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What holds me back from using WebAssembly is that it doesn't seem to provide any performance benefit for small functions. Well, not yet, I hope, because I really like the idea of WASM.

For example, last week me and a few other users on Observable have been experimenting with various JS ports of one particular permuted congruential random number generator. Using assemblyscript I managed to write a decent-enough WASM version, and it's slower than implementing 64 bit arithmetic with four 32 bit numbers, which involves a lot more multiplications and additions:

https://observablehq.com/d/ce811886e1071d69

There are two possible explanations: either 64 bit integer arithmetic is still really slow in WASM, or the call overhead is really, really significant.

This fits my earlier experience with trying to implement fast log approximation functions for data-viz purposes (since the rounding errors would not be visible at sub-pixel levels). They weren't much faster than the proper Math.log function (whereas in pure C or C++ that difference would be much larger).

I suspect that if this call overhead were reduced, it would be much easier to gradually add more WASM to a Web App and reap the benefits of it.
Realise this is as big and open of a question as a salesperson asking “how do I code”. So hard to know where to start!

I am still learning myself and for me selling online not face to face is the focus. I have failed a few times to get anything off the ground but technically people have paid me money so I have sold software! But usually less than the time and money I have put in.

My next move is to understand more about market validation and research, or how to get in the shoes of potential customers. Hopefully that’ll increase the chances of my next thing making money.

If you want to sell as a job rather than start a business that might be another question entirely I’ll leave that to the sales people to answer!
> At least that is what the orange man tells us.

Considering how many hate him here and still repeat the official US talking points wrt TikTok, I don’t think you can blame him in that case.
US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
The same thing happened here in the UK. A relatively tiny amount of money (a million £/month or so) got >95% of rough sleepers off the streets and into secure accomodation where many have taken the opportunity to deal with their addictions, mental health issues, even education and job prospects. Turns out it's way easier to get off drugs/alcohol and sort your life out when you don't have to spend all your time finding the next meal or a safe(-ish) place to sleep.

The problem of rough sleeping can be dealt with using tiny amounts of money (at least in the UK), but unfortunately the wider problems of homelessness, where many are inviisble because they are permenantly couch surfing or stuck in hostels or at chronic risk of losing their homes if they have them are much more complex and difficult to deal with without changes to how housing works here.
Just like how changing things is not universally good. Let's not get into that discussion ^_^ I am a mixed bag on that anyway, sometimes change is good and sometimes preserving things is better.
Amusingly when interrailing many years ago we managed to get on the wrong train at Ljubljana - we intended to go to Vienna but ended up on the overnight train to Belgrade.

The nice thing about an Interrail ticket being that even when you do make such a mistake your ticket is generally still valid!
Sounds a lot like Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin, only it used a long drogue wire to brake electrostatically. It was only a book, but these details felt realistic enough.
To quote a song, I'm not going to spend my life being a color.
Slavery and racial oppression is not unique to America or White people. It's a small cross-section of the entire history of the world, spanning millennia and across the entire globe.

But to further your point, if you extend your comment to all groups of people (and not just White people), and the moment you use the term "gratitude" and "appreciate" instead of guilt, is when I can agree with you and we can collectively move forward as a society.

We need to appreciate and be grateful for the society, technology, stability and civilization that was built by our ancestors, through a lot of adversity, suffering, poverty and war. And as a corollary to that, we need to preserve, adjust and build on top of that instead of throwing it out entirely because "historic injustice" that at this point seems to be inescapable and ever present with no path to redemption. It almost seem like original sin, and I will have no part in paying penance and reparations for something I had absolutely no part in.
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Interesting this is not positioned as a civil rights issue too.

I understand, you have a developer company vs Apple.

But what about people buying these computing gadgets? The millions upon millions of them. Shouldn't they have the right to run whatever software they feel like it on this general purpose computing OS without Apple's forced intermediation?
>Conservatives were the original environment protectors in the US. Probably politics that drove them away from it. In the current political climate dogmatism is spread pretty evenly.

I like this observation. We should drive them back again though. I think they are not that hard to move if you bring the message in the correct way.
I still disagree. Running with only cloud storage wouldn’t work, but a local SSD and cloud storage, why not?

For “most consumers”, I would think the data they create mostly is created in their phones (photos, videos), anyways, and I don’t see them syncing that to their local NAS, instead of using the more convenient sync to the cloud.
Calling a short function is generally a poor idea, to be honest. You want significant execution time on either side of the bridge, not constant boundary crossing.
Yeah Mozilla really need to make it so you can donate to certain things i.e Firefox or TOR browser development. Until they do my money is going elsewhere.
It is still much smaller than most SPA used to display static text.
You can side-load Fennec using f-droid. I have it on my phone and it works well, though I've personally been pretty happy using preview.
This is now built in the browser, you can go into settings, delete browsing data on quit, and sellect cookies and other things.

Unless you mean selectively delete?
Somehow I think the joke would be more fun if you dropped the unrealistic perks and actually sold it for $1200 a year.
People are shipping WebAssembly applications, though.
>> non statically validated, frustrating experience of trial-and-error that somewhat undermines the joy of a statically typed language.

That's because officially Go has not support for web APIs(as wasm has no access to web apis) so you have to callback through JavaScript. However once you build the right wrappers around JS APIs and the tools to deal with HTML the experience is pretty nice.
Coronary+Stent+Market+Size+Worth+$15.28B+By+2027
More information about the use of loaded terms. https://bobyewchuk.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/loaded-words/
A Life Hack to Avoid Distractions: Hit a Wall
Ultimately giving users choice is the best way forward. Apple shouldn't be allowed to block competing app stores (or sideloading) on their platform, in my view that's monopolistic.

Imagine if Microsoft had restricted the ability to install and use third party software on Windows, it would of slowed digital transformation dramatically.
The reason is the revenge of plugins.

I can have all my plugins back, and this time there is no turning back or someone claiming how insecure it is, despite lack of bounds checking inside linear memory segments.
Here's an open secret. Most people globally buy an iDevice because it has become a fashion symbol, a status symbol and the peer pressure is huge to sport one, once you reach the financial ability to buy them.

It has little to do with otherwise non-technical people somehow appreciating the technical nuances of security, curation, walled gardens, sideloading and so on.
Exactly. That's the price of freedom.
Are you willing to pay it? or sacrifice your freedom for convenience?
Most people, I suspect, will choose the latter.
> What's crazy is that we've had C and other higher level languages for over 40 years, and we're still maintaining banking and industry backends in Cobol or other old tech.

The thing is something that works, and works well is hard to displace. Especially when it makes money. And when you are running a business and you have to choose:

- keep making money

- update system that is making money and hope it will work and it will stop making money

What really is the sane option here?

Also one other point the credit card companies are way better option for customer over say paypal.
All of these feel grossly oversimplified, but #2 and 4 especially. Many of the people protesting that are black, for example, may be unhappy with their lives and don't have high paying jobs, placing the blame on lack of opportunities in their area or the cost of education or whatever, but are far from being 'against education' and 'pro gangs'. To say that people who are vocal about current issues are not 'hard-working', are 'pro gang', 'against education', and not 'pro civilization' is borderline offensive.
There's a secret settings menu? Wow. In my non-nightly version it's totally empty though
That's what I was wondering. Tailscale doesn't do logs did it stared with that :(. I would loved to see there logging solution.

I like the writeup though I need to do a second pass to fully review everything. The biggest thing that just suddenly hit me was 5 TB/day is really 60MB/s.
Yet Epic was able to sneak in their own payment system through app review. The review process is also not magic.
Atomic Habits: How to Create Good Habits and Break Bad Ones [audio]
My biggest gripe about Hey is that it’s marketed as an email client, but it’s actually a proprietary database you get access to through something that looks like an email address.

I’m exaggerating a bit. But I don’t understand why they built a service and not a client.

For me, email is about being not locked into a specific client. And Hey requires a separate client than the one for my existing email addresses.
You make a mistake. Smart does not mean street or society wise. You can be regarded as very smart because you are able to solve a math problem but you can't even have a normal conversation on the street or see the difference between male/female gender.

Most people live in the tech bubble. Artificial world high wages and don't suffer the daily stress from average Joe and the criminal activities on the street.

They tend to believe that their artificial world with well defined "true" or "false" statements can be applied on the average dynamic changing society.
From wikipedia:

By order of the judge, the cargo was brought ashore in 2014 and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port,[32] where it remained for the next six years.[16][17][23][33] The MV Rhosus sank in the harbour in February 2018.[34]

Customs officials had sent letters to judges requesting a resolution to the issue of the confiscated cargo, proposing that the ammonium nitrate be either exported, given to the army, or sold to the private Lebanese Explosives Company.[b][17] Letters had been sent on 27 June and 5 December 2014, 6 May 2015, 20 May and 13 October 2016, and 27 October 2017.[17][36] One of the letters sent in 2016 noted that judges had not replied to previous requests, and "pleaded":[17]

In view of the serious danger of keeping these goods in the hangar in unsuitable climatic conditions, we reaffirm our request to please request the marine agency to re-export these goods immediately to preserve the safety of the port and those working in it, or to look into agreeing to sell this amount ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion

So the customs office did their jobs.
while at the same time, I can't remember what I had for lunch the day before yesterday...
Guilt-tripping isn't morally neutral. It's manipulation, exploitation, getting people to do what you want without giving them what they want. Doing it is evil and makes you evil.

In my late teens and early twenties I constantly guilt-tripped people close to me. It was my "thing". It hurt everyone a lot. Then one day I realized how sick it was, and stopped completely. Now I never do it to anyone for any reason, and push back whenever someone does it to me for any reason. I recommend this approach to everyone.
It would be stellar if they accepted attention tokens, too.
DeepWalk: Learning Graph Node Embeddings – Research Paper Explained
I'm guessing flying at close to 1000km/h, cramped up in a small space with hundreds of people, no possibility to open window or see normal sunshine, bad food (unless first class?), and the trouble of landing and getting in and out of the airport?

What did I miss?
Apparently someone has mistaken UI development with HTML.

I am more than happy with Forms, Qt/Qml, WPF, Android, VCL, Win32, WinUI, WebGL, GL, DirectX, LibGNM, GX,Cocoa,....

Now HTML, with <li> customized via CSS to simulate a menubar, nuke it!
I think the best approach is usually a combined one. Think about drinking and driving.

Just shaming/punishing people for it isn't going to solve it, if there aren't e.g. pull factors like practical solutions to avoid driving when drunk, recognition for people who don't drink when driving needs to be done etc.

I think often the worst thing is existing culture. So things like: "It is not manly/cool to wear a seatbelt." Would a Hollywood action hero wear a seatbelt? Certainly not!

Things like these are very hard to get rid off and take time and maturity. Endangering yourself and others is neither cool nor manly, it is a mechanism to show others how invincible you feel you are: the modern day equivalent of banging on your chest. Ironically people who are actually strong and secure rarely ever need to do all that chest banging.
This did not happen to me. Still DDG.
Majority of Scots Wiki written by US teenager with no knowledge of language
When I used to work support in global escalations for a big multinational, my manager, nor his, ever knew what to do with me.

I maintained a 100% flawless NPS/satisfaction survey rating the entire time, but my mean call time was also nearly triple that of everyone else.

I helped far fewer people, but the ones that I did help I frequently ended up actually educating, resulting in nearly no repeat calls.

Management could never come up with a purely zendesk based overall performance metric I wasn't near the bottom of. I never much cared because at least weekly a customer that I helped would try to convince me to quit and come work for them as a private consultant, making it incredibly hard for my manager to convince me I should change anything at all about what I was doing.

I left after 3 years and shortly after the whole thing got outsourced to an Alorica call center. So I guess management did figure it out, they'd rather have 4 people who's only qualification is the ability to fog a mirror, giving out near worthless support very quickly, than pay for 1 person like me.
0C? That's pretty warm. I sleep naked under a goose down duvet with the window open in an unheated bedroom even when the outside is -15 C. Now I'm on my own it does get a bit cooler than before but when there were two of us under the duvet it was plenty warm enough.
Card numbers are there for a reason: transactions without presenting the card, which actually are not a big problem as there are strict rules to follow and if frauds do occur, card holders are backed by charge-back policies. I guess all your concerns should really go to magnetic strip cards as there is virtually no way to tell fake card from genuine cards and that's the reason of EMV/PBOC card migration which just as you said, put strong cryptography into the chips on cards. But again, you still need card numbers to support transactions without presenting the card.
> You'd think conservatives would be all for that - smaller state, lower taxes.

I think conservatives might get behind defunding the police if those funds were routed back to the taxpayer, rather than to expanding social programs -- or any government program, for that matter.

Moving money from a strongly conservative part of the government to a strongly leftist part of the government looks too much like a power grab to gain traction with conservatives.

You'd also get conservative buy-in if it came with a pro-gun stance.
If citizens are going to police their own communities, then they need to have the option to carry and employ arms as necessary for the task.

I think there's a lot of opportunity for give-and-take in criminal justice reform -- prisons and drug policy should also be on the table! -- but it requires both sides putting things of equal value on the fire, and I don't see that happening.
It’s easy to remember: $100 per Y, equals $1200 a year.

With a price like that you never forget how many Y’s you are buying!
Not sure if it's impossible but from experience it's very difficult to bypass Apple's screening process.

They can class-dump the Mach-O binary, disassemble and inspect the performSelector: calls or even just run the apps in an ARM emulator and watch for alarms whenever the reviewer manually goes through the app.
Wow, the misfeature of removed URL editing is surprisingly annoying. Completely surprising if you've been using browsers before for any time.
Quite funny, but I think it needs to take a bigger dig on hey.com's pricing and offering.

> $100 for each "y"

Ah, flipping hey.com's model of charging more for shorter addresses. Genius!

> So expensive, you'll never forget to cancel

This should be right at the top! And it applies to hey.com too (for many people)! :)
> Having 3rd party stores will be net negative for me as a user.

Having 3rd party stores will not prevent you for using the Apple App Store exclusively.

> As a user I will end up with 10 stores on my phone, each has my billing information,

Imagine if there is only 1 store, e.g. Walmart? Only Walmart has your billing information and it's the only store where you can buy things.

> Now let’s say if we have many stores

That would be great. These stores will be competing for customers that would drive prices down.

One store might decline to sell a specific product for many reasons but another store might carry the product.

Imagine that as a manufacturer, you can only sell thru Walmart. Walmart declines to sell your product and you have nowhere else to sell.
It does seem antithetical to engineering, though. Are there other engineering fields that take this approach?
My argument is obviously a stretch, but as more and more work is becoming this kind of "opportunistic work" , there's a valid case that gig work is at a disadvantage by the protections afforded to permanent work. So, a normalization of regulation sounds reasonable.

That said, this is about devs, and not about what consumers think. And btw i doubt apple's strongarm of apps is popular among its users. Apple likes to market their "precious app ecosystem", but even an unregulated one isn't bad -- android is doing fine and is more popular.
Probably the total yearly heat output of a house cat.
Are the routes through Donetsk and Luhansk safe though?
One of the FAQs is - can I use it with JS? Does including this sentence not demonstrate the intention to serve a community wider than just Python?
Just curious, what exactly are these laws? Unreversible transactions front loads the burden of verifying inauthentic sales/services onto the consumer or government, doesn't necessarily provide a mechanism for returning a consumer's money when inauthentic merchants do show up, and restricts consumer choice either through having to be more discerning than a credit card user or relying on a government program to oversee merchant authenticity.

I absolutely agree that banks should not be the ones discharged with consumer protection but unreversible payments are not nearly as beneficial for consumers even if insured in some ways by the government.
One of the finest & most practical book I ever read in my life till now.
At least it's already isolated..
That’s an impressive catch. I would never have noticed this. How did you get this good at code review?
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This video is not available.

Unacceptable!
I believe habitat with natural light and view of the stars will be much more attractive than without.

The windows could contain sandwiched several meters of clear water for radiation/meteor protection, with self-sealing chemicals/a system to continuously automatically repair leaks. The water will also provide emergency water supply and thermal stability.
To this day, no one knows how Epstein got his money or where most of it is. He'd create 3+ shell companies just to buy a house.
I suspect somebody was inspired by the Octonauts' Octopod, down to the "liquid door" hatch inside:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/octopod/images/f/fd/Octo...
At a micro level I can understand this point, but the proper functioning of markets requires competition. You likely wouldn't advocate one supermarket, one car company or one hardware manufacturer. Even if you would prefer to use Apple's Store it's wrong to deny others (both producers and consumers) free choice.
Hmm. If you believe in microservices then I think it's fine to use python for your ML pipelines and API's, and some other language for the rest of your application software.
Why a mono repo will speed up your development
>He wasn't merely accused, he was living with Al Quaeda in Yemen.

Without a trial this can only be considered an accusation. The US government claims this, many other people claim he was never part of a terrorist group. Living in Yemen is not a crime.

>incite acts of terrorism against America and other civilians in Yemen and Somalia, yes, it doesn't fucking matter.

Not only are the claims that he "incited terrorism" overblown, his right to free speech allows him to make such declarations.
Curious lack of any mention of Jacques Cousteau's first son (and father of Fabien) Jean-Michel, who I met about a decade ago while doing some work for his Ocean Futures Society.
Anyone else immediately thinking about Subnautica while looking at the article's teaser image? :)
>>> 14.8*24*365 / 1000
129.64800000000002
TAKE NOTE OF YOUR “TRIGGERS”!!!!
If you wait until the end of the redirects, it goes back to where you were originally.
Yeah officially the Mastercard and Visa networks support 6 digit PINs.

In reality there are so many POS devices out there that don’t support 6 digits, it actually ends up being safer to use a 4 digit PINs because the 6 digit PIN fallbacks are completely insecure and unreliable.
iOS is not sold as a general purpose computing OS. It’s been clear from day one.

People use products way beyond their original purpose, and then feel entitled to the manufacturer’s support. Like eating candy for every meal, and then complaining that it’s not good nutrition.
to be honest, it was just that tiktok was publicised as doing so. I have nothing against tiktok, and do not like this witch hunt myself - it was just a recent example.
This sounds interesting. Do you have any links of examples etc?