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ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

But why bother when you already have the speed up? And why didn't TypeScript deliver it in the first place?

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

In both cases the WebAssembly result is twice as fast as the JavaScript version.

How do you account for that?

ciscon Grok 4.7

> If you watch the actual video

Here is the actual video in which Musk performs two fascist salutes at a political rally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

It wasn't an accident. He did it deliberately. Twice. He enjoyed himself doing it.

There's no value in the mental gymnastics to invent excuses for his fascist salutes. The rational thing to do is to accept the objective reality of it.

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

Here's a presentation on the Amazon Prime Video stuff. The talk's about 50 minutes long: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/prime-video-rust/

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

Porting the TypeScript toolchain to Go made it 10 times faster:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...

ciscon The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

> I start wondering what we're supposed to do with all those precious milliseconds it just handed us back

Speed matters. WebAssembly is taking jobs from JavaScript precisely because it's faster.

The calculation engine for Google Sheets became twice as fast with the switch to WebAssembly: https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc

The Amazon Prime Video app became twice as fast with less variability in performance when they switched to WebAssembly: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-...

Compiling to WebAssembly enables every language to run in the browser. Google used Java and Amazon used Rust.

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

> Other people do like them and find them fulfilling for whatever reason

That's the question. What is the reason?

People also play slot machines. Are slot machines fulfilling?

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

> Is one of our hobby sets more legitimate than the other's

How are video games a hobby? Is playing slot machines also a hobby?

What's the difference between video games and slot machines? They look real similar to me.

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

> develop your skills and use your brain in a complex way

What skills? I don't think there's anything complex about button mashing to make blinking lights blink differently.

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

> To be equally reductive

I'd say it's less reductive and more the objective reality.

> I do not believe a hobby needs to yield social value

I didn't say anything about social value. I'm talking about value to you individually.

I don't think you've answered that question. I don't see there is any value. I think you're pushing buttons to make the blinking lights blink differently, just like a slot machine.

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

> to tie that dopamine release to giving away money predicated on deception (specifically, both by not disclosing actual odds, and by lying about them)

So just like loot boxes in video games.

> A slot game that requires no money to play isn't a problem

So similarly you should only be playing opensource and freeware video games that aren't designed to extract money from you.

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

I'd say it's more like I'm trying to get something coherent out of people and there's nothing to be had.

Video games don't even appear to be productive of good discussion.

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

> What kind of question is that?

The question is what value are video games. The answer seems to be "not much".

They look much more like addictive distractions than anything valuable.

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

But why do you like them? What do you get out of them? What's the benefit?

I've watched people play slot machines. They sit there and pump money into the machine for no real benefit to themselves. Why are video games any different to that?

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

Having to give over time and money to a video game company to maintain friendships sounds more like a symptom than a cure.

When your grandkids ask you what you did with your finite time, is "I pwned noobs" the answer you want to give?

ciscon I said no and Apple said yes

> I refuse to give up games that I love

But why? They're just video games. Why are they important, especially when a lot of them are designed to be addictive.

A lot of people love smoking but that's not important either and it's better to give it up.

ciscon Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production

> Losses remain very high for daily use.

It's about the same as wired AC charging:

https://insideevs.com/features/711659/ev-charger-efficiency-...

ciscon Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production

It's 90% from grid to battery.

ciscon Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production

> That’s a some 9kW lost on a 80kW battery

It's about the same as wired AC charging. There are always charging losses:

https://insideevs.com/features/711659/ev-charger-efficiency-...

ciscon Elon Musk and Tesla Forged a New EV Path

Hype.

ciscon Elon Musk and Tesla Forged a New EV Path

> Tesla Motors was becoming an auto manufacturer.

Tesla now says it's an AI and robotics company.

BYD sells more EVs than Tesla so it probably makes sense not to try to compete with them. BYDs charge faster and cost less.

Tesla is losing market share while EV adoption is growing a worldwide:

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026/trends-in...

https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/07/20/byd-delivered-5570...

https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL_MONTHLY/Groups/Line/All-t...

ciscon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

It's more about predictability.

America's become erratic and untrustworthy. America's made a deliberate choice make its reputation worse.

ciscon UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size

> Africa's misrepresentation on world maps is not just a cartographic error - it's a narrative issue

> "world's longest misinformation and disinformation" about Africa

It's not a cartographic error, a narrative issue, misinformation, or disinformation.

The Mercator projection was used because it made it easy to navigate using straight lines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Marine_nav...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumb_line