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adjav
·2 года назад·discuss
PNaCL was essentially "let's shove LLVM into every browser and make it a mandatory part of the web", which somehow seems even worse than "let's shove the JVM into every browser and make it a mandatory part of web"
adjav
·2 года назад·discuss
It's now owned by his son, Matthew Moroun.
adjav
·2 года назад·discuss
It's been proposed to reopen passenger rail through the tunnel: https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/cross-border-passenger-rail-servi...

Who knows if it'll actually happen, but it's good to see that someone actually thinking about it for once.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
Not really, no. Like Elm, it strips away practically everything that wasn't already in 1970s-era ML. It's much closer to a trimmed-down Ocaml than it is to Haskell.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
According to cppreference (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/20), MSVC has everything implemented. GCC is close but its modules support remains lacking.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
Clang 18 supports `import std;` now, but you need to enable some build settings [1]. Also has `deducing this` support, which is nice - I am fully in favour of C++ continuing to poach the good parts of Rust.

[1] https://libcxx.llvm.org/Modules.html
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
They may not have talked about it to you, but that doesn't mean they didn't talk about it at all.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
HTML imports required JS to be used - otherwise all you had was a `link`ed DOM tree that you couldn't access. No one has really proposed a way to dynamically load anything without JS AFAIK.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
Yeah, but that does require a fair bit of additional infrastructure, running overhead wires and having it connected to the power grid. Makes sense in populated areas, but for mining trains in Australia, potentially 1000s of kms from the nearest city? This seems like a reasonable alternative
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
My understanding has long been that web developers have decided to turn Javascript into C#, one proposal at a time.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
Given that's exactly what ended up happening in Australia I wouldn't be surprised.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
> The right one is a tax that funds a subsidy for news.

The thing here though is that the Canadian government already does this. I really don't understand their logic with introducing this fee vs just raising the existing subsidy directly.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
Note: This article is by the National Post, which is owned by PostMedia, who were one of the main backers of bill C18. Just something to keep in mind.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
Reddit and Apple News will have the law applied to them as well, since the law doesn't include a list of sites affected, just the criteria under which affected sites fall.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
Oh no, it's not just Google and Meta. That's how it's being presented, but it's actually whoever the CRTC wants to charge. They can and will change the list at any time, with no need for oversight.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
Yeah, the biggest winner under the Canadian law will be the American hedge funds who own PostMedia, the company that owns the vast majority of Canadian newspapers. But that's good apparently, since at the least the money doesn't go to those icky tech nerds.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
You might want to look in Lean 4 at some point too. A lot of work has gone into making it's theorem solving ergonomic and approachable for average programmers.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
The Reddit OP posted the prof's name, they really are an agricultural sciences professor at Texas A&M. If this is made up then it's one hell of a way to defame someone.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
It can certainly make up things that look like citations. It definitely cannot produce a series of valid inline citations for specific quotes, rephrasings, or statistics.
adjav
·3 года назад·discuss
That's like saying Classical Latin has been meticulously preserved. Technically true, but entirely irrelevant.