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by cpurdy 4y ago
Add all those together, and you can buy a Starbucks Fripolocini and some avocado toast.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Would you be interested in purchasing an NFT of your comment?
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by cpurdy 4y ago
^this If you spend $200 on a VR headset, expect to get what you pay for
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Mostly: * The compiler. * The type system. * The core library.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
This comment is underrated.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Ads suck. Google sucks. Put those two things together, and not surprisingly, the result is awful.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Exactly. In any substantial language, the "lexer" and "parser" represent less than 1% of the work of implementing the language. In the Ecstasy (xtclang) project, writing the lexer and parser (and then bootstrapping them
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Facebook and Google got hit very hard in the recent quarter, but none of the articles point out one of the obvious reasons contributing to their drops: Apple made it significantly harder to track macOS and iOS users, which people tend to be
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Time for some prevention.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
I tried to be very careful about what I said, and how I said it. As with many others here, I pay a great deal of taxes, by any measure. I do not want my contribution (_our_ contributions) to be used to hurt people for the purpose of hurting
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Florida is pretty high on federal funding dependency. https://ritholtz.com/2019/01/makers-takers-states-edition/
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by cpurdy 4y ago
"So all this coastline should be dunes and park spaces?" Yes. That makes sense to me. What's the downside?
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Yes, 1000x this. It is frustrating to be sending piles of money to these states every year, which they then waste on political stunts like flying legal immigrants to other states, instead of taking care of their citizens, or maybe investing
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by cpurdy 4y ago
It's also important to understand the uplift that an established company can have on sales. * Adobe has a subscription model in place, with a large number of customers * Adobe has bundles already, and this could allow them to expand so
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Trump Derangement Syndrome It's an acronym used by Trump cultists to describe people who don't want to belong to their cult.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
"I would think the SCOTUS would respect..." That is a very quaint thought.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Texas can't keep the heat on in the winter, or the power on in the summer, but they want to regulate the interwebs, and particularly companies not located in Texas. SMH. This really is as stupid as it sounds.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Exactly. After reading this thread, the chance that I would ever choose to use Stripe is exactly 0%. What a disaster.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Guy Steele was in the office next to mine at Oracle. We had a lot of long chats about language design, and I've tried to keep him up to date on the work we've done with Ecstasy including * Java-like language * immutable “objects”&
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by cpurdy 4y ago
oh .. cool .. pricing for protobuf
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by cpurdy 4y ago
The problem is that even if the allocation cost (slab allocator) is zero, and even if the GC cost is zero, a high allocation rate on modern hardware effectively flushes the cache lines at the rate of allocation, effectively reducing your L1
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by cpurdy 4y ago
It is an ideal representation of what JavaScript can do. Some people will think that is a compliment. Some people will recognize that as an insult.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
What's a "pay check"? How do I get one of those?
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by cpurdy 4y ago
>This is DP pass-through, there's no DisplayLink or similar involved. How do you know that it is DisplayPort pass-through? From what I've seen, if it's going through a USB-C hub, there is almost zero chance that it is Disp
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Thank you for providing some supporting details. I'm fairly certain that my comment stands as is, with the one change being that as-of-now I have seen some of the threats that you were describing, some of which should have resulted in
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by cpurdy 4y ago
>It's very hard for me to take this seriously when the same rules are never applied to trans people and their advocates. I know that I'm going to regret stepping in this pile of community dog poo, but ... The simple idea behind
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Yes, but it makes up for the lack of HTTPS by using plain text passwords. /s (Sorry, I initially forgot the sarcasm indicator.)
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by cpurdy 4y ago
It's just not the same if the home page appears within the first minute. I feel like we've lost something special here ...
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by cpurdy 4y ago
No, not really. The "3nm" in the "3nm process" is not a measure of anything in particular, and even if it is a measure, the measure may or may not be in the neighborhood of 3nm. Several years ago, fabs started naming eac
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Good article. Especially the DBAD comment.

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