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by yyyk 4y ago
I don't think there was so much risk of relying on db behaviour much less bugs. There's a DML standard, breaking it would have had massive consequences far beyond the web platform - we could have relied on SQLite being broadly com
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by yyyk 4y ago
This ignores the fact that SQL already has standards with multiple implementations and is very well established. You can have a basic portable subset - the problem was already very well specified at the offline level. A simple SQL standar
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by yyyk 4y ago
>jQuery was super popular in the 2000s. Say all of the browsers had decided to bundle it like WebSQL bundled SQLite. This ignores the fact that SQL already has standards with multiple implementations and is very well established. It&#x
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by yyyk 4y ago
(Replying to this and other comments in unison) A SQL standard never precluded a separate filesystem access standard and implementing databases on top of it. But rejecting the Web SQL standard means that every SQL-using webapp will be tied
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by yyyk 4y ago
The Web SQL standard was deprecated (by Mozilla) on the grounds of a single implementation. The result today: A single SQL implementation with no standard (beyond SQLite) and therefore no easy way for anyone to create a compatible alternate
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by yyyk 4y ago
1. Definitely, but Go is well very optimized for concurrent network apps. 2. I think the C# team has done very well modernizing. The runtime is a bit of a bother though. 3. There's Kotlin/Native and Kotlin/JS. 4. Python has d
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by yyyk 4y ago
>You can certainly challenge the premise that humans will ever have the capability of creating a simulation as high fidelity as our reality. This is very far from certain. I don't think it's the best formulation. Let me formula
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by yyyk 4y ago
>isn't it reasonable... Not at all. This is a category error - you can't place simulated realities on the same 'level' even among themselves, much less with the realities 'above' them.* Let me put it this wa
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by yyyk 4y ago
>If you don't care about performance and "zero cost abstractions" and are more interested in Rust for its memory safety... Just about GC language has similar tradeoffs. The question here would be why Swift over Go/C#&
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by yyyk 4y ago
>But, it is fun to imagine how our belief systems would have been shaken up if scientists were able to show Oumuamua was an interstellar probe Just about every ancient tradition has some form of non-human intelligent beings who are not g
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Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 reach the end of the line(arstechnica.com)
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by yyyk 4y ago
IPv6 maybe, but Wayland's protocol choices were IMHO caused by that part of the UI stack getting nigh zero resources. So every iteration from XFree86 ended up deprecating and removing features, and Wayland turns not having features int
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by yyyk 4y ago
I thought about pointing out that Bostrom doesn't actually consider the strongest arguments of the other side. But I decided it doesn't matter practically. For example, we can't stop despots from investing in longevity resear
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by yyyk 4y ago
...And Nouriel Roubini is famous for predicting 8000000000*10^(uncountable infinity) of the last 3 recessions.
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by yyyk 4y ago
I'm not very impressed by the article. I'm sympathetic to the idea behind it, but the analogy is misleading and intended to make an emotional appeal. The Dragon is an external malevolent force. The Dragon wants to eat more just be
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by yyyk 4y ago
Just about every solution you can think of is feasible with enough engineering effort. We need to think about what we want to optimize. We need a solution which involves a logistical tail to Earth as tiny as we can, being very light on th
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by yyyk 4y ago
Orbital power has the huge advantage that setting it up is essentially independent of the rest of the mission - we can set up most of the work in advance, so that part doesn't count towards a weight limit and we can abort/wait if
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by yyyk 4y ago
It's not very difficult if Apple wants to bother. Several possible criteria: A) OSS which Apple uses internally - e.g. I'd be very surprised if there's no usage of curl out there. (and / or) B) Very popular projects. (an
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by yyyk 4y ago
Note Excel eSports actually exists: https://www.fmworldcup.com/
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by yyyk 4y ago
>If you're going to be buying a laptop to leave it plugged into the mains the whole time when doing intensive tasks, then you might as well buy a workstation ? I'd rather it plugged into the mains so I can also plug it into a n
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by yyyk 4y ago
>ON BATTERY Why would I even care about that for ML? >I know the usual Apple bashers Apple fanboys found one benchmarks which looks fine (Performance per watt) and decided it applies to everything and the only thing that ever matters
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by yyyk 4y ago
The thing about Tesla is that short-sellers were right about the company being overvalued but wrong about the reasons people invested in Tesla. Tesla's FSD was obviously anything but; Tesla could have never gotten most of the EV market
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Josephus has a single paragraph about Jesus. It had been debated whether this is a later Christian interpolation into the manuscripts. Two different paragraphs to be exact. The first is accepted as at least a partial interpolation, whil
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by yyyk 4y ago
>I never met an archaeologist at the entire university who even remotely believed in the existence of king David, let alone Solomon, Saul or even Joshua or Moses. However, when I visited Israel with a group of students... This seems to c
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by yyyk 4y ago
>5. Serious attempts are made to have TikTok banned in the USA. This becomes a hot button cultural issue. Who's going to fight for TikTok? Trump tried to ban it, so GOP will be onboard. If it's a serious attempt, Biden and th
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by yyyk 4y ago
Tech: * AI will keep wowing us, but in 2023 actual change will be surprisingly little. Turns out the extra 1% is rather important for serious applications, and less serious applications could do with existing solutions - Third-world click&#
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by yyyk 4y ago
>reserve space for a 64-bit integer which I shall henceforth refer to as 'i' In this scenario, regex processing should allocate more and be slower. The for loop is more optimal even if takes more lines. There's probably so
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by yyyk 4y ago
The worst part is not the missing JOIN. This happens, especially with juniors. It's the 'all signup errors warranted paging the on-call even on 4am' bureaucratic decision followed by being unable to apply any fix quickly. No
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by yyyk 4y ago
It's not difficult to think of realistic (if not necessarily sensible) motivations if we try. Maybe they're religious fanatics and there's no we can satisfy their tenants so.. Or maybe the local alien boss doesn't want t
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Now flip it back... would the current SETI pick up this signal if this were happening somewhere close in the Milky Way? If not, then yeah maybe SETI should be wound down :( The problem is the other way around. An unintentional or broad

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