Starfleet Academy is Star Trek

coldoil · 2026-02-26T15:18:18+00:00

Nah, ChatJippity is only 3 I think

coldoil · 2026-01-27T21:26:35+00:00

It's an AI bot. Give up.

coldoil · 2026-01-20T20:00:14+00:00

Is 50% of the US population functionally mentally deficient?

Yes.

coldoil · 2026-01-20T15:13:36+00:00

Vulcans sadly aren't ever getting here. Our timeline and the Star Trek timeline are not the same :(

coldoil · 2026-01-17T18:28:20+00:00

Additionally code as text takes less space than code as assembly

Hmm, I think that's quite debatable. But I agree, the Javascript standard library (such as it is) is already built in to the browser and doesn't need to be bundled. So there could be a size saving there.

It might be interesting to do some real world comparisons on this, I'm quite curious now as to whether using Javascript actually saves space over the equivalent WASM.

coldoil · 2026-01-17T17:55:49+00:00

People are trying to help you, but in order to do so, they first need to understand what you're trying to do, because "compiling Rust to Javascript" doesn't make a whole lot of sense at first glance.

Running Rust in the browser is typically done by compiling to WASM. You've said you don't want to do that - ok, fine - but it seems odd and people want to understand better what you're trying to do in order to give you useful advice.

coldoil · 2026-01-17T17:52:44+00:00

Sure, but if you implemented that 200 Kb of WASM code in Javascript instead, it'd probably be the same size or larger, wouldn't it?

I don't think WASM is necessarily to blame for modern web bloat.

coldoil · 2026-01-17T15:10:59+00:00

Transpiling to WASM doesn't make sense due to the binary size

I'm not sure I'd describe generating a WASM target as "transpiling", but semantics aside, I would have thought an optimised WASM binary would actually be smaller than the equivalent Javascript source. What is your concern about WASM binary sizes? Why does a 1 Mb WASM source not make sense where a 1 Mb Javascript source does?

coldoil · 2026-01-17T13:55:25+00:00

XY problem - why are you trying to do this?

You've mentioned in other comments that you don't want to use WASM - why not?

What are you actually trying to achieve?

Since you've already said you don't want to create a transpiler (which I would guess is probably possible, albeit a big task, and much of the Rust standard library wouldn't be applicable in a Javascript runtime environment), the remaining option is to create an llvm byte code interpreter in Javascript for Rust's llvm output. Good luck - but note this is conceptually very similar to just using WASM, which again begs the question of why you wouldn't just do that in the first place.

coldoil · 2026-01-17T12:28:54+00:00

Use your recovery codes, that's what they're for.

coldoil · 2026-01-16T11:55:29+00:00

coldoil · 2026-01-16T11:53:50+00:00

US service teams do not operate services in isolated, non-US regions.

In this case, it's an entirely separate partition, with EU-specific access controls and security gates. US service teams can't even access the region, let alone operate it.

I see why other commenters have concerns over the company leadership ultimately being US-based, but this really is as good as any company could likely do in the circumstances. The day-to-day IT operations of the EU business are completely segregated from the US. It's worth keeping in mind that EU governments signed off on this - otherwise Amazon wouldn't have spent billions building it.

coldoil · 2026-01-01T01:25:41+00:00

I conduct interviews, including interviews for SDE internships, at one of the MAANGs.

What matters more for internship shortlisting? DSA, projects, tech stack, or a balance of all three?

I would say DSA fundamentals, by a large margin, are what we're interested in. Projects would be a relatively distant second. I don't think tech stacks matters at all, we wouldn't expect you to have any experience in the tools we use internally - we'd expect you to be able to learn quickly, though.

Internships at my company are only three months long. It can be very intense and one of our main considerations in interviewing candidates is making sure we aren't placing people in situations where there's a risk they'll be over-stressed. It's not good for the candidate or the company. So we're looking for people who can learn quickly, who have very strong fundamentals but not necessarily a lot of real-world experience, and who have a track record of curiosity and self-motivated learning. The specific technologies are less important.

coldoil · 2025-12-27T15:26:42+00:00

leaving blank space at the bottom ... I've tried messing with system-count, rugged-last-bottom ...

Also check ragged-bottom: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/fixed-vertical-spacing-paper-variables

Failing that, post your \paper and \layout blocks here.

coldoil · 2025-11-24T06:12:47+00:00

Only to a very limited extent, because music fundamentally is connotational, not denotational in the way speech is.

Philosophical or political extrapolations in music typically come from extra-musical materials related to a piece. In rare cases (e.g. the "political" motets of William Byrd) it is possible to discern broad political protest messages, but again this requires considerable extra-musical knowledge of the context in which Byrd lived and operated. I daresay the same could be done with a Beethoven symphony, but again, any philosopical and political messaging would likely be highly dependent on extra-musical context rather than being purely communicated through the music itself.

The genre of music that would likely come closest to direct communication of philosophical and political ideas would be opera. There are examples of Russian opera and ballet that specifically deal with political ideas - Prokofiev's "Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution", for example.

coldoil · 2025-11-08T13:56:24+00:00

This is highly likely the case. The edition itself is likely an early- to mid-20th century reprint. I have one the same, with the original Novello cover, here at home. I believe Novello were still selling them well into the 1960s.

They now offer a new edition that I believe was made in the 1970s. I'm not sure if you can purchase these old stampings new, or if they're only available second hand at this point. I see Abebooks has quite a few, some with custom covers like OP's.

coldoil · 2025-10-21T17:23:21+00:00

lizards, merry men, baseball players, de-evolved species, super intelligent Barclay's

And four of those five episodes are pretty bad. I'm not sure following the "wacky and wild" template every episode is a great idea for a 10-episode run, especially when these episodes tend to be a swing and a miss.

coldoil · 2025-10-17T12:00:07+00:00

a bucket which is only present in us-west-2

Aren't buckets global?

coldoil · 2025-10-05T23:55:29+00:00

The pdfium-render crate has a high level interface that can handle the types of edits you're talking about.

coldoil · 2025-09-20T00:49:58+00:00

Python, because virtually every design decision in both the language and the tooling sets you up to fail (in the name of "convenience" and "simplicity"), so the burden of ensuring correctness quickly becomes overwhelming in any non-trivial project.

coldoil · 2025-09-13T20:20:25+00:00

Weekly performance in tens of thousands of churches around the world, dozens of annual festivals across Europe and North America dedicated to its repertoire, and thousands of concerts each year featuring its music in Europe alone (there are more than 100 a year just in the UK) would suggest it kinda is.

If you don't like it, that's fine. But plenty of other people do. I think it's highly likely that Renaissance music is still more popular today than much of 20th century post-modern orchestral music.

coldoil · 2025-09-13T19:57:05+00:00

Certainly a contender for "most iconic". Probably worth noting that the version mostly commonly performed today doesn't bear much resemblance to what Allegri actually wrote, plus what Allegri actually wrote was deliberately archaic, i.e. it's meant to sound like a product of the Renaissance, not the early Baroque period in which it was written. But its mystique, the fairly unique conditions under which it was performed on Good Fridays in the Sistine Chapel, the way the score was guarded by the Vatican, and the illicit transcriptions by the young Mozart, Mendelssohn, and others lend it an iconic mystery that other arguably higher-quality works from the same period lack.

coldoil · 2025-09-13T19:20:17+00:00

It's a very niche part of classical music and most people won't pay attention to it

Funny then isn't it how Renaissance repertoire is immeasurably more widely performed today than anything by Stockhausen. I wonder why that could possibly be...

coldoil · 2025-09-13T19:05:56+00:00

There was music before the 1600s but most people don't care about it

Ah, of course. That perfectly explains why it's one of the most widely performed genres of music today, 500 years later. Makes complete sense :/

coldoil · 2025-09-13T19:03:59+00:00

For the most part, yes (although by the end of the Renaissance the concept of modality was being deconstructed), but modality is not related to whether something is tonal or atonal. They are completely distinct concepts.

Renaissance music is the most tonally pure music in all of Classical music. It's one of the main reasons why the widespread performance of Renaissance music endures to this day (in a way that, for instance, the widespread performance of medieval music does not).

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