
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by rictic 8y ago
> to avoid bidding at the monopoly price. Can you expand on this? What's the monopoly of?
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by rictic 8y ago
I like all three languages. I spend most of my time with JS because it runs in the browser with no overhead, and it has the highest quality VMs.
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by rictic 8y ago
A person is a midlife crisis[1] or a railway accident[2] away from being a totally different entity. There is no absolute trust, just risk assessment and reevaluation. [1] I thought it was just a cliche until I saw it happen to someone. She
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by rictic 8y ago
People love to talk about trolley problems, but they almost never happen. Every accident myself or anyone I know of has gotten into was entirely the result of simple human error, with no difficult ethical decisions involved.
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by rictic 8y ago
Still definitely possible for browser plugins to do anything they want to Shadow DOM. For open shadow roots, javascript can crawl them. If handling closed shadow trees is necessary, just patch Element.prototype.attachShadow and keep a WeakM
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by rictic 8y ago
True, but neither virtual-dom nor lit-html replace the entire tree.
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by rictic 8y ago
Gzipped source in a high level language can be much smaller than the equivalent bytecode. That's not why these demos "Hello Framework" demos are 3-7MB though. That's due to the cost of shipping an entire widget system th
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by rictic 9y ago
All of these examples are running on preemptive multithreaded operating systems, so implicitly yielding and getting scheduled is in the cards even if your process is managing its own concurrency with cooperative multithreading.
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by rictic 9y ago
To take the same information and present it in a different way: this legal services company is able to win a lawsuit that an unassisted or naive litigant would lose. They make some money, the person who was harmed by Equifax gets some money
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by rictic 9y ago
I'm ignorant of the details, but WASM is an assembly language that's designed from the ground up for running untrusted code. It will also have multiple independent open source implementations, which has some nice properties.
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by rictic 9y ago
When I delivered pizzas (2006; Pizza Hut; Alabama) there was a small additional consideration for gas and wear and tear on my vehicle. As I recall it was around 1/6th to 1/10th of the the ~$6 an hour wage I was otherwise making.
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by rictic 9y ago
Can you provide any citations yourself, or will you stop at simply insults and bare assertions?
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by rictic 9y ago
Creating a cancel token gives you two things: a token and a function. You call the function when the token should be cancelled, and the token can tell you when it has been cancelled. The simplest way to query the token is to call token.thro
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by rictic 9y ago
Can you expand on that? How would an agent-based API propagate exceptions?
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by rictic 9y ago
Yes, but this has a natural analogue in promise land: function startTask() { const promise = doTask(); promise.catch((e) => { if (e instanceof SpecificErrorType) { handler(e); } else {
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by rictic 9y ago
> I also don't see why the unhandled exception from the background thread cannot terminate main thread. Why not? That is how unhandled exceptions are supposed to work. Terminating the program is the optimal default behaviour for any
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by rictic 9y ago
This is a fundamental issue with multitasking, in that an independent task will have its own stack, so errors can't propagate up the stack of the function that started the task. e.g. consider this python code: def start_task():
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by rictic 9y ago
Neither lazy nor eager is neutral. Sometimes you want one, sometimes you want the other, and you can build either out of the other. For promise cancellation, this has been talked to death, but in short, making any function preemptable at an
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by rictic 9y ago
Quoting the OP: > Also, preload links from the Link response headers, as described in https://www.w3.org/TR/preload/#server-push-http-2 , can be pushed, if enabled with the "http2_push_preload" directi
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by rictic 9y ago
If there was another way to ship an application that can be accessed in one click, in less than a second, with shareable urls, I'd be interested. Other nice things to see: multiple independent open source implementations of the applica
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by rictic 9y ago
What? Why?
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by rictic 9y ago
By itself this isn't very impressive, but there's more context in the wings if you pay careful attention to the TypeScript type system. Take a look at https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/213
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by rictic 9y ago
Very closely related is the concept of cost disease: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/04/11/notes-on-co...
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by rictic 9y ago
Pinker explicitly addresses this argument, both in Better Angels and in the free chapter of the new book linked from OP. Quote: So you’re saying that we can all sit back and relax, that violence will just take care of itself. Illogical, Cap
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by rictic 9y ago
The fact that a law is broken is not a counterexample of the law existing. War was once the default, and lauded. Now it is the exception, and is decried and worked against. When a war happens we ask ourselves why, and the international comm
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by rictic 9y ago
For an example of this model today, take a look at the wonderful A-Frame library for doing 3D scenes, including web VR.
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by rictic 9y ago
If you have a system where anyone can provide storage and anyone can buy storage, then you need to have a system to verify that the files are actually being stored. As I understand it, that's filecoin mining. Filecoin eliminates a lot
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by rictic 9y ago
It didn't add anything to the conversation.
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by rictic 9y ago
In brief, an attacker is an agent or group of agents that execute a double-spend attack. In Ethereum's proposed PoS system, all stakeholders that collude in the double-spend attack would have their stake destroyed. These properties are

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