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by compiler-guy 26d ago
Things could be a lot better than they are now, but “maximally evil”? Come on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward https://en.wikip
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by compiler-guy 27d ago
The reason the enum is so nice is that it works as a terrific language-supplied abstraction that covers up those bit manipulations. It's very nice to get those abstractions for free like you do in Rust, but it can't be optimal for
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by compiler-guy 27d ago
One of many errors. Another is saying that all memories support writing data. Apparently this author has never heard of ROM. Or CD and DVD drives. Or neglected to carefully read the ai assisted parts.
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
Sports betting has externalities that are hard to push back into the original bettor and the bookie. Solving those externalities involves regulation in some form, whether by regulation or heavy taxes.
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
The data speak very strongly against this conclusion. The data is deep and broad that marriage leads to better outcomes, and is a result of marriage itself, not selection for people who tend to get married, although that also helps. Also, t
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
I have had two different dentists recommend water flossers in the past. Got one as a gift several years ago and am pretty happy. I believe that sometimes there are bad outcomes from standard medical advice—humans are messy and the world is
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
Plus everything important is always written down. It’s more true in aviation than anywhere else (except maybe space flight), but still.
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
It doesn't even have to be a pile of shit; it could be something that was interesting by itself, but that doesn't mean I want a deep dive. This happened to me with youtube and feral hog trapping. A two-minute video of that showed
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
emacs did this too.
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
Clang and GCC do provide these, and automatically use them in many situations (particularly small copies). But c-libraries can actually do it better in many cases, especially for large copies. Glibc, for example, has perhaps ten different i
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
"The underlying product, the model keeps improving and therefore increases its value." That's not exactly true. Yes, the fundamental capabilities of the models do seem to be growing dramatically, but the economic value of any
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
They were acquired by AWS, not Google. But the point still stands.
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
I greatly appreciate this attention to detail, and there isn't enough of this in the world. For example, in Visual Studio popups on hover happen so fast you can barely select anything, or you end up clicking on the popup instead of sel
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
Yep. To overcome an incumbent that sells a very good product and has momentum, it is almost never enough to be somewhat better. You have to be "knock my socks off" better. The Zune may have been somewhat better (until the nano and
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
Pareidolia is part of the human condition. It's unfortunate that people take the results of that very natural tendency with a grain of salt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia Pareidolia (/ˌpærəˈdoʊliə&
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
No. As long as the sharing permission is “Anyone with the link”, then anyone can download from that link with wget or whatever. Is that the permission they use? Who knows? But it’s at least possible.
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
"Code is bytes of text on disk".... ...organized in a very specific fashion with a great deal of creativity and attention to that specific organization. I can't copyright the alphabet, but I can copyright certain arrangements
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Pointer Chasing in Modern Systems: Why it hurts, When it helps(sourav-k-paul.medium.com)
2 points by compiler-guy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
Heh. It's pilot error all the way up at the beginning. GCC releases did ship these files, and they did it by using maintainer mode, which was generally a pain for those not maintainers. Which also explains why I was confused about th
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
The output is stored in the build directory, not the source directory. So now you have to either detect that lex and yacc aren’t available and do something clever or let the user do it. And then wonder why their modifications don’t stick. Y
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
GCC at the time was under GPL v2, which includes. "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it." For lex and yacc, that means the original .y and .l files. You don't have a c
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
There are numerous systems available for this type of system that are professionally designed and built, and satisfy all kinds of local codes. Many are in use all over the world in off-grid cabins and similar. You do need to take care that
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
Plugging a power-supply into a normal outlet like this is legal in many places, and illegal in many others. Check local code before proceeding!
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
Explain your reasoning at least. The government has to maintain some infrastructure to get this sort of thing done. Whether digital or analog. And if it contracts it out, it needs to oversee it. So no matter how it is done, the government h
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
For the first level customers, sure. But their customers’ customers? Almost certainly not. There is no way for Iron Mountain to determine who OSS’s customers are, and their permissions, without help from OSS itself . And because OSS is def
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
The entire point of the article is that his original understanding of the “thing” was a misunderstanding, with a heavy emphasis on how his teachers led him to that misunderstanding. Author used a rhetorical device that you seem to have miss
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
Both of those were a vendor X electing to stop updating framework A in favor of framework B. That’s a high cost for vendor X’s users, but if their business depends on vendor X, they have no choice. Maybe they can switch to vendor Y at that
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
To paraphrase the apocryphal Winston Churchill quote about democracy: “CUDA is the worst development ecosystem in existence. Except for all the others.”
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
People look for different things for "beauty" in men and women. Taller people--an area where men have a very distinct advantage--make more money and have an easier go of things. https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc
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by compiler-guy 2mo ago
The tradeoff here is a classic false-positive vs false-negative issue. If the cost of the bad-bot false positive (which blocks your bot out) is lower than the cost of the bad-bot false negatives (which allow bad bots in), then it is still a

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