Shikadi

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by Shikadi 5y ago
What is the c virtual machine? I thought there wasn't one
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Odd intuition, since you never store i back after incrementing. Also, I believe i++ might increment after the comparison rather than before, vs. ++i incrementing first
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by Shikadi 5y ago
I don't think the reaction was hysterical, the united States ranks 14 out of over 200 countries for most deaths to COVID per capita, and we don't even have high population density.
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by Shikadi 5y ago
You have a QA department? Nice, I'm jealous
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Eh, yeah I guess that happens, I guess I'm so used to the rest of the internet being so awful on mobile that it doesn't phase me. Which is funny, because I'm always super irritated by the rest of the internet.
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Definitely works fine on mobile for me
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by Shikadi 5y ago
If I'm being pedantic saying that it was a reaction to Netscape releasing under a license that didn't jive with the FSF, then your initial comment was also pedantic :P
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by Shikadi 5y ago
It wasn't created as a reaction to free software, it was created as a way to differentiate from free software, starting with Netscape navigator. But there's the open source initiative, which somehow I wasn't aware of: https:
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by Shikadi 5y ago
"Open source values" is just a covert way of saying "RMS values"
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by Shikadi 5y ago
If the source is available to anyone, it's open source. That is independent of the licensing model. Saying "That's not real open source" is just gatekeeping. There are different licenses, and when you insert the word &qu
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by Shikadi 5y ago
>Some projects work because many companies depend on it and contribute (but they wouldn't do it - or at least not nearly as much - if the project was strictly centrally controlled) I can't help but think of Linux when you say t
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by Shikadi 5y ago
This is a bit meta, but why does everyone refer to a company's revenue instead of profit or margins? Ignoring operating costs, if you manufacture 1M units for 20M dollars and sell them for 19M, you have a revenue of 19M despite losing
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by Shikadi 5y ago
That's impressive af!
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by Shikadi 5y ago
There's a lot more to it than a few lines of code, see: other comments on this post
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by Shikadi 5y ago
In the real world people care about both actually.
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by Shikadi 5y ago
500% interest rate O.o that might just set unrealistic expectations when for so long interest rates have been at _best_ 2% on a savings account
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Interest rates are zero
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by Shikadi 5y ago
We're talking specifically about ECC ram, which solves the specific problem caused by cosmic rays (and apparently bad motherboard design). IO protocol error correction is a totally different problem.
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by Shikadi 5y ago
I still think it made sense up until now to not bother with it on consumer hardware, and even at this point. The probability of your phone having a software glitch needing a reboot is way higher. Now that it's practically a free upgrad
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by Shikadi 5y ago
People who tout this don't understand the probability of bit flips. It's measured in failures per _billion_ hours of operation. This matters a ton in an environment with thousands of memory modules (data centers and super computer
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Worked well until every administration let them re-merge back together
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Prefer Alice and Bob?
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Often depends on the workload. My work requires compiling the kernel regularly (among other things) and 5 minutes saved over 12 compilations in one day is an entire hour saved. Made up numbers, and in the case of a lot of other code I touch
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by Shikadi 5y ago
We just need thrusters on top to provide more downforce
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by Shikadi 5y ago
You can use a bouncer so that's not true
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Memory watches let you see exactly when the pointer becomes null, and the call stack. In that particular case, the debugger is much faster and easier. Not saying print debugging is useless, but I do find many of the arguments in these comme
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Good for simple stuff, but if you find yourself changing your print statements over and over, a breakpoint probably would have been faster
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by Shikadi 5y ago
Collecting statistics can change race conditions too, it's just less likely
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by Shikadi 6y ago
I agree, I love vintage cars because they're simple and impressive in an understandable way. I also prefer the feel, since it's more analog and connected to the road, and they often did more with less than modern cars, similar to
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by Shikadi 6y ago
I have a longing for a modern computer with modern software but with the lost simplicity of old.

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