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by bfrog 3y ago
So its C with nicer macros and maybe some more sensible ways of dealing with arrays and such? For me that's not enough to move the needle.
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by bfrog 3y ago
I still have yet to understand if Zig actually provides memory safety in the same manner Rust does or not, it seems like its another C like language without memory safety? Or did I happen to miss that bit?
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by bfrog 3y ago
They are going to trend to zero installs with the greedy mentality of bleeding a stone dry.
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by bfrog 3y ago
This is interesting. I guess I would've have expected more and more localized generation and coordination rather than long distance transmission and storage, but maybe it will be more of a combination of things. Thanks for the insights
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by bfrog 3y ago
In Arizona they’d presumably compete with Intel for labor. Do they have any competition in this particular part of Japan?
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by bfrog 3y ago
Ignorance is bliss and all that I suppose. Right up until you go broke and homeless from uninsured natural disasters that were predicted 50 years ago.
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by bfrog 3y ago
If it helps you not go bankrupt I’d say the answer is pretty obvious.
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by bfrog 3y ago
I mean… while maybe a bit reckless I wonder how much cash was saved and if anything really went wrong. 100m/yr is a wild amount of expenses. 9 months is just crazy to shuffle boxes from one place to the other, all while bleeding cash.
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by bfrog 3y ago
I mean this too can be dealt with in Rust with a pool of threads dealing with the computational tasks that respond with futures. E.g. pool of 10 threads does computational heavy task requests and responds when done to the async i/o bou
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by bfrog 3y ago
Nix the idea is great. That it works with proprietary closed source stuff is a must. Does guix support these sorts of things? How would I package up a big tar of stuff from a vendor? Patchelf and nix have some tools, although perhaps overly
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by bfrog 3y ago
Doesn’t Qualcomm have more lawyers than engineers? What’s the play here?
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by bfrog 3y ago
You can't draw that data on the screen in any meaningful manner without zooming. At various zoom level what you actually want is a low pass filter over a slice of the data, such that the low pass filter matches the display. E.g. I can
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by bfrog 3y ago
Amazing if true, and can't be released soon enough. In the US this will likely be a million dollars or something insane, because its the US.
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by bfrog 3y ago
Chrome is the new IE, its become such a dominant thing people forget there's other web engines out there. As soon as there's a monopoly on how the web is viewed, especially by a company who's best interest isn't in an op
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by bfrog 3y ago
C++ is such a damn chore. This is partly why, everyone always assumes they can do it better, they don't trust any other code, so you end up with monoliths of NIMBY code and esoteric build setups. Code reviews are incredibly painful for
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by bfrog 3y ago
Sure, but building debian packages is akin to needing to read lord of the rings before doing anything. There's so many deb helpers and various files/file formats that need to be understood. How and where files should go. It's
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by bfrog 3y ago
It's really hard to beat the PKGBUILD + makepkg ease of packaging. I really hope nix flakes kind of become simple and easy as time goes on. They kind of are, but nix having so many features and flexibility also means that super simple
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by bfrog 3y ago
I'm sure no one gets special treatment here, surely. No one pays apple to look the other way, surely. Everyone treated equally in this scenario seems like the most likely result. /s
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by bfrog 3y ago
Right, its maybe just a little less productive than something like Java because you do have to work out types a bit more and think about memory a bit more. The end benefit tends to be though that... your code compiles, and it just works. So
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by bfrog 3y ago
VMs were and always have been a sort of faked out security blanket. The reality is there's shared hardware, shared memory, shared network interfaces, shared storage. That and these days you can run so much on a single machine its reall
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by bfrog 3y ago
Small solar and wind is the best, in the end though there's somewhat of a game theory problem tied to grid formation between many small inverters on solar installs. At some point the inverters become grid forming rather than grid follo
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by bfrog 3y ago
It’s too bad certain games don’t use this idea of random load locations to avoid injections. Seems like most game hacks basically work by reading/manipulating certain memory offsets which contain useful data. Unless I misunderstand the
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by bfrog 3y ago
I find that Rust is like maybe 1.5-2x more productive to code in than say C or C++. Part of that is the tooling has so much less arcane baggage, part of that is that I need to reach less for external tools for metaprogramming, part of that
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by bfrog 3y ago
So dawn soap? Nice!
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by bfrog 3y ago
Please don’t equate DoorDash and Stripe with the laser and transistor.
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by bfrog 3y ago
The companies that view this sort of thing negatively aren’t ones you want to work for.
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by bfrog 3y ago
I mean.. would have been nice from the get go, frankly has made me a skeptic of just what will be supported and for how long.
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by bfrog 3y ago
That’s not true, higher priority interrupts could drive higher priority tasks still. That’s the premise of RTIC which also supports futures.
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by bfrog 3y ago
You can and do use simple pointers in Rust, nothing prevents this. The abstractions can be more used like static interfaces you want to reuse. E.g. a byte stream interface, a regmap interface, etc.
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by bfrog 3y ago
Snowflake ids fit this sort of thing better, and maintain temporal locality. I ran into this exact issue when building out a graph like database in Postgres many moons ago. It’s probably less of an issue with fast nvme sad drives now, but o

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