adjav
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1 year ago
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on: Should JavaScript be split into two languages?
PNaCL was essentially "let's shove LLVM into every browser and make it a mandatory part of the web", which somehow seems even worse than "let's shove the JVM into every browser and make it a mandatory part of web"
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: 25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge
It's now owned by his son, Matthew Moroun.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: 25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language
Not really, no. Like Elm, it strips away practically everything that wasn't already in 1970s-era ML. It's much closer to a trimmed-down Ocaml than it is to Haskell.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make
Clang 18 supports `import std;` now, but you need to enable some build settings [1]. Also has `deducing this` support, which is nice - I am fully in favour of C++ continuing to poach the good parts of Rust.
[1] https://libcxx.llvm.org/Modules.html
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: My Caste
They may not have talked about it to you, but that doesn't mean they didn't talk about it at all.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
HTML imports required JS to be used - otherwise all you had was a `link`ed DOM tree that you couldn't access. No one has really proposed a way to dynamically load anything without JS AFAIK.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Battery-electric “Infinity Train” will charge itself using gravity (2022)
Yeah, but that does require a fair bit of additional infrastructure, running overhead wires and having it connected to the power grid. Makes sense in populated areas, but for mining trains in Australia, potentially 1000s of kms from the nearest city? This seems like a reasonable alternative
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: TypeScript please give us reflection/runtime types
My understanding has long been that web developers have decided to turn Javascript into C#, one proposal at a time.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Ottawa pulls advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram
Given that's exactly what ended up happening in Australia I wouldn't be surprised.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Ottawa pulls advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram
> The right one is a tax that funds a subsidy for news.
The thing here though is that the Canadian government already does this. I really don't understand their logic with introducing this fee vs just raising the existing subsidy directly.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Ottawa pulls advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram
Note: This article is by the National Post, which is owned by PostMedia, who were one of the main backers of bill C18. Just something to keep in mind.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law
Reddit and Apple News will have the law applied to them as well, since the law doesn't include a list of sites affected, just the criteria under which affected sites fall.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law
Oh no, it's not just Google and Meta. That's how it's being presented, but it's actually whoever the CRTC wants to charge. They can and will change the list at any time, with no need for oversight.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law
Yeah, the biggest winner under the Canadian law will be the American hedge funds who own PostMedia, the company that owns the vast majority of Canadian newspapers. But that's good apparently, since at the least the money doesn't go to those icky tech nerds.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Programming languages going above and beyond
You might want to look in Lean 4 at some point too. A lot of work has gone into making it's theorem solving ergonomic and approachable for average programmers.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP
The Reddit OP posted the prof's name, they really are an agricultural sciences professor at Texas A&M. If this is made up then it's one hell of a way to defame someone.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP
It can certainly make up things that look like citations. It definitely cannot produce a series of valid inline citations for specific quotes, rephrasings, or statistics.
adjav
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2 years ago
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on: Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
That's like saying Classical Latin has been meticulously preserved. Technically true, but entirely irrelevant.
