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by another2another 3y ago
>and Linux is moving to the next-yet-again replacement in io_uring (which calling an epoll/poll replacement is an insult, it does much more.) Yes, at least this time they support true async disk IO, which epoll doesn't.
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by another2another 3y ago
Or even libdispatch which I've been using on Linux and MacOSX surprisingly well.
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by another2another 3y ago
IANAL But I'd say, being 'inside a Boeing' is not, legally speaking, the same as being 'inside Boeing'. Saying that, I don't remember hearing the stewardess during the safety briefing say "In the unlikely
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by another2another 3y ago
>He got two of them autographed by Nicholas Wirth himself The first comment on that article is pure historical gold - it would be great to get Niklaus Wirth's signature added to this too, if Taylor Pohlman could be convinced to supp
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by another2another 3y ago
Fantastic writeup (read all the way to the end!), and especially impressed the author is brave enough to include a chat support tool. I'd be worried that somebody would lean on the Z key for 20GB and constantly spam my chat. I have a c
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by another2another 3y ago
I haven't looked at the code, but my guess would be that the whole data structure lives in a single chunk of RAM, and the tree is described as offsets to a base address (so probably more compact than with embedded pointers). Of course
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by another2another 3y ago
Thanks for that, had no idea. I've used IO Completion ports on Windows before, and found it to be pretty useful API but I guess this is also a useful addition. Basically no good idea goes uncopied by Microsoft :) https://lea
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by another2another 3y ago
Oh, that was so much fun. The best was to get a strong creature in Quake pissed off at the zombies who basically never died, and they would fight forever until the zombie prevailed. I think I managed to get a Shambler pissed off at some zom
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by another2another 3y ago
We could call it The Premature Abstraction Anti-pattern :) Been a victim of this myself a few times myself so I normally do exactly what you've suggested and wait until a clear, and still performant abstraction has emerged from the cod
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by another2another 3y ago
I've also recently noticed that we're surrounded by a massive amount of ambient artwork - from advertising, logos, artwork on products, book covers, magazines & newspapers, websites and funny memes. I recently started looking
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by another2another 3y ago
edit: nvm, looks like I just described fmtlib. I really should keep up..
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by another2another 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the password manager in Safari also checks this db, as I've been warned that some passwords have been discovered in breaches (even going back to the linked in breach).
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by another2another 3y ago
This is something Amazon is going to have to get better at, as I see Azure beginning to become the default (IBM) choice for many businesses. Google already seems like an also-ran, and did you even know that Oracle has a cloud offering too?
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by another2another 3y ago
Really? Google created their own design language and guidelines: https://design.google/ so it can't be all Apple's fault.
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by another2another 3y ago
My colleague just had to replace his HP Elitebook Notebook because the battery had bulged so much it had cracked open the case. For this to be happening in 2023 means that some manufacturers at least, seem to be not managing this potential
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by another2another 3y ago
I don't think C standard library particularly wanted to be problematic to use, but they just weren't prepared for multithreaded general programming, and tried to patch it with e.g. the _r() version of methods. An example where I r
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by another2another 3y ago
Yep, curious to know the same thing myself.
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by another2another 3y ago
But expecting anybody to know all the details about a request, as well as the consequences to other bits of functionality in a system (especially if it's still being built) is unrealistic. Most people have a vague idea of the outcome t
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by another2another 3y ago
I'd also argue that with well used RAII, programs can be written more reliably than in some GC languages as you have finer control over the lifetime of system resources like Windows HANDLES or sockets and can free them on scope destruc
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by another2another 3y ago
>Apple devices aren't engineered to last; they're engineered to be manufactured, sell new, and sometimes sell expensive repairs by them. I have a 2007 iPod nano that I still use pretty regularly. It still works, and I can load
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by another2another 3y ago
And then load it onto a sailing ship - carbon neutral! I'm not kidding either.
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by another2another 3y ago
I guess he addressed that by having very little dialogue, relying instead on visual storytelling as much as possible, which I think worked pretty well.
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by another2another 3y ago
Actually I wold argue the opposite - by using more human contact. Agency Recruiters have a list of people that they know and trust, and if you keep the recruiters in the loop periodically, then they'll remember you and bat for you when
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by another2another 3y ago
After a week or two, they'd probably call Sherlock Holmes.
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by another2another 3y ago
ZeroMQ is a big abstraction over sockets. The higher the level of abstractions, the more these things are usually necessary. If you're using a library like that it comes with the territory, and you have to decide for yourself the cost-
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by another2another 3y ago
Yeh, I guess that's a fair take. But re-reading it and _Against a Dark Background_ (not even tangentially a Culture book I know) tweaked my nostalgia a bit and I found I quite enjoyed them in ways I didn't first time around.
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by another2another 3y ago
It's the upholstery I remember the most. My girlfriend at the time was a redhead, and I remember glancing over at her and thinking "I'm not gonna peek under the bedcovers for a while, lest it reminds of that goddamn chair...&
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by another2another 3y ago
I would say Consider Phlebas, start at the beginning - and you get to meet Idirans! Shame they didn't really appear in any other books as the Idiran war is so often mentioned as an important event in the Culture's history.
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by another2another 3y ago
>The gorgeous Apple Dylan IDE also required 24MB to run well I had no idea there was even such a thing, and can't even find any screenshots online (I'm sure there will be somewhere). Nice bit if history here though: https:&#x2
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by another2another 3y ago
>It's the same behaviour of course, blindly copy/pasting errors into ChatGPT, unquestioningly copying output back, >and as far as I can tell the results don't seem to be that much better, just quicker. This is actually

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