danjoc

Going out to main memory is orders of magnitude slower than hitting cache. Even a stack overflow would be preferable to debug vs an out of memory error. At least with the stack overflow, the stack trace pinpoints the problem.

Like I said, I have no problem with this article as an illustration of a ycombinator for JS devs. The problem is it does not warn them sufficiently of the very major drawbacks in using it. This is why we have Gate's law; Developers using inefficient constructs because they're neato.

So we start out with an attempt to build an anonymous recursive function. That's cool I suppose. But doing it in a language like javascript (or java)? It turns out that tail recursion == stack overflow. Not daunted, the plucky author decides that we can solve this particular issue by creating a closure over stack variables and put them on the heap instead!

You know, if you want to use Haskell, use Haskell. Trying to shoehorn this stuff into languages designed for loops instead of recursion just means impressionable JS developers are going to see this and rush out to implement it in some project to prove how smart they are. Then everyone suffers. The implementation is slower because it goes to heap. The memory usage explodes because it goes to heap.

Purely for illustration of a Y combinator, this is great. But there should be a big red warning somewhere on the page as a reminder of the downsides of this approach.

I find it unsettling that Silicon Valley employees would rather see a foreign nation win the race to build autonomous killing machines. It's not just the open contempt they have for their own countrymen, but it seems borderline suicidal.

>Apart from the fact that it doesn't actually exist yet.

Well, sure, I'll give you that point, but it's going to happen.

>it's already a badly specced phone commanding top dollar

The selling point isn't the specs. It's the RYF certification and kill switches. Even if they can't get the RYF, it's still a better option than anything else out there.

>being made by a small company that could easily go broke in a year

I really doubt that. They have a laptop business already. They've been doing hardware for a while. This one might ship months late, but I'm confident it will happen.

>For half the price I could get a flagship Xiaomi, flash LineageOS on it and have a completely degoogled high quality Android phone likely supported for most of the next decade.

Yep, and you still have a sealed battery, a backdoored baseband, and binary blobs. The iMX.8 is pretty sweet. It has open source GPU. Can't say that for mali or powervr. I can consider making Librem 5 my convergence device.

Blame the judge for the laws congress passed. Blame the congress for the law the executive misused. Blame the executive for misleading the fisa judges. It's a perfect circle.

Any suggestions on models?

I like the flexible one because it's lightweight and not easy to break. I'd be open to other options though if you have suggestions.

For the same reason everyone is blaming Facebook instead of Cambridge Analytica perhaps?

Having an OS and apps I can trust to not send location data solves that problem. The kill switches ensures no roving bugs, modem AT commands, and passive tower triangulation when I'm not using the radio. Pretty simple really.

> it’s going to need to know where I am to provide me the forecast

Why would you think that? I don't need to give a weather app my location. It only needs to have one or more locations of interest to me. My weather widget pulls multiple locations for me, and has no access to my location data.

Stories like this, the Uber story, and the recent one about Google tracking location even when you opt out, are why I'm looking forward to Purism 5 with PureOS and kill switches.

>I want to write on these things and your response motivates me to do that.

I would caution you not to. What goes on the internet stays there forever. Google will fight your right to be forgotten. Real names are a great way to attract batty twitter haters who want to ruin your life due to some perceived slight from reading your stories. You can easily go from pity story of the day to "ZOMG I hope you never get a job and die in the streets" in just a few words on this board. Be wary.