ben-schaaf

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by ben-schaaf 8mo ago
> Is there a difference between c++ and java/go/etc if you enforce at code review for C++ to use only auto memory management like smart ptrs, containers, etc? Smart pointers and containers are nowhere near memory safe, just enf
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by ben-schaaf 8mo ago
> It's funny how pointing a fact is called whataboutism. What do you think whataboutism is?
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by ben-schaaf 9mo ago
Noise is one of the things that improved moving to an apartment for me. We've got bylaws about noise with quiet periods, bans on bothersome noise, a smoking ban and a (loud) pet ban. We also have better windows that block noise, and de
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by ben-schaaf 9mo ago
To my knowledge benzaldehyde is the most common cherry flavor, and I agree it doesn't taste much like cherries. It's also a naturally occurring compound we produce from cassia oil, and it's naturally contained in almonds, apr
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by ben-schaaf 9mo ago
Could you describe the difference between the artificial flavour vanilin made in a lab, and the natural flavour vanilin extracted from a vanilla bean?
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by ben-schaaf 9mo ago
Someone needs to gain physical access to the ballot after voting in order to erase it. If they can do that they can just as well make it invalid using a pen, or they can just tear it up. On the other hand, disappearing ink has been around f
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by ben-schaaf 9mo ago
The state of a moved-from value is valid but unspecified (note, not undefined). IIRC the spec says vector must be `empty()` after a move. So all implementations do the obvious thing and revert back to an empty vector.
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by ben-schaaf 9mo ago
No, it is not statically knowable if it is actually moved. void foo(Obj && arg) {} Does not move `arg`. It's fairly easy to write code that assumes `std::move` moves the value, but that can lead to bugs. For example:
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by ben-schaaf 9mo ago
> or maybe it's solo dev pretending to be small business, I can't really tell. Certainly small business :)
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by ben-schaaf 10mo ago
Other than the criminalization, I like the idea. I'm purely criticizing the privatization.
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by ben-schaaf 10mo ago
A private monopoly sounds like a great idea. A profit incentive for access to social media definitely won't result in the price of these tokens skyrocketing to extract as much money as possible.
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by ben-schaaf 10mo ago
Only because people aren't putting in the effort to build their binaries properly. You need to link against the oldest glibc version that has all the symbols you need, and then your binary will actually work everywhere(*). * Except for
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by ben-schaaf 11mo ago
> x86-64 is typically limited to about 5 instructions Intel Lion-cove decodes 8 instructions per cycle and can retire 12. Intel Skymont's triple decoder can even do 9 instructions per cycle and that's without a cache. AMD'
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by ben-schaaf 11mo ago
You definitely could do it all in shaders. People have done crazier things.
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by ben-schaaf 11mo ago
> littered with too many special symbols and very verbose This seems kinda self-contracticting. Special symbols are there to make the syntax terse, not verbose. Perhaps your issue is not with how things are written, but that there's
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by ben-schaaf 11mo ago
> Apple demonstrated to the world that it can be extremely fast and sip power. Kinda. Apple silicon sips power when it isn't being used, but under a heavy gaming load it's pretty comparable to AMD. People report 2 hours of batt
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by ben-schaaf 11mo ago
Not for Linux they're not. IIRC Audio and camera don't work, and firmware is non-redistributable and so you need to mooch it off a Windows partition. On top of that the performance on Linux hasn't been great either.
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by ben-schaaf 11mo ago
It changes nothing. If you get taxes 20% til 90k and 30% above that, then donating 10k still saves you 3k in taxes, you're still out 7k and you're still paying 18k in taxes on the 90k.
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by ben-schaaf 11mo ago
That's a rule that might hold for applications and services. It does not hold for languages and libraries, where any and every aspect is going to be the bottleneck in someone else's code. It's a different 10% for each user.
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by ben-schaaf 11mo ago
Native code generally doesn't have undefined behaviour. C has undefined behaviour and that's a problem regardless of whether you're compiling to native or wasm.
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
I have the opposite experience: C++ is what I have the most experience with by a very wide margin, but I find reading other people's rust code way easier than other people's C++ code. There's way more weird features, langua
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
A M1 Max has 400GB/s of memory bandwidth but the CPU is only capable of using half of that (see https://tlkh.hashnode.dev/benchmarking-the-apple-m1-max#memo... ). So a framework 13 with ddr 5 5600 with 86GB/s of me
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
Out of curiosity I asked chatgpt what the malware does, but erased some parts of the base64 encoded string. It still gave the same answer as the blog. I take that as a strong indication that this script is in its training set.
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
It didn't get it right though: The temp file name is not the one that was encoded.
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
Yes it does, and at least for me locally it's all done by motorcycle or E-Bike.
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
The popular Bumpalo only returns references with the lifetime of the allocator. Not sure what you mean by manage your own garbage, an arena allocator deallocates everything when it goes out of scope. You definitely can't reference unin
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
Entirely untrue. Download git, run make and you'll get a 19MB `git` binary along with a whole lot of other 19MB binaries. Running `cargo build` produces a 3.8MB binary. And that's still comparing apples to oranges, because git is
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
> That’s a drawback, not a plus. You can’t easily style the app with CSS the way you want it (VSCode, Obsidian). VSCode isn't really styled with CSS if you're a user. It's done by some json or yaml. This kind of hack is re
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
clang -O0 is significantly slower than tcc. So the problem is clearly not (just) the optimisation passes.
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by ben-schaaf 1y ago
I get where you're coming from, and I do think game devs should put more effort into supporting lower-end hardware. That said, bg3 does run on 10-year old hardware. The minimum requirements lists a gtx 970, released 2014. Which, despit

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