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by ardel95 4y ago
I admit, I’m having a hard time holding back a sarcastic reply to this article. Was there really any doubt ever that a button, which one can usually push without looking is superior to touchscreen, which for an average human requires both h
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by ardel95 4y ago
I really enjoyed the article. The only thing that stood out was that the argument the author set out to dispel had a much simpler flaw. In the original argument, point number 3 (having less skin in the game leads to bad decisions) is the we
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by ardel95 4y ago
Minor nit: many of the differences in the article aren't really specific to the Rust vs C++, but rather differences between llvm vs whatever compiler backend is used by msvc.
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by ardel95 4y ago
How is that semantically different from Rust? in - regular function arguments inout - mut function arguments out - function return Is there any additional information that a compiler can infer from Ada’s parameter syntax?
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by ardel95 4y ago
My first home computer had a sound blaster 500 sound card (remember when computers needed sound cards?) which had built-in MIDI support. The thing that absolutely stood out about MIDI is the small file sizes and crystal clear sound quality.
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by ardel95 4y ago
While you are right, we are where we are and there is tremendous leverage in making an extremely common (even if undesirable) thing more efficient. It kind of doesn't matter why millions of lines of code perform memcpys - they do, and
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by ardel95 4y ago
So New Zealand is about to prop world’s first an underground cigarette market.
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by ardel95 4y ago
So the whole 5 year process with thousands of human years of effort boiled down to: We’ll use some cloud. Fascinating.
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by ardel95 4y ago
Oh, you are right. For some reason I thought I saw unsigned in there.
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by ardel95 4y ago
Tweet said unsigned ints, so don’t think this would work. Even with signed I think this can overflow.
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by ardel95 4y ago
The tweet said unsigned ints
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by ardel95 4y ago
Eh, that’s what I get for writing code on a cell phone. Fixed.
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by ardel95 4y ago
The correct way most people would write this for positive integers is: if (a < b) return a + (b - a) / 2; else return b + (a - b) / 2; This method is just more efficient (for places where it matters) as it avoids
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by ardel95 4y ago
I don’t know about others, but our Alexas became really hard to use lately. Basic commands like “Alexa, turn on the lights” or “Alexa, play Frank Sinatra” get misunderstood and need to be repeated multiple times. Combined with unsolicited “
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by ardel95 4y ago
This line of reasoning assumes that all physical processes are deterministic. If they are not (as is the current mainstream belief) then I don’t think that line of reasoning would stand. Instead, the current state is the result of that init
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by ardel95 4y ago
50% savings to replace a managed service with a self-managed instance (trust me, even if things are fully automated there will still be gray failures, weird hiccups, congestion events, etc) doesn’t sound like a great idea for most companies
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by ardel95 4y ago
I think the left side of the Drake equation is pretty challenging too. If we assume that faster than light travel is impossible (which is likely) and all galactic civilizations are subject to the tyranny of the rocket equation, then it’s qu
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by ardel95 4y ago
Live migrating a process from one host to another sounds fun on paper, until you run into all the caveats. And it gets even more fun when you try to do it on a cloud provider, where your process state is coupled to the instance on which it
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by ardel95 4y ago
If there is a housing crash coming, the builders around me tend to think otherwise. Lots of new construction starts. I think as it often happens, the most likely outcome is that lower priced areas will see the brunt of the value decrease, w
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by ardel95 4y ago
That sounds plausible. But also, most software (browsers, web service SDKs, RPC frameworks) treat TCP connections as fallible by setting read/write timeouts and aggressively reopening broken connections. So, I’m totally not surprised t
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by ardel95 4y ago
I'm glad folks are starting to look at memory efficiency of Java programs - there's just so much improvements to be had there. For a fun exercise, take a look at memory footprint of storing a million entries in a HashMap<Intege
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by ardel95 4y ago
That’s the thing with fraud. The goal is never to stop it all, but to keep it at some local minimum. The rest is just the cost of doing business.
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by ardel95 4y ago
I’m afraid this might be too little, too late. But regardless whether I’m right or wrong, we all should welcome a widely used language trying to become a little more safe.
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Coalition for Fair Software Licensing(fairsoftwarelicensing.com)
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by ardel95 4y ago
They do claim to be the safest cars!
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by ardel95 4y ago
Rust is significantly better than C++. And I say that as somebody who has done many years of C++ development.
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by ardel95 4y ago
I think they can, but they may need to evolve away from a goods marketplace and more towards entertainment centers. Most of the times we find ourselves going to a mall it’s to do something (eat out, watch a movie, engage in some kids activi
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by ardel95 4y ago
Not an iOS developer, but curious what’s the current state of the art for distributing and storing your credentials if the app needs to make AWS service calls? Or is that considered an anti pattern, and you want to proxy all AWS calls throu
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by ardel95 4y ago
I wasn’t familiar with Kiwifarms, so I read up about it - and oh, boy. The fact that something like Kiwifarms can exist in the United States without legal or civil liabilities is really problematic.
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by ardel95 4y ago
May I introduce you to a long list of Linux breakout and privilege escalation CVEs.

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