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by titzer 5mo ago
Usage going up is not progress.
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by titzer 5mo ago
There is so much coal . There is at least 130 years worth at current consumption levels. And despite what everyone says about renewables and green energy and etc, world use still hit a high in 2024. We aren't going to run out of (
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by titzer 5mo ago
36GB Tahoe update and all I got was these rounded corners.
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by titzer 5mo ago
The GUI was a mistake. Long live the shell!
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by titzer 5mo ago
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Are we really having an AI fart around with a mouse and clicking on things to accomplish stuff because we're not capable of making one kind of software query and command another piece of software? I
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by titzer 5mo ago
> It's just part of the software. What isn't part of the software? Can they just install as much garbage they want to, as long as they claim it is part of the "browser"? Also, scale absolutely matters. If I pull up
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by titzer 6mo ago
Routine corporatism and fascism is shameless to the point of being ho-hum these days. When the president has his own cryptocurrency and the federal government buys stock in this and that company for "strategic reasons", you'r
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by titzer 6mo ago
I use a lot of rechargeable AAA and AA batteries. They have lower voltage than alkaline batteries (by design apparently), which is not normally an issue, but sometimes is a deal breaker. E.g. my thermostat did not like lower voltage AA batt
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by titzer 6mo ago
I don't think the long-term game theory of race to the bottom works out quite how you think. "Our enemies would have no qualms building a weapon that will end life on earth! We better build it first because we're the good guy
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by titzer 6mo ago
Well I don't know of people claiming that microplastics are "killing us", there are dozens of papers that implicate microplastics in negative health effects from hearts to intestines, to sperm. https://www.nejm.org
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by titzer 6mo ago
I think once you get the design of the IR right and implement it relatively efficiently, an optimizing compiler is going to be complicated enough that tweaking the heck out of low-level data structures won't help much. (For a baseline
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by titzer 6mo ago
> The point of the economic system is it channels some of the most ghoulish and horrible people to do good as an accidental side effect of their mad rush to wealth and power. Works really well, on average everyone wins. When there is a f
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by titzer 6mo ago
The total cost of the entire program over its projected lifetime is $1.7 trillion. The F-35 is made by one company, Lockheed Martin (with some pieces made by a couple others). This entire program is a massive transfer of taxpayer money into
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by titzer 6mo ago
AI contributing to rising natural stupidity.
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by titzer 6mo ago
This is mostly true until it's time to build an interstate.
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by titzer 6mo ago
The US interstate system is incredible extensive, uniform, and well-maintained (relatively speaking). States love federal dollars, and if there were federal dollars for train lines, they'd fall over themselves to get them. That doesn&#
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by titzer 6mo ago
These people really have no idea at the level of data collection from Google's rootkit on Android known as "Google Play Services".
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by titzer 6mo ago
The government is broken. I'm not sure what you are hoping for.
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by titzer 6mo ago
You have to realize that once Google flips the bit on you and they think you are trying to scam them (or others via them) you are absolutely dead to them. They don't want to hear from you ever again. You're banned to hell. The fac
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by titzer 6mo ago
Just wait until they get into the phase where they're big enough that they're eating all the baby startups and have to pick winners and losers amongst the myriad of overlapping features while also having the previous baby startups
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by titzer 6mo ago
Well obviously I don't think that you're a bunch of dummies so please don't throw out strawmen like that. I don't know if Cliff is on the same page w.r.t. how much speculation is necessary (and when) to make JS go fast.
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by titzer 6mo ago
Thanks for writing the article, btw. I didn't have a chance to go through the whole thing yet. Did you have a chance to study Graal's IR? It is a hybrid between sea of nodes and CFG; it can contain some "fixed" nodes tha
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by titzer 6mo ago
Well it's hard to summarize what I said in the Coffee Compiler club chat in a HN comment, but there were a number of things that went wrong there. I half agree with Cliff and half agree with the V8 blogpost. TurboFan evolved into a ver
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by titzer 6mo ago
Sorry, they --i.e. Franklin computer.
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by titzer 6mo ago
Read the article. He copied the BIOS code straight up, including the copyright notice itself. That's blatant copyright infringement.
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by titzer 6mo ago
The idiocy out of the Whitehouse is an intentional strategy to flood the zone with crap that sucks all the air out of the room. They have intentionally broken the ability of the public to become informed through a number of means: attention
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by titzer 6mo ago
> Cisco’s private GitHub was cloned. From this, https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/cisco-source-code-breach-lea... It sounds like they were/are using GitHub to host company-private source code, presumably of high-
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by titzer 6mo ago
For me, the 486 was right between my (actually my Dad's) first computer, a 386, and my first personal computer (Pentium MMX). During those couple of years my friends had 486s and I was always jealous. I used to drool at the Best Buy ca
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by titzer 6mo ago
We're going to have to put all the bad code into a Wasm sandbox.
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by titzer 6mo ago
It's partly the industry and it's partly the failure of regulation. As Mario Wolczko, my old manager at Sun says, nothing will change until there are real legal consequences for software vulnerabilities. That said, I have been arg

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