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811.
by bsaul 4y ago
the way arrays work and that they can reallocate on append is clearly visible by the fact that it returns the pointer to the new array. It is something you learn very early, because the syntax is indeed a bit peculiar, and kind of a footgun
812.
by bsaul 4y ago
'pub const String = []const u8;' I know zig is still early stage, but the prospect of having to deal manually with unicode strings gives me the creep. What's the rational for not providing a package like this in the stdlib ?
813.
by bsaul 4y ago
you should probably get some distance from IT for a while to get some perspective. Facebook was in the advertising business... Not better but not worst than what this sector previously did to help brands manipulate the opinion. It's ce
814.
by bsaul 4y ago
I have no sympathy for facebook as a company, but i find it hard to believe that someone would find it weird to have human express human feelings upon being fired. They're not "humanized", they're humans.
815.
by bsaul 4y ago
is there any official documentation for whatsapp api somewhere or is this work based on reverse-engineering only ?
816.
by bsaul 4y ago
I have about the same opinion of him, but there’s still something i don’t understand : to build something like tesla or even more space x, you need to attract extremely talented indivuals. How do they keep working for musk if he’s a total f
817.
by bsaul 4y ago
I wish i could have a dollar every time i read about how a certain bad thing « could never happen due to the technical nature of this crypto ». Of course btc could crash. Once nobody cares about it anymore, and people stop wasting cpu cycle
818.
by bsaul 4y ago
if you think stock up means zuck made money for this (good) decision, then you've got to admit stock being down 50% during the last year was zuck loosing money based on his previous (bad) decisions..
819.
by bsaul 4y ago
If a typesystem has any impact on the popularity of a language, then i assume rust doesn’t want to copy too much of haskell and needs to know where to stop..
820.
by bsaul 4y ago
And yet i still think the facebook page sucks tremendously from an engineering pov. It hasn't evolved in years feature wise and yet it still slows to a crawl whenever i launch it. Totally unimpressed.
821.
by bsaul 4y ago
aren't there any "gravitational rivers" from that asteroids one could use to slowly have the mining cargos float to an area close to earth ?
822.
by bsaul 4y ago
thanks a lot ! do you have real world examples and whitepapers of systems designed around that architecture ?
823.
by bsaul 4y ago
i believe all government played the same game ( at least us, eu and china did), which is probably enough to impact the whole world. A few currrency which didn't play that game such as swiss franc saw their value raised tremendously, wh
824.
by bsaul 4y ago
i love sqlite like as much as anybody else, but i'm really curious : why would you want to build a web api on top it ?
825.
by bsaul 4y ago
if people move to a federated system to protest against *less* content moderation on twitter, they're going to be in for a big surprise.
826.
by bsaul 4y ago
maybe not during covid, but the eu bank did follow the same kind of very generous monetary policies and super low interest rates for the decade prior, as the fed.
827.
by bsaul 4y ago
I’ve yet to find a beat them all as good as the two D&D from capcom. I’m really surprised they didn’t keep the franchise, those games were such a huge hit when they got out..
828.
by bsaul 4y ago
Are people in the US buying houses using fixed rates mortgage or variable ones ?
829.
by bsaul 4y ago
not even sure if you're joking or not.. apple already makes tremendous profit on the hardware.
830.
by bsaul 4y ago
i wouldn't really set paris as an example for this particular issue. It's certainly getting better with time, but we're far from anything decent
831.
by bsaul 4y ago
Same here. i had to lie down for 30 min after having played half life 2 with an occulus for an hour. That was to me the major pb with VR adoption, i'm really amazed people don't mention it more anytime Meta is discussed.
832.
by bsaul 4y ago
there has been a time not so far away when swift core team had proeminent members working at google. I guess that left a longlasting impression swift wasn't just about apple, but had a life of its own.
833.
by bsaul 4y ago
how does one invoke rosetta when launching x86 binaries from an arm linux running in a vm ??
834.
by bsaul 4y ago
Because that would be equivalent to saying « rdbms are fine as a kafka alternative provided you build a compensation mechanism for all the things it does worse than kafka». It doesn’t make any sense.
835.
by bsaul 4y ago
actor reentrancy is definitely a big design decision that adds a lot of complexity to something that was supposed to be simple.
836.
by bsaul 4y ago
in paris prices are not going down that much, they just stay the same. However if you adjust for the 2% inflation a month we're going through, then you can consider real estate prices are crashing.
837.
by bsaul 4y ago
It’s very different if your debt is in your national currency ( that will loose value if your country turns to shite), or in another currency. US can print money as long as it wants to pay its debts. It may have an impact on the interest ra
838.
by bsaul 4y ago
It took a bit of time to compensate the destruction of value that occurred in 2008.
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by bsaul 4y ago
"The write path. We built a daemon that would select log entries that were older than two weeks, copy them into a file in S3, and delete the rows from the database" Seriously... How can you ever consider saying "a rdbms is ju
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by bsaul 4y ago
Side question : is nats a credible alternative to kafka nowadays ? I’ve read it could do the same things in theory, but i haven’t heard of real world experience feedbacks with this tech.

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