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New comment by pquki4 in "Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition"

pquki4 — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:24:14 +0000

There is nothing preventing anyone to build a whole new set of infrastructure for such "binary first serialization" 20 years ago, 10 years ago or today. We don't even need to do that much. Instead of "text/html" or "application/json", let's just use some binary format in the request headers everywhere and make both the client and server support it. Why hasn't that happened?

It's for the same set of reasons, and people aren't dumb.

New comment by pquki4 in "Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition"

pquki4 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:02:45 +0000

JSON is usually used for front end-back end communication or public API endpoints, otherwise protobuf/Thrift/Avro is commonly used in the backend for internal services (that is controlled by one organization), for very good reasons. Same for HTML -- you need to thank HTML for being able to read hacker news frontpage on a 10 year old kindle with a barely usable browser. I suggest you look all these up before complaining about nothing.

New comment by pquki4 in "Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code"

pquki4 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:55:22 +0000

For a script, you run it from start to end.

For a notebook/repl environment, you can create any number of intermediate steps, rerun the previous step with minor modifications and check if the results are better, rinse and repeat. For jupyter notebook specifically, you can visualize data and add markdown inline which are very useful.

You won't understand it unless you are already familiar with the workflow.

New comment by pquki4 in "Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code"

pquki4 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:47:19 +0000

If there are complaints about code quality in a jupyter notebook, chances are that someone is doing it wrong -- either the author is using it for demonstration purpose, for production or near production environment, or the person looking at others' notebooks is taking them too seriously.

Most code in jupyter notebook is bad, but that's fine, because nobody should waste time doing that unless they must reproduce the results or they are sharing the notebook with others.

Notable example of high quality notebook: https://youtu.be/zduSFxRajkE

New comment by pquki4 in "AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference"

pquki4 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:33:42 +0000

I thought Meta Horizon and the sales number of Vision Pro[0][1] already proves your thesis wrong. Even Zuckerberg stopped talking about it.

[0]https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/apple-cuts-vision-pro-s... [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/22/apple-vision-pro-custom...

New comment by pquki4 in "ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack"

pquki4 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:18:02 +0000

I think the point of the original comment is "take off". A non proprietary ChromeOS (that is browser first, simple to use for non techy people, easy to manage) sounds like a neat idea to me, but the names you mentioned achieved nowhere near the reputation/popularity of Ubuntu.

Maybe it is more about the business model. ChromeOS runs efficiently on low-cost hardware for a small license fee (?), and get almost guaranteed updates. In exchange, customers sell their souls (actually, data) to Google. Won't happrn with Linux. But undeniably it sells and works well enough for ChromeOS.

New comment by pquki4 in "ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack"

pquki4 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:04:49 +0000

...if you are willing to sacrifice the "phone" part of it.

New comment by pquki4 in "ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack"

pquki4 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:02:24 +0000

You can run a full VSCode on Crostini -- the "real" Electron app -- but not on Termux. There are ways around it like using code-server on a Linux environment, but far from the same thing.

New comment by pquki4 in "ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack"

pquki4 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:00:23 +0000

... which confirms that this has more to do with the vendor rather than hardware/OS?

New comment by pquki4 in "Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores"

pquki4 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:01:30 +0000

Did you read this comment twice yourself to see the problem?

New comment by pquki4 in "Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores"

pquki4 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:00:08 +0000

Personally I care about this much more than whatever AI stuff happens at WWDC.

This is the real "developer" issue we are talking about.

New comment by pquki4 in "Apple WWDC Event Will Show Whether It Can Be a Force in AI Industry"

pquki4 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:27:45 +0000

Well, anecdotally, a Uber driver who is also a real estate agent told me that he used ChatGPT daily, and it was very helpful.

Just to put it out there.

New comment by pquki4 in "Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability"

pquki4 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:10:50 +0000

Not made up -- Alibaba was actually punished for reporting log4j vulnerability:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/log4j-chinese-regulators-suspe...

New comment by pquki4 in "Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability"

pquki4 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:08:57 +0000

No, at the very least a "likely" should be added to the title, as Apple never provided a specific reason.

New comment by pquki4 in "AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead"

pquki4 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:05:06 +0000

> I can almost guarantee

Guarantee with what? Personal money? I know people who have more than 3+ years of experience having trouble with getting an offer after months of searching these days. What can you offer to guarantee the "happiness" "elsewhere"?

Such a ridiculous, out of touch comment.

New comment by pquki4 in "WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing"

pquki4 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:01:15 +0000

Blah blah, that's just word play. I am always amazed by the defense that Apple apologists come up.

New comment by pquki4 in "AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead"

pquki4 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:32:34 +0000

> you are well past the right time to leave

Well, that's easy for you to say. People have family to feed, right?

New comment by pquki4 in "AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead"

pquki4 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:20:50 +0000

Well, someone (a human being) still maintains it, and ultimately someone likely will find the code unmaintainable even if LLMs help. If you use ChatGPT enough you would know it has its standards as well, actually pretty high. At one point the code likely still needs to be refactored, by human or not.

New comment by pquki4 in "AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead"

pquki4 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:16:29 +0000

Say I'm faced with a choice right now -- repeat the same line twice with 2 minor differences which gets checked by IDE immediately, or create a code generator that generates all 3 lines which may not work well with the IDE and the build system which leads to more mistakes?

New comment by pquki4 in "AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead"

pquki4 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:12:53 +0000

You definitely have a point, but the reality is that LLMs are about as good as an "average" UI developers in some cases -- lots of people who work on UI every day think very little about accessibility and don't understand if their code actually runs in a non-chromium browser.