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I wonder what would happen if Carmack teamed up with Yudkowsky and his cult; Carmack's practicality with the imagination of people who non-facetiously talk about acausal deals with mulitiversal AIs could be a match made in heaven.

There are extensions (at least for Firefox, but I think Chrome has those too) to always redirect to old reddit.

That's just the "Pin" type, which is heavily used in async code behind (and occasionally in front) the scenes, but is by no means restricted to it.

I used to think that Libra is just an attempt to combine the transaction speed of blockchain with the trustlessness of fiat, I didn't expect the rabbit hole to go so deep.

>A compiler pass is not a compiler.

What is the difference, if there's one well-defined language before the pass and another after it?

>A non-optimising C to assembly compiler is not compiling to the same level of abstraction.

Neither are "transpilers", otherwise they'd be quite useless. Abstraction isn't a linear hirerarchy, in any case.

In that case surely you'd agree that there are hardly any compilers in wide use these days - more often than not the first step of a modern compiler is translation into a similar but less expressive intermediate language.

Or does it only count as "transpilation" if the intermediate representation is an already existing language, thus making the distincion purely based on the history of a language, not the implementation?

Fine, but by that logic, gcc with -O0 is a transpiler, and becomes a compiler again with -O2. Similarly, TS transpiles to JS, but, say, ClojureScript compiles to JS. And if a compiler is built with something like Nanopass, it's a sequence of transpilers that somehow become a compiler along the way.

"Transpilation" and "compilation" describe the exact same concept. From user's perspective, readable code is translated into runnable code. From theoretical perspective, code in a more complex language is translated into a less complex language while preserving semantics. From a compiler writer's perspective, it's a totem pole of compilers, with at least one middle-level language usually. Plenty of people use the term "compiles to JavaScript" to describe languages like TS or Elm. It's just some overly pedantic people insist on the term "transpile" when the target is also, in a completely unrelated way, used to write code directly by a significant number of contemporary programmers.

It's always "from one language to another", sometimes the destination is machine language. The output is generally not meant to be meant to be human-readable in any case. "Transpile" is an ugly and unnecessary word, please don't push it as "more correct".

The emphasis was on "why Facebook", not "why Tor".

What are the use cases for browsing Facebook through Tor? For me it sounds kind of like asking a prostitute for a hug.

Unless "user that was created with admin rights which were later taken away" counts as admin, then no. I always set up a separate admin account and hardly ever have to log into it to do admin stuff.

DNT is pretty much the reverse of the evil bit (RFC 3514), but supposedly not meant as a joke.

Twelve thumbs down and one middle finger. (I'm not a native speaker of emoji and I'm not sure what the 8 ball means). These are from employees?