anewvillager

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by anewvillager 7y ago
True, but all such limitations serve to give an upper bound on the iteration count (which may not be a single constant but depend on the input). It can be demonstrated that if you don't have an upper bound then the language is Turing c
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by anewvillager 7y ago
> Large cyclic data structures which are freed as one piece are annoyingly difficult in Rust. If you really are deallocating the cyclic structure all at once, just use an arena and represent each element as an indice. Like https:/&
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by anewvillager 7y ago
Why?
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by anewvillager 7y ago
> It's clearly anti-market practice (in the sense that it adds information asymmetry between some part of the market and consumers in an attempt to keep prices higher), but it's being done by hundreds to thousands of manufactur
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by anewvillager 7y ago
Yes! That's called an optimistic spinning lock! https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/contributions/286/atta...
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by anewvillager 7y ago
It's certainly a controversial book. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Teicholz > Teicholz' claims were harshly criticized by the DGAC, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Center for S
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by anewvillager 7y ago
Duktape is also cool: https://duktape.org/
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by anewvillager 7y ago
Yep! It turns out that by being familiar with the terrain you can nearly always travel anywhere without engaging anyone, often without even being seen. This component of guerilla warfare was well portrayed. Traveling through obscure routes
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by anewvillager 7y ago
> The printing press, radio and TV always had ads This is not true. Pervasive advertising is far from a natural state of media and is actually an extremely recent innovation.