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by sstangl 4y ago
I've maintained a well-used online Esperanto dictionary for several years now: https://www.tujavortaro.net . The whole dictionary is loaded client-side and a lookup is performed on each keypress. Because of the search speed,
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by sstangl 5y ago
> If Slack offered a way to show all messages whether or not they're in a thread, as they come in, I'd be down. This is how Zulip works. It's extremely effective.
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by sstangl 5y ago
Similar logic is used to toggle on/off GC write barriers in JS jitcode.
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by sstangl 5y ago
In my experience code quality falls out from making mental simulations easier to produce. Abstraction boundaries should be drawn where mental processing starts feeling burdensome. When running abstract mental simulations, do you assume that
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by sstangl 6y ago
Yes, Firefox uses the same sandbox as Chromium. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox/Specifics
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by sstangl 6y ago
They are optimizing only for code size, so they don't need to run the code: they only count bytes emitted. This works by changing around the order / interleaving of various LLVM optimization phases, so the learning process does no
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by sstangl 6y ago
The parent post is objecting to a statement from Mozilla opposing "the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy." https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/0
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by sstangl 6y ago
Google's interpretation implies their belief that if their PostgreSQL server uses AGPL code, then every service using that PostgreSQL server must also be AGPL. The article points out that that is not the case. If you are using AGPL cod
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by sstangl 6y ago
JIT engines like this one don't receive much benefit from being rewritten in a memory-safe language. Errors typically occur in the generated machine code, not in the compiler itself. The benefit would be small.
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by sstangl 7y ago
I'm talking about neutral perceptions, not thoughts. An example would be something like the visual perception of a sidewalk. Presumably you don't get an emotional reaction about the sidewalk one way or the other, it's just a
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by sstangl 7y ago
There are two options I'm familiar with: 1. Without wondering if you sincerely mean it, make a point to say "thank you." Typically if you are depressed you will be alone, and so it is possible to recognize situations where yo
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by sstangl 7y ago
Download batches on initial extension load, and periodically thereafter, and cache them locally?
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by sstangl 7y ago
Here's a simple no-framework points calculator for the sport of Powerlifting: https://www.ipfpointscalculator.com/ The page is 11KB, loads in 96ms, and makes three requests to one network, two of which are favicon-rela
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by sstangl 7y ago
Mozilla engineers typically accept a salary that is below market rates. Recently they have been increasing salaries to be more competitive.
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by sstangl 7y ago
I can't visualize every kind of object. The easiest things to visualize are simple geometric shapes with a strong color. By default, if I try to "visualize something" it will be a red triangle. I cannot visualize faces whatso
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by sstangl 7y ago
Yes, it's plausible that were Rust to adopt Cranelift as a supported backend, you could use Cranelift as an intermediary to translate Rust MIR (via Cranelift CLIF) into C. Outputting functional-but-horrifying C would not be terribly di
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by sstangl 7y ago
I spoke to Dan to let him know that I'll need to hand off my work, and he didn't mention anything. So I assume he is. At this point I don't know who was affected.
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by sstangl 7y ago
Oh, thank you! I added it.
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by sstangl 7y ago
I'm one of the 70. There were no signs that this was imminent, although Mozilla has been struggling financially for many years. I expected that it would happen eventually; I'm relatively well-prepared for it; and it's not too
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by sstangl 7y ago
In Firefox, Wasm still uses a tiered JIT. Like JS, there is a single-pass JIT and a JIT that does more aggressive optimizations (mostly: good regalloc). However the compilers are much simpler than the equivalent JS compilers, because wasm d
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by sstangl 7y ago
If this started with BusyBox translated from C to Rust, is this code also under the GPL, as is BusyBox? I don't see any LICENSE or COPYING files in the repo.
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by sstangl 7y ago
We switched to Zulip because of a bad experience with Slack holding our message history hostage. At the same time we switched to GitLab because we didn't want a similar issue to arise with our issue tracker. It was non-trivial to get t
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by sstangl 7y ago
In the beginning, Chrome was bundled with Flash, and Flash was ubiquitous. When you installed or upgraded Flash, unless you checked a checkbox, Chrome would be installed.
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by sstangl 7y ago
Back when this change to Screenshots was announced, it wasn't known whether Send would be a successful experiment.
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by sstangl 8y ago
It's visible in the tab: https://i.imgur.com/UOvz505.png
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by sstangl 8y ago
DDG has a "retry search in Google" mode if you prefix !g to your search query. I usually try in DDG first, and then in the small cases where it's not found, I just prefix "!g" and re-execute the query.
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by sstangl 8y ago
> Safe from what? Chromium? It's Open Source? Safe from monopoly control over Web standards. The Web has been a consensus ecosystem, and Google does not have a track record of proposing reasonable standards. In my mind this is most
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by sstangl 8y ago
I don't think it was a toolchain issue, because I did receive line and file information for certain classes of errors. Presentation of that information doesn't appear to be pervasive.
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by sstangl 8y ago
Yesterday, there was news that Facebook was porting Yarn from Flow to TypeScript for ease of new contributors. That ease is a shared goal of one of my projects, and yesterday I tried porting it as well. I discovered that in contrast to Flow
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by sstangl 8y ago
I switched back to Thunderbird and have been content ever since. IMAP works fine.

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