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they don't call it Lisp because it came from Scheme but they wisely realized the first step to making changes is to stop calling it Scheme otherwise purists will just rain fire on it and insist on living in the past
from a practical perspective it seems perfectly safe and reasonable to say Racket is Lisp2023
otherwise maybe elisp? it is by far the most important thing with "lisp" in its name in 2023
so you can write perl in a kinda-sexp style if you really want to (no one does, which tells you something)...but you get a kinda-sexp built-in syntax for hashes whereas lisps make you construct them with bolted on functions
Google has TPUs but have these even made a tiny dent in Nvidia's position?
I assume anything Apple is cooking is using Nvidia in the server room already
Intel seems completely absent from this market
AMD seems content to limit its ambitions to punching Intel
its Nvidia's game to lose at this point...I wonder when they start moving in the other direction and realize they have the power to introduce their own client platform (I secretly wish they would try to mainstream a linux laptop running on Nvidia ARM but obviously this is just a fantasy)
if anything, I think Huang may not be ambitious enough!
this isn't 2008 but the logic is the same...Yellen will talk tough as long as the fallout is limited to boutique banks like SVB...otherwise it will be TARP part two and she knows it
and btw if you are going to go look at casualty counts, don't bother, its well understood that the Chinese lost ten men for every US soldier killed...they still won
- Ukraine - a contrived proxy war and we are very generously and bravely assisting in the avoidable deaths of as many Ukrainians as possible. I'll go even further - neoliberal support in the US is comes from this notion that Trump and Putin are penpals, so if we punch Putin, its like punching Trump
- Middle East Wars - worst geopolitical decision since ww2, probably ruined the US forever
- Vietnam - a massive mistake...and I mean MISTAKE. this was not evil on the US part, but a legit misunderstanding. We mistook a civil war for a Red Wave
- Korea - neutral...but it was the last time we faced off against China militarily and although we massively outgunned them, they probably delivered the single worst military defeat in US history (Chosin Resevoir). By any rational assessment we should have demolished the Chinese, instead they demolished us.
no, pick one that is a decent compromise and move on
no one is going to dismiss the entirety of a platform like nginx because they can't script it in their favorite language
but people like code reuse, so its almost always better to communicate, collaborate and share at the source code level than at the level of a compiler target
as far as I can tell, the only real target audience here are pathological language snobs ("I insist on writing neovim extensions in Rust!") who will validate their inflexibility by pointing at the lowest common denominator of wasm
hypothetically...but it would also move part of your integration testing into the realm of wasm
I can't think of why this is better than just translating functionality into the language you are using
CORBA, Beans etc predate the modern web but its telling that no one has really bothered to try to recreate them...what is the demand? server-side wasm just doesn't seem to be anything that is strongly needed and looks a lot like completists just scratching an itch
two languages that only communicate at the wasm level...isn't this just a variation on "DLL Hell"?
as to a Go program accessing a Rust module...on a practical level you would almost always be better off taking the thing in Rust that you want to use in Go and just doing a best-effort source translation or find some library out there that provides substitute functionality
I'd rather have source translation tech that just gets functionality into the language I am using
how long until IBM, Tesla and Oracle announce Me-Too LLMs?
not alone though...every VC who poured $30 million into a cashflow-negative startup eight years ago has also missed out on turning it into $100 million with the click of a mouse
last time I checked known stats on Gen X retirement savings, the national average was under $100k...Gen X is the first generation that is almost entirely dependent on 401k
for bonus points, Gen Xers in large cities are more likely renters than owners, so they won't even be able to sell a property to prop up the low 401k balance
the Gen X retirement bailout is probably already unavoidable and will be in the trillions
everyone says its fine because they love what they do and will do it forever...do they really think there will be a hot market for 67 year old React devs?
I am willing to pitch in to help
that said, why would I not be surprised to find out many of these people have a newer and more expensive phone than me? a nicer car?
sorry for the cynicism but I've watched too many people in the drive-up food bank line in $80k pickups...we have a disconnect here
the Dean is wrong in asserting that the students will need to encompass and address disagreement later in their careers to serve their clients
the students protesting will take up work at places like SPLC where donations from Silicon Valley elites will pay them $1 mln/year to witch hunt Americans
the protest is just job prep
I see mention of "free speech training"...the school should expect this to turn into a complete circus
countdown until students demand a resignation letter from the Dean also
the tide will turn one day, but the mob is going to go scorched earth first
Tesla and Rivian have no choice but to make EVs work or die trying...GM and Ford can and will revert back to their bread and butter of ICE SUVs
this is why I don't believe Ford and GM will ever "transition" to being dominant EV players...they're addicted to ICE profits
over two million background checks for firearms purchases are performed each month, and this number is rising, and the number of people who are being background checked for the first time is rapidly rising (fastest growing group - black women)
by 2030 there will likely be a half billion firearms in the US
there are more fully automatic rifles registered to individuals in Texas (40k) than are in possession of many NATO armies...for semi-auto pistols and rifles, Texas residents outgun most NATO armies by a substantial margin
these are stats that both gun advocacy and opposition groups will be happy to validate (each believe the numbers support their position)
anecdotally, it is very common here in Texas to read of traffic altercations in which both parties involved in road rage incidents were carrying in their vehicles...it is widespread
not in the US - millions of people keep loaded guns in their vehicles
I'm happy that you're happy in Apple's walled garden...but what does this have to do with Gnome?
was confounded by the high headcount, also confounded by the amount of commercial RE they held in Austin
even after these layoffs, their headcount seems curiously high for a listings site