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by sfink 9mo ago
It's a good reason to choose Rust over C++ for that application , and others that share its characteristics. (Or, more to the point of the article, it's a good reason to declare that Rust is faster than C++ for that application.)
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by sfink 9mo ago
It did not contribute to a yes/no answer, which is good, because it is not answerable with "yes" or "no", and the article points that out and explains why. So I would disagree; it does contribute to answering the
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by sfink 9mo ago
Yes. "Is language X faster than language Y?" means "Is language X better than language Y?", which means "Do you like language X more than you like language Y?", which means "Do you have more experience wit
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by sfink 9mo ago
It's complicated, though mostly that complication doesn't change the overall conclusion. Much of the language's semantics can be boiled away before JIT compilation, because that flexibility isn't in use at that time, whi
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by sfink 9mo ago
My initial guess would be "because of the zero-cost abstractions", since I read "zero-cost" as "zero runtime cost" which implies shifting cost from runtime to compile time—as would happen with eg generics or
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by sfink 9mo ago
Yes, it's the stock configuration to be not broken. If you are ok with breakage in exchange for less fingerprinting, the config setting privacy.resistFingerprinting is right there: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US&#x2F
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by sfink 9mo ago
Pedantically, Temporal also deviates from the fundamental nature of time itself. Temporal.Instant? In which accelerating frame of reference? It supports equality , which is a nonsense concept.
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by sfink 9mo ago
UTC is a fine default time zone, but that doesn't matter here. A datetime with a timezone and a datetime without one are two different things, both of them useful. My birthday does not have a time zone. My deadline does. The company de
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by sfink 9mo ago
The control interface burned into your hardware device will not have been rewritten. And it's not like you can have a flag day where everyone switches over, so the lifespan of those hardware devices isn't that relevant. Backwards
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by sfink 9mo ago
If you are morally obligated to use your own resources if you have them, then you're stratifying society. The financially comfortable can never ride a bus. The rich cannot drive themselves. Nobody can ever learn what those less fortuna
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by sfink 9mo ago
The title bothers me. It suggests to me that "AI" is a single thing. If two guys are tested and turn out to be not that great at reading MRI images, should the headline be "Male radiologists miss nearly one-third of breast ca
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by sfink 9mo ago
That jumped out at me too. It stood out amid the (excellent) performance model validation.
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by sfink 10mo ago
(I haven't used AI much, so feel free to ignore me.) This is one thing I've tried using it for, and I've found this to be very, very tricky. At first glance, it seems unbelievably good. The comments read well, they seem corre
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by sfink 10mo ago
> you want to keep users hooked to extract some value from them Ironically, that's what I initially liked about the daily puzzles like Wordle: they forcibly prevented you from sinking too much time into them. It was sort of like, &q
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by sfink 10mo ago
"Logic programming"[0] is what I've always heard this stuff called. I was introduced to it with Prolog. "Declarative programming"[1] is kind of a superset of logic programming, which may or may not be the aspect tha
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by sfink 10mo ago
I am using "x" to mean that the line item is addressed by the article. Sorry, I guess that's backwards from the original intent of the checklist. I am saying that the article addresses every reason for doubt that the checklis
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by sfink 10mo ago
Based wholly on the claims in the article: [x] it is impractical to manufacture at scale. [?] it will be too expensive for users. (Cost unknown, but it's part of a $35K motorcycle, which somewhat limits the possible range unless there&
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by sfink 10mo ago
iron crab porn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_peak https://biologyinsights.com/why-do-things-keep-evolving-into... http://127.0.0.1/Downloads/
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by sfink 10mo ago
Don't be so judgemental, dying is traumatic! Who wouldn't want a little somethin' to take the edge off?
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by sfink 10mo ago
> This is not true, based on what I've read about it. Do you have personal experience with these orgs that suggests otherwise? Yes, I work for MoCo. > Regardless, nothing is stopping Foundation funds from being directed to Firefo
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by sfink 10mo ago
Ah, but your words say Mozilla should be doing more than nothing, they should in fact be winning: > With that income there's no reason they shouldn't be the leading browser. despite having less resources than their primary comp
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by sfink 10mo ago
Hm. I'm dumb so you'll need to spell it out for me. MoFo and MoCo both have contributors, yes. Both have unpaid contributors, which apparently are not who you're talking about. Both also have paid people who work for them. Wh
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by sfink 10mo ago
Contributors are people. Donations are dollars. People ≠ dollars. Unless you grind them up and eat them as sausages, but don't do that. The anti-theft threads will get stuck in your teeth.
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by sfink 10mo ago
I find this whole "I gotta be able to turn off AI!" thing to be silly, personally. Do you also want to be able to turn off anything that uses binary search? Perhaps anything written in C++? Ooh, maybe it's nested for loops! T
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by sfink 10mo ago
Are you implying that the direct competitor, Chrome, is taking in the same or less? Chrome has a much larger staff (excluding the rest of Google), so I guess they must all be earning a small fraction of Mozilla staff salaries. Such dedicate
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by sfink 10mo ago
Not relevant here. Yes, you can donate to Mozilla.org and stipulate whatever you like, but Mozilla.org does not develop Firefox so telling them to use it for developing Firefox will do about as much good as telling them to use it to resurre
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by sfink 10mo ago
No part of this is true, fwiw. His salary at Mozilla was not high and he was a strong advocate of keeping executive compensation low (and as supporting evidence, that compensation shot up soon after he left). He may have made more from Brav
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by sfink 10mo ago
I've been using Firefox for a long time, longer than it's had that name, and it used to be excellent for my tab hoarding habits. Specifically, it could handle a large number of tabs, and every couple of months it would crash and
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by sfink 10mo ago
Appropriate amount of effort for what purpose? Is it appropriate for me to use ChatGPT on my mathematics test because it is the least effort required to pass the test? Or is it inappropriate because the goal should have been to learn the ma
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by sfink 10mo ago
> It's light but dense, What does that mean? It's tough enough that you can make it thinner? It dries out more fully? Or does "dense" refer to something other than density, like tightness of the grain?

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