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by the_duke 5y ago
Out of curiosity, and particularly because I'm working on a Webassembly based alternative to Kubernetes: What would you do differently if you could start from scratch?
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by the_duke 5y ago
> Only some Falcon 9 launches recover the first stage Almost all boosters are are recovered. Flights that need enough acceleration to make the landing impossible are extremely rare. Falcon 9 already provides more payload capacity than mo
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by the_duke 5y ago
I still haven't been able to use Bevy yet, but as always: the release notes are a joy to read and the speed of development is impressive. The only question concerns the missing last paragraph: what's next on the roadmap? Is a UI o
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by the_duke 5y ago
> Pretty sure async traits are coming soon (next couple of versions?) No. There are ideas for how to do it, but as far as I know they haven't been tested out yet. It also relies on pretty large features that are not proposed for sta
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by the_duke 5y ago
When a Python tool is unexpectedly fast the answer is almost always: because the expensive part is implemented externally in a low level language.
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by the_duke 5y ago
In addition: long before AWS you could easily rent virtualized or dedicated servers. It took longer to provision than EC2 and all you had for storage is a fixed amount of disk, but that was absolutely sufficient for many businesses.
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by the_duke 5y ago
I hope that will improve when they switch out the Matrix implementation from JS to Rust, especially for the desktop version. (which is planned, I think)
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by the_duke 5y ago
There are billions going into extremely boring software startups all the time. The amounts raised by these "New Space" startups is relatively modest in comparison. Sure, there is no way that the launch market will need Rocketlab,
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by the_duke 5y ago
You can sort of create or your own threaded channel list by using spaces. That use case was actually mentioned in the spaces announcements. Of course the UX for spaces isn't exactly great either atm.
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by the_duke 5y ago
Until a large company either creates and heavily invests in a new language, or integrates an effect system into a very popular language like C# or Java. Sadly I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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by the_duke 5y ago
What you want is an effect system. Check out Koka lang for a very interesting implementation: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#why-effects
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by the_duke 5y ago
The best case WASM performance is roughly 20-50% slower than native code, depending on the runtime and the type of code executed. In the browser you have to also factor in the warmup time. I'd imagine an interpreter will suffer a lot b
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by the_duke 5y ago
My point was that if the goal is to "save bee populations", as the article claims, then we can do that by providing the natural habitat that bees need.
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by the_duke 5y ago
A few years ago my cousin decided to have a wild garden. She just removes some weeds, but lets most things grow unchecked. The garden is now always full of bees in summer. So sure, we can invest millions in robotic beehives. But we could al
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by the_duke 5y ago
Go doesn't have (automatic) backtraces. If you don't wrap errors with a trace or with a custom message you often have no idea where the error came from.
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by the_duke 5y ago
Is the ridiculously annoying process for ending your Prime subscription also just accidental, bad UX? It miraculously uses very similar patterns.
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by the_duke 5y ago
There are so many red flags here, it's not even funny anymore. * a third party has barely restricted, deep access to all customer data * the "SuperUser" app can apparently have logged in users idling around in a VM, waiting f
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by the_duke 5y ago
Full functionality with platform native users, limited functionality with third parties is still a lot better than no functionality for third parties. The bigger issue is malicious compliance. I can see companies deliberately making the exp
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by the_duke 5y ago
Edit: whoops
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by the_duke 5y ago
What a weird and potentially misleading statement. * They stress that the compromised account wasn't able to "create/delete users or download customer databases", but not what it could do. Could it change passwords of ac
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by the_duke 5y ago
The Deno standard library is not bundled, but separately fetched as a dependency for each embedded file.
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by the_duke 5y ago
Wasm has no access to any browser APIs by default, so yes. You can expose the required functionality via JavaScript bridges. The current Rust (wasm-bindgen) and C/C++ (emscripten) tooling exposes the the whole browser API by default th
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by the_duke 5y ago
I'm happy to have a technical discussion, but your comments always stop at "Wasm bad", without countering the arguments.
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by the_duke 5y ago
You keep repeating this, but it's simply not true. The syscall surface is zero by default. WASI of course expands that by a lot, but sane WASI implementations require restrictive whitelisting of available resources like specific files
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by the_duke 5y ago
I believe a law mandating 6 or 8 years of security updates is in an advanced stage already.
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by the_duke 5y ago
I personally know several translators. Most of them either already left the field or are considering it. Freelance/contract work with lots of time pressure, low pay and no benefits is the norm. With ML translations becoming better, muc
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by the_duke 5y ago
I have long wanted a layered, hierarchical, curated aggregator for the most the most important news articles. It should be be browsable by region (world - continent - country), by timeframe (year - month - day), by topic (economy, politic
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by the_duke 5y ago
Hetzner has very cheap cloud servers with generous traffic allowance. See https://www.hetzner.com/cloud Last time I asked they were officially OK with users running bridge and exit nodes. Consider doing that if you'd r
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by the_duke 5y ago
The fact that a brand new account account is feverishly trying to frame Tor as enabling abusers gives me confidence in the fact that Tor is actually really useful for circumventing censorship right now.
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by the_duke 5y ago
This can be mitigated by creating a new WASM instance for every job. Even if there is internal corruption, the most it can affect is the output of the single task, nothing else. That can of course be enough to causes damage, but the attack

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