Tomis02

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by Tomis02 4y ago
> Zero initialization is a pretty fundamental concept in Go. I don't get it. There's nothing particularly special about it other than it being an explicit choice (I suspect Go's developers were lazy and did whatever was ea
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by Tomis02 4y ago
The game programming flavour of data-oriented design is often described as an optimisation technique, but I feel this is a misconception. Performance and maintainability are not mutually exclusive. My understanding based on talks by Mike Ac
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by Tomis02 4y ago
Confusingly, it doesn't seem to have much to do with data-oriented design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
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by Tomis02 4y ago
> You can write bad code in any language. Some languages make it much easier to write bad code. Some languages introduce safety checks that eliminate entire classes of bugs. So your claim that all languages are the same is very far away
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by Tomis02 4y ago
I think that was the author's point. You _can_ use them this way but it's a hassle and most people don't do it. The language itself doesn't protect you against zero-initialisation errors, even though it could.
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by Tomis02 4y ago
> But I was wondering why you would want an opaque type internally to a package. You can have a public function (a constructor) returning an instance of a private type. This way you ensure it's not zero-initialised by default (you c
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by Tomis02 4y ago
> I would say that they are elegant in that they allow you to do something otherwise difficult in an effortless and obvious way. But this CANNOT be said about git! For example [1]: ----- In Git you can merge with an unrelated repository
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by Tomis02 4y ago
The CLI is so confusing that Stackoverflow has a bunch of questions for things that should be easy or trivial by default. Last thing I would call git is "elegant". https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged&#x
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by Tomis02 5y ago
> a lot of employers / teams still have not setup effective means for including and training the less experienced members of the team In my experience, this is not correlated with remote or office work in any way. For the most part
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by Tomis02 5y ago
> The Tesla FSD system on the other side aims to be a generic driving AI. ... can it ever get so reliable, that the driver can completely hand over to car ever? Using the current machine learning algorithms? Not likely. Imagine releasing
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by Tomis02 5y ago
Mathematics is a social activity, in the sense that mathematicians create proofs to convince others that their findings are valid. Some proofs are easier to verify than others. Some proofs are "believed to be true" because no one
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by Tomis02 5y ago
> I like and enjoy my privacy. I want offices to still be a thing. Given that today most offices seem to have an open plan, your two sentences seem contradictory.
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by Tomis02 5y ago
> Do you actually believe that you would be able to enjoy the same level of human relationships with an octopus? How about a cow? Or a coackroach? My enjoyment levels have nothing to do with the discussion. You're essentially using
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by Tomis02 5y ago
Logical fallacies are why I dislike talking to people. The point of view you expressed is not opposite from mine, as you can have multiple moral systems that can live side by side without issues. My original idea is that some moral systems
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by Tomis02 5y ago
As a European, I think you're wrong on several levels. > When the irony is that the same random argument applied towards Octopus can be done on just about any sentient beings like cow and pigs. Or like humans! It doesn't take a
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by Tomis02 5y ago
Your comment is a series of logical mistakes. 1. Plants don't have a central nervous system. They're not sentient and don't feel pain. 2. The fact that something "applies to all animals" doesn't somehow make an
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by Tomis02 5y ago
This type of moral relativism is what leads to world wars, at which point people come back to their senses and proceed to behave, until the next generation comes along to repeat the same mistakes.
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by Tomis02 5y ago
Even if he isn't in a conflict of interest, that doesn't mean he has any kind of qualification on any scientific matter. Scientific debate should continue in the scientific community, not on podcasts and social media.
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by Tomis02 5y ago
Seems a very popular thing to put labels on people's personalities. "He's a leader", "she's an introvert", "they are artsy". Feels very similar to astrology - "he's a Lion", "
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by Tomis02 5y ago
Work on it if: - it's fun for you - if you use it personally Don't work on it if: - it's just for CV purposes - you have this idea that you should be working on FOSS because FOSS is great and you should somehow contribute - y
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by Tomis02 5y ago
I see. If you're willing to give it another try, perhaps try and customize away all the fancy bells and whistles (for example I disabled tabs altogether and just use the side panel for displaying the tabs but I'm sure there's
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by Tomis02 5y ago
Runs fine on my nothing special 6-7 year old computer. I also disable tab rendering and use the tab side panel instead, I'm not sure if that makes a difference.
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by Tomis02 5y ago
> making the entire application 1000 times slower than it could have been. Everything you think you gain in speed in Chrome/Firefox, you instantly lose when having to deal with their oversimplified UX. Vivaldi's focus on featur
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by Tomis02 5y ago
I don't mean to offend you but this is very funny. Immigrants from 3rd world countries are often told "why don't you stay at home and fix your own country?" Well, I guess we've come full circle, it's bad everyw
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by Tomis02 5y ago
It seems we're both pretty good at hyperbole. > Can't even protest in a responsible covid-safe manner Breaking lockdown to protest lockdown kinda misses the point of a lockdown. I understand people's frustration but once y
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by Tomis02 5y ago
As far as I know, any foreign citizen can leave. If they are a permanent resident, they can either apply for a permit or drop their visa - it's generally much easier to leave than to come back. Your quote is slightly ambiguous but I
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by Tomis02 5y ago
To summarise what you're saying: "the government did some things wrong while fighting COVID". Sure, I don't disagree. That said, are bad government policies worse than the murder of civilians? I'll let you guess whi
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by Tomis02 5y ago
Australian soldiers committing war crimes in Afghanistan? Nobody bats an eyelid. Can't go to Kmart because the government tries to fight the pandemic? Riots in the streets. And you're surprised there's complacency to digital
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by Tomis02 5y ago
Some commenters are upset but can't quite express why. I'll explain. The article's title is "Bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster", which implies that the previous implementation was using a slow algorithmic app
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by Tomis02 5y ago
> What happens in 5 years when someone wants to use a better connector? Laws change to adapt to the industry's demands. Although, I wonder what this person means by "better connected". USB-C is good enough for computers; i

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