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by cormacrelf 4y ago
To be clear, if you have 10 million cash, and you need >250k to make payroll a couple of times while your banks assets are sold off and you get the rest of your cash back (or 95%, or whatever), there is no need to spread that 10 mil over
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
More accurately for a lot of languages you can’t make them allocation free. Rust put all of the parts of the standard library that allocate in one crate, called alloc, and that crate is optional (but included in std, so opt-out). Platforms
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
Yeah. The (63-nlz)/7 is part of a piece of code implementing an encoding. nlz is an int.
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
Don’t modern compilers do this automatically (and aggressively) for almost any division by a constant?
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
I don’t know what’s going on in this thread where encountering UB has somehow been morphed into some kind of guaranteed immediate core dump that’s basically better than panicking anyway. Yes, people are talking about segfaults. But it’s mem
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in criminal law. The logic is that we want people to think about whether things are illegal, and we don’t want a loophole where you just have never watch the news and you can never be found guilty of a crim
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
Did you read what I said? I said both of them provided similar services.
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
I pay the equivalent of USD $420 every ten years to have government-issued ID. Facebook wants to charge me $12 a month, for them to look at this ID once. That is $1440 over 10 years. The two services offered are pretty similar: check it onc
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
You apply to have the case heard. The judge says ok, you served him, I will exercise my jurisdiction and hear this, Mr Kwon, show up in court next Tuesday (or else). It should not result in detention in a normal case. But it can.
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
If you use io_uring to implement the Promise API, do you call it iou_ring?
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
One of the central claims of Hersh’s story is that it was done using publicly tracked craft during a prominent and highly observed training exercise… on purpose. Supposedly because it’s cover to be in the area at all, it’s a benign explanat
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
Yes and yes. He is fleeing actual prosecution on criminal charges by the South Koreans. He has even been served a subpoena by the SEC while in the US before. He was forced to sit down and respond to questions. He sued them about it because
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
They apply to a court to get a civil penalty. You can be arrested by a court for flouting a court order like “don’t leave the country pal”, once it has established jurisdiction through the service process. Detaining people to enforce court
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
That’s exactly the attitude the question was asking about. You have written a few human-decades’ worth of learned experience into a codebase and a wiki, and you want new hires to look at that stuff first. Sure; I have no problem with that,
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
The question about the library isn’t really answered by “we have an internal wiki”. It was asking “Do you devote company resources to research, or do you think you already know everything necessary?” Internal docs/wikis are the express
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
Read the top comment about misleading or deceptive conduct in the EU. There is a similar regime in Australia and companies don’t do it lest they face steep fines and lawsuits with good payouts and very few defences available. Good democraci
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
Wow life is really simple (The OODA concept is more about modelling your opponent in a competitive game so that you can analyse the opportunities for disrupting them. A competitive game like “dogfighting” or “Cold War counter-intelligence”
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
The man does not misspeak.
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
The reason people say binding is because the words “immutable variable” are an oxymoron. It never makes sense to use variable for immutable bindings; they are not able to be varied. Binding is just the meaning of the word “variable” but wit
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
I know all that. I just thought you might like to do another pass editing your piece. It is your marketing material at this stage. It would be nice if it gave people a clearer impression of what the capabilities are and where trustfall is p
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
I read that yesterday and felt a bit tricked. You said there was a one line diff, which to me suggested you had made a query optimiser and added that to trustfall so that consumer applications could transparently benefit without writing any
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
There appears to be such a thing as “contextual integrity”, though it is more a creature of law review articles than anything else. A “fundamental principle in legal discussions of privacy” it may or may not be but that is a pretty empty st
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
FYI the assistant is currently working for pennies per second. It costs a few cents of compute (I think including training) to respond to the average query. There are a few orders of magnitude to go.
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
> Back when I ran Zortech, which was privately held, we gave each employee a cut of the monthly sales. That’s really awesome man, I wish you’d started with that.
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
I suppose I did speak a bit accusatively with the word “you” instead of impersonally, sorry, but this is how some people think of their employees, it’s an attitude you almost outright expressed with your analogy, and it was worth addressing
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
Don’t worry, I am used to it. When the Walters of the world run off, that’s fine, I have people like you to get through to. Thanks for your kind words.
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
If it’s a better strategy then companies that do adopt it will out-compete those that don’t. Social safety nets are a fine idea generally but I don’t think they would specifically encourage this practice. You don’t really want people feelin
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
My answer to that is basically that these are the same things people say about autocracies vs democracies and it doesn’t really play out that way in practice. The argument goes that autocracies have a big advantage in agility through top do
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
A guy who mows your lawn a few times is not an employee. You can argue for decades over what precise threshold makes you an employee, but in general employees are like groundskeepers who are with you long term. Yes, it is good to involve gr
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by cormacrelf 4y ago
I think it would help if you visited a museum instead of reading Orwell dissecting wartime hysteria. That was written in 1944. All people had to go on was propaganda and tiny snippets of reporting on atrocities, of course people in the surv

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