Post AYkY1afSVV6AIPGyFU by xameer@mathstodon.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #AYjWHyVjEUbPoKRkYa by amiloradovsky@stereophonic.space
       2023-08-14T20:57:42.569981Z
       
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       turns out the only valid use of "JIT" is compilation of regular expressions — this kind of technique should have been called embeddable compilersand a bytecode is only needed when you have several independent front and back ends — not a bad idea per se, but it's not about the speed at all
       
 (DIR) Post #AYjadgRfTpH3y99cp6 by amiloradovsky@stereophonic.space
       2023-08-14T21:46:45.079189Z
       
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       the term "JIT" itself comes from economics — the idea that a business (a factory) shouldn't have anything in stock but produce the stuff they're making from components/ingredients that are just arrived from the suppliers, and then immediately send it out for the customers — this would reduce the expenses otherwise paid for the storeproblem is that everything has to be ordered in advance in exact amounts, and if there is a delay somewhere the whole (supply/production) chain stalls
       
 (DIR) Post #AYjbEN8sDB0OoerEsS by amiloradovsky@stereophonic.space
       2023-08-14T21:53:21.819175Z
       
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       the analogue of it in computing would e.g. unbuffered I/O, but somebody with an economics degree at MS in the early 2000s didn't know anything about UNIX pipes while still knowing the word "compilation"
       
 (DIR) Post #AYkBZd63gVEmjHybzM by xameer@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-08-15T04:25:34Z
       
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       @amiloradovsky that can be Said for many strategies of resource allocation for computation, I mean that's what economics is about
       
 (DIR) Post #AYkBZdjlIszqiQYJsG by amiloradovsky@stereophonic.space
       2023-08-15T04:40:31.509423Z
       
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       @xameer yes, but in this case the term is used inconsistently: in economics it means one thing and in computing it means anotherthe proper analogue of it in economics would be, IDK, a factory making it's own tools instead of ordering them ready to be installed
       
 (DIR) Post #AYkCZ0He5gN2J5f5oe by amiloradovsky@stereophonic.space
       2023-08-15T04:51:36.454362Z
       
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       @xameer I have a theory that the social strata who could and can afford enough servants aren't interested in technology at all because it gives them nothing they didn't already have -- somebody to do the work for them -- regardless of the technological advancement, it'll be other people who serve them, and what tools they're using is irrelevant
       
 (DIR) Post #AYkY1afSVV6AIPGyFU by xameer@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-08-15T05:06:34Z
       
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       @amiloradovsky Tldr - it was a scientist who invented a hybrid rice , which fed the starving populus  in the drought brought in by the policies of Mao ( cultural revolution or the  big leap idk)======So unless they need something for their life which only technology can get them , without which the number of plebs deployed just doesn't countWhere d industrial revolution ve been , without the world understanding the idea of steam engine or empirical formula of water , alchemy alone was not enough for that?Warfare wouldn't be been a anywhere without atom bomb radar telegraph.... even revolver , bicycle
       
 (DIR) Post #AYkYZquSct8sW0cwW8 by amiloradovsky@stereophonic.space
       2023-08-15T08:58:20.686537Z
       
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       @xameer yep, the reasons they may care- warfare: as weapons themselves as economics- medicine: they're essentially a human beings too- reliable knowledge about the world (basic science)- entertainment: technology being the mediumso it's not like they aren't interested in technology as such, but only as minor detail for functioning of the power