iforgot22

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by iforgot22 2y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but a blockchain doesn't require that every user runs a node. And any "blockchain" application usually involves some off-chain brokers for performance reasons, which yes users woul
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by iforgot22 2y ago
HN has more restrictions on downvotes. For instance, I don't even have that button.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Paywalls would be a lot more impactful to average users than anything that happened on Twitter or Reddit before.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
What constraints are needed? I've used DSLs that are almost Python but not quite, I think because they were hermetic and deterministic. Even those ended up being produced dynamically using some higher level config DSL or just regular c
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by iforgot22 2y ago
If you install it 3 times then yeah, but even then, all 3 of them will still work. But I could've sworn the python.org installer set the PATH. If not, that's kinda annoying.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Can they use pyspark?
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by iforgot22 2y ago
I'm not surprised it's above Rust and Perl, but it's below Dart?! Ouch.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
I cared about programming languages when I was a newcomer. Stopped caring about 10 years ago. They're just tools, each with their own gotchas and different design choices I couldn't care less about. Between two tools that both wor
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by iforgot22 2y ago
So then they need to know toml (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language)? https://github.com/gtk-rs/examples/blob/master/Cargo.toml I don't know what this file says.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
If only Python had the equivalent of npm.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
There are way more people who know Python than Scala, and it's also an easier language to get started with.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
You run into the same problem with config DSLs, except now you're dealing with a DSL. Config is almost never going to be static.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
All a Mac user has needed to do was install from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and then run python3 in the shell. Even if you use MacPorts or brew or conda or whatever, there's a distinct command to run Python
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by iforgot22 2y ago
XNU apparently stands for "X is not Unix." Well that's confusing.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Why is this convo about kernels so angry? And macOS isn't even based on a microkernel.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Apparently Windows XP is the dominant desktop OS in Armenia. They were savvy enough not to go to Vista I guess. (Not that the country is anywhere near large enough to skew global benchmarks.)
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by iforgot22 2y ago
The number of people who swap CPUs or even pay attention to the "Intel inside" sticker on a PC must be very small.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Which isn't really going to happen or be noticeable in this case. Yeah GC is slightly slower, but it's like blaming a 10-minute mile on your shoes. SDN or DBMS written in a GC'd language is probably not a good idea.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Does it have an option to shut off the dGPU entirely and rely on integrated? Just as a test.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
It's also unfortunate for a lot of heavy JS libs out there that they can't be cached locally anymore, but security is important. One WASM-related case I've actually encountered in the wild is Unity web. Similar problem as Gol
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by iforgot22 2y ago
There's also a lot of fast software written in Golang. GC has an undeserved bad reputation.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Modern macOS might be optimized for Apple Silicon CPUs. But even when it was Intel only, there were probably times when Windows was lighter, albeit bad in other ways.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Sounds a lot like a dedicated GPU is running and heat-throttling the whole thing, since you don't see CPU usage. I wanted to say gaming laptops are a scam, but the older Intel MBPs with dedicated GPUs suffered too. More trouble than th
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by iforgot22 2y ago
The renderer isn't going to pause on JS execution or GC.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
I think even a blank Electron app is rather heavy because it's basically a whole web browser, which btw is written in C++. BUT my 2015 baseline MBP still feels fine.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Some of them still do, if someone is using an outdated enough browser :D for example Chrome <86 (released 2020).
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Hm, so besides not having cross-site caching like ahoka mentioned, you can't even use some common fast CDN to host the compiled runtime.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Didn't expect that, but not very surprised. So short of the browser giving the Go runtime some special treatment, this sounds like a no-go.
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by iforgot22 2y ago
An LLM makes it even more beneficial to use popular tooling, because it's going to be better at answering questions about it. Meanwhile it's basically useless for whatever I'm doing at work with internal tools unless I have a
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by iforgot22 2y ago
Can that at least be a separate wasm file from some common URL so the browser can cache it?

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