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541.
by titzer 2y ago
Don't forget the part where we tried really hard to stop but denial and corruption meant we kept at it for decades too long.
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by titzer 2y ago
100% Orwellian doublespeak and doublethink from here on out.
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by titzer 2y ago
> Wilful ignorance equates to evil in this case. The media are absolutely craven, too, constantly normalizing insanity and pretending like even idiotic things are legitimate proposals that should instead be laughed out of the room. Like,
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by titzer 2y ago
> only learning from catastrophe. Worse. 1.1 million people died in a deadly plague and there's no national mourning, just straight back to the culture war and polarization.
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by titzer 2y ago
> You can call it legitimate policy Nothing is legitimate about this. Literally everything they are doing is both illegal and completely unconstitutional. They have thrown out the entire rule of law and it is a pure flex of power, a shoc
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by titzer 2y ago
Insurance companies are parasites. They extract $200 billion from the system in order to tell you that you can't get treatment. It's supposed to function as a risk pool and instead it functions as a tax--which is utterly dystopian
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by titzer 2y ago
> let's delegate the hardest part back to the caller! Obviously, an expert would write the security policies and make them reusable as libraries. Incidentally, that is what WASI is--it's not only a new security model, but a new
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by titzer 2y ago
Yes, but the engine doesn't need to do this, you can do this on your own time as a library. As there are literally dozens of Wasm engines now, thin kernel interfaces are a stable interface that they can all implement in exactly the sam
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by titzer 2y ago
> you need to reimplement parts of Linux Again, no. The security policies we have in mind can be implemented above the WALI call layer and supplied as an interposition library as a Wasm module. So you can have custom policies that run on
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by titzer 2y ago
It does not throw away the Wasm sandbox. Sandboxing means two things: memory sandboxing and system sandboxing. It retains the former. For the latter you can apply the same kinds of sandboxing policies as native processes and achieve the sam
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by titzer 2y ago
A thin kernel interface isn't a reimplementation of a kernel. The WALI implementation in WAMR is ~2000 lines of C, most of which is just pass-through system calls.
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by titzer 2y ago
> the downside is that it means you have to re-invent the world to work with this flavor of runtime. This is at least one of the reasons we've been building thin kernel interfaces for Wasm. We've built two now, one for the Linu
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by titzer 2y ago
Zero of whom pay for the product. They are the product. What this leaves out is that the real customers, advertisers, already have a fully-functional hyperscale system creeping on users and pushing ads in their face. It's akin to cro
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by titzer 2y ago
> Good. > That said, I agree with the article that this change...[is happening] for other reasons. Just to be clear, you're explicitly stating that you're fine with the government threatening corporations and individuals ove
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by titzer 2y ago
It's funny how that works out. Welp, let's have a look at how that stock market is doing....oh look, more GDP growth, everything is hunky dory.
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by titzer 2y ago
Another thing big programs have is a huge ramp-up phase where they construct the main guts of their massive heap. Splay, for example, benefits from have an enormous nursery in the beginning because for the startup phase the generational hyp
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by titzer 2y ago
It's great that none of these AI models are being foisted on us by advertising companies.
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by titzer 2y ago
Nice project! One killer feature would be the ability to connect to the debugger via a socket and control it. Gdb has this interface and for some use cases it's great. As one of those long-tail "native" languages, Virgil migh
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by titzer 2y ago
I, for one, abhor the idea of megacorps running models and AI as a service as they do now. If nothing else, the internet proved to us that an absolute gold mine of technological value can and will be enshittified to the point of unusability
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by titzer 2y ago
Terminals are a good example of something that seems really simple but is a major PITA because of too many different vendors in the early days, and no industry standard emerged. What is the closest thing? VT100? VT102? I mostly write raw to
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by titzer 2y ago
And disks. And the cloud. Or basically, you know, computers.
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by titzer 2y ago
> sometimes great abstractions are precisely the ones that decide to not isolate some complexity and allow the user to be a 'power user'. I agree with this. Sometimes abstractions are the wrong ones. In a layered system, where
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by titzer 2y ago
I agree that examples matter a lot, and for some reason a lot of introductory OO stuff has really bad examples. Like the whole Person/Employee/Employer/Manager dark pattern. In no sane world would a person's current r
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by titzer 2y ago
> Don't ever use inheritance. Instead of things inheriting from other things, flip the relationship and make things HAVE other things. This is called composition and it has all the positives of inheritance but none of the negatives.
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by titzer 2y ago
> The fear of exorbitant medical costs in our privatized healthcare system scare me into thinking I need a fortune to feel safe It wasn't an accident. Near as I can tell there is a not-insignificant part of the American psychologica
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by titzer 2y ago
This article really resonated with me. Unfortunately I think things aren't going back. What the article doesn't appreciate--and we techies don't either--is just how much the scale of today's tech market absolutely dwar
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by titzer 2y ago
> healthcare specifically Yes, it is deeply unethical that someone can be bankrupted and become homeless because of a treatable condition because the "market" has decided a price for the service that is astronomical without ins
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by titzer 2y ago
Oh yes, these things are exactly equivalent. Problem is, nothing about the health system's incentives aligns with consumer benefit. The most profitable outcome for an insurer is that everyone pays premiums and never uses any services
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by titzer 2y ago
Indeed, I think a lot of people undervalue or are unaware of how important the soil microbiome is. That can't be restored at scale and requires the active participation of the other parts of the ecosystem, particularly the digestive tr
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by titzer 2y ago
This is the problem. It's not just being in the area, it's inhalation/ingestion and direct exposure to radioactive dust. If you look at [ https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications&#x2F

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