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by SkiFire13 7mo ago
Memory access performance depends on the _maximum size of memory you need to address_. You can clearly see it in the graph of that article where L1, L2, L3 and RAM are no longer enough to fit the linked list. However while the working set f
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by SkiFire13 7mo ago
> "Fast static analysis, easy static analysis, language designed for static analysis - pick two" I think you might have meant "language *not* designed for static analysis".
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
Italy's digital ID (SPID) works by having multiple trusted providers that can attest your identity. You can sign up with multiple of them, and if one is not available you could use another one. Not perfect (it's still centralized
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
At the company I work at we have turnstiles that you open with an app on your phone, however the reason seems to be to know if anyone is in the elevators in case of emergency.
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
I'm not sure I'm following, are you claiming that C++ is still not widely used enough? That doesn't seem to be the case.
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
Not sure about Block and Paypal, but AFAIK a good portion of transactions on Stripe are made as part of recurring subscriptions or similar. Those can't be migrated to other services easily, so for the time being Stripe will likely cont
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
On the consumer facing side Paypal is something I use when paying, but AFAIK I can't use Stripe (yet?). Stripe is used by businesses to let me pay with a credit card (or Paypal, Google Pay, etc etc).
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
C++ is still changing quite a lot though, just not in ways that fix the existing issues (often because doing so would break ABI stability).
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> it’s probably impossible to not have false positives It's possible to have no false positives or no false negatives, but it can be proven it's impossible to have neither of them.
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
Would you still do your best to avoid it if that involved taking a pay cut of more than $600/year?
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> The biggest concern is not photographic cameras but rather the video cameras mounted on autonomous cars to gather crucial information the cars need to drive themselves. So they don't care if that breaks my phone camera? Wtf?
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
I must have missed that part, my bad
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> We’re not talking about decidability of some semantic property in the general case; we’re talking about a specific claim about specific code Is CodeQL special cased for your code? I very much doubt that. Then it must work in the genera
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
I'm not sure what that has to do with the article, but anyway: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831... That said, I'm not sure how 1-based indexing will solve off-by-1 errors
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> But, really this is a non-issue because if you need a new battery for you phone, including iphone and samsung, just get it replaced. There's a big difference between buying a new battery for swapping it yourself and having to pay
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> on a set of VPS provided by some terraform scripts You ended up needing Terraform too for the infrastructure though. At that point why not just use Terraform?
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> Every organization I’ve ever witnessed eventually ends up with some kind of struggle with AWS’ insane organizations and accounts nightmare. What are these struggles? The product I work on uses AWS and we have ~5 accounts (I hear they u
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
The UK is not in the EU, but it is surely european.
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> There are other reasons why Europe isn’t attractive for bringing these kinds of technologies to life, and investor money is only a small part of it. And what are these other reasons?
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> 2) Data Sovereignty Schemes. American’s data can only be processed inside American borders by American (or Green Card) workers. How would this work with basically any foreign service?
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> L1 caches are small because they’re fast I guess you meant to say they are fast because they are small?
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> IMO best APIs and designs are those that are battle tested by end users Battle testing an API however requires time and the API to not constantly change.
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
I think something around that scale (say maybe 20 employees, but definitely not hundreds) was possible even before LLM got popular, but the people involved needed to be talented and focused. I'm not sure if AI will really change that t
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
I think you're making some assumptions on n that I'm not making. I'm considering it to be the number of elements to sort, not the size of the input.
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> Only if you assume a finite alphabet and bounded length You can generally reduce the problem to a finite alphabet by taking the finite subset that actually appears in the input. If you have an unbounded length then you can make sorting
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> If you use it to talk to friends, you'll presumably have your computer on when you want to use it yourself anyway. I tried this in the past but it didn't work. Now if your friends want to play you need to start the server for
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
> I recently set up a Mumble server on my home server That makes you an even smaller minority unfortunately. Most people are not going to set up a home server.
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
You're still thinking of C as a programming language but the blogpost is not about this, it's about using C to describe interfaces between other languages. > because it is the most minimal way of speaking to the hardware in a m
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
This doesn't really agree with this OP statement: > The programmer should rather prescribe intent and shouldn't constantly think about what size this should exactly have. You still have to constantly think about size! Except no
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by SkiFire13 8mo ago
Windows also uses KB as measure unit which does not make sense (it's either kB or KiB)

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