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by ameixaseca 2y ago
The article conflates several concepts about what is and isn't expected from a reproducible build system. This comment sums it up pretty well: https://github.com/NorfairKing/nix-does-not-guarantee-reprod... ( http
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by ameixaseca 2y ago
The article leaps from correlation to causation while trying to make an argument. Correlation is not causation. They might reinforce each other but the problem is likely more complex.
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by ameixaseca 2y ago
The word "product" has been used in all citations, though the author did not provide the definition of "product". In my opinion, this would likely clarify the intent behind the text.
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by ameixaseca 2y ago
I've used too many Linux distributions to list here, last one before NixOS being Arch. No disto ever came close to giving me what NixOS gives: - I can try to rebuild my system as many times as I want and it doesn't matter if it fa
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by ameixaseca 2y ago
A few notes: 1) Lack of a garbage collector does not make your program faster, it makes the performance more easily predictable in terms of latency. It also makes it more friendly for memory bandwidth, CPU cache and to overall memory usage,
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
Please read the article and avoid the spread of more misinformation. Donor names were NOT provided by the RCMP. The frozen accounts were holding funds that were donated: > In a statement released Monday, the RCMP said it only provided ba
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
How many chickens you raise on average? I wonder if scale would help bring the costs down (not down to $5, obviously).
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
I installed Obsidian and did some initial testing, but two things completely threw me off: 1) Basic synchronization is a paid feature and you cannot (or at least could not) set up a private synchronization server. 2) Synchronization depends
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
Please note the programmer needs to implement "IntoFuture" and has full control on what and how it would be translated into a future. The example is implemented like this, but it does not have to be. And yes, the example is not th
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
Please stop this madness of spinlocks in userspace. They are inefficient and conceptually incorrect for the absolute majority of applications. If you are.. * not writing a kernel; * not running your tasks with SCHED_FIFO and not running ind
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
From the study: > The vegetarian diets (12) include vegan (eats only plant-based foods but no red meat, poultry, fish, dairy or eggs), pesco-lacto-ovo-vegetarian (eats fish, dairy and eggs without red meat or poultry), lacto-ovo-vegetari
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
Unless sibling is sideways (same level of the tree) and children is downward (one level closer to the leaves). I haven't looked at the code but that's my first impression given the nomenclature.
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
Not sure which lens you are using for coming to this conclusion. In my experience, most people writing Rust code have no "moral superiority" and treat Rust as a "better tool", not as a religion per se. However, what I&#x
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
Funny you said that. Slavery, for instance, was abolished in Canada ~30 years before the USA. I guess it can go both ways.
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
> France kind of screwed up their idea of "healthy diet is crucial to longevity" Actually, no; it screwed with the preconceived notion that fat and "fatty foods" are automatically unhealthy.
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
Less than $1B
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
What do you mean by "state-oriented"? Also: complex cases will likely result in complex code. Do you have a viable alternative for this?
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
I can buy a tri-fuel 10/8kw+ generator for ~$1k, which can run all the standard stuff at home - and some extras, depending on fuel. How's a Powerwall competitive with that? Sure, no seamless transition and a bit of light maintenan
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
FYI, the fact that you can do poor software engineering in safe Rust (or any memory-safe language) and still do not have memory safety issues completely disproves your statement.
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
I've been programming in C++ for the past 15+ years, from some toy UI applications to things like a fully-featured software DSP for a telecom gateway. I don't want to discourage you, and I think everything I did during this time w
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by ameixaseca 4y ago
This is not an argument against college, this is an argument against how college works in the US. There are universities - and I mean well-renowned universities - all across the globe where people can get a degree without necessarily having
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by ameixaseca 5y ago
BMO had issues with its Global Money Transfer. RBC had issues with its online banking system (and acknowledged it). Other banks seem to have had mostly no or only minor issues. This is pure speculation based on anecdotal reports. Most of th
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by ameixaseca 5y ago
Interesting collection of point of views. A language like Erlang indeed seems to align more closely with the spirit of the OOP goals - especially regarding encapsulation and avoiding shared state. I would argue one of the best implementatio
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by ameixaseca 5y ago
Sorry, you're right - I missed that part. I had a few assumptions in mind that obviously break down with a bit of reasoning. The algorithm from the paper you posted in another comment indeed looks more complicated than it needs to be a
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by ameixaseca 5y ago
I couldn't find this in the design document but the only obvious solution is to track globals via the shared count. Since a global reference is part of all threads simultaneously, it cannot be treated as local. If you follow this reaso
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by ameixaseca 5y ago
Cache-friendliness; applies to any platform. And it's "optimize for size", by the way.
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by ameixaseca 5y ago
I would be interested in a more "fishy" mode. For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYgtVHa8NI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFGWYALAIg
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by ameixaseca 5y ago
For anyone that haven't tried this yet, please have a look at 3-way merging. A number of tools support it, including simple ones like `meld`. I've been using it for a while and it has been a huge help on complicated merges.
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by ameixaseca 5y ago
Yes but you also have a number of other issues to take into account: timezones, language barriers, cultural differences, ability of an engineer to get on a plane/car/train/boat and meet face-to-face in a reasonable amount of
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by ameixaseca 5y ago
A number of US states did not ratify some constitutional amendments and they still entered in effect. Minimum requirement is two-thirds of the states not unanimity. I meant "political" in the sense of "it's a gesture des

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