ATsch

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by ATsch 5y ago
There's a lot of more qualified people who have written better criticisms of it than I can, but it generally boils down to a few things: 1. Lack of basis in reality. While of course there are occasional cases of communities mismanaging
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by ATsch 5y ago
As often when people reference the metaphor of the tragedy of the commons, which had no historical basis in reality (quite the opposite), there's more going on here. IPv4 addresses are a significant competitive moat for incumbent busin
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by ATsch 5y ago
Yeah, it was a pretty clever if misleading marketing ploy IMO. I don't think many people ever realized that "Watson" as a singular thing does not exist and is basically just the brand name of IBMs ML consulting and cloud serv
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by ATsch 5y ago
If you don't understand what placement new is, you don't know whether libraries using placement new affects you. I did not write this comment about placement new specifically. It's just a thing that annoys me about the "
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by ATsch 5y ago
You also need to learn what placement new is and how it is used to know if you or any of your libraries are using it in the first place.
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by ATsch 5y ago
> (macros and traits I guess are the worst) This is a common assumption but I've rarely see cargo check, which both expands macros and solves traits as well as runs the borrow checker take more than a few seconds on my machine, even
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by ATsch 5y ago
It's less LLVM itself and more the amount of work that rustc gives to LLVM. Formerly for example, rustc did not do any kind of constant propagation itself and relied fully on LLVM to propagate them and say, remove any unused branches i
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by ATsch 5y ago
It really isn't that anymore, especially not after having been bought by a billion dollar media/tech holdings company.
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by ATsch 5y ago
I don't think it's just recency either, it's just incredibly easy to shoot yourself into the foot with string_view when the language has no way of checking that the pointed to memory is actually valid. People moved to smart p
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by ATsch 5y ago
> you end up with very large dependency trees similar to JS. And we know how that went. The problem in the JS ecosystem is not the number of dependencies, but the number of entities you have to trust. There is no real difference between
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by ATsch 5y ago
I think a big reason Hubble managed to do that was that it captures in the visible spectrum due to being a repurposed spy satellite. That spectrum just isn't that interesting these days afaict, especially since ground based observatori
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by ATsch 5y ago
I think one thing that really needs to change here is the ability of companies like apple to draw out these rulings with endless appeals and delays. Those legal processes are very apt when you're deciding whether someone should live be
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by ATsch 5y ago
It's definitely true that being good for writing services wasn't really a big design goal of rust and it's far from the lowest friction language to do it in. However it is still a mainstream high performance language with a r
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by ATsch 5y ago
I see, but in case I think this is less about finding an optimal solution and more about the general best practice of not having any unbounded queues in your application. Having to wait would have been annoying, definitely, but it would hav
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by ATsch 5y ago
Is there any requirement that all games start at the same time? If not I guess you could limit the amount of games that can be outstanding at any one time.
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by ATsch 5y ago
I would assume that the plane or satellite moving affects this too, it's presumably being corrected but there might be some parallax.
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by ATsch 5y ago
There's a few aspects to this. The first is that Google Analytics is a great example, because while an individual company may not have the competency they may hire another one that does. And while previously some of these companies may
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by ATsch 5y ago
This is a really common misunderstanding of the differences between GDPR and US privacy laws. In the US, what is generally regulated is "posession" of data, with narrow definitions of what PII is and no restrictions on anything th
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by ATsch 5y ago
This whole "won't someone think of the small businesses" shtick is so transparent. I don't want "my" local businesses tracking me any more than the non local ones. I don't want a fiercely competitive marke
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by ATsch 5y ago
I mean, that was an explicit intent of the legislation, making PII a hazard to contain instead of a resource to extract.
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by ATsch 5y ago
I think this is less due to a genuine change of heart and more because the lack of enforcement by the government in regards to big tech has left people without much choice.
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by ATsch 5y ago
I don't think not being part of an organized conspiracy and being a weird dude acting alone are the same thing. Especially in recent years the term "stochastic terrorism" has come up a lot, where people become part of a group
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by ATsch 5y ago
I don't find it particularly implausible that one building near a massive building collapse happened to not have adequate fire protection
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by ATsch 5y ago
Could you give any examples? It is definitely true that people are often portrayed as "weird dudes acting alone", however it is much rarer that that is actually true.
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by ATsch 5y ago
I look at it the other way around, the driver update is a rare case where it was publicly exposed just how widespread of an issue forgery is in the electronics industry. FTDI likely expected the number of fake devices already in the field t
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by ATsch 5y ago
That's a good public example, here's a post for anyone that missed it: https://zeptobars.com/en/read/FTDI-FT232RL-real-vs-fake-supe...
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by ATsch 5y ago
I don't think it was a mistake at all, it's just a simple marketing tactic. You just add a version number to a thing and then everyone who was part of the old thing will feel like they're missing out. Most of cryptocurrency m
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by ATsch 5y ago
People who do not work in hardware seriously underestimate how often counterfeit components enter the supply chain. Even trustworthy distributors like digikey and mouser have had regular cases of their supplies becoming contaminated. It is
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by ATsch 5y ago
I welcome you to disclose any holding in cryptocurrencies you have in interest of transparency about your financial incentives
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by ATsch 5y ago
Preferrably one that is not involved in some kind of cryptocurrency scammery scheme.

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