MaulingMonkey

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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Not when those ten minute functions add up and become a bloated dependency it isn't.
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> Contrived thought experiment: You have the magical power of either curing your own toothache, or curing the world of AIDS. You choose to cure your toothache because it affects you. I would argue you should have considered the alternati
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> not sure, but the internals were supposed to be MUCH cleaner and easier to work with. I've bookmarked this bit of GCC code for my own amusement - an anecdote about the quality of GCC's codebase: https://github.com&
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> I'm just tired of the Elon worship. Nobody acknowledges the amazing people who actually made this happen. As an engineer it pisses me off. I would have hoped this thread would be a reprieve for you. I'm seeing tons of respec
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
We've reached some amazing heights since then - the flyby of Pluto, intercepting 67P/C-G - but I have to agree. It might not be the biggest step up - but it sure seems like the biggest step forwards . Government space missions
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
We live in an era of viruses, rootkits, botnets, ransomware, adware, spyware, and industrial sabotage. This is at the hands of script kiddies, political activists, criminal networks, corporations, and every nation state with the budget for
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> No one said toxic. They said jerk. Being a jerk is toxic. Being an asshole is toxic. If they're not toxic, why are you calling them these things? > I quite like working with a bunch of opinionated assholes that are willing to
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> That's not a rock-star, it's not what the term means. How are we defining "your best devs" then, exactly, if "rock star who's also a jerk" isn't a contradiction? > As for your main point, most
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> a flat system ends up being a battle for leadership which puts the smart and commanding at the top The problem is you've described someone entirely different, here, IMO. A smart leader isn't the loudest. Because they know wh
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Emailing the ISP provided email that I never use is probably not enough.
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> So the perspective you might be missing is that there absolutely are broken or useless parts of the C++ standard. I'm not missing it. I feel C++ is a broken enough language that I generally prefer to use others. That said, C++ i
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
So you're saying it's going to be even more effort to get compiling on a new compiler... that my 8-14 years estimate was low-balling the problem...? ;)
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
The sheer size of the thing is a big problem. Getting ~100KLOC of C++ compiling on a "new" compiler has been something that's taken me a few days before. Not too unreasonable. 100MLOC is literally 1000x the size - which extr
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Sadly Visual Studio's compiler has no warning I'm aware of. Using /sdl will forcibly initialize all your members however - I guess Microsoft's approach to the problem is that fixing it for you is better than giving you
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Python 3 broke backwards compatibility and everyone stayed on 2 as a result. Why is breaking backwards compatibility "for the hell of it" in C++ not going to have the same problem? Codebases stay in stasis, stuck on older compil
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Based on a similarly quick websearch, even a non-EV code signing certificate seems to require jumping through a number of hoops: https://www.dougv.com/2008/09/my-experience-getting-a-code-s... If you secure your o
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
My TtyRec player is PuTTY based <_<. Updates .
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
I wrote a bot to serve log history search requests in my local IRC channel, because I got tired of fishing through my logs on behalf of other people, who wanted my history for basically the same reason. At which point I got tired of whiteli
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> A human driver would never be driving that fast. They totally would. I see it... not infrequently. Basically any scenario where people in the right lane are there for a reason (e.g. taking an overburdened exit on a highway, turning r
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
I don't disagree - but there's value in harm reduction, no?
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> If you don't want undefined behavior, don't put undefined behavior in your code. I'd quip that this is statistically impossible for a sufficiently large codebase. > it's a criticism of ANSI C. If you don't l
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Literally deleting all your files at that. It's the part of the language that says your compiler is completely justified in allowing you to write that buffer overflow vulnerability that can trample executable memory, which is then use
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
The sentences are still grouped together immediately above my post - in your post. This isn't some blog post quoting snippets from some other link, or a book quoting sections from another resource. I also strongly disagree that these
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> I've been intentionally vague so as to discuss this in more macro terms You may want to lead with that next time - I'm not the only one attempting to interpret your vagueness in-context (that is, in the specific case as prese
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
What about everything that is expected to be private, can be made private, has security implications for not being private, and has no gains for being public other than "it's slightly less expensive"? Why shouldn't my
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> There's a reason it's not called 'data', is my point. Is there, actually, in this context? What is the reason you're drawing this distinction? What makes generated passwords 'data', but password r
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Metadata is data about data.
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> That same scenario with data that could use virtual memory would be a non-issue Untrue I'm afraid - the case I'm basing this example off of could (and did) happen in virtual address space as well. > since you could mash th
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Because your monitor is (probably) refreshing at 60hz. Your frames will display for some integer number of monitor refreshes - at 1 you'll get 60fps, at 2 you'll get 30fps. Over a second, it's of course entirely possible to
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
> Since a each process gets its own entire 4GB virtual address space 2GB of which is reserved for kernel shenanigans unless everyone enabled /3GB in their kernel boot parameters (they haven't.) Default allocators start failing

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