AlisdairO

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by AlisdairO 5y ago
For large codebases, the code exploration features are priceless. Call hierarchy is an absurd productivity booster.
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by AlisdairO 5y ago
seems like you could get a reasonable idea by performing a brief workload that should reliably trigger boosting, and see if boosting occurs?
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by AlisdairO 5y ago
There was a nice easter egg in the installer there that i discovered. Much like how if you repeatedly click on one of your characters in the game they start to get annoyed, the sound card test did the same thing. "IT DOESN'T GET A
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by AlisdairO 5y ago
...any very short lived concurrent task. A thread costs, what, 10 or 20us to create on a typical linux/x86 system? Perhaps it's more on the JVM? Look, I'm looking forward to Loom as much as anyone. It is clearly going to be
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by AlisdairO 5y ago
> On the JVM, native threads are really expensive, especially in terms of memory. If you're running on Linux, this is rather less the case. People see 1MB Xss values and assume that 1MB of 'real' memory is required to spa
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by AlisdairO 5y ago
It definitely is, I vividly recall this from my university days.
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
I find it unethical because the net effect is that companies stop offering friendly return policies. When people treat return policies by the letter of the agreement rather than by its spirit, they create a world where companies won't
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
One other option is increasing the reserved block count ( https://ma.ttias.be/change-reserved-blocks-ext3-ext4-filesys... ). This has the nice side effect of increasing the space available for critical daemons. If you haven
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
1. The evidence provided for election fraud was investigated, and no widespread fraud was found. 2. The Trump/Russia stuff was investigated because there were credible reasons to be concerned. The election fraud issue is entirely (and
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
FWIW I expect you're getting downvoted for tone. In particular: > I just have too much experience in the industry to throw away my time and play with toys. Implication: Rust is just a toy, people who use it have too much time on the
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
Everyone here understands the behaviour of the battery. At issue is the way the customer experience is handled on top of that behaviour. Pretending otherwise is simple condescension. Apple has already fixed the problem in a satisfactory way
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
Your definition is not common to the market. Users can’t possibly anticipate whether the phone will provide acceptable performance when it reaches this ‘100%’ state. The devices are reviewed based on as new performance. The device provides
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
The battery may not be defective, but the device is. It previously performed acceptably, then started performing poorly, with no indication to the user that there was an action needed to restore acceptable performance. Nobody expects a magi
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
> Why would I want a vaccine that is actually less effective than my chances of surviving? Well, the vaccine hopefully doesn't kill you if it's ineffective, so the numbers aren't exactly comparable. The reasoning in this c
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
I'm not going to tell you that there aren't issues on the other channels, but the sheer volume of manipulation on Fox is utterly overwhelming. Imperfect as it is I don't really think MSNBC compares.
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
> I'm sorry, but you seem to absolutely refuse to keep the concept that Pelosi only wanted nothing less than her 2.2 trillion dollar bill. Sure. And McConnell wants nothing more than his 1T bill. Why is it solely Pelosi's fault
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
I agree that this sort of stuff is awful, and I don't support it one bit. But the reality is that provisions like this aren't going to make it into the final bill, and there's no indication that this is some kind of red line
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
Lieberman was a huge reason for the bill being as conservative as it was - for example: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art... . My point is, why is it that if Pelosi doesn't bend the knee
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
> the ACA was passed during a supermajority. Nope. Lieberman was an independent and broke with the democrats on many issues, including the ACA: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/joe-lieberm
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
Thanks, I'll give it a look!
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
I agree. In general I identify as very progressive (especially by US standards), but I hold some opinions that are somewhat outside of the leftist norm, and I'm more or less completely unwilling to discuss them online as I don't t
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
More or less, yes. Take a look at the ACA. This is a piece of legislation that was essentially conservative in nature. It pleased very few on the democratic side, and bore plenty of similarities to some republican plans from the 90s. The Re
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
The thing is, bipartisan support was impossible to achieve at the time. Obama crafted a conservative health bill, attempted to reach across the aisle and got stonewalled - it was noted at the time that the Republicans adopted an unusually o
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
disclaimer: I'm not American, but I'm from the UK which has similar issues on a smaller scale. The thing is, as a leftist I used to be able to have conversations with conservatives. We had different values, but a largely shared
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
There is, of course, actual smoke on the Russia issue. - It's unambiguously true that Russia helped Trump get elected in 2016. Even the Republican Senate acknowledges this. - Trump's campaign had various (documented) unsavoury lin
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
The president himself has admitted that he wishes to starve the USPS to limit widespread mail in voting: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admits-he-wants-block-... . This in a pandemic where vote by mail is something a
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
In fairness, there's already clear evidence of attempts to subvert the election via manipulation of the USPS. It's not really an 'extraordinary' claim to suggest that Trump might attempt to manipulate the vote via other
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
Do we have any real evidence that hobbyist servers are significant hitters when it comes to DDOSes? The idea that hobbyists shouldn't run a server is, IMO, misguided, and dangerous to the health of the internet. A simple debian VM + ng
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
Well, yes, of course. The thing you could previously rely on being present can no longer be guaranteed to be present - that _should_ require code in the calling function to change.
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by AlisdairO 6y ago
Things like null safety aren't trivial for practical purposes IME.

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