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While the parent is does seem to be treading into Poe's law territory, it's not entirely correct to dismiss that talk's relationship to wasm based on the dates your quoting.

Bernhardt in the talk explicitly mentions asm.js which is the precursor to wasm (it's even mentioned in the wikipedia article you skimmed a bit too quickly). asm.js was released Feburary 2013.

I'm surprised HN has such a short memory, but the impetus for that talk was a clearly disturbing trend at the time implying that everything should be done in javascript. Node.js was gaining rapid popularity, people were discussing javascript as the new C for using as the language to write example code in, and while things like asm.js were exciting, they seemed to point towards the hilariously nightmarish future Bernhardt is discussing there.
This talk is about asm.js which is a precursor technology to wasm, parents logic seems to be "wasm is an improvement on asm.js". I have no idea if the kernel isolation benefits the garry bernhardt talk is about apply.
> I can't tell how long the author has spent on Windows

About 3 1\2 months so far. I tried to be fair - but my article is not as comprehensive as your series!

I've read some of your series and I didn't see anything, but you don't happen to know if you can get primary selection middle click paste on Windows? That's the only thing so far that I've got no kind of solution to at all.
How are options limited by PayPal and GPay? What is a "traditional credit card"?
As someone who works with AD, Azure, and Windows servers all day (I'm so uncool), Powershell is wonderful.
Unfortunately they lost all the files of the original game, so they can only: - Use the PC port - Emulate the PS1 game - Rebuild it (which will take a lot of time and resources)
Yeah the implementation they've chosen seems totally perfect to me. Sane global default, easily overridable globally or locally.

No easy way to override it locally when using =~, but I can't imagine too many cases where you would want to use a local timeout anyway.... can just switch away from =~ syntax for those.

This is mostly a denial-of-service mitigation tool, something you'd just want to apply globally to avoid disasters spawned by malformed or malicious input. In practice, it's hard to imagine a use case where you'd really want to be twiddling the knobs on a regexp-by-regexp basis.
This will just create complicated sales contracts, and advantage bigger landlords. The simple solution is market-valued property tax, because it’s basically unavoidable.
More frustrating still is often they remove the option to opt-out of their in-app browser so you have to do it on a link by link basis as you mentioned. Even more annoying on Android is it then breaks "smart" app links like opening Youtube for those links instead of the browser.
I could see what they were going for. A lot of the pieces of good or functional ideas and hooks are there: the central mystery of why there are all these ghostly creatures everywhere, trying to solve this mystery before it’s too late, the uneasy alliance between the scientists and the military where both are trying to solve the problem both have different ideas about how to do it but both need resources from the other, trying to convenience other of things you know are true but are difficult to understand or sound crazy, trying to have functional and healthy relationships in a crumbling world, etc. There is a lot there that could work and a lot of media has similar themes and plot points, it’s just the film doesn’t do a very good job of it. It’s not even really worth a watch to see “it’s so bad it’s good” or “let’s see and laugh at Square’s hundred million dollar mistake” because as I said it’s just kind of mediocre and boring.
> Why are all the major cities in the western world seemingly hitting this limit at the same time, even though they all have different populations?

I can’t speak for Canada, but in America the answer is always cars. Car based transit is wildly land inefficient, and the main reason why all car based cities hit their limit at the same time.

In particular there are two huge shortcomings with cars in urban design:

1. Parking eats up a huge amount of space. Either you let that drive density way down (which means commutes get longer) or you build underground parking at exorbitant prices driving up rents. Even in the latter case the roads around housing ends up becoming an issue, limiting density far below what you’d expect in say, Paris on Chicago.

2. Car transit to a shared destination is almost comically inefficient, which is really noticeable when people try and commute via car to job centers. This wouldn’t be as bad if we restricted cars to what they’re good at, such as driving away from the city, but most American cities have the unique psychosis of demanding that transit into the city center be via car. This does not scale, and is why places with wildly different zoning laws can have equally hellish commutes.

The issue is not that we can’t build, we’re really good at adding more highway lanes, it’s more that we are monomaniacally focused on building the wrong things.
Delete all Twitter cookies. If you’re not logged in you don’t need them. The wall disappears for awhile.

Up until the Ukraine war started, this worked for a few days and then I’d get the login wall. Delete cookies again, buy a few more days. Since the war started though they seem to be acknowledging a lot of non-logged-in people need to see tweets and I haven’t seen the login wall since.
Just my opinion. I'm still looking for a better editor with "auto-save" commits, or maybe a VSCode plugin. It should just wrap around my build command (or let me pass something), and if it builds, it should do this in the background as a snapshot. I think defining a good build in the context of runtime behavior is hard. I don't necessarily need all of the intermediate states it in git, though I don't mind if this tool uses git to power the snapshots. Maybe there's a world where version control is abstracted
SMR design allows them to cool themselves with only natural water circulation when in a scammed state and no external power to the cooling loop. In short: you cannot have a melt-down. The trade-off is that it's much smaller so you would need a cluster of 8 to 12 SMR units to match the typical 1.2GWe reactors used for most utility-grade installs.
It may be a depression. But an existential crisis is possible without a depression. We change over time. Our ideas evolve. At some point, what we have been doing may seem pointless. Time to take another path to find purpose, meaning and/or love again.

Consulting a psychiatrist to ensure it's not a depression is a good idea though. If not, some psychologists are specialized in existential crisis ; it's called "logotherapy".
That only works if people are living in all the homes.
the UK also need to do this asap. But problem here is normal people obsessing over the need to have a property empire. Its so so strange. The outlook on housing in the UK really needs to change
The central valley isn't really "on the outskirts of the city" in the American sense. It's a lot of farmland.
>Clearly all these homes are being bought so it would appear people have the money.

Yes ... Back in 2007, people bought homes as well - so everything was OK - rite?

By the way, people aren't paying cash for houses.
It's not inconceivable. There is "crosstalk" between neurons in the gut and the neurons in the brain.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2021.7482...
The base argument here doesn't make sense.

WASM requires an interpreter which must be native.

The argument is that this interpreter can be smarter about what crosses OS security rings. But those same improvements could be done in the native compiler or interpreter.

The next argument could be that many things using the WASM target would focus more effort on improving it so all WASM targets benefit outpacing their individual optimizations.

This one is harder to dismiss outright, but instead of optimizing for machine code you are now optimizing your WASM output.

Also this intermediate byte code representation already exists for both LLVM and JVM, which many languages target.

It is difficult to see WASM magically improving performance at all and especially not dramatically enough to encourage people to switch to it for that reasoning.
Ah, yeah, I'd forgot about those areas having strong right-wing links. Appreciate the link and the perspective, thank you. :)

Edit: I don't care about my comment score, but what about thanking someone for their response and providing perspective is worth downvoting? Asking in the interest of continuing to foster discussion.
OMG, Yes! I can't understand anything about it's interface. Sometimes there's a moderately straightforward discussion, other times, random, completely unrelated things show up looking like replies, but obviously aren't. Still other times the thing being linked to is a reply to something I can't see. It makes zero sense and I avoid going to Twitter if at all possible.
Why are you so sure the outsized returns don't have anything to do with zoning?
IntelliJ keeps a running history of all the files on your system so you can always go and show history on a file or directory and see what you’ve done (in addition to git etc).
Works great on a phone
I appreciate this reply.
What? Caddy has always been Apache-licensed, open source. And that's thanks to sponsorships which make it possible.
I think it's a variation of Stockholm Syndrome at this point. I've used Twitter since early days, and the only reason I even keep an account is to keep the user name. But I quit regularly viewing Twitter going on probably close to ten years ago, and open it in some form maybe once a week to look at a specific post (not just browse).

So, as one who doesn't use the interface very often: it's a fucking dumpster fire. If one were one of today's 10K, seeing Twitter for the first time, imagine explaining how to read a thread (no, you are not allowed to direct the n00b to a 3rd-party tool such as Nitter). It would appear to me, a not-regular user, that Twitter tries to do threaded conversations and fails miserably. As with parent comment, finding the context quickly turns into actual work. Someone must get value out of Twitter if they put up with all this, but that someone is not me. At the end of the day, I find Twitter to just not be worth the trouble anymore.
Killer feature for me would be to kill the use app nag on mobile.
> I've created some elaborate financial models to compare buying versus renting (+ investing the difference in S&P500) [...] It almost NEVER works out in favor of buying

I can't see how that's possible.

Rent is pissing away money, and from the rates I've seen, the monthly rent on a house is often very close to the monthly mortgage payment, so the "investing the difference ins S&P500" ends up being moot.

For my house, Zillow estimates the monthly rent value at $2,400/month, which is almost exactly what my mortgage payment (including property tax) is. And in 10 years, that payment will become ~$570 once the mortgage is paid off and all that's left is property tax. Meanwhile, if I chose to rent instead, after 10 years, my rent would probably be well $3,500/month.

Yeah, owning means I'm paying maintenance and repair costs, but those certainly don't add up to anywhere near what the rental payment would be.

I fully reject any claims that in the long term, renting could ever possibly be better than buying from a purely financial perspective. A mortgage is constant (Unless you fell for the scam that is an ARM) and eventually goes away. Rents perpetually go up and don't leave you with an asset.
A global pandemic that affected everyone's lives also started at the same time.
Then it sounds like the obvious solution is to ban rural people from moving into the cities!

... Or build more.
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Actually Sweden's numbers are quite good, better than many other EU countries which took more restrictive approaches.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

The immune system doesn't "lock onto“ part of the virus. That's just misinformation and displays a fundamental misunderstanding of how the adaptive immune system works.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/
I find it absolutely crazy that companies do this.

My company's strategy is get one extremely solid person across all our verticals (Android / iOS / Backend / Infra) to minimise communication overhead and maximise iteration speed (since we throw out half the code we write anyway).

I would be very hard pressed to hire more than 2-3 people in each role even if we were offered 10s of millions.
> That’s the same thing in France

I just checked and two of the three main stores (darty, boulanger) give the size in cm, with a convertion to inches.

The third one (fnac) uses primarily inches.
Pennsylvania has a few cities that have implemented a partial LVT. Here's[0] a Strong Towns article on the topic. They show exactly what I mentioned earlier - overall taxes are up, most peoples taxes are down. Business is booming. It's not Silicon Valley, but they are doing better than the cities around them that do not have the LVT.

The best introductions are Lars excellent book and blog articles[1] over on Scott Alexander's blog.

> Nobody would want to own any if the recurring property taxes are that high. But of course it doesn't make property affordable either, if the tax rates are sky high.

The tax rates are set by the market, so they are by definition affordable. You are taxed on the land alone, what capital you put on top of it is entirely yours to earn.

[0]: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/6/non-glamorous-g...

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-...
Is there anything in game theory related to this? (Very naive question, so probably not)

But yes my intuition when selling my house was "surely I'd get more if this was open bids"
I think your website is broken on mobile. The alignment is off and the contact form is cut off.
My first assumption was that it’s a reference to the obsession with “le” in rage comics on Reddit like a decade ago: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/le
I have Fast recruiter emails in my inbox from literally last week...
Unfortunately, the economy does not behave like a fluid, and a rising economy raises the wealthiest boats orders of magnitude higher than middle-class boats, and thousands of times higher than the poorest boats, which rise imperceptibly by comparison.
There is also a cumulative value in your knowledge and understanding when hacking on things for such specific personal niggles - which over time makes future efforts more likely to reap some combination of higher rewards, faster execution and less effort... and more often than not what we learn can be applied to our day jobs in unforeseen ways.

Having a problem organically emerge in front of us that affects us personally is just a really easy thread to pull on for learning things.
This, but for so much more than just tech. For example try to find a discussion of Trader Joes vs Whole Foods.
Fukushima melted down only after the batteries supplying power to the primary cooling loop ran out. Normally diesel generators would have provided power but they were located low enough that the tsunami took them out of commission. Had the backup diesels been located higher up -- as had been recommended to TEPCO -- then all would have been well at Fukushima Daiichi.
Does the law also state that you can't fix the date afterwards, or that once entered verification is required? It's a paid account, they've already got my credit card details. And how does it make sense that I was born 2 weeks ago?

I don't know, I felt really stupid when I entered the wrong year but since then I've grown increasingly frustrated by how poorly this feature has been implemented.
This kind of speculation really needs explanation of the technical capabilities required for the various operations.
I'd believe that! It's entirely possible and even likely that they're well intentioned. But they just don't work, because the spam is coming from inside the house.
The SCOTUS was already 11% black, which is about equal to the black population of the US. Blacks will now be over represented.
It probably has to do with the (lack of) window management on mobile platforms and the coupling of which window is foreground to the (often also lack of) behavior of the application.

Man I don't miss owning a smartphone, this stuff is really pants on head retarded.
‘We probably pissed away $200M’ Better.com CEO told employees in layoffs meeting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)
Given the small size, I prefer to think of it as 2.2127 zeptograins. Troy grains, of course.
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/alabama/alndce/5:2021cv004...

He's just running out the back door because of this case...
> that would massively undercut the core business

This happens a lot of times. The reality is that someone will do it for you. Sometimes they even grow bigger than you.
The stack I describe in the post is only for map tiles - Map tiles are a good fit for CDNs because the input space is small (just Z/X/Y coordinates on a square grid) and thus very cacheable.

Geocoding is a very different problem because the input space - human language - is much, much larger, and answering queries quickly to support features like autocomplete really requires a server with hot data in memory.

One of my favorite projects in this space is Pelias https://pelias.io which is an open source auto-completing geocoder based on OSM plus other open data. It's backed by a great team that also runs a business: Geocode Earth https://geocode.earth
Why Void? And why Void musl?
Here's my experience:

- When you hire, you implicitly put people in a level which dictates what you're willing to pay them.

- People will always feel underpaid, and demand more $$. Without a system, you give them out arbitrarily.

- You now have enough people to add structure to the process. Do you base people's levels on their current salary? On their skill?

- What happens when people notice the discrepancy in pay or skill among a level? Especially if it's skewed by race, gender, etc?

I think you should have as many levels as pay-bands in your startup, which might be 6.
Wow, thi event has really been pivotal but I wonder why major news outlets brushed it off. I've been reading a lot of news articles about the virus ever since the pandemic started and I didn't even know about this.
Yes, but they're not portable/interoperable in the way that a WASM version would be -- which is why the WASM version is exciting, right?

(Somebody correct me if I'm wrong; I know what WASM is but I'm not sure how it's employed in practice outside of in-browser tech demos of games and things)
So your issue is something you have no control over? I am not sure you’ll be happy anywhere. Where did you come from?
Testing isn't only about bugs. Suggesting that's the only benefit is a strawman. Testing forces you to design better code. Sure you can mock the crap out of things and still create trash but if you think critically it usually affords making more robust code.
Google used to have a feature called Discussions Search that would search forums for results. That allowed you to get discussion results from any forum. Since Google killed it, it's impossible to get discussion results unless you focus on Reddit.

I wonder how much this has contributed to Reddit crowding out other discussion forums.
But the revenue is also inflated, so it all works out in the wash.
One could always test it on some other planet like the Death Star in _Star Wars_.
> The best case WASM performance is roughly 20-50% slower

It's more accurate to say that the average case is 20-50% slower. The best case is on par, or slightly faster than native code[1].

[1] Measurements from our original paper, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3062341.3062363

Engines are even faster now.
1543 was famously followed by non-racist centuries with totally fair justice systems /s
Addicting infinite scrolling ahead. Trying to avoid these things. But I like the UX
>This isn't true though

Actually it is. That generator is only changing the equivalent of accent color. The libadwaita recoloring is the whole app. You will run into issues if you try to recolor everything in GTK3 that way. Yes you could technically rewrite the whole GTK3 stylesheet and recolor it that way, and lots of theme authors have done that, but at that point it's no different from what libadwaita does.
You can require proof of competing offers in your escalation clause.
Early in my career when in a discussion with my manager at the time, he threw out the "planes with two engines have twice as many failures as single engine planes" line.

So in my now close to 30 years of experience later, working on systems expected to run 24/7/365, I can't tell you what percentage of failures and outages were caused by the redundancy/fail-over/etc software and hardware layered into a system, but its definitely a very significant part of the problem. Frequently because its just that a "layer" someone bolted on, even if that layer was some software engineer designing for "web scale". All the edge cases are frequently not completely thought out, and when you hit one its a lot harder to recover, than simply restarting a single service running on a single server.
Mostly the same experience having had 10+ years on Mac before a switch to Windows. Powertoys[0] are great although some are slow (especially the one acting like Mac's Spotlight). UI is different but not a bad experience once you've used it for a couple weeks. I didn't see any mention of file explorers (i.e. Explorer vs Finder) in your articles but it's fascinating how those two concepts are the same thing yet so different in their strengths and weaknesses - and to be honest, my explorer experience improved once I started using QTTabbar[1] to customize everything to my liking.

I'm surprised your WSL article is so short, because WSL2 is so incredibly convenient for Linux and keeps on improving steadily.
I've been able to set up and practice on virtual kubernetes cluster using KinD[2] (Kubernetes in Docker) thanks to the seamless integration of Docker for Windows into the WSL subsystem. VSCode can tap into Linux VMs with pretty much no delays too. Shutting down the whole thing to free up resources takes one line in Powershell and happens within a few seconds. The terminal app despite having a bit of a clunky UI is highly configurable and just works, etc.

There are things that scare me about Windows though, for example the mandatory real-time "defender" file scanning that you have to disable either manually at every boot or disable entirely through registry thus losing the virus scanning functionality. The amount of clunky Cortana stuff that really took a while to remove. The store app that feels flimsy, the games dependency on Xbox apps and subsystems which can lead to annoying bugs, and certain UI delays that make the system sometimes feel not so fast compared to the tricks Macs can pull to make you feel at ease. Consequently I'm not very likely to touch Windows 11 as Microsoft is seemingly trying to enforce more things in configurations and UI.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

[1] https://github.com/indiff/qttabbar

[2] https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/05/21/wsl-docker-kubernetes-...
Private Memory for KVM Guests
Sure it's easy to build. As long as it's a single family home. The least efficient form of housing.
There is still plenty of unfinished stuff when compared with other languages, so hopefully not.
Over a career though you'll be at quite a few of them. Figure 7-10 or more in some cases. Some will be quick fails (within a year you know it's just not going to work and you move on) and others will be OK success (maybe you have an OK exit with equity but not life changing) over 4 years of service and maybe 1 or possibly 2 will be really nice. And if you're really lucky one will be beyond amazing.
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