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I worked on a browser team when Spectre/Meltdown came out, and I can tell you that a big reason why Firefox and Chrome do such severe process isolation is exactly because these spe…

I think Meta would make the most sense. Funnel people to facebook, instagram, etc. Get all that juicy tracking data and boost additional ad revenue. Doesn't really seem like much o…

Strongly disagree. 45 days to allow the authors to fix a bug that has been present for over a decade is not really much added risk for users. In this case, 45 days is about 1% addi…

I'm sure this isn't something at the exec level, but it seems possible someone somewhere in middle management who oversaw used van sales wanted to increase their revenue numbers an…

Why should reddit have to freely support a third-party client that doesn't provide revenue for them? The only reason is that the status quo is they have in the past freely supporte…

I totally agree. The Chinese Room and, in general, philosophical arguments about the limits of AI always seem to come down to the belief of human exceptionalism.

>If enough of us do this with personal websites, more and more people will stop using Chrome and start using Firefox. You don't even have to cut Chrome users off from the content -…

The point is that it is much more land efficient for us to directly eat plants than to route the plants through animals first. Cattle use 99% of the calories we feed them for their…

Beef is an extremely carbon inefficient source of calories. They require a large amount of land, either directly or indirectly (e.g. from corn fields). Pastures and farmland are no…

The compiler absolutely can implement tail calls, I don't know why this keeps getting thrown around. Adding a high-level directive in the spec doesn't enable the compiler to do any…

Even if we did somehow get the political will to fund a project of this magnitude, it could never work. The bubbles would get blamed for every single snowstorm, unseasonably cold d…

Scheduling plays a part, but it is definitely more about vectorization.

Wasm has the same security risk as executing JavaScript in your browser, except with less risk of XSS type security issues because wasm modules are better encapsulated.

The civilian casualties are obviously tragic, but they are not beyond the scale that we've seen in recent wars the US has fought.

If the adversarial image is intended to cause car accidents or bodily harm in some way, then the people printing the t-shirts and the people wearing them are already breaking the l…

They definitely aren't all at the same level right now, but I'm happy for the competition. Hopefully it will drive innovation.

That's like saying it's not the painter generating any Art, the gallery curating the art through their lens of critical artistic appreciation is the Art.

IR is usually represented as a sort of linked list of instructions where you can easily move around instructions, add/remove them, and replace higher level instructions with lower …

That completely misses the point. The problem is that companies won't do the research to find cures -- because cures don't make money. You can't go to India for a cure that doesn't…

As someone who used to maintain a large C++ codebase, people usually bug-dump static analysis results rather than actually submitting fixes, but blindly "fixing" code that a static…

Proper Tail Calls (PTC) were a problematic JS feature, and calling it "Optimization" is a huge misnomer. Only JavascriptCore (Safari) ever enabled it. In many cases PTC causes tail…

I think this is a very dangerous line of study. I can easily see these results getting used to forward racism and other appearance based discrimination.

I think even more, since there was a stock split since then (share price is dated at 2005).