brighteyes

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by brighteyes 2mo ago
Yes, here is another example of major work in this area: https://arxiv.org/html/2605.22763v1 > Our most capable agent autonomously resolved 9 of 353 open Erdős problems at the per-problem cost of a few hundred dolla
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by brighteyes 2y ago
It definitely does. And even better in some ways like no ads and fewer trolls.
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by brighteyes 2y ago
No, there is wide consensus that it was most likely (but not certainly) an errant rocket from Gaza, and not Israel. Wikipedia has a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio... Specific
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by brighteyes 3y ago
It is downvoted because it said "sizable fraction", which is a conspiracy theory. It is true that there were a few incidents, but they only account for a very small fraction of the death toll.
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by brighteyes 3y ago
Yes, the ICJ can order a ceasefire. It ordered Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine, for example. In this case it decided not to, but it did order other measures (which hopefully will save lives, but time will tell).
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by brighteyes 3y ago
Unfortunately for the Palestinians, that is not what was ruled. They were hoping for a full ceasefire like what you have interpreted, but they are very disappointed in the ruling because it does not say that. What it does say is 1. Israel m
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by brighteyes 3y ago
That is already being worked on, of course, regardless of the Houthis. The Keren Shalom crossing from Israel to Gaza just opened, which should allow double the aid to reach Gazans, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-e
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by brighteyes 3y ago
To clarify, WebAssembly specs are made by the WebAssembly W3C community group here: https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/ Its true that many of those companies are also members of the Bytecode Alliance. But th
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by brighteyes 4y ago
Even aside from the immediate danger, the reputational damage to Microsoft and Bing is growing quickly. I'm amazed they haven't removed it yet. And also eventually it will do something bad, like tell someone depressed to end their
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by brighteyes 4y ago
Igalia is doing the work, but does anyone know who is funding Igalia to work on it? (Or are they doing this without funding?)
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by brighteyes 7y ago
Maybe you're right, I might be too sensitive on this matter. Thank you for your thoughts.
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by brighteyes 7y ago
I just think our industry would be a better place if we didn't try to tear down other technologies, say stuff like "X sucks", etc. But I agree that friendly competition is a good thing! I feel this article was a little past t
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by brighteyes 7y ago
GC might not be a productivity win for you, but for many people it definitely is. I'm pretty sure that's true for the great majority of software developers, but of course they don't even use a non-GC language! Part of the rea
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by brighteyes 7y ago
Chrome does this too, it times GCs for when it has free time or is rendering in another thread, https://blog.chromium.org/2015/12/smarter-garbage-collection...
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by brighteyes 7y ago
You're right, yes - a 1ms pause has a cost, even in a 16ms budget. I interpreted the author's point as "GC is now potentially viable for games", in the sense that older GCs might have pause times larger than 16ms, making
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by brighteyes 7y ago
The technical detail in this article is excellent! A great read. But I think it would have been an even better article without the negativity about Go and how the author thinks "the Java guys are winning" in his words. That felt a
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by brighteyes 7y ago
No, the article focuses on something completely different: That more men are diagnosed with HPV-associated cancer than women, these days. That's because of a huge increase in mouth and throat cancer among men, likely caused by an incre
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by brighteyes 7y ago
At least one presidential candidate does support some form of nuclear, https://www.yang2020.com/policies/nuclear-energy/ but yes, it's a rare position.
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by brighteyes 7y ago
Rust would have tradeoffs here, though. For example, in C# you'd be able to do (non-leaking) graphs and other structures in 100% safe code, while Rust would need unsafe.
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by brighteyes 7y ago
> I really hope this works, but I fear it will die a shumway death. Yes, it may find a niche subset of Flash content it can do well, but there have been many attempts at Flash replacements, and all of them have failed, including seriou
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by brighteyes 7y ago
Yes, leaks are possible in all languages. In Rust you can leak due to reference cycles for example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-06-reference-cycles.html C# will clean up reference cycles, but an unintended refe
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by brighteyes 7y ago
I think that's too generous to the author given the other mistakes in the article, but sure, if you expand the meaning beyond regular memory safety, then it becomes a mixed picture: Rust protects from some race conditions, but other ty
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by brighteyes 7y ago
It's interesting that someone in Microsoft is talking about Rust, but the article is very flawed. For example, > C#, a programming language developed by Microsoft, also features some memory access improvements but is not as advanced
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by brighteyes 7y ago
Yes, much easier to tinker with a more barebones system. The downside of powerful toolchains is often their complexity. So there's a difference between one being better for shipping code and one better for learning.
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by brighteyes 7y ago
I think you're right. We can also add .NET (C#, etc.) to that list, as a popular hardware-independent language on the server (in enterprises at least). So, yes, most server languages are already hardware independent I believe. Wasm doe
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by brighteyes 7y ago
Also, Servo isn't a general-purpose browser project anymore at Mozilla. It's part of the "Mixed Reality" department: https://blog.servo.org/2018/03/09/servo-and-mixed-reality/
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by brighteyes 8y ago
Interesting survey, but some points to keep in mind: This is a survey of all tech workers in the US. It's not focused on Silicon Valley, and it's not focused on startups (in fact they only surveyed people in companies with 500+ pe
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by brighteyes 8y ago
True that many people are misled about this, but 1. 11 billion may be too much. 2. This isn't uniform across the globe. Japan's population is shrinking due to a very low birth rate, and that may be a bad thing (loss of cultural an
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by brighteyes 8y ago
I don't think either of those arguments assumes they are different. In fact the second mentions it may be the same.
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by brighteyes 8y ago
It would have been a more interesting article had it also went into the downsides of this approach. One specific concern is that mandatory paternity leave may discourage men from becoming fathers, further decreasing the birth rate which is

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