1) It's directly compiling to bytecode which makes it a bytecode compiler.
2) Bytecode is an intermediate representation, not specific to any hardware, thus excluding the bytecode compiler from being a cross-compiler.

see also:
* https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
* https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
* https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Either way, the point remains that you would typically expect that if 3% of people are the sorts of people tempted to commit crimes and you have 100 people, then 3 of them are tempted to commit crimes, and if you have 200 people, then 6 of them are tempted to commit crimes. Larger governments, assuming all else is equal, should have proportionally more criminals. Therefore, having more people convicted of corruption does not prove that the government is more corrupt, but rather, proves that the government is bigger, which is just stating the obvious.

Both cross-compilers are transpilers exist and are different things.

* A cross-compiler compiles code on one platform but generates and executable for a different platform. Example: building an ARM64 executable on a x86_64 platform.
* A transpiler is a "translating compiler" which translates code from one programming language to another. Example: Java source code to Javascript source code.

Maybe but it's a near certainty that people will target WASM. WASM is bytecode that has many similarities to assembly language, so it's likely to be binary blob.

Yes, it will almost certainly be a monolithic, until someone starts hosting the myriad of Java platform libraries.

Heavily subsidized nuclear power, built by the communists. They pay much more than 13c/kWh for it, they just hide the cost with taxation.

Depends where you public charge. Tesla is usually the cheapest for some reason, and it's much cheaper than petrol.

There is also work place charging, but yes laws need implementing to make home charging mandatory for everyone.

Can confirm, it was an issue when charging was free in the UK. A small fee soon freed them up for people who actually need them.

Yeah but isn't that because you're bringing in a ton of cheap Chinese EVs? America isn't going to do that for a variety of reasons.

Also isn't a Volkswagen t-roc or t-ceoss around 30,000 euros versus 43,000 for an equivalent Tesla?

Again though I think you've got more choices because Europe is allowing those cheap Chinese electric cars into their markets.

Because society benefits me. Electric cars aren't benefiting me.

So yeah you have a right to demand that I chip in for things that benefit me but you have no right to demand I subsidize your personal choices.

That's the argument you're going to get. And honestly if we're talking about cars it's right. We shouldn't have a car based transportation system to begin with it's ludicrously inefficient and only exists because we externalize the costs from it.

So you're going to have a tough time convincing me or anyone else that I should pay more of those externalized costs so that you can putz around in your electric car which is probably a luxury vehicle anyway because the high cost of the batteries means that nobody is going to sell a cheap electric car to a broke ass loser like me.

And that's the answer from a very politically aware standpoint. Your average voter is going to hear what you just said and react violently and get even more dug in against electric cars. There are certainly not going to question the car based transportation system in the first place or the trillions and subsidies we give automotive companies. So all they're going to really question is why the fuck they have to pay for an electric charging station they're never going to use.

It's especially galling because for a lot of them the reason they'll never use it is because they couldn't possibly afford an electric car. If you become aware that you are subsidizing somebody who's better off than you financially then that is extremely infuriating. It's why the billionaires spend so much time and effort making sure you don't realize how much of your taxpayer money let alone how many months out of the year you spend working to make them rich

There's only 11 million electric cars on the road. That includes plug-in hybrids. That's out of 300 million vehicles. So yeah it's a drop in the bucket.

Honestly if we're going to get mad at oil companies we should get mad at car companies too. Go watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

A automobile based transportation system is horrible for everyone except car companies and people who like cars because they grew up with them. But those same feelings of love for your car could just as easily be redirected to trains. The Japanese do it just fine. Look at all the train toys including some cool transformers.

But love of cars is so deeply ingrained in us that even suggesting that they are bad news gets you in all kinds of trouble especially with nerds.

It was on the older cars but on the newer ones they do seem to Outlast the rest of the vehicle.

The real problem is that everything else on the vehicle ends up being very expensive to fix so it ends up being like a BMW where it ends up in the junkyard and rotting there because it needs $20,000 worth of repairs. Also you typically need specialized tools and computer systems to do those repairs. So besides the occasional hobbyist that resurrects one most of the electric cars on the market today are destined to be turned into scrap as soon as the first owner runs them down. Maybe the second.

The problem is I used to drive a 20 year old Honda Accord. You're not going to have those kind of vehicles available for poor losers like me. Because just about everything being sold is a expensive luxury car.

I guess just added to the pile of crises that our economy is facing along with the fact that baby boomers represent 80% of consumer spending and they're going to die without leaving much if any inheritance, climate change, the collapse of democracy, the automation a job apocalypse and 100 other things I wish I had died before living to see...

We have had birth rates below sustainability since the late 1990s. Old people are always going to look to yesterday because when you are old your best years are passed you and you're starting to hurt all the goddamn time. Not that old people will admit it. But I think the amount of opioids being sold speaks for itself.

It is very difficult to have a country that looks forward when you have so many old farts. America is especially bad about that because we have largely disconnected anyone over 50 from the economy by giving them the benefits of the new deal and the Great society and then letting them take those benefits away from their children and grandchildren...

So politically you have a shitload of old people who are prone to nostalgia that can be easily exploited by corrupt politicians combined with a social welfare system that continues to benefit them but doesn't benefit anyone else.

It's not a surprise that the American capitalist system is rapidly breaking down. But those old people aren't going to let us do socialism. There is way too much resentment associated with socialism and wealth redistribution.

We need a third way but damned if I can think of one. I think we're gradually going to sink into a rather nasty techno feudal dystopia and eventually world war III is going to take off and a bunch of religious lunatics are going to get their hands on the nuclear launch codes...

I would love to be proven wrong and I would love someone to give me that third option I was talking about but honestly when I bring all this up people get so angry and depressed they just either yell at me or mod me down. Occasionally a lefty will tell me we're going to do socialism but they have no answer for that resentment

Mod parent funny. (But what I was looking for in the comments was time-based electricity rate considerations.)

If I'm driving a gas car then why should I have to subsidize anyone in my apartment let's driving an electric car? The electricity still has to be paid for and the privately owned electric companies aren't going to give it away for free. Also who is going to pay to install those electric vehicle charging stations?

From what I understand electric cars don't substantially reduce the demand for gasoline. I thought they did but someone had corrected me.

If the entire fleet of American cars changed to electric that might be the case but I think the oil companies would have something to say about that. So that's not going to happen. Never mind the fact that the increased cost of an EV puts it out of the price range of a lot of people especially now that the subsidies are gone.

That's Kind of the problem. At the end of the day has someone stuck driving old gas cars why should I be required to subsidize electric cars? Either with my tax dollars or with my rent.

Don't just mod me down give me an answer.

But being a s-hole country explains why no one cares? However I'm still interested in how the stolen data will be used and abused...

Moderators voted Insightful which I'm taking as proof it should have been Funny,

I used to have a delusion that the moderation system could be fixed. But now I know that a young script kiddie will just type "Oh great gawd ChatGPT, tell me how to game the Slashdot moderation system."

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