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by chrsig 3y ago
> Running a tor node is a thankless thing one can choose to do. Nevertheless I did for years. I don't do it anymore. It's hard to determine tor's net-value to society, since it's such a double bladed sword. I'm
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by chrsig 3y ago
stx::backtrace looks quite nice. The documentation seems nice as well...except I can't seem to find a link to the code itself. I have to believe it's right in front of me and I'm just not seeing it.
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by chrsig 3y ago
Slackware was my first distribution! One of my sister's friends came over and installed some 7.x release and left me on my own to configure xfree86. Needless to say, for my first time using linux, it didn't work out. But a short
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by chrsig 3y ago
I have a hard time recommending the book. The main character had no agency for most of it, and the plot was very unclear. It made for a good unveiling at the end, but given the size of the book...it's a lot to read for that payoff. I
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by chrsig 3y ago
Yes, on review, I should have made two examples instead of combining them. Thanks for persevering through my brevity and reaching understanding :)
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by chrsig 3y ago
> I'm not sure Russ's personal blog is any kind of official statement "this is what we're doing" yet? I've found it's generally a very strong indicator. But to your point, this isn't a new issue,
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by chrsig 3y ago
Coroutines are one thing that i'd probably prefer language support for rather than a library. x := co func(){ var z int for { z++ yield z } } y := x() for y := range x
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by chrsig 3y ago
> How long do you spend on the HN front page? ...more time than it takes to load. much, much more time.
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by chrsig 3y ago
Generics! func streamingApply[T any](ch channel[T], fn func(T)){ for { select { case <-ctx.Done(): break case item, ok = <-ch: if !ok {
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by chrsig 3y ago
My electric furnace needed to be urgently replaced in the beginning of the winter, I'm quite happy that my new heat pump would default to heat...Half of the year :)
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by chrsig 3y ago
This was exactly my take on it. I'd recently been reading a bit more about zig, and even tried out using it as an easy way to compile c++ with llvm without having to fuss with system packages -- transitioning from c/c++ to zig was
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by chrsig 3y ago
I've never personaly seen any benefit from exponential backoff... constant backoff + jitters + short timeouts has always worked well for me. If anything, people underestimating the ramp up of exponential back off(or not capping it) has
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by chrsig 3y ago
Some thoughts: - The general point is correct -- time is not a synchronization mechanism - Flakey tests are bad for all the reasons listed - Shoddy synchronization makes for flakey tests The example chosen -- waiting for a test server to be
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by chrsig 3y ago
>Is math going to become more important for software engineers in general, as AI is adopted in to more and more aspects of the SDLC, even if said engineers aren't working directly on the AI systems themselves? I'm definitely no
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by chrsig 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about it. if nothing else, the name..."slog" isn't exactly the word i want repeating to myself as I'm working.
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by chrsig 3y ago
I mean, just to push one onto the stack... > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." > Please don'
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by chrsig 3y ago
I think the c++ community needs to get past the idea that people learning it are coming at it from a "c with classes!" perspective. It's going to transition to "python with static types", "rust without a borrow
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by chrsig 3y ago
> These days I don't write much C++ code (regressed to largely C), and when someone asks me how proficient I place myself at a 4 out of 10, and then explain how the spec has changed faster than I think most people can actually absor
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by chrsig 3y ago
> assuming your request for more context comes out of a sincere desire to increase your understanding, I hope this helped. I appreciate the benefit of the doubt -- I was trying to approach it with the assumption that there's probabl
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by chrsig 3y ago
> I is not obligated to cater to your personal tastes or opinions, especially when I am providing my content to the world for free. I don't believe OP asserted anything to the contrary, could you highlight where you inferred that?
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by chrsig 3y ago
> More realistically, Linux had driven them into near irrelevance in the server market and just pushed them from "extinguish" or "extend" to "embrace". and with vscode, copilot, and wsl2 they're doing a
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by chrsig 3y ago
> Never trust a 3rd party to do your crypto. This strikes me as funny because software engineers are regularly told not to roll their own crypto.
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by chrsig 3y ago
is assign(x, plus(a, b, c, d)) not an option?
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by chrsig 3y ago
I think for the problem space zig is trying to fit in, it's pretty essential to have custom allocator support thoroughly baked in. It's the sort of thing that lets a data structure be used on both a gpu and cpu, allocation out of
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by chrsig 3y ago
> I've lately thought that a package manager is as essential to a new language as a standard library. I would also add a LSP and standard code formatter to that list. Agreed. Especially on a formatter. The number of code review co
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by chrsig 3y ago
I'd look towards stratified sampling to think more formally around the issue. POC is homogonizing because it's reducing the space from N strata to 2: white and non-white, blending n-1 strata. Per wikipedia: > Stratification is
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by chrsig 3y ago
how are you differentiating "promotional easter egg" from "ad"?
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by chrsig 3y ago
> If you’re referring to a C program or programmer just say “C”. If you’re referring to a C++ program or programmer just say “C++”. If you’re referring to both used separately say something like: > > C and C++ > C, C++ &gt
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by chrsig 3y ago
Were there any specific things that were making it difficult for you?
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by chrsig 3y ago
The persons reaction doesn't negate any problem with the managers behavior. For what it's worth, I don't think there's a shortage of malice, passive aggressive, instigating behaviors that occur in the workplace that can

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