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by tolmasky 1y ago
Over half the nation did not vote for Trump. 77M people of a total population of 340M did, which is around 23%. Trump didn’t even get over half of the total votes cast (49.8% vs. 48.3%). You are free to be dismayed by these numbers, but ple
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by tolmasky 1y ago
It shows up as dead on on uspto: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75300777&caseSearchType=U...
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by tolmasky 1y ago
But phone numbers are treated as relatively private, so they don't really face this problem. The few that aren't intended to be private, and meant to be broadcast, go out of their way to procure "memorable" phone numbers
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by tolmasky 1y ago
Is it explained somewhere how links are supposed to work, especially if the intended use case is that you would just be using your own "address book"? I guess the address book is just a bookmark (and not like a /etc/host
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by tolmasky 1y ago
It occurs to me that "WebScript" actually solves another tricky problem: describing the thing people mean when they say JavaScript, vs. the thing JavaScript actually, technically, is. You see, technically , JS doesn't have
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by tolmasky 1y ago
To be clear, I'd be fine with this, I just think it wouldn't catch on. It's just an awkward name, that exists for this same trademark reason, and was thus never expected to take on "marketing" duties (sort of like c
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by tolmasky 1y ago
You’re thinking about it like a bug instead of a feature. When HTML5 was announced everyone expected it on your resume like every other buzzword. WebScript should be pitched like that: the hot new thing . Managers won’t be confused (or rat
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by tolmasky 1y ago
I agree that Oracle's case has no merit, for all sorts of reasons. But the time investment is asymmetric. It is easy for them to drag their feet, it is easy for them to confuse the judge who is almost certainly unfamiliar with the biza
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by tolmasky 1y ago
In all seriousness, let's just rename it "WebScript". WebAssembly, WebGPU, WebRTC, WebWorkers. It fits. And it seems like there's no active trademark for it too (although I admittedly did not do a super sophisticated sea
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by tolmasky 1y ago
I propose we rename JavaScript to "UntypedScript".
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by tolmasky 2y ago
I guess DOGE lives up to "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" even better than Twitter.
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by tolmasky 2y ago
I hate to break it to you, but we continued that pattern of making up rules. The main difference is that we let lobbyists play a bigger role over time. The updated rules (life of the author plus 70 years) was passed in 1976, so I don't
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by tolmasky 2y ago
I'm not merely comfortable acknowledging it, I specifically took the time to demonstrate how the outcome was property-type-independent by explicitly going over what happens when we remove the property from the example but leave everyth
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by tolmasky 2y ago
I'm answering in reverse order because I think a lot of this comment covers stuff that we don't really disagree with. Thus I will answer the conclusion and then I put my responses to everything else because I find them interesting
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by tolmasky 2y ago
The logical endgame of all this isn’t “stopping LLMs,” it’s Disney happening to own a critical mass of IP to be able to more or less exclusively legally train and run LLMs that make movies, firing all their employees, and no smaller company
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by tolmasky 2y ago
The way to treat them differently is not by making them share profits with another corporation. The logical endgame of all this isn’t “stopping LLMs,” it’s Disney happening to own a critical mass of IP to be able to legally train and run LL
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by tolmasky 2y ago
I don't think we disagree here. To clarify, my statement about using "actual parsers" over regexes was more directed at my own library than Raku. Since I had just posted a link on how to "parse" media types using my
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by tolmasky 2y ago
I implemented something similar to the compositional regular expressions feature described here for JavaScript a while ago (independently, so semantics may not be the same), and it is one of the libraries I find myself most often bringing i
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by tolmasky 2y ago
I’m not a security researcher, so it’s really not about me. You seem to be confused about what we’re even arguing about, this discussion started because someone said they wouldn’t use this browser because the low bug bounty amount represent
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by tolmasky 2y ago
No, because you probably haven’t bothered to find said CVE. There’s a strange refusal to understand the simplest market considerations here. I understand it sucks and you may not be able to afford it, but the consequence , regardless of al
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by tolmasky 2y ago
Let's set aside morality for a second. There is a reason low payouts are bad without even having to consider the black market: it pushes people to search for bugs in a competitor's app that pays more instead of in your app! If you
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by tolmasky 2y ago
Your comment implied that this was following the traditional pattern where moving away cancels an action before it takes place. I hope we at minimum agree that the Lock Screen uses a unique behavior that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the U
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by tolmasky 2y ago
There’s always been two button modes. “mouseup” is indeed the most common. However, “mousedown” is used in certain cases where the feedback is immediate, for example in the phone app where the number shows up as soon as you tap. However, no
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by tolmasky 2y ago
It’s very easy to reproduce this bug, even if you don’t go quickly. Basically, if your tap becomes a “swipe” that leaves the button area, then a previously registered “tap” that’s already shown up in the field will actually “unregister” and
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by tolmasky 2y ago
Is there any compiler option to have it yell at you if you mark something that can throw as `noexcept`, which seems to be the cause of (at least some of) the slowdowns where the compiler is forced to accommodate with `std::terminate`? I fee
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by tolmasky 2y ago
It seems like perhaps that power has been considerably weakened if the President is literally allowed to assassinate political rivals (as is mentioned in the dissent). You might vote not to impeach in fear, similar to jury intimidation. Hel
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by tolmasky 2y ago
Let me preface this by saying performance is complicated, and unfortunately far more... religious than you'd expect. A good example of this is the Objective-C community’s old insistence that good performance was incompatible with gar
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by tolmasky 2y ago
> Alternatives: they didn't have users? Correct, it is well known that they kept Swift a bizarre secret internally. It seems no one thought it would be a good idea to consult with the vast swathes of engineers that had been using
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by tolmasky 2y ago
Honestly it follows the design of the rest of the language. An incomplete list: 1. They wrote it to replace C++ instead of Objective-C. This is obvious from hearing Lattner speak, he always compares it to C++. Which makes sense, he dealt wi

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