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New comment by iforgot22 in "Reddit CEO says paywalls are coming soon"

iforgot22 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:46:55 +0000

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but a blockchain doesn't require that every user runs a node. And any "blockchain" application usually involves some off-chain brokers for performance reasons, which yes users would have to trust to some extent, but they'd also be able to cross-check and switch brokers (or run their own) if they ever lose trust.

So a blockchain forum is doable in a similar way as NFTs. Would require caching on the read side, and unless your users are posting important enough stuff to warrant high xact fees, off-chain write batching.

The real obstacle is that like NFTs, it'd be solving a mostly theoretical problem. Barely anyone cares that a forum is owned by someone, and you need a ton of users to gain traction.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Reddit CEO says paywalls are coming soon"

iforgot22 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:45:14 +0000

HN has more restrictions on downvotes. For instance, I don't even have that button.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Reddit CEO says paywalls are coming soon"

iforgot22 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:44:26 +0000

Paywalls would be a lot more impactful to average users than anything that happened on Twitter or Reddit before.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 01:12:33 +0000

What constraints are needed? I've used DSLs that are almost Python but not quite, I think because they were hermetic and deterministic. Even those ended up being produced dynamically using some higher level config DSL or just regular code. Like once you're doing RPCs, it's general programming language territory (though there are also DSLs that do this, which is cursed).

And yes, I have very bad memories of Kubernetes YAML, also YAML itself.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 01:04:52 +0000

If you install it 3 times then yeah, but even then, all 3 of them will still work.

But I could've sworn the python.org installer set the PATH. If not, that's kinda annoying.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:59:43 +0000

Can they use pyspark?

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:56:24 +0000

I'm not surprised it's above Rust and Perl, but it's below Dart?! Ouch.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:42:51 +0000

I cared about programming languages when I was a newcomer. Stopped caring about 10 years ago. They're just tools, each with their own gotchas and different design choices I couldn't care less about. Between two tools that both work ok, I will definitely pick whichever one my team and I can learn the easiest, and that includes LLM coverage.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:33:35 +0000

So then they need to know toml (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language)? https://github.com/gtk-rs/examples/blob/master/Cargo.toml I don't know what this file says.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:31:17 +0000

If only Python had the equivalent of npm.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:24:54 +0000

There are way more people who know Python than Scala, and it's also an easier language to get started with.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:23:19 +0000

You run into the same problem with config DSLs, except now you're dealing with a DSL. Config is almost never going to be static.

New comment by iforgot22 in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

iforgot22 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:22:08 +0000

All a Mac user has needed to do was install from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and then run python3 in the shell. Even if you use MacPorts or brew or conda or whatever, there's a distinct command to run Python 3 instead of 2.

I get that Python's package manager situation is terrible, but like the other user said, you only need built-in packages to spit out a config json or whatever.

New comment by iforgot22 in "The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time"

iforgot22 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:19:28 +0000

XNU apparently stands for "X is not Unix." Well that's confusing.

New comment by iforgot22 in "The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time"

iforgot22 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:17:02 +0000

Why is this convo about kernels so angry? And macOS isn't even based on a microkernel.

New comment by iforgot22 in "The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time"

iforgot22 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:34:36 +0000

Apparently Windows XP is the dominant desktop OS in Armenia. They were savvy enough not to go to Vista I guess. (Not that the country is anywhere near large enough to skew global benchmarks.)

New comment by iforgot22 in "The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time"

iforgot22 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:32:46 +0000

The number of people who swap CPUs or even pay attention to the "Intel inside" sticker on a PC must be very small.

New comment by iforgot22 in "The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time"

iforgot22 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:28:08 +0000

Which isn't really going to happen or be noticeable in this case. Yeah GC is slightly slower, but it's like blaming a 10-minute mile on your shoes. SDN or DBMS written in a GC'd language is probably not a good idea.

New comment by iforgot22 in "The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time"

iforgot22 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:13:14 +0000

Does it have an option to shut off the dGPU entirely and rely on integrated? Just as a test.

New comment by iforgot22 in "We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly"

iforgot22 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:37:58 +0000

It's also unfortunate for a lot of heavy JS libs out there that they can't be cached locally anymore, but security is important.

One WASM-related case I've actually encountered in the wild is Unity web. Similar problem as Golang, the runtime is heavy.