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by titzer 3y ago
This is the role of benchmark suites and top 500 lists.
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by titzer 3y ago
What is the thought process that goes into thinking such a thing is a good idea, then proposing it, arguing for it, and then it being approved (presumably) by product managers and executives? It's just a downward spiral at this
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by titzer 3y ago
You can share Wasm memories between workers. It's clunky and low-level, but it's as fast as hardware can be, with no serialization steps.
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by titzer 3y ago
I get that the manufacturing process doesn't produce pure samples, and that it's highly likely that the sample has many "islands" of the right lattice structure within it, of various sizes and shapes. What I don't g
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by titzer 3y ago
Google maps doesn't do this, it's done by lower levels of software, specifically Google Location Service which is built into Google Play Services. You can tinker with maps settings all you want, but the data is coming from the roo
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by titzer 3y ago
The x87 ISA was an absolutely boondoggle which took 3 decades to recover from. It was so clearly not designed by CPU architects. What a disaster.
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by titzer 3y ago
> Attempting to get bit-exact reproducible results across different hardware is a fool's errand (if you care in the least about performance). We did it for Wasm, which follows IEEE-754 semantics exactly for 32-bit and 64-bit floats.
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by titzer 3y ago
No. Changing the rounding behavior of floating point code is not generally OK. Numerical algorithms are often extremely carefully written and it is totally unpredictable what adding more precision can do. For example, adding more precis
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by titzer 3y ago
It was probably hard to predict at the time, but floats larger than 64 bits never really took off. Turns out that hardware vendors didn't want to spend that many transistors, the x87 stack machine was a disaster, and software settled o
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by titzer 3y ago
> Environment replication is a solved problem. Unfortunately, no. Dockerfiles aren't as portable as you think, and not architecture-independent. VMs are better, but even then, performance isn't portable either. The last artifac
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by titzer 3y ago
In the PL field, conferences have started to allow authors to submit packaged artifacts (typically, source code, input data, training data, etc) that are evaluated separately, typically post-review. The artifacts are evaluated by a separate
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by titzer 3y ago
> As an aside, I'm very disturbed to realize this screed is coming from someone of your stature in the tech community. Oh geesh. As if the lines of code I have written are what I put forth to vouch for this. We should divorce the te
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by titzer 3y ago
> I don't care about what people call me I hope it's clear from context that I wasn't directing anything at you; we're basically in complete agreement.
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by titzer 3y ago
This is a problem; with the inertia the system is carrying where there are no "ethical" choices left. That's of course no excuse to pick a horribly fascist and evil one. Yet that seems to be the inference in any conversation
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by titzer 3y ago
> We came from a history of mostly starving, struggling for survival, dying of infections, dying during childbirth, being illiterate, and having little shelter or comfort. I think this nostalgia for the past is a golden age fallacy that
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by titzer 3y ago
What part of birthing billions of children into poverty was ethical again?
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by titzer 3y ago
It's not about religion, but about empathy and justice. Some people actually think that other forms of life on this planet have a right to exist, and there's no question at all that human life has been catastrophically bad for vir
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by titzer 3y ago
I, for one, am not impressed by his Twitter thread. It looks very sloppy, and I am completely disregarding videos of floating flakes of gray whatever-the-heck. They look like they have none of the equipment to properly test what material th
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by titzer 3y ago
The Earth seems to want to evolve towards a giant tropical rainforest and keeps getting smacked by one disaster after another. This time it's just an infestation of apes that will knock out some unknown chunk of life and probably gobbl
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by titzer 3y ago
You forgot microplastics.
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by titzer 3y ago
No, it's a fail if every website renders itself to the canvas. I think there's a middle ground where, for example, unknown mime/image types can be handed by "application level"--actually middleware or library-level-
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by titzer 3y ago
I don't understand the JPEG XL frackus, but that's partly because I think the Web platform should not continue being an enormous ball of mud, with everything built into the browser with no layering. Make a Wasm module (use SIMD an
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by titzer 3y ago
I couldn't really process your comment because you rounded up to 30. It got me thinking, there was such a huge gulf between 1993 and 1996, at least for me. 1993: derping DOS on a 386; 1996: Windows 95, Quake, dialup, the Web. The pace
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by titzer 3y ago
Yeah, it seems like suffering little tiny copies all over the place is regressing back to the thinly-spread performance sludge that Rust's ownership is designed to police and therefore eliminate. If it becomes too widespread a problem,
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by titzer 3y ago
The current is related to the cross-sectional area of the (super)conductor. Not sure how big their sample was, but the solution is thicker and more cables.
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by titzer 3y ago
Thanks for posting the link. The video is useless, it's just rage-baiting. Stepping back from the emotional overreaction in the OP, this seems to be the relevant bit: > Right off the bat, as a total Rust newbie, I'm hitting all
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by titzer 3y ago
Pulling them up by their roots. How much acreage are we talking?
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by titzer 3y ago
> for poor people Well, I don't get how only poor people would be targeted, but to inject data into the picture: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/the-u-s-elec... That suggests that all of the d
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by titzer 3y ago
Fine, to be pedantic, it's right on the limit of being desert. LA averages about 15 inches of rainfall per year, whereas the classification for desert is less than 10 inches. With the amount of irrigation in the area, this is not gen
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by titzer 3y ago
I lived in LA. It is a desert. It'd be just fine to cover parking lots, highways, and rooftops with solar. There are at least 100 square miles of parking lots in LA.

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