alexchamberlain

8 ms·

91.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
That's not what I said. My point was that an arena allocator has to be managed at a relatively high level. Similarly, an allocator responsible for 0 on free would be managed at a similar level. They are orthogonal concepts as you say,
92.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Depends where you draw the line. An arena allocator per request needs to be managed at least by an app framework, if not the application. It's all layers of abstraction, and one of those layers needs to 0 memory.
93.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
This might be a stupid question, but why isn't zeroing 8KB of memory a single instruction? It must be so common as to be worthy that all the layers of memory (and indirection) to understand that.
94.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Generally, you 0 on free in secure environments to avoid leaking secrets from 1 section of knowledge to the next. ie a request may contain a password, which the next request should not have access to.
95.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
> conversion rates were abysmal Is that surprising? Email campaigns have similarly low open and click rates, which are also accepted as the norm.
96.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
This is a beautifully pedantic post.
97.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Red rag to a bull: "this is best practice". Really? There is no better way to do something given more context or experience? A better practice will never be discovered or devised?
98.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
But who would read the tattoo?
99.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
You can then get off the train, buy a ticket and get the next one in 10 minutes or so.
100.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
2x 2.5Gb/s interfaces are pretty chunky on this spec of board, isn't it?
101.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
FWIW, AMQP is the same protocol as RabbitMQ- there's a library for pretty much every language/ecosystem.
102.
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
AGPL and MIT licenses are very (extremely?) different. What's the thinking there?
103.
ElephantSQL – End of Life Announcement(elephantsql.com)
2 points by alexchamberlain 3y ago|0 comments
104.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
It's pretty expensive to take cash. First, you have to keep a float of money for change. Then you have to secure the cash until you deposit it in the bank. Then sink some time into counting and depositing it, before being charged by yo
105.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
This is referenced in the proposal: > JavaScript has had a fairly minimal standard library, but a trend in TC39 has been to make JS more of a "batteries-included" language, with a high-quality, built-in set of functionality ava
106.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
I don't understand how this practice is legal; don't we all have laws on equal pay for equal work?
107.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
> you can isolate that dangerous code to one part of your code base. This is the whole point for me. There are loads of reasons fundamental data structures want to use behaviour the compile can't prove is sound, but humans can burn
108.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
You can do RC memory management without the overhead of a GC runtime though.
109.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
Array bounds are essentially unchecked in C, unless you go so far over as to hit a guard page.
110.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
In the article, it states that the fibers are shorter and thinner (13 microns) than other wools, which gives them the desirable properties, but also makes them very hard to spin into a wool. Admittedly, I had assumed spinning by hand wouldn
111.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
They need to buy specialist equipment to do that, and it sounds like they can't afford it?
112.
.well-known/avatar(shkspr.mobi)
7 points by alexchamberlain 3y ago|2 comments
113.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
Like learning, doesn't this depend on the person? I like to have a couple of things on the go, otherwise I can get bored focused on 1 thing - sometimes you just need a break to think things through, and often I do that by working on so
114.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
> They're far enough apart for good isolation, which provides durability and availability It can't possibly be enough for critical data though, right? I'm guessing a fire in 1 is unlikely to spread to another, but could it
115.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
The $1.99/mo is presumably per user; how many users are said hospitals/institutions paying for? I'd have assumed they'd be looking for a _discount_ on the website price tbh.
116.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
Are we getting to the point where parts of the kernel could benefit from running on a low power, cheap, less featureful CPU/co-processor, so that the beefy, suped up, SIMD, floating point instructioned super cores can be dedicated to r
117.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
Do you have discontinuities though? The tangents at the point of intersection match.
118.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
Not sure exactly what you're referring to. There are additional rules if you're listed on the London Stock Exchange (both legal as a PLC and contractual with the exchange itself, if I understand it correctly), but that's not
119.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
We should be embarrassed to be at the top of the list in the UK. That being said, change is coming to the law in the UK[1] - I hope it's enough to turn the tide. [1]: https://changestoukcompanylaw.campaign.gov.uk/
120.
by alexchamberlain 3y ago
I think most individual sockets will be rated for 13A in the UK, but still a good amount of power

More ›