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I really don't think asm.js was more promising than webassembly. wasm adds not just performance but a pretty strong sandboxing layer against semi-trusted code, and a route to (fairly painlessly) embedding it as a script host in damned near anything. It's one of the few tech things over the last few years that's really exciting, not because it's novel but because it's good.
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asm.js is just javascript written in such a way that a jit compiler can process it easily. it gracefully degrades to running (slowly) without special support, because it's javascript. it can do everything javascript can do, because it's javascript. it's as secure as anything else in a browser (lol) because it is just fuckin' javascript wasm is a gigantic, entirely new pile of surface area for web browsers which replicates some, but not all, of the existing functionality of web browsers. as it matures and gains new features there is a continuous detonation of incompatibilities with non-bleeding-edge browsers, and it is still critically dependent upon interoperation with javascript to actually make anything happen if you were starting from a totally blank slate wasm would be pretty alright, but as an appendix to the existing teetering stack of technology it's an unforced nightmare the fact that some people may spin it off as a jvm alternative via wasi is pretty much orthogonal to its suitability for its original purpose
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wasm is assembly in the same way that all those project management startups that claim to be "the OS for your team!" are operating systems
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asm.js and webassembly are both solutions in search of a problem because nobody should be doing any sort of thing in a browser that could possibly need them because anything presented in a browser should work with JavaScript entirely disabled and nobody should be using JavaScript outside the browser because there are a huge pile of better choices for native development
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i thought they were a neat proof of concept for being able to run things in the browser that otherwise would not due to platform incompatibility, but only in the context of a “traditional” application i.e. not a webapp however i guess that for that you still need the full source code and system to host browser integrations of the application you are trying to run, which makes it easier just to use a virtualized container anyway
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eschaton posted:asm.js and webassembly are both solutions in search of a problem because nobody should be doing any sort of thing in a browser that could possibly need them because anything presented in a browser should work with JavaScript entirely disabled this boat sailed a long time ago
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eschaton posted:asm.js and webassembly are both solutions in search of a problem because nobody should be doing any sort of thing in a browser that could possibly need them because anything presented in a browser should work with JavaScript entirely disabled lol
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my 8 year career was entirely D3 and React SPAs
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i do find it somewhat fitting that the browser-based reference docs for wasm (https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/) use mathjax to render everything with gobs of javascript, displaying a mess of unreadable markup which a few seconds later is choppily replaced with very unpleasant typography:
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ransom note typography
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a majestic greybeard has been spotted jmclnx 6 hours ago | prev | next [–] I do not understand why people need to use these things [goon note: password managers], maybe they make it easier and more secure for Cell Phones ? I never use my Cell Phone for anything Finance or Medical Related. But for me, I keep an encrypted text file and get the passwords my using emacs or vim. I generate passwords using: tr -cd "[:alnum:]" < /dev/urandom | fold -w 16 | sed 10q and with the result I may replace 1 character with what they call a "special character". To me that avoids a lot of worry. jmclnx 9 days ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subredd... "neckbeards" ? Really, do you know what one is  A real "neckbeard" would not be caught dead doing anything in a GUI on a tiny Cell Phone. neckbeards use USENET, which seems to be what REDDIT cloned years ago by putting lipstick on a pig.
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annotations are an [excellent] idea for anthropological study
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NihilCredo posted:tr -cd "[:alnum:]" < /dev/urandom | fold -w 16 | sed 10q dang, sed 10q is such a flex
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NihilCredo posted:a majestic greybeard has been spotted get this dude to yospos
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“using emacs or vim”? obvious fake post lol
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Soricidus posted:“using emacs or vim”? obvious fake post lol good catch, that's extremely suspicious
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alias "ed" to open vim, emacs, or nano at random
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NihilCredo posted:a majestic greybeard has been spotted what a stone cold pimp
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Soricidus posted:“using emacs or vim”? obvious fake post lol lol
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Someone got out his Ottoman era skull calipers...quote:
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someone says uber drivers should always be given five stars unless you want them to lose their job. hacker news responds as you would expect having to think about rating systems that have existed for decades and ended up inspiring 'the wire' is literally black mirror and/or them chinese people, because i didn't care to think about it until now: quote:
oh you say this thing is bad? well here's another you never mentioned to refute your argument. guess you didn't get mugged by reality (same hn users who think mandatory background checks on drivers is literally 1984) quote:misnome 17 minutes ago | prev | next [–] have you considered that we could make the system worse? opportunity is everywhere quote:
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josh04 posted:this boat sailed a long time ago it can still burn
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my rider rating is 4.76 and i don't even know why. but also uber is loving garbage where i live, it's the goddamn capital and whenever i try to order a ride i get bounced around for ten minutes while everyone rejects me because i didn't spend enouygh to be worth picking up!!
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i'm at 4.57, i am not *that* surprised, as i do request a lot of rather inconvenient pickup/dropoffs (e.g. extremely far out of the way where the driver will struggle to get a return fare). also i have a terrible sense of directions so i am incapable of ever answering a question about the trip in a comprehensible way.
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sidcool 0 minutes ago | parent [–] Theoretically it's impossible to travel through space at or more than speed of light. But space itself can move faster than light speed, and a warp drive would help something similar that you mentioned. That is possible theoretically. But the amount of energy or mass it needs is very high and no current technology (or in foreseeable future) can achieve it. So FTL remains a dream. My hunch based on nothing is that we will achieve FTL no earlier than 2250. reply qualifies in the final stretch!
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futurama predicted it
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oh my god there's a hn thread about scotus striking down affirmative action - in a non-political way surely
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distortion park posted:sidcool 0 minutes ago | parent [–] I would have said 2239 myself but whatever. To each their own.
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kliras posted:oh my god there's a hn thread about scotus striking down affirmative action - in a non-political way surely "Men's rights" stuff and the idea that white people are being discriminated against are unfortunately following a similar trajectory.
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quote:hospitalJail 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [–] what i were the rich person 🤔
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gpl has stopped no major corporation from building all their tech infrastructure on top of linux, nginx, docker et al. sure they provide a value add which is whatever actual service they sell to clients, but having gpl software available for having a technology platform to build upon definitely does not hurt
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I don’t think nginx is even GPL
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well yeah, i guess the difference between bsd and gpl licenses really does not matter as long as you just use the software as is. hell iirc you can even customise it to your needs - gpl forces you to share the source code if/when you release or sell that software to someone
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that includes a device that has the software on it not applicable to web services of course, that’s why AGPL was invented
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ldjkfkdsjnv 14 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014) Call me crazy, but as a highly analytical person that has spent 70% of my waking hours in the last five years working on something technical, my social skills are best when I'm hungover. The logical analytical side of me is diminished and I am much more "normal". I have a much higher rate of success on dates with women when I have a really bad hang over and then a few drinks. It does feel like a lobotomy, and that's fine. If I am in my normal raw intellect, I will begin going deep on some topic thats outside the range of normal human discourse. It will be hard for me to stop, because of my interest. Alcohol removes that to a large degree. Edit: A funny meta observation, the "Peak HN" comment below, and the following conversation, might not have been necessary if I wrote this post very hungover.
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4lokos basilisk posted:gpl has stopped no major corporation from building all their tech infrastructure on top of linux, nginx, docker et al. sure they provide a value add which is whatever actual service they sell to clients, but having gpl software available for having a technology platform to build upon definitely does not hurt has stopped a lot of people from getting paid for their work though.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:has stopped a lot of people from getting paid for their work though. why, are bsd/mit contributors making money hand over fist?
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NihilCredo posted:why, are bsd/mit contributors making money hand over fist? You're confusing them with bdsm contributors.
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