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Performance is less of a concern than binary size. Without WasmGC, you need to ship a compiled garbage collector to the user along with every WASM module written in a GC'd language. That's a lot of wasted bandwidth to duplicate built-in functionality, so avoiding it is a big win! And performance will always be a bit better with a native GC, plus you can share its scheduling with the rest of the browser process.

Slightly off-topic: I’ve been thinking about getting a Geiger counter as a hobbyist toy. Anyone got a recommendation?

Most people don't have the ability to choose what affects us emotionally. We can learn to build resilience and get less reactive, but we can't just turn off our emotional reactions completely.

If you can do that, it sounds great. For most people, they cannot do this and cannot be taught to.

I've been very disclosive about my diagnosis, and many people I work with have in turn revealed their own diagnoses to me. I'd like to hear more about your experience with this ⸻ how is this info getting used against people?

There’s no escape analysis at all; it’s purely lexical.

The connection is about the different incentives between a tech company and its users — and the way a company will try to exert control against the users’ interests.

The JVM has amazing, mature tooling, and a bunch of existing compile-to languages. If the goal is to do a productive exploration with some toys, that’s a good place to start.

Tom7 our beloved. How might we make this creator publish more videos? Money? Is it money? Can we give him money somehow?

What does "round-filed" mean?

A hand-drawn graph can be a great tool for reasoning, because it only depicts the features we choose — everything else is imprecise, and it looks imprecise. For me, that's actually a better way of building a visual intuition for how a function works.

What is a "balloon grab" in this context?

In standard Australian English, this is a perfect rhyme.

> I used to agree until I saw what has happened to biology in the last few years.

I'm missing the context here — could you expand on what's happened to biology?

At some point, we might need to accept that "mock" has become a generalised term which refers to many kinds of test-doubles. If it's being taught that way in universities and embodied that way in tooling, then the term has a new meaning.

I'm not surprised that google has cooks as employees — but it's surprising to know they were hiring a cook when they had at most 52 other employees!

Sure, the web will one day die — and it will certainly change a lot before that day!

But even so, would you stake a current native UI toolkit to last longer, and provide more value, before that day?

There are good reasons to write truly native UI. Performance is very persuasive. Longevity, perhaps less so.

With current models, it's often possible to exfiltrate the special token by asking the AI to repeat back its own input — and perhaps asking it to encode or paraphrase the input in a particular way, so as not to be stripped.

This may just be an artifact of current implementations, or it may be a hard problem for LLMs in general.

I can't tell what's wrong with that — could you elaborate?

> eh, electron.

TFA doesn't seem to refer to electron at all. What's the connection here?

Embeddable plugin systems are absolutely a goal! See this part of the blog post: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-1-0-fast-safe...

Actually, the correct plural is "Dunnings-Kruger".

> Honestly, Markdown needs to be killed with prejudice. So much wasted time and effort getting it to do what people need it to do.

It seems to work pretty well as a human-editable format for rich text. Is there a different format you'd like to see take its place for that niche?

It would be great to see this technique applied to scenes which look much different in IR than the equivalent visible-spectrum monochrome. I'm thinking indoors, people wearing sunscreen etc. The results likely wouldn't resemble the original scene, but they'd be interesting!

Yes — and this possibility has been factored by the market into that $42 price. It's among the reasons why the stock isn't trading significantly lower.

The concern is about phishing via URL spoofing. For example, a user might see a URL like `google.com@mycoolphishingsite.se` and believe that "google.com" is the domain. The warning is intended to point out that "mycoolphishingsite.se" is the real domain.

Lots of different things live on the Ethereum blockchain: there's ETH itself, which we might call "raw money", and then there are abstract tokens (of both the fungible and non-fungible sort).

To make a programming analogy, there are lots of systems which are "generic" over tokens — they can deal with many kinds of token, as long as it's the standard shape. Raw money doesn't have this shape, so WETH is a very simple "wrapper token". You can trade 1 ETH for 1 WETH and then use it in some token-compatible system.

The exchange rate for WETH is fixed by the (very short) contract, and it's supposed to be simple to trade money for tokens or vice versa — although given this poor sod's story, it's arguably not that simple after all.

Perhaps this is self-delusion on my part, but I've had no trouble integrating materialism/atheism with what you're describing — that kind of psychedelic panpsychism. They don't feel like competing claims.

Let's focus on understanding and changing the policy rather than punishing individuals. Given IBM's large presence in the open source world, this is either a misunderstanding or a major policy problem.

That's a matter for interpretation. Including the internal email message in the commit might not be received favourably by IBM.

Could you expand on the distinction between "efficient" and "performant"? Sounds interesting.