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by 0815test 7y ago
> "why is it so complex to do [some simple thing]?" To be fair to endorphone, this does happen quite often - mostly, because people often fail to immediately grok the sorts of idioms that will easily pass Rust's borrow c
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by 0815test 7y ago
Protip: You can write FORTRAN in any language!
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by 0815test 7y ago
What a strange argument. "Pretty much everyone knows" that C/C++ aren't memory safe even for sequential code, and that it's incredibly easy to trigger thread-safety bugs in C/C++. But since "pretty much
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by 0815test 7y ago
Well, Erlang-like actor model is one basic pattern for achieving safe concurrency. A second one is keeping data read-only so that it can be freely accessed by multiple threads; and a further pattern is serializing access at run time (eith
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by 0815test 7y ago
People who think Rust is "complex" and "boilerplate-heavy" have never had to deal with C++, or heck, even Java. (Though I'd guess we would actually find plenty of C++/Java code within Google itself.) The only r
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by 0815test 7y ago
Go is indeed memory-safe for sequential code, but non-atomic assignment can definitely break memory safety in multi-threaded settings - it's effectively a data race.
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by 0815test 7y ago
The interference need not continue today for the related memes to still be active. They've simply become zombie memes and have been actively spreading as such, perhaps being quite independent of any outside interference. Similarly, t
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by 0815test 7y ago
See e.g. Vladimir Bukovsky's Judgment in Moscow , currently being reissued in English translation. It just goes to prove that Russian interference in Western politics is nothing new, much less out of the ordinary. But the direction i
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by 0815test 7y ago
> a strain of leftist totalitarianism A strain of leftist totalitarianism which - as it turns out - originally came about as a result of Russian (well, Soviet, but still) political interference. Isn't that deliciously ironic? Of co
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by 0815test 7y ago
Didn't Qanon explicitly self-identify as a "fed"? So it's not exactly news that feds too like to shitpost on the *chans - arguably, they can shitpost better than anyone!
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by 0815test 7y ago
> The reason the South seceded was primarily that they believed (mostly wrongly) that the North wanted to end slave ownership, which they viewed as both economically destructive and a violation of their rights. Well, that , and there wa
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Is whether or not you play the score as written an issue? How do we even know this about composers that predate recording technology? Sometimes they pretty much tell us directly, e.g. in treatises which discuss performance. Other times
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by 0815test 7y ago
This is better described as "niche" expertise than anything significantly 'deep' or 'high-end'. Basically, stuff that (1) is not truly business-critical, at least compared to the closest FLOSS equivalent,
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by 0815test 7y ago
> sometimes a ledger is the problem and sometimes it’s the solution. And sometimes it's the solution in search of a problem cough cough blockchain cough cough
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by 0815test 7y ago
> significant expertise advantage of closed source in many areas Citation very much needed here! The average closed source product has zilch expertise advantage compared to FLOSS. And the expertise that is embedded in FLOSS is ac
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by 0815test 7y ago
I thought it was the *BSD folks who were known for insisting on that. Does, e.g. the NetBSD kernel build cleanly with clang?
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by 0815test 7y ago
> ...just a database engine with all the same complexity, problems and plenty of research already Greenspun's tenth rule of programming strikes again!
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by 0815test 7y ago
> No. It is not possible to convince someone that doesn't want [X's] to have the same rights [as] other humans, that they should have the same rights, with "rational argument." Depending on what you mean by "rati
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by 0815test 7y ago
The "Christchurch guy" is a murderous, sadistic psychopath. He will say anything that has people giving him attention. (Note that this also implies that politics plays basically no causal role in what he did - and yet, this ba
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by 0815test 7y ago
Interesting perspective. The author's basic point is that you should, to quote the article, "Avoid Flow. Do What Does Not Come Easy". This is in the context of playing piano, so it might be a pitfall there. In my experien
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Restricting the ability of ... is not tolerant You can say this about anything the government does. Any law at all is going to infringe on some people's preexisting natural rights and deprive them of some "ability"
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by 0815test 7y ago
The usual word is "benevolent" fwiw. It's studied extensively wrt. sexism as opposed to racism, but the basic dynamic is entirely the same. And I think it's actually borne out by the data - leftists tend to have a &quot
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by 0815test 7y ago
Maybe Eich should have gotten fired for some other things he did cough cough js cough cough but what's "intolerant" about donating to a political organization which is pursuing its cause by entirely legitimate, non-vio
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by 0815test 7y ago
Quite true, but let's not pretend that Twittr, Tumbler and Fakebook aren't also "incenting" all sorts of distorted behaviors of their own! These sites are "algorithms" all the same, even if the workings of the
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by 0815test 7y ago
This should be a lot higher. Hexfloats are not just a C/C++ thing, plenty of languages and software packages support them by now. And they can very much be used as part of a text input format, to avoid the sizeable overhead of &quot
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by 0815test 7y ago
This is stuff that's severely misrepresented by the alt-right. Yes, there are statistical variations in IQ and criminality across social groups. No, there's no consensus whatsoever that all or even most of that is due to any so
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by 0815test 7y ago
Ironically, the common attitude among some people is that "racism doesn't apply" to the male gender, because they're "toxic" and "hold all the power" anyway. Which sure does strike me as a fallacy of
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by 0815test 7y ago
> There's something magical about writing code in C for these old 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs. Eh, I'm not sure I would agree, about the 6502 specifically. It's a pretty bad match to C since e.g. it doesn't have a relocata
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by 0815test 7y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something really obvious, but doesn't hardware-provided memory encryption solve this quite handily? You might be able to read single bits of raw physical memory from another process, but this won't tell yo
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by 0815test 7y ago
Biggest disaster? More like the second -biggest disaster after the conflagration that took down what.cd.

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