I see where you’re coming from. But I’d argue that there’s broad consensus that his bigotry at the end was bad. So in this one moment, when we’ve just learned that he’s died, we can recall the good as well as the bad.
It is shameful to have those views. But perhaps we can bring it up tomorrow rather than right this minute.
Again, apples and oranges. Private citizens vs government. Musk has no power given to him by someone, the government does, using that power in a way that might be considered abusive/authoritarian might yield (deserved) backlash.
I'm not sure if I'm not getting something. It's a for-profit organization vs a government entity. It's not even remotely similar.
At this point, I'm wondering to what extent all this batting is driving the EU calls for digital sovereignty, and to what extent those calls will be turned into actions.
The other night I was thinking about graphene. Not the OS, the material.
‘We considered patenting; we prepared a patent and it was nearly filed. Then I had an interaction with a big, multinational electronics company. I approached a guy at a conference and said, “We’ve got this patent coming up, would you be interested in sponsoring it over the years?” It’s quite expensive to keep a patent alive for 20 years. The guy told me, “We are looking at graphene, and it might have a future in the long term. If after ten years we find it’s really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us.” That’s a direct quote.'
So, we absolutely can get stuff done, the Americans just keep buying us up (DeepMind) or stealing it or using initimidation (Graphene) or espionage (of Airbus for benefit of Boeing way back).
But you have to keep in mind that this is the same as not being able to get stuff done :) Economies don't exist in a vacuum.
If a US company can buy an EU company out,
* business conditions in the EU are not favorable enough for people to want to grow their business in the EU (they would rather sell to the US);
* there are no EU companies that are competitive enough to counteroffer (meaning the EU has not created an environment to grow competitive businesses).
"Getting stuff done" isn't determined in a vacuum, so unless the EU totally isolates its economy it has to deal with the fact that it needs to actually encourage innovation and business to be competitive and "get stuff done" on the world stage.
The US is isolating itself, that really only leaves China for Europe to worry about on these points.
China is absolutely capable of replacing the US as buyer of all the interesting companies, European nations can absolutely fail this if they forget that.
Indeed, but that doesn't mean I have to be fine with that. He already had a perfectly good case against that fine, but using the occasion to cozy up to actual fascists completely discredits him to anyone serious.
A benchmark of adding numbers doesn’t tell you how it performs on real world websites and codebases. I wouldn’t be surprised if JavaScript was still very competitive, simply because of how good V8 is, but I don’t think we can conclude anything from your benchmark.
Of course it is always possible to write highly optimised code. But that’s not what people actually do, because of time, skill and maintenance constraints. Here’s a case study: in 2018 Mozilla ported some code from JS to Rust + WASM and got a 6x speed up [1]. An expert in V8 responded to this with highly optimised JavaScript, saying Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS [2]. Both articles are worth reading! But it is worth remembering that it’s a lot quicker and easier to write the code in #1 than #2 and it is easier to maintain as well.
It wasn't some dummy "add numbers" loop, this was doing math (multiply-add) on large 336-bit integers.
Performance sucked when I used native Javacsript BigInts. When I made my own BigInt by using an array of doubles, and pretended that the doubles were 48-bit integers, performance was much better. Using the arrays meant that all allocation of temporary values completely stopped. I had to write my own multiply-and-add function that would do bigint = bigint * 48-bit number + other bigint + other 48-bit number.
V8 means javascript can be fast. However no amount of optimization can get around inefficient code. There is only so much optimizes can do about too many layers of abstraction, calculations that are used but not needed, and nested loops. Someone needs to step back once in a while and fix bottlenecks to make things fast.
I think it could be different timelines. The Google projects interested in better C++ interop have been around for 2 decades - Chromium and Android. They’ll be ok if the effort bears fruit in a year or two.
Which is not a bad thing. If at least a few of those startups become big they could sustain the Ruby community with jobs and sponsorship, like Shopify and GitHub do today.
> If at least a few of those startups become big they could sustain the Ruby community with jobs and sponsorship,
This is the one thing that most developers dont understand when ever we talk about Ruby ( or any programming languages ). The economics of a programming language, you could hate Objective-C all you want but Apple could force people to program in it as long as they hold the 1 billion Active iPhone with 60% to 70% of Apps store spending and online purchasing power.
Edit: The one way to make Ruby popular. Make the best blogging, forums and Wiki software open source and fight the hell out of it for market share. These three category make up a lot of current third party Web consumption usage without being held by big tech.
Agree with you on voices. I love Attenborough but I would strongly prefer that when he stops working or passes on we not recreate his voice or likeness with AI. It’d ruin his legacy because it’ll leave me with that feeling of disgust when I hear his voice, the exact opposite of what he’d want.
Off topic, but do you comment on reddit under the same handle?
It is shameful to have those views. But perhaps we can bring it up tomorrow rather than right this minute.
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