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by titzer 7mo ago
> Language portability is a big feature. There's a lot of code that's not JS out there. And JS isn't a great compilation target for a lot of languages. Google switched to compiling Java to Wasm-GC instead of JS and got a l
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by titzer 7mo ago
On the web you can dynamically create new Wasm modules and use JS APIs to load them, though there are ergonomic issues. There are per-module costs and systems like CheerpJ and CheerpX currently do batching of multiple functions into a modul
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by titzer 7mo ago
I found the article and your third-hand anecdotes troubling. The good news is that it does not match any of the years of experience in my field. Fraud is just not that rampant. At PhD-granting institutions, the level of fraud you describe
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by titzer 7mo ago
> ... I can build the “llvm15” package in about 4 hours. Compare that to 10.5 hours on a Banana Pi BPI-F3 builder (it may be quicker on a P550 one). That's....slow. What a huge pile of bloat.
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by titzer 7mo ago
I can't tell if you're serious or if you really think someone who has a family on another continent and is running two companies on opposite coasts is some kind of victim of their circumstances and needs a special keyboard warrior
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by titzer 8mo ago
I had a refurbished ThinkPad that had memory corruption. I only noticed because Firefox started to crash an unreasonable amount. Ran memcheck through BIOS and sure enough it was bad RAM. Have we considered that maybe Firefox is the cause o
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by titzer 8mo ago
If you use Google Location Services, which is stock install on basically all Android devices, it absolutely is uploading "anonymized" GPS data all the time.
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by titzer 8mo ago
The past 20 years have been an endless series of wealth transfers from commoners to the wealthy. This is Oligarchy.
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by titzer 8mo ago
In a well-designed (or "proper") abstraction, we can deal with it in terms of its public interface. Two things that break abstractions are bugs and performance. If you have either of those, then abstractions can be worse. Anothe
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by titzer 8mo ago
Microsoft had thousands of people working on Windows. Sun Microsystems had thousands of people working on Java.
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by titzer 8mo ago
Sadly, it won't be the last time you'll feel that angry passion.
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by titzer 8mo ago
To be fair, Apple has always had a penchant for removing important features because they don't like how they look. I cannot count how many times I got a CD/DVD stuck in a Mac, and due to a lack of physical eject button and the sof
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by titzer 8mo ago
It's all just rearranging deck chairs at this point. I feel like UX designers don't realize that their job should have a natural tailing off as we discover and lock in the good ideas and discard the bad. Even if the ideas aren&#x2
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by titzer 8mo ago
I think you want to read my comment a certain way and it's not allowing you to, so you posted both: > it doesn't need to be an attack of which you are putting yourself on a side and also > I can't know if you are talkin
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by titzer 8mo ago
It wasn't a landslide. It's on you to argue it was, e.g. by comparing it to other clear landslide victories like Reagan in 1984. Truth is that 2024 the final popular vote gap was 1.5%, compared to 4.5% for 2020, -2.0% for 2016 (ye
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by titzer 8mo ago
They are also absolutely shameless about lying and feel no obligation to stick to facts or data, but rather appeal to and cultivate ignorance, binary thinking, fear, us-versus-them thinking, and scapegoating. In short, their propaganda is m
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by titzer 8mo ago
> It is misanthropic to build autocratic societies. It's misanthropic to dismantle democratic societies.
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by titzer 8mo ago
It's not called The Department of War . It's just incredible to me that people think this is some kind of bold statement defying the administration when it is absolutely filled with small and medium capitulations, laying out in n
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by titzer 8mo ago
It's a huge conflict of interest for an ads company to develop a browser, let alone the browser with...(checks notes)...77% market share.
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by titzer 8mo ago
Minor correction: America is run by pedophiles with a lot of money, who naturally hire lawyers.
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by titzer 8mo ago
It never felt crazy to me, with the exception that are many situations where having progress and diagnostic information (usually opt-in) made sense. I guess it comes down to a choice of printing out only relevant information. I hate noisy c
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by titzer 8mo ago
Seeing a JSON configuration file that stores environment variables makes me want to cry. Just to think that somewhere, somehow, it's going to launch an entire JavaScript VM (tens of megabytes) just to parse a file with 12 lines in it,
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by titzer 8mo ago
The dark side of this is that everyone has graduated to prompt engineering and there's no one with expertise left who can debug it. We'll be entirely dependent on AIs to do the debugging too. When whoever controls the AIs decides
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by titzer 8mo ago
> Welcome to capitalism? Well, judging from the tone of your comment, you said this without a hint of irony or larger awareness, as if just chucking things in a hole, environment and everything be damned, was just sort of inevitable. &gt
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by titzer 8mo ago
Why not keep using them as...phones? Snark aside, why are the entirely functional devices obsolete? It's because the growing demands of the endless software bloat, web bloat, feature bloat. New wireless technologies and better protocol
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by titzer 8mo ago
Universities still have this--well, ok, at least for Faculty :) https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~btitzer/riff.html I actually haven't had a homepage for a long time because of the lack of the easy "put my home directo
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by titzer 8mo ago
It's wild to me that they wouldn't try this first. Feeding the asm directly into the model seems like intentionally ignoring a huge amount of work that has gone in traditional decompilation. What LLMs excel at (names, context, sea
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by titzer 8mo ago
The answer, of course, is to design a new, universal markdown format :) But seriously though, all those weird markdown formats could easily just have their own custom parsers than then translate into the common format--supposing the common
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by titzer 8mo ago
Losing power is highly correlated with above-ground power lines. Who'd a thunk that.
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by titzer 8mo ago
I feel bad for anyone at MS who thought these applications needed anything more than bugfixes. Welcome to the Notepad team, the entire world would be better off it you did nothing at all!

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