dataangel

Static typing, lexical scope, good performance on huge files out of the box, extension sandboxing

Wouldn't these be slow because all the operations are dependent? e.g. on x86 I'd use one of the 2 hash functions that has built-in instruction support

I don't agree with Israel censoring websites, but important to keep in mind Al Jazeera is run by Qatar which is a monarchy without real freedom of the press, it's not CNN. They have strong regional interests and an obvious desire to shape the narrative of the conflict. They're not humanitarians.

There isn't a single user focused reason in "Why Lix?" The alleged benefits of forking exclusively focus on making developers lives easier.

Isn't it the case that there are a near infinite number of forms of cancer for any organ? Any combination of mutations that causes unrestricted growth right? So how can it just be 2 forms?

I tried NixOS because I needed to recreate an environment with a specific GCC version. It was absolute hell, you are likely looking back on your experience with rose colored glasses now that you know how things work. Even really really really basic shit was insane, here's an example: the whole system is built on hashes, and there is no consistent format for them! I was getting an error with hash A even though I explicitly requested hash B, and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out nix can't decide whether to use base32 or base64....

I also tried passing arguments to specify the GCC version in like 10 different ways, *that all failed silently*. Staying far far far away from Nix even though on paper I should love it.

Edit: oh yeah and `nix shell` and `nix-shell` both exist and don't do the same thing

> Distributed

> Built on PostGRES

Not what people usually mean by distributed, caveat emptor

Would be great if it had benchmarks

GPT lets you actually share conversation links. Never trust screenshots.

Do you always advance to the next stage? If so I appear to win by just clicking "drop" every time.

is there anything particularly compelling about it compared to a centralized platform? honestly still just waiting for the android app to not have terrible startup time and for there to be anybody on it

It's a peer reviewed review listing a bunch of studies that according to the OP shouldn't exist so I think it's pretty relevant here.

Why every time a new technology comes out with crappy obvious limitations does somebody feel compelled to write a blog post trying to justify it as actually good? This is just somebody trying to talk themselves into keeping their $3,500 toy

IIRC the question is when the phone is totally locked, e.g. if you turn it off then turn it back on and haven't entered the PIN yet. In this state even apple can't get an update to run, the secure hardware won't do it unless you wipe the phone first. And your data is encrypted until you unlock the phone.

In practice though most people are screwed b/c it's all already in icloud.

There are two types of people with chronic pain though:

1) People with a known condition like specific cancers where chronic pain can be a well understood aspect of the condition. Taking the meds doesn't hide anything you and the doctor aren't already aware of.

2) People lumped into a bucket diagnosis (IBS, Fibromyalgia, etc) because the docs don't actually know what's wrong. Taking pain meds is the equivalent of dismissing alerts without investigating. Prior to the opioid crisis even well meaning docs were eager to prescribe because it made patients feel better without addressing any underlying cause.

what are the right flags and gc tunings?

this is just an ad

I have been writing low latency code for a decade and never seen cascading deletes be a problem. GC on the other hand is a constant latency problem for people.

I think the more important variable is how many subpostmasters there are. If there are millions then 700 is impressive.

> which companies have onerous cancellation policies?

gyms

I really wish there was a benchmark comparing all of these + MinIO and S3. I'm in the market for a key value store, using S3 for now but eyeing moving to my own hardware in the future and having to do all the work to compare these is one of the major things making me procrastinate.

The word "blog" seems like a giveaway this isn't from a real archive. I don't remembering hearing it until years later.

Huh, hiding part of a word is brilliant. I never thought to do that even though I made tons of cloze cards.

Apple recently demonstrated ARM is pretty capable of emulating x86

This was posted before and I still have no idea what the rationale is. No desktop PC or game console is RISC-V, so if I'm going to all the trouble to use a scripting solution that requires me to compile my scripts to machine language, why would I target RISC-V? Why wouldn't I just compile to x86-64 directly?

Like, what is the vision here, a LuaJIT that targets RISC-V, running inside my x86-64 game, where the emulator translates the RISC-V back into x86-64... for reasons? Just isolation?

reCAPTCHA is his baby.

He says peer review is for the authors, but I think science being peer reviewed is one of the key points used to convince the public to trust scientific results.

This doesn't remotely solve the same problem Flatpak does, you are comparing apples and oranges.

Oh yeah I didn't mean to imply the people there never produce anything that gets widely used in their whole careers, I'm specifically asking if it ever happens while they are at MS Research.

Ignorant question: Does much actually make it out of MS Research? I've seen lots of interesting retrospectives on stuff that either failed or just has never come out of the lab (Singularity/Midori, accessibility demos showing phones reading restaurant menus to the blind, their tablet pre-ipad, etc.) but I don't think I know of anything they made that really grew up off the top of my head.

I didn't want to say this without doing a little bit of homework so I checked their Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research) which doesn't list any accomplishments, just claims they have a lot of patents, and their main site has a publication index (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publications/?) but publication is not a good metric for ever seeing use.