MaulingMonkey

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by MaulingMonkey 7mo ago
(Rust has a similar fn: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.isize.html#method.ch... )
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by MaulingMonkey 7mo ago
In fact, Windows 10+ now uses a thread pool during process init well before main is reached. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920132133/https://blogs.bla...
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by MaulingMonkey 7mo ago
> video games Often use dynamic/scripting languages to improve iteration on gameplay code, even if a lot of the fundamental underlying code is native. And add dev-time hot reloading wherever we can so when you change a texture, it
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by MaulingMonkey 7mo ago
Record low launch temperatures are exactly the kind of boundary pushing conditions that would warrant unmanned testing in a way that not all of those previous 25 would have been. Then again, so was the first launch, and that was manned.
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by MaulingMonkey 7mo ago
> They didn't need more unmanned testing to find the issue; they needed to stop ignoring it. Should such testing have been needed? No. Was such testing needed, given NASA's political pressures and management? Maybe. Unma
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by MaulingMonkey 7mo ago
I'll note another fun pattern I've seen: • Bus crawls along behind traffic during rush hour traffic, or a long line of traffic bottlenecked by a busy stop sign • Bus stops to load/unload, blocking traffic for a bit, with a ga
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by MaulingMonkey 8mo ago
Skeptical notes based on my own experiences in Seattle (≈1148ft average per article - which might be considered high enough that the article already considers the mission for fewer bus stops a success?): Some of the routes I've taken h
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by MaulingMonkey 8mo ago
(equivalent C file: https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/master/WOLFSRC/WL... ) > Was this translated automatically from C? I'll note that when I convert code between languages, I ofte
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by MaulingMonkey 8mo ago
> Would have to be F32, no? Generally yes. `NonZeroU32::saturating_add(self, other: u32)` is able to return `NonZeroU32` though! ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/num/type.NonZeroU32.html#metho... ) > I cann
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by MaulingMonkey 8mo ago
One thing I appreciate about Rust's stdlib is that it exposes enough platform details to allow writing the missing knobs without reimplementing the entire wrapper (e.g. File, TcpStream, etc. allows access to raw file descriptors, OpenO
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by MaulingMonkey 8mo ago
Where I live (pacific northwest), it's not snow that's the problem, but windstorms. Presumably knocking over trees, which in turn takes down power lines - which of course implies said trees are tall, in proximity to the power lin
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by MaulingMonkey 8mo ago
> It'll mean GOG has to do less work [citation needed] GOG's launcher team is presumably already familiar with their codebase, already has a checkout, already has a codebase that's missing 0 features, has a user interface
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by MaulingMonkey 9mo ago
You can specify: "runOptions": { "runOn": "folderOpen" } In tasks.json, which I use for automatically `git fetch`ing on a few projects. While I don't recall it's interaction with first run &
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by MaulingMonkey 9mo ago
> Wanting to be able to use anybody's machine is very strange, agreed. Very useful if people are struggling to create reliable repro steps that work for me - I can simply debug in situ on their machine. Also useful if a coworker is
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by MaulingMonkey 9mo ago
I bucket Eclipse under "heavyweight IDE". I used to use it, plus the CDT plugin, for my C++ nonsense. Then Visual Studio's Express and later Community SKUs made Visual Studio free for ≈home/hobby use in the same bucket.
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by MaulingMonkey 9mo ago
> perhaps the downvoters can tell me why they are downvoting? Not one of the actual downvoters, but: Lack of proper indenting means your code as posted doesn't even compile. e.g. I presume there was a `char* p;` that had `*` remove
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by MaulingMonkey 10mo ago
> Is the juice worth the squeeze to introduce two new function colors? Typically no... which is another way of saying occasionally yes. > What would you do if you needed to call `unreachable!()`? Probably one of e.g.: unsafe { c
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by MaulingMonkey 10mo ago
This is something I do wish Rust could better support. A `#![no_std]` library crate can at least discourage allocation (although it can always `extern crate alloc;` in lib.rs or invoke malloc via FFI...)
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by MaulingMonkey 10mo ago
FWIW, this is what I do, although typically with the prefix `dead/`, unto which I abandon ideas and misdirected refactoring with reckless abandon.
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by MaulingMonkey 11mo ago
GPS started as a U.S. Department of Defense project, and they had qualms about freely giving the high accuracy positioning information they found so very useful for e.g. targeting bombs and missiles, to every unverified third party in the w
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by MaulingMonkey 11mo ago
> Is it? Yes. > What happens if you remove that one last reference to a long chain of objects? A mass free sometime vaguely in future based on the GC's whims and knobs and tuning , when doing non-refcounting garbage collection.
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by MaulingMonkey 11mo ago
> File descriptors are a limited resource, but the limits are huge. Maybe in the linuxy servery context we're talking about, but I'll note I've encountered EMFILE and ENFILE errors attempting to open a mere couple hundred
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by MaulingMonkey 11mo ago
Rust already has exceptions (when panic=unwind)
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by MaulingMonkey 1y ago
My understanding is that it's a poor form factor for lithium ion - which operates at higher voltages, and thus needs an extra voltage regulator to step them down to 1.5V if you're packing them into the AA format (adding cost, redu
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by MaulingMonkey 1y ago
Ahh, that would make sense.
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by MaulingMonkey 1y ago
> That's my point; I think after a while you instinctly repeat a command with sudo tacked on (see XKCD), and I wonder if I'm any safer from myself like that? We agree that this is a dangerous / security-defeating habit to
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by MaulingMonkey 1y ago
Ya'll gaslighting me? I tried to do that, and found it didn't work, which was just wonderfully ironic. I ended up verifying there's a `user-select: none;` in the actual `select-text.html` styling that is indeed disabling te
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by MaulingMonkey 1y ago
I've not enjoyed pair programming, nor bottlenecking N programmers on 1 computer in general, but mob debugging on something gnarly in a shared cubicle - looking over each other's shoulders and getting a second set of eyes on somet
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by MaulingMonkey 1y ago
And to back up your point: Whenever someone in my circle does have to use PHP (job, legacy nonsense, etc.) they absolutely do mock it. They also mock the codebase they work on for similar reasons. Part venting, part communication of
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by MaulingMonkey 1y ago
Externally visible issue where external parties (producers, co-developers, artists, designers, ...) need communication about fixes and timelines? Put it in the issue tracker so people can subscribe, elaborate on repro steps, share links so

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