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Ancient world? The Roman Empire fell apart. You know that, right? So, turns out their worries were warranted. A culture, a civilization can go through a period of stagnation and de…

The way language is eroding is very indicative of our overall social and cultural decay.

AI currently is a broken, fragmented replica of a human, but any discussion about what is "reserved" to whom and "how AI works" is only you trying to protect your self-worth and th…

Reproduction in time and reproduction in space are connected. If atoms couldn't reproduce (I can sense most readers knee-jerking reading this), they'd be all unique, wouldn't they.…

Atoms and sub-atomic particles fit this definition. Machines fit this definition. Fire fits this definition. Truth is "life" is not a distinct category. We just think of life as co…

No one forces us to use objects in JSON with repeated keys you know.

I'll say the obvious. A lot of this you can just do in JSON. Let's take the example: { "users": [ { "id": 1, "name": "Alice", "role": "admin" }, { "id": 2, "name": "Bob", "role": "…

On the path they've started with pipelining calls parametric on previous calls, they'll quickly realize that eventually they'll need basic transforms on the output before they pass…

TLDR: It looks like an operating system so it can get viral, like get an article on HN and so on.

You need some sort of critical majority that cares about deeper aspects of whatever (over superfice) or else everyone focuses on superfice, as that's what all the public debates ar…

Microsoft just took what they had and directly translated it to XML. It's not intentionally messy, it's just a big corporation with old product acting like it.

If you wanted a more equitable experience for all you wouldn't just limit the high-end users, but return the money to low-end users. Charging a low flat fee per use and still warni…

We're zooming into their miiiiiind!

That's just how the Babel Fish works. It translates perfectly, but it tacks on a random accent.

Every time someone mentioned "days" or "months" or "years" in Andor I had to mentally zap my brain not to think about how it doesn't make a sense across a galaxy.

I see the general phenomenon of those people as an outlet for a set of social defects we have. Keep in mind that "immigrants bad" and so on cultural wars repertoire is always the g…

This is wasm-dom for Rust: https://crates.io/crates/wasm-dom There's also web-sys. Those are Rust centric, I'm sure there are others, but basically you only need the whim once, and…

You already can do that. You need a tiny shim and you can forget it's JS and use all WASM.

But... we already have all that. Multithreading could've been a bit more convenient, but if you want it, you can get it. Don't tell me those revolutionaries that want to revolution…

Java didn't fail, it was replaced by the web to a large part, but remains strong not only as the original JVM, but the Android clone and .NET. As for why the clones... IP issues. O…

Give me one thing that your theoretical WASM can "revolutionize". Aside from more efficient covert crypto mining on shady sites.

DOM is so dynamic, any integration with DOM will look no different than the way we do it now through JS. JS is built to work naturally with DOM. Maybe we should stop overdesigning …

Well, we disagree on our asshole classification. To me a true experienced asshole notices when another asshole is about to swindle them. There is some inexplicable tendency for swi…

Being an asshole is one thing. But thinking you can be an asshole by proxy by becoming an asshole's victim, is something else entirely.

Intelligence is not general. It can be. But rarely is. Most people contextualize their knowledge and skills, they divide to conquer, as generalizing is hard. Especially hard in a f…