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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Do architects burn out? Do civil engineers? Electrical engineers? In all of those fields projects eventually get finished and involve a lot of bureaucracy and waiting. There is much more breathing room, than in software and more time
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> I'm paid a lot and I work remotely from a beach. If I don't like my job, I can easily find another that I do like. > Not too many other professions can say that. Software engineers can't say that, if that's w
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
What you are describing here is approaching usability. And when it comes to usability simplicity doesn't matter on its own, there are four other things to always keep in mind together with simplicity: consistency, flexibility, universa
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Outside of (sub)tropics AC isn't really needed Over 26 degrees indoors is when it starts to get unlivable and requires cooling. And without ACs it gets that hot indoors in a lot of the world and in plenty of Europe during summer
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> We don't own an AC, use LED lights everywhere, and always check the power consumption of appliances we buy. > Being aware of your consumptions really helps. A lot of people live in places with summers and winters though, wi
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
You are joking, but current organization of humans is very wasteful and limiting to development. Apart from the resource burning consumerism, growing complexity of knowledge and technology would probably end up requiring segregation and spe
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> China highlights protester violence, the west talk about police. The only difference is that west is doing it voluntarily. Both in the US and in China people work in media voluntarily. In neither case they have freedom to publish any
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Votes alone don't determine frontpage position and it's still on the front page, so clearly it's not being penalized. Some people probably flagged it too, as I did.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> It stops passive eavesdropping. Do you know why Tor exists? Because things like DoH don't stop passive eavesdropping, and DoH in particular only leaks information to more parties, without stopping any eavesdropping whatsoever. I
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Nobody would fork Firefox today, as they are just following Google reimplementing Chromium and as a consequence always behind and catching up, just burning resources. While they could fork Chromium themselves and focus instead on features t
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> One cannot have writeable executable memory on iOS (apple can, we cannot). > Thus one cannot make a JIT compiler for js and thus pages are slow. Lack of JIT doesn't slow down pages much. I believe the difference is so small
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> instead of working to improve it, they work on another desktop manager If only it was that simple. Turns out nobody wants your improvements and can't even understand and be convinced they are improvements, unless you follow thei
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
You are making a moral judgement, it has nothing to do with mental stability.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
I think you are confusing anti-competitive control pursuing forces of capital-backed companies and capitalism in general with natural forces. Centralization is unnatural, this is why animals are territorial and people don't all live in
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
You are talking about lower layer protocols here that don't matter for decentralization. In fact, a decentralized transport protocol can be made that doesn't require your ISP to give you an internet routable IP address nor put you
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
We have DNS for just that purpose. You don't need provider independent IP addresses and shouldn't rely on them not changing.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Comments like this is what makes people not want to participate in your community. And your peer group is not even the Perl community at large, I doubt anyone but a small minority even cares about what's going on with mainline Perl the
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Obviously. Hardware can't be trusted to do secure isolation, this is the context here.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
No, I mean more generally performance and efficiency of multi core computational models are tightly bound to algorithms and so auto parallelization can only add restrictions on what algorithms can be implemented and what performance can be
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> We are now developing the RPerl compiler, which provides startup optimization, serial runtime optimization, automatic parallelization, and memory usage minimization. What would a modern high performance language look like though? I s
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Selinux, apparmor, etc. are not viable security solutions for pretty much anything, because they are too coarse grained. Seccomp that blocks everything, but leaves just a couple of syscalls to interact with an external proxy process is clos
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> and proposing an OS [1] where everything is in a single process was plausible. Same for JS JITs WebAssembly doubles down on it today. Technically, though, software isolated lightweight processes within the same address space is still
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Why high level languages should be able to easily speak with each other? Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of having more than one language, since they would be effectively identical?
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> which may be Netflix's only prayer Isn't Disney projecting to get like 10-20% of subscribers compared to that of Netflix in five years? Why are people talking like Disney streaming is such a big thing?
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> I don’t understand how a company with billions of dollars in resources can fail to solve such a well trodden problem. Billions of dollars don't give you good technical management and people with expertise to build such things. T
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> That function can do whatever it wants, including any number of reads, writes, and arbitrary logic based on the reads. But critically, it can't talk back to the calling client, except for to send the final result. If that functi
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> then you just gave the wealth a 3 billion dollar incentive to leave before your tax can come into effect You can impose tax on leaving bigger than 3 billion dollars effectively removing leaving incentive. Also you are assuming they a
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Could you elaborate on "become a connection" logic? What kind of problem is that? You may need to change user interface a bit to fit into CRDTs.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Well, it was just an example, it wouldn't really work either way, would be too slow for HDDs and would still require handling of all the disk reliability and performance issues. But if I were to do it today and store metadata in an SQL
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Yes, like these libraries. Think, for example, sharding, where you run lots of database instances per disk, this requires strictly bounded memory usage and no background operations. Or running on a disk full of bad blocks with constant retr

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