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by adonovan 2y ago
What would that prove? Great coders are not necessarily competent leaders of the civil service.
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by adonovan 2y ago
We have over 200,000 stray cats in Brooklyn alone--as I learned recently when one cute but particularly insistent kitten tried to make its home in ours--yet somehow they are collectively terrible at hunting rats.
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by adonovan 2y ago
My chemistry teacher pointed out to our class that "99%" ethanol was distilled in benzene, and therefore had poisonous residue, whereas "95%" was water distilled, and thus safe to spike your OJ.
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by adonovan 2y ago
Just because most projects’ builds have large attack surfaces doesn’t mean we should accept that. The build and IDE tooling for Go does not trust the code it consumes.
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by adonovan 2y ago
Remember that C's contemporary languages were either inefficient (e.g. ALGOL 68, PL/1, Lisp), functionally obsolete (e.g. FORTRAN didn't have recursion or heap allocation), or even lower level (Assembly, B). C eliminated the
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by adonovan 2y ago
Which Burke books do you most recommend?
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by adonovan 2y ago
Also: security. Does this feature imply that merely building someone else’s program executes their code on your machine?
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by adonovan 2y ago
Thanks, I didn’t notice the second million and wondered why a day’s supply of energy would be scientific news.
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by adonovan 2y ago
It’s true, it’s so easy to tell yourself a story about how good/bad a person is based on how a photo supports your existing beliefs.
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by adonovan 2y ago
I’m a big fan of assertion and rigorous preconditions but there are times when a failure of some invariant in a minor subsystem should not be allowed to crash the entire process, especially if the context makes it easy to return an error.
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by adonovan 2y ago
It’s the IMAX version of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Atom !
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by adonovan 2y ago
> forgotten 1960s architecture… the entire register file is memory-mapped 1830s, in fact—the original computer, Babbage’s Analytical Engine!
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by adonovan 2y ago
Less a rewrite, more a variant: a majority of the source is common to both.
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by adonovan 2y ago
Exactly. There are non-monetary rewards to doing good work: esprit de corps from a team of coworkers you like and respect, satisfaction and pride in your craft, positive responses from users, and so on. For many, promotion is like winning a
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by adonovan 2y ago
Thanks. The Post’s site is collapsing under the weight of the worst kind of lurid advertising. It is hard to find the news—you even have to expand the section if you don’t want to see only ads.
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by adonovan 2y ago
Why doesn’t the article mention the most obvious example of all, s[i:j]?
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by adonovan 2y ago
> They aren't going to somehow magically fix this problem in Go, it's part of the design. I wouldn't be entirely pessimistic. Russ's post https://research.swtch.com/gorace mentions a conservative repr
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by adonovan 2y ago
Nonetheless whale oil remained very useful as a low temperature machine lubricating oil, and its use for that purpose increased so much that by the 1960s sperm whale catches were at their all-time highest, before abruptly falling with the r
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by adonovan 2y ago
It is a consequence of (a) Go's implicit relationship between a concrete type and the interfaces it implements and (b) Go's "heterogenous" translation of generics (like C++, unlike Java). Together, this means you can&#x2
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by adonovan 2y ago
This behavior is unspecified, and it's not observable without using the "unsafe" package.
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by adonovan 2y ago
No worries. Such good manners. :) I would have politely asked to swap the royal pieces around.
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by adonovan 2y ago
I think the parent was gently asking: who said anything about the US?
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by adonovan 2y ago
I’m surprised neither of you noticed immediately. I would have thought it as jarring as a mistuned musical instrument.
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by adonovan 2y ago
Well I can assure you that is not what happened. Our team tried to come up with a telemetry design that set a higher bar for privacy preservation than the norms of the industry (including Google), something so safe that it would be acceptab
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by adonovan 2y ago
You have it backwards. The suits are way more comfortable with privacy violation than the Go team.
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by adonovan 2y ago
Hydrogen sulfide generally repels people to a safe distance due to its strong smell of rotten eggs, but in very high doses, such as when the police open a car door after an H2S suicide within, it quickly disables that very sense of smell.
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by adonovan 2y ago
I too used to believe that, but I've since met too many children who have told me they don't like going to the movies because you have to pay attention for two continuous hours during which you aren't allowed to use your phon
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by adonovan 2y ago
The industry took the good ideas of Agile (don't overplan, work in small steps, reassess regularly, oh and write tests and do code reviews) and absorbed them into normal software engineering. So now whenever someone describes themselv
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by adonovan 2y ago
It’s an op-ed piece. The job of an opinion writer is not merely to inform you but to change your beliefs.
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by adonovan 2y ago
Thanks for the summary. This two-pass approach is the same one I used in Go’s golang.org/x/tools/go/ssa package, because I was at that time unaware that there are more efficient algorithms for constructing full SSA (with

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