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by cempaka 3y ago
That's true, but in the case of Strings in particular they are generally considered to be thread-safe by virtue of being immutable (and the Javadocs themselves say this in many places). Concurrently modifying the input character array
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by cempaka 3y ago
I can only think of a couple of ways to fix this, none of them ideal from a performance perspective: - Make a defensive copy of the passed-in character array, which would be immediately discarded when it is encoded to bytes. This basically
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by cempaka 3y ago
That's really interesting, I did not know Hollywood had been involved with the FMV stuff!
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by cempaka 3y ago
I'm still getting great mileage out of a T430 I bought in 2017, and I'm not particularly nice to my laptops. The one frustration I've had recently is that it can't drive my nice 38-inch monitor at its full resolution, so
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by cempaka 3y ago
In 1999, I went with my mother to tour universities I was considering attending on the East Coast. We had both lived in a small town in Montana for 15 years at that point. Without any GPS to assist us, we used maps to drive and navigate thr
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by cempaka 3y ago
Yeah just retire somewhere where you don't speak the language, have minimal-to-zero connection to local culture, and will be thousands of miles from children, family, and friends. Simple!
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by cempaka 3y ago
I'm still surprised that a Hollywood that's clearly starved for good script ideas has never picked up the Gabriel Knight series.
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by cempaka 3y ago
The same FDA that's had nothing to say about glyphosate, aspartame, or Vioxx in its day? The one that routinely allows manufacturers to run rigged trials including specifically the Covid vaccines? That FDA?
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by cempaka 3y ago
Andrew Kelley gave an informative and entertaining talk on how DOD had inspired a lot of his work on the Zig compiler: https://vimeo.com/649009599
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by cempaka 3y ago
The downvotes make me laugh, I did something pretty similar not long after the _Generic keyword came out and remember getting a pretty icy reception even though I was pretty up front about how painful and crufty it is. https://ab
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by cempaka 3y ago
> on the other hand people are very quick to dismiss anything that sounds like paranoia from anyone It takes willful blindness at this point not to comprehend how bad the panopticon is for us, and that's before even venturing into
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by cempaka 3y ago
I mostly went with Java because it's what I knew best, and I thought was likely to be "fast enough" for the market I was in. I'm sure Go would be similar in this case but didn't want to have to take the time to lear
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by cempaka 3y ago
While I was laid off and looking for work, I connected with a cryptocurrency market making firm that had access to a private broker feed which is not attached to any matching, so would occasionally go crossed and offer a pure arb opportunit