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by ajxs 7y ago
I disagree with almost every aspect of this post. I've never seen any evidence of your claim about binary size being the case. It's a spurious claim. There's always the possibility that a user could write slightly more effici
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by ajxs 7y ago
What are you talking about? You're talking about implementation. This has nothing to do with assembly at all. Assembly is not a magic language that offers instant efficiency. 'Constant factor' is entirely irrelevant to this d
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by ajxs 7y ago
Why is this getting downvoted? Writing programs in pure assembly does offer the possibility of implementing very fine-grained optimisations. However, assembly is not a magic bullet. Modern optimising compilers are extremely efficient. The m
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by ajxs 7y ago
You're absolutely correct with the point about the materialised view use case. I wasn't going to labor the point going into extra detail in my post. The most successful use I've seen for NoSQL databases is aggregating complex
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by ajxs 7y ago
> "With denormalizing, data integrity is more of an application concern. You'll need to consider when this duplicated data can change and how to update it if needed. But this denormalization will give you a greater scale than i
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by ajxs 7y ago
Viruses don't diffuse through the air like smoke. Viruses are contained within the aerosolised droplets of your bodily fluids that are ejected through sneezing, coughing, blowing the nose. The survival of the virus outside of the body
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by ajxs 7y ago
I liked Reflex Arena the most out of the post-Quake Live arena FPS'. It's a huge pity that it didn't really take off. I feel like they made a terrible mistake hedging their bets with catering to the CPM community. From what I
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by ajxs 7y ago
At the risk of being downvoted into oblivion, why? You'd be jumping through so many hoops to set up a build pipeline for transpiling Typescript into C++, let alone writing a BSP library in Typescript to interact with the Arduino SoC. (
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'm not the OP you're asking, I'll provide my own answer to the latter question though. C is a language that doesn't come with many guarantees. I personally like to think of C as a 'higher-level assembler', tar
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by ajxs 7y ago
You're totally right. I think the intermediate step was that software houses producing software prior to online distribution becoming mainstream would refer to software as being 'in production' when it was sent to the factory
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by ajxs 7y ago
Ha, I guess I missed the joke.
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'd be very surprised if there was one ounce of truth to this. I've worked implementing payment systems for large institutions. It's standard for the existing balance of the transaction to be taken into account when an amendm
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by ajxs 7y ago
This is true. Android is a good example of where the line between a Linux distribution and an outright OS blurs. I'm not convinced that this really affects my overall point all that much though.
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by ajxs 7y ago
You're correct. Debian and Ubuntu are technically different operating-systems. Due to the similarity of 'operating-systems' built around the Linux kernel they're typically referred to as 'Linux distributions'.
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by ajxs 7y ago
This is somewhat false advertising. This is not an operating system in the sense of being a new kernel. It looks like it's a set of build tools for building a Linux distribution.
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by ajxs 7y ago
I could not agree more. I hope a market for brainless appliances remains far into the future. I would personally pay far more for appliances that have no DRM, no data collection, no intelligence of any kind.
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by ajxs 7y ago
Among other poor statistical methodology, it's not as though the average respondent to this poll is likely to have a reasonable sample size of appliances to compare. They're not saying "Out of the six refrigerators I own, the
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'm responding to: > I don’t want to waste my time talking to accounts under pseudonyms..
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by ajxs 7y ago
I believe very strongly in individual privacy online. The idea that I should have to identify myself online, even just to the platform, by my legal name in order to engage in discourse is entirely abhorrent. I care very much about limiting
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by ajxs 7y ago
You're right that there is a correlation. However, it's important to note that the community is not selecting for identifiable users by not upvoting pseudonymous users. The individuals with the highest karma are typically ones who
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by ajxs 7y ago
It's possible to develop relatively lightweight browser engines. Refer to NetSurf for instance. However the ones I've seen are not what you'd consider fully-featured or usable for the average user's everyday browsing. Th
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by ajxs 7y ago
> They did this so their various teams don’t have to talk to each other. This is absolutely dreadful. I've unfortunately worked in multiple organisations where teams deconstructed their web-based products into microservices for this
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by ajxs 7y ago
Everything you've written here presents a nightmarish vision of the computing future. Ethical and privacy considerations play a large role in my decision making process on which software I use. I don't want to use Chromium at all,
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by ajxs 7y ago
Uh... Am I misunderstanding something here, doesn't that just make the situation even more dire?
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by ajxs 7y ago
Rust's official documentation on FFI ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ffi.html ) recommends using an external crate 'libc' to facilitate even the minimal FFI functionality. This crate is not part of R
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by ajxs 7y ago
That was exactly my point. Thank you.
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by ajxs 7y ago
> Then walk. Seriously... I'm not an idiot. I understand that there is always some risk in flying. My point was that the idea is to eliminate risks to the best of our ability. That should have been obvious by my post. If we know the
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by ajxs 7y ago
You seem to be implying that the horrible state of IoT is not mostly the fault of the web integration layer.
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by ajxs 7y ago
Whether this feature has been battle tested by a two hundred million hours running failure-free in production is beside the point. The point is to categorically eradicate the potential sources of failure in the aircraft's engineering.
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by ajxs 7y ago
There's plenty of love for Ada, more than ever. https://blog.adacore.com/the-emergence-of-a-new-ada-era

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