caramelcream

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by caramelcream 4y ago
Compiler Explorer is such a wonderful tool. It made examining and comparing compiler outputs so much easier and now pretty much everyone interested in optimizations is using it.
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by caramelcream 4y ago
This serves as a great illustration of the "women are wonderful" effect, which was featured on HN the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33175754
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by caramelcream 5y ago
It's not unusual, HN's front page ranking algorithm is heavily biased towards new submissions.
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by caramelcream 5y ago
>If I were starting an IRC channel for a free software project now, I would put it on OFTC, which has a real governance model with elections and - mysteriously - also manages to be drama-free. I'm not sure if it's completely dr
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by caramelcream 5y ago
Wider adoption results in a healthier ecosystem. Also, don't forget that most of FOSS developers are employed somewhere and surely they want to use FOSS at their jobs.
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by caramelcream 5y ago
Summary of the article: Republicans bad, Democrats good. It's a shame that partisanship makes it impossible to notice certain issues. The article completely ignores the erosion of journalistic standards, censorship on social media, &qu
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by caramelcream 5y ago
Articles summarizing the drama: https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resign... https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/26/freenode_irc_takeover... List of projects
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by caramelcream 5y ago
Note that those chips are application-specific, so it's not quite the same as Apple's or Amazon's migration to ARM.