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ko27··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
It’s in the name: an MPA requires a page roundtrip for every navigation, while SPA requires a single page roundtrip. Any subsequent requests are part of the application itself and can be handled without disrupting UX.
ko27··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
> the average device and connection is insanely faster than 10-15 years ago

Using the same reasoning, I’d come to the opposite conclusion. Devices are much faster than they were 10-15 years ago, but network latency is still roughly the same because physics limits how much it can improve. So reducing network round trips matters more than ever, which favors SPAs over MPAs.

ko27··on F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]
Of course you can, you can literally read the version from the file itself.
ko27··on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
Having the author come out and say that being untyped is a feature, is definitely one way to kill of any potential interest for that framework.
ko27··on JavaScript Temporal is coming
Temporal API is far more consequential than what was attempted before. Their proposal for serializing timezones is about to become the de facto standard extension to ISO 8601 (date/time).
ko27··on First demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cables
Many potential use cases. Quantum key distribution, quantum imaging, quantum sensing etc.
ko27··on First demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cables
It's not deceptive. The whole point of the study was to figure out a way to transfer quantum information through active Internet cables, and not empty optical cables.
ko27··on First demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cables
This is basic QM "spooky action at a distance" stuff. Quantum information is teleported instantaneously, however to make use of that information, you actually need to transfer classical information over regular channels. That doesn't mean it's not useful, see for example the way QKD works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution
ko27··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
It's a perfectly legit interpretation of what's happening, and many physicists share the same opinion. Of course the big caveat is that you need to interfere those worlds so that they cancel out, which necessarily requires a lower algorithmic bound which prevents you from doing infinite amount of computation in an instant.
ko27··on Firefox Is the Superior Browser
I am not convinced at all:

> extensions

You can use a Chromium browser like Samsung Internet

> View PDFs in browser

Chrome is adding support for that https://www.androidauthority.com/open-pdf-files-chrome-andro...

Not to mention, performance is better on Chrome (and Samsung Internet), and the difference is obvious in Speedometer benchmark.

ko27··on A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities
You don't need "classical encryption" for quantum key distribution. With QKD you can provably detect if a MITM attack happened. With classical methods you can never be 100% sure, although how much of that matters in practice is another question.
ko27··on We're forking Flutter
It's better in most ways, for example, just recently LG decided to rewrite its TV apps from RN to Flutter

https://webostv.developer.lge.com/news/2024-07-15-new-and-su...

> Most of our apps use React. When we first adopted React, we were pleased with the development productivity it provided, but sadly its initial performance was subpar in terms of start-up time, memory consumption, and responsiveness. After significant and complicated optimizations we reached performance benchmarks that were good enough, and yet we desired a new technology that was both fast and simple.

> To our delight, our very first prototype with Flutter easily exceeded our target benchmarks! Without any optimization whatsoever, our Flutter rewrite launched twice as fast as our original app, consumed less runtime memory, and felt more responsive and playful to use

ko27··on Amplification of electromagnetic fields by a rotating body
Yes, it probably even works in total isolation from any radiation, because it can interact with quantum vacuum and give off energy to create photons. That's the next thing they are trying to prove.
ko27··on John Wheeler saw the tear in reality
It's not like we are any closer to resolving the measurement problem today. I wouldn't be quick to dismiss Wheeler, all alternative theories for this problem are radical or "unattractive".
ko27··on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
Because in this area, EU has rule of law, not Ireland.
ko27··on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
If there is a legal conflict, EU law trumps all, the same way federal law trumps local law in US. The highest court is always an EU institution. EU countries give up part of their sovereignty in specific legal areas, like market competition regulations. They can always leave if they want.
ko27··on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
It's simple, EU law says Apple had to pay taxes at that time. Apple's ignorance of EU law is not an excuse, this doesn't work for individuals, why should it work for big multinational companies? Ireland doesn't have the power alone to overturn these kinds of laws, unless, of course, they decide to leave EU.

Apple's decision to put their trust completely in Ireland officials and sidestep the EU is their own mistake. Reminds me of when Trump tried to arrange a trade deal with Germany without EU, which was impossible.

ko27··on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
> You can just ignore deals because you (EU) said so?

Of course you can, because EU law has precedence over Ireland's deal in this situation.

ko27··on Computer scientists prove that heat destroys quantum entanglement
This doesn't answer the question. We know how classical physics emerges from a large number of quantum events through statistics. That was not the point of Schrödinger's cat though experiment! The idea is to link a macroscopic event to a random subatomic event that is in a superposition. When or how does the wave function collapse, does it even collapse?
ko27··on Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist
It's funny that you mention hubris and yet you fall victim to it by dismissing the measurement problem and Bell's theorem. It's true that our theories are not a perfect description of "true reality", but they do tell you something about what "true reality" must be.

> That Bell’s theorem “proves” something is language applicable to a mathematical structure, not to the physical world itself.

This is simply wrong, Bell's theorem definitely applies to the "physical world". A world that does not violate Bell's inequality would look vastly different to ours.

ko27··on The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology
You are not a making insightful point at all. Nothing in the world can guarantee you that "Y implies X", after all, we can be living in a simulation. Does that mean we should shutdown all scientific discussions by repeating what you stated? Of course not.
ko27··on Susskind: String Theory Is Not the Theory of the Real World
Before anybody misinterprets Susskind opinion, String theory might not be, and probably isn't, the theory of the real world, but that doesn't mean it's not useful. The prevalent opinion amongst the physics community is that some parts of String theory are isomorphic to the theory of the real word whatever it might be (e.g. ADS/CFT correspondence).
ko27··on Tsung-Dao Lee, physicist who challenged a law of nature, has died
Congrats, you devised an experiment to determine left and right. The only issue? You need to know what's left and right when placing those elements.
ko27··on [dead]
"Secret" deal they offered to everyone. Remove hate speech or be target of a regulation that was voted on and passed. Elon thinks this is illegal? Commission is the literally the executive arm of EU.
ko27··on With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits
Are there any interesting mathematical problems that can be encoded with 5 states and 2 symbols, which now we can prove using BB(5)?
ko27··on AdFlush
The argument is that Y is more robust.
ko27··on AdFlush
"Practical solutions" also leave you vulnerable to cat and mouse games against sites that block or bypass adblockers (even with ublock origin). The end game is to have heuristic/AI adblocking which would directly hook into browser rendering so that it becomes undetectable. Obviously leading browsers do not support this for extensions, but forking Chromium wouldn't be so hard.
ko27··on Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture
It seems that M4 was overhyped. Almost of all of the performance improvements, in Geekbench for example, comes from new instructions that most apps won't use, and even if they do they might end up using the faster GPU/NPU for those tasks.

https://twitter.com/toniievych/status/1788596920627118248

ko27··on Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model
Developer's mindset, knowledge and tooling is also a build dependency for any open source code. You can not realistically get the same code without it.
ko27··on Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model
> Is the IDE a primary input for building the program? Is the IDE a build dependency?

No, the same way training is not a build dependency for the weights source code. You can literally compile and run them without any training data.

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