pocl VS duckduckgo-locales

https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl

The unused javascript code can be removed (and loaded on demand). Although I am not sure how valuable that would be for the world. It only saves network traffic, parsing time and some browser memory for compiled code. But js traffic in the Internet is neglidgible comparing to, say, video and images. Will the user experience be signifiqanty better if browser is the saved from the unnesessary js parsing? I don't know of a good way to measure that.

> for such a small piece of work

Don't take the example too literally, some functions calls can be here.

Running computations in parallel is often valuable. Or run computations in parallel with waiting for external resource - why does not the code in the article compute something while waiting for a, b and c?

Anyways, if async functions are so good, why not have all functions async?

The article says this a kind of "documentation" that tells you what functions can wait for some external data and what functions are "pure computation". If it was so, it would be OK. Such a documentation could be computed automatically based on the called function implementations and developer is hinted: "these two functions you call are both async, consider waiting for both in parallel". In reality, the async / await implementations prevent the non-async functions from becoming async without code change and rebuild. This restriction is just a limitation of how async / await is implemented, not something useful.

As other commenter says, the article "embraces a defect introduced for BC reasons as if it's sound engineering. It really isn't."

When my code is called by a 3rd party library, I can not change my code to async. That's the most unpleasant property of today's async / await. What yesterday was quick computation tomorrow can become a network call. For example, I may want to bodies of rarely used functions to only load when called first time (https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl).

The article suggest we have to decide upfront, at the top-level of the application / call stack, which parts can be implemented with as waiting blocks and which should never wait for anything external. This is not practical.

> It's almost always faster to do them in parallel if possible.

There's fraud and embezzlement in non-profits all the time. Just entering that in a search engine shows tons of examples: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=fraud+and+embezzlement+in+n...

When I was involved in scouts this was a thing as well; not even always due to malice, sometimes also due to incompetence and/or inattention.

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No, I think the inspiration is more direct https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lewis+carroll+alice+in+wonderland+...

Yea caught me, I self reported to try and trick everyone. Jokes aside my comment was based on net neutrality if you don’t remember https://duckduckgo.com/?q=net+neitrality+bot+comments

Some of the stuff that really chipped at our privacy as our isps got to sell our dns pings to advertisers and social media. Have a good day citizen.

AI Chat is separate from the search engine. On the search engine we have DuckAssist, which is currently grounded in Wikipedia (more sources coming): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+the+stoichiometric+ratio+b...

that one is good, but I detest keyboards with their own magic little dongle since it's a damn fine thing to misplace

I'm surprised OP didn't enjoy https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-ergonomic-keyboard... which is currently listed as out of stock but I dunno if that means "permanently" or what, but they seem to be available via 3rd party channels

Its "klacking" aside, pour one out for https://duckduckgo.com/?q=microsoft+natural+elite+keyboard&t... which I loved, although I'll be straight that I love the Surface Ergonomic better because I think its keytravel is much, much nicer and no weirdo + shaped cursor keys, the inverted T like $diety intended

Sculpture can be tactile. I know it's not purely tactile, but thinking of it in that way is becoming a lot more common (eg at the Louvre). And then I went to find a URL for the tactile dome at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/tactile-dome) and it turns out there are lots of tactile galleries now:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tactile+gallery&t=fpas&ia=web