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by biggestdecision 7y ago
It makes no sense to cheap out on hardware though. It's such a tiny cost compared to the overall cost of the employee, you are wasting money if inadequate hardware is making your employees less productive.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
The syntax of a language is an abstraction over what is actually going on under the hood. There's no reason python couldn't have designed their OOP abstraction more elegantly.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
I wonder if this could be solved by moving in-progress jobs to a separate table... Guess you lose job atomicity that way.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Maybe they should add a notch?
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
>WebAssembly also provides a fine-grained API surface area Are there concerns about compatibility when browsers are inevitably forced to reduce that surface area because of a security flaw? And how are we going to keep all browsers on th
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Channels aren't a way to avoid mutexes/locking, they are just meant to be simpler to write & reason about. Channels are implemented using mutexes under the hood.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
An increment like s.current++ isn't atomic either. If two threads increment simultaneously the value may only increase by 1.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
> there's 1 mutex to read the channel, not 1 per backend Fewer mutexes isn't necessarily an advantage, there will be far higher contention on that single mutex. Channel writes also require a lock.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Channels do not avoid mutexes, they are implemented with them under the hood.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Anywhere you accept JSON from untrusted users, you should be catching parse errors anyway.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Bitfinexed is looking a lot more legitimate since US regulators have started investigating Tether over the same accusations that Bitfinexed levelled against them.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Tether promised a guaranteed 1:1 exchange rate with USD. That guarantee no longer exists, even though the rate is still ~1:1 Tether has no way to enforce that. If it's value tanks there is nothing they can do.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Tether promised that 1 USDT would be backed by 1 USD, and they would always honor a 1:1 exchange rate. Now it turns out that USDT are not backed by USD, and Tether will not exchange between the two. You are reliant on third party exchange s
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
The rejection is legitimate, but it's still a big issue for developers of Electron apps. The fix should happen in Electron if at all possible.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Because in the past, developers have obfuscated their use of private APIs rather than removing them. They are threatening to ban people who abuse the platform. They aren't going to ban anyone making an honest effort to eliminate their
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
It's not that aerial drops aren't effective. But the way they are used is sometimes more political than practical.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Some wifi networks will display a login/payment page to you by mitm'ing your connection & replacing the page you tried to load. But of course this only works for HTTP pages.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
For obscure conspiracy topics, the only people who care enough to edit the pages are the true believers. Today arguments about which occult order is descended from which happen on Wikipedia talk pages. Look at this nonsense: https:/&#
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
If the IP the domain points at is some big hosting provider like akami/cloudfare, how will they know which site you are actually accessing? TLS still sends the domain name in plaintext, but it's only a matter of time till that is
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Because Windows hides appdata from users, but many users often want to edit configs. So the devs stick them in Documents.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
I worry that this amounts to a requirement from the IRS to engage with many shady cryptocurrency forks. Entering your BTC wallet details into ShadyCoin's wallet app probably isn't a good idea, even if 1 ShadyCoin is apparently wor
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Interesting that you had issues with floating point precision, what type were you using inside your application? SQLite's floating point type (REAL) is 64 bit.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
I assume this is what you are talking about? https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/pape... >A total of 76% of the CPU time is spent incrementing and decrementing reference counters. ouch
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Or you can design your city to not be so car-centric. Why aren't commercial districts designed so that walking or using public transportation to reach them is viable? If you put cars right at the center of urban planning, you'll a
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Swift's GC is really a lot closer to modern C++ style memory management than the other languages you mentioned. If you use RAII & shared_ptr in C++ you are using the exact same techniques that Swift's "GC" uses.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
>4) Where (outside NIC, inside NIC, computer network stack, ?) will you perform the algorithmic tasks necessary for #2, #3? Any solution that doesn't perform this in software is doomed to failure. Imagine if upgrading the supported
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
>why settle for JSON Because I'm not writing code in a vacuum, and JSON is what everyone else is using. JSON is chosen for simplicity & interoperability.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
PHP isn't popular because it's easy, it's popular because for a long while it was the only viable language for developing web applications.
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
There's truth to that story, but it doesn't paint the whole picture. Rural life is dull, you have a limited social circle and limited access to culture. And you have few opportunities. People today still crowd into overpriced citi
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
>loading time and storage space are not major issues below the 30~50mb mark. Even if you have ample disk space and memory, smaller binaries can be a performance advantage. A smaller binary with less instructions will more easily fit into

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