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by stmw 1y ago
I first thought this was going to be a story about big tech company bureaucracy, where the staff ate all the good ideas.
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by stmw 1y ago
Signal
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Texas flood lives could have been saved with a phone app that tailored alerts?(philip.greenspun.com)
3 points by stmw 1y ago|0 comments
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New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies(eecs.mit.edu)
3 points by stmw 1y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 1y ago
Briefly, because overall risk = new inherent risk / (architecture * security reputation * ongoing maintenance investment) Even without arguing over whether JIT engines are inherently risky or add much risk given the modern computing en
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by stmw 1y ago
I don't think that follows, esp. since when we're talking about a mature, actively commercially maintained JIT engine.
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by stmw 1y ago
That's not... really the same.
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by stmw 1y ago
I could easily imagine a functional-programming JSON transformation language, or perhaps even a JSLT based on latest XSLT spec. The key in these things is to constraing what is can do.
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by stmw 1y ago
It's nice to see this. Things used to be simple! (XSLT itself should've been simpler of course). BTW, as I commented on earlier HN threads re: removal of XSLT support from HTML spec and browswers, IBM owns a high-performance XSLT
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by stmw 1y ago
No, I don't think that's the right way to characterize it - it's not compression, it's separation of concerns. The original concept for XSLT was to separate the data from the presentation - and many successful systems we
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by stmw 1y ago
IBM owns a very high-performance XSLT engine they could probably open source or license to the browser makers. IF anyone from IBM is here (?), may want to consider it..
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by stmw 1y ago
Re: "It's an accident of history that '12 VSR wasn't promoted as much as Raft would be, two years later. " - more accurate to say MIT vs Stanford difference.
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by stmw 1y ago
Interesting way to think about, I am not sure I quite agree, but good points and surrounding discussion for sure..
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by stmw 1y ago
Both the Raft algorithm and its explanation are excellent, including this little animated demo that Diego Ongaro (who is also a great guy) made to help explain his invention. While Paxos was first and still popular, I am not sure I would co
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Renowned evolutionary biologist to lead Academy of Sciences beginning June 2026(news.uchicago.edu)
1 points by stmw 1y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 1y ago
Website link is broken?
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by stmw 1y ago
Same re: virtual memory systems (using guard pages), that is an old idea that works well but it did once produce a really unpleasant bug in production... But that was an unfortunate implementation mishap.
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Tom Lehrer, Mathematician and Musician Who Set Wicked Satire to Cheery Tunes(thecrimson.com)
3 points by stmw 1y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 1y ago
Some credit also given to the US Naval Academy archivists (usna.edu), and whoever preserved his files to begin with.
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by stmw 1y ago
It is always interesting how such principles are much older than our current examples!
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The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos(rickovercorpus.org)
78 points by stmw 1y ago|19 comments
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by stmw 1y ago
Integration and endless QA with the websites for form-filling, and various tricky user flows with sync across desktop and mobile.
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by stmw 1y ago
Strategically this doesn't make a lot of sense to me (password management is a natural adjacent product to their core offering), but I am sure they had lots of data that showed it wasn't succeeding. Having been involved in passwor
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by stmw 1y ago
I think this sort of stuff only comes after a LOT of experience with building SQL db backed systems - it resonated with me immediately. (I'm the OP but not affiliated with this Rust project at all).
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by stmw 1y ago
Agree with zbentley, I actually wouldn't expect this to work well - perhaps a good thing for sqlx team to warn against.
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by stmw 1y ago
Thanks, interesting experience - so much depends on getting developer ergonomics right. There is something to be said for checking the SQL at compile-time, though - esp. if trying to ORM to a typesafe language.
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SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit(github.com)
180 points by stmw 1y ago|97 comments
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Historic Apollo Mission Control Center(spacecenter.org)
4 points by stmw 1y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 1y ago
To use XSLT effectively, you need an intuitive understanding of functional programming, a good grip on low-level HTML5/CSS details, and an engine that can run it quickly and correctly. The first of these is very rare, especially among
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Raymond Laflamme (1960-2025)(scottaaronson.blog)
28 points by stmw 1y ago|2 comments

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