It would be more plausibly practical if GHC could now target wasm, but this announcement is actually about being able to run the compiler itself in the browser.

It can target wasm, the point of the post is that it’s now mature enough to be able to build itself for wasm and run in a browser.

This is a show case of the wasm backend

GHC is built with GHC lol

He gone doofed.

I have burned git into my brain, so it's no longer hard to me. OTOH, I only pull out jq once every six months or so, and I just barely scrape by every time.

and i honestly would rather parse json inside ipython and then move to a script, than keep invoking `| jq` time and time again.

> More energy from the digestive system to power a bigger GPU.

Is GPU already the metaphor du jour? I thought we were still aboard the steam engine ;)

As demonstrated in the article, you can compute clamp(x, min, max) with straight-line code.

I also do this sort of restless refactoring. I find interacting with a new codebase is a kind of brain hack that (subjectively) helps me get up to speed faster.

Hmm, not on iOS Safari.

Yup that’s the browser I am using as well.

change the background

Yup.. read my original comment :)

You nerd sniped me :) In this context, I believe it is a kilo-Jansky, not a kilo-Joule * year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansky

I don't think that replacing two ill fitting but probable units with a single obscure unit is much of an improvement!

It appears to have something to do with CGS units.

1 Jy = 10-23 erg s-1 cm-2 Hz-1 (cgs)

only their figure: L9.9 GHz < 2.1 × 10^25 erg s−1 Hz−1

leaves out the cm-2. (So not a density, like Jy. Perhaps 'L' is luminosity? ... As in: "The solar luminosity unit is a measure of the Sun's radiant energy and is equal to 3.828×10^(26) Watts." -(NRAO)

While groping, I found this helpful page called Brightness in Radio Astronomy: http://physics.wku.edu/~gibson/radio/brightness.html

I was thinking maybe joules/year e.g. energy/time might be some brightness indicator for some astronomical definition of brightness - especially in the non-optical wavelengths.

But that's division, not multiplication. Another thread in my brain thought maybe the product of the two could be useful for people in that field, sort of how ISP is useful to people in rocketry but us normal people need to divide it by G(earth) to get something intuitive.

I don't think it's obscure in that field or for the target audience. You might want to read the soon to be published distilled and transposed article in popular mechanics ...

It’s mentioned in Contact, both movie and book.

Thanks. That was one of only two movies based on a book that I enjoyed as much as the book.

Well... "TM Signal" was just in the news. It's close enough I bet it could fool some percentage of otherwise security-conscious users. https://www.wired.com/story/tm-signal-telemessage-plaintext-...

Do phones have trusted execution environments? I suppose you could require the recipient provide attestation that it's running the expected binary. Of course, this is pointless if the hardware manufacturer shares their root keys with the government.