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by cbarrick 2y ago
Others have already addressed the "unsafe" smell. I think the bigger point here is that doing SIMD in Rust is still painful. There are efforts like portable-simd [1] to make this better, but in practice, many people are dropping d
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by cbarrick 2y ago
In college, I would listen to WPPP in Athens, GA (100 watts). These days I listen to WPTS in Pittsburgh, PA (16 watts). Low power college radio is great! The broadcasts are always so varied, and there's never any commercials.
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by cbarrick 2y ago
For the record, this design pattern is called a virtual method table, or vtable. I'm surprised that this article never mentioned the term. C++ programmers will know this pattern from the `virtual` keyword.
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by cbarrick 2y ago
> That’s presumably not how they meant it. Hah, I have made a misunderstanding again! I guess the philosophy of language _is_ on topic for this thread :P
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by cbarrick 2y ago
I see. Maybe we're getting too hung up on a prescribed meaning of the word "ethics" rather than the larger meaning of what we're actually saying to each other. Your original comment talks about the distinction between &q
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by cbarrick 2y ago
No, I think you are misunderstanding. There really isn't an "ethics" of what exploits are allowed or disallowed. Speed running communities generally don't care what exploits you use, as long as you are up-front and hones
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by cbarrick 2y ago
I don't see why not. It's sensational, and that drives clicks. Clicks sell ads. I don't think anyone is exactly holding Gizmodo to high journalistic standards.
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by cbarrick 2y ago
Fun thing! The double-click to clear is too sensitive for me. I keep accidentally clearing when I try to go fast.
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by cbarrick 2y ago
Nit: "begs the question" means "raises the question" in many contemporary colloquial contexts. It can _also_ refer to a type of logical fallacy in philosophical contexts. The phrase can be confusing because of its overlo
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by cbarrick 2y ago
Tears of the Kingdom is a Switch exclusive. The style is influenced by Breath of the Wild, but nothing about the development of Tears was held back by the Wii U.
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by cbarrick 2y ago
The first thing that comes to mind when I see Malört is this "unaired commercial" skit from 2014 [1]. I quite like Malört. If you are into other bitter liqueurs, like Fernet or Absinthe, then definitely give it a try. [1]: https:
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by cbarrick 2y ago
> I'm not actually clear what he means by 'test' to be honest, but I assume he means 'a single test function that can either pass or fail' I assume so as well. Unit testing in Rust is based around functions annot
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by cbarrick 2y ago
s/defacto/de facto/
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by cbarrick 2y ago
> There’s an ongoing effort to end leap seconds, hopefully by 2035. I don't really like this plan. The entire point of UTC is to be some integer number of seconds away from TAI to approximate mean solar time (MST). If we no longer w
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by cbarrick 2y ago
This was so annoying when visiting Poland recently. I don't speak Polish. Even after setting my preferred language on my Google account , Google Search was still speaking Polish to me.
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by cbarrick 2y ago
> And GribStream uses a custom grib2 parser that allows it to extract the data in a streaming fashion, using very little memory. How does this compare to using Xarray on a netCDF dataset?
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by cbarrick 2y ago
Static: the types could be inferred. I haven't looked too closely yet. Strong: Python is strongly typed with a similar syntax. Strong vs weak typing means "how much information does the type system provide to me." Static vs
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by cbarrick 2y ago
I was curious about the opposite: What does this offer on top of Erlang? Is it just a new syntax for effectively the same language? IMO, the pure operator precedence syntax of Erlang is peak homoiconigraphy. I prefer that over syntactic sug
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by cbarrick 2y ago
The "next" button on the page titled "Variable data types" does nothing. It just links back to the same page.
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by cbarrick 2y ago
This has been the case for well over a decade. I remember in the Gnome 2 to 3 transition, they removed the ability to change screensaver options... I'm not sure that ever came back. I use Gnome daily at work, but I'd switch to KDE
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by cbarrick 2y ago
"I'm a software developer and I need it to do my job." Even if it's not strictly true, that seems like a solid justification. Though obviously that won't work for the general public.
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by cbarrick 2y ago
> Unfortunately, it’s easy to write a regular expression that has exponential time behavior when parsing input This footgun can be easily avoided without ripping out regex support altogether. Just switch to a regex engine that is actuall
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by cbarrick 2y ago
https://archive.ph/Bas23
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by cbarrick 2y ago
Must be device dependant. I get http://nationalcrokinoleassociat...
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by cbarrick 2y ago
`Phase of the moon` has an entry in the Jargon File, meaning "reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine." It is a reference to a real bug from long ago. I would not be surprised if this was
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by cbarrick 2y ago
Aside: I find it funny to see memes with attribution. Given the culture around memes, attribution feels somehow weird.
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by cbarrick 2y ago
The argument that gRPC is disposable because everything is stubby internally applies equally to REST. And I don't think anyone is arguing that REST is disposable. I'm not sure what part of GCP you work in, but in my experience, th
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by cbarrick 2y ago
That info is a bit outdated. All but the oldest APIs (most notably GCE) support gRPC out of the box. For newer services, there is an automatic 1:1 mapping between the REST and gRPC APIs, except for features like streaming RPCs which have no
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by cbarrick 2y ago
> There’s always a lingering question about Google’s long-term commitment to gRPC and protobuf. Will they continue to invest in these open-source projects, or could they pull the plug if priorities shift? Google could not function as a c
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by cbarrick 2y ago
Big +1 to forgetting about dotfile managers, and scripting it out. I just keep my dotfiles repo in the same tree structure as the home directory, and loop over the tree to create symlinks. Plus some miscellaneous commands to set some other

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