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by cpurdy 4y ago
HTTP/3 has just been finalized as a standard this year, so I'd guess we'll start to see it be adopted maybe in 2028 or so It will be easy to add support on the back end (at least for any software that already supports HTTP&#x
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by cpurdy 4y ago
"who blocks UDP?" In the world of virtual machines, UDP is always the first thing to die. Xen on Amazon, for example, would often (and almost always, if there was any load at all?) silently discard most UDP traffic, and this was t
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by cpurdy 4y ago
multithreading to A. understand coworker who multithreading, you only need one multithreading. :/ doesn't coworker who However understand well you life an unending hell. B. You always have at least one doesn't make your co
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by cpurdy 4y ago
This is a service that I would pay for. Even if I had to pay more than the advertisers would.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Firefox has consistently been the only browser protecting people from the Facebooks and Googles of the world. There are a few sites that don't work in it, but it tends to hew closer to the standards than the proprietary lock-in browser
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Weird. This is not at all my experience. I haven't been using Firefox for 30 years, since it hasn't existed that long, but I've been using it since it was first working.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
First, it's important to understand that with Twitter, you can always add another tweet, so if you are long-winded, there is nothing to worry about ... (2/287)
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Twitter, of all options. A thread. (1/287)
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Thank you comrade for your wise words.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Forgot what?
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Paul only knows people who write Lisp. That's a pretty hard thing to accomplish, and harder to maintain.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Wow, that piece didn't age well, did it? Paul Graham is a great writer, and a horrible technologist.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Q: "Why would the median temperature be a useful measurement here?" A: The median temperature is the calculation that allowed him to deny planetary warming while using statistics. Look, when you want to show something to be true t
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Great timing! I was just looking to jump into crypto now...
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Wonderfully written and explained. Kudos!
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Yeah ... no. (Anecdotally, not scientifically .)
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Oh, .NET is still a thing? In 2022? Cool.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
A couple paragraphs was all that I could bear. Horrifying.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
"I am a starving wannabe journalist writing a linkspam article per week until I die. (If you’re in the mood for Mexican, try these 15 easy Mexican appetizers at home.)" (The second half of that is an actual quote from the article,
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by cpurdy 4y ago
touché!
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by cpurdy 4y ago
I'm invincible!
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by cpurdy 4y ago
More on this topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/single-use...
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Predictably, "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game" once again proves the worthlessness of "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game". This thing has been a long running joke in the software industry, exceeded only by the
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Obligatory +1 for trying to argue against OOP without mentioning "cats" or "dogs".
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by cpurdy 4y ago
C# definitely does not take 1ms to look up something in a hash map. Perhaps 1us (microsecond) in a horrible example if the virtual hash code has a slow algorithm and doesn't cache the result. Regardless, the benefit of not using C++ is
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Minimalism is usually in the eye of the beholder. There are only a few languages designed with minimalism explicitly in mind (Go is a good example), but even there (a language within which application developers readily accept doing the job
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by cpurdy 4y ago
>Bitcoin can be transferred instantly across the world and the amounts verified by computers. Gold cannot. Which is a huge win for gold. I'm still looking for all my apes that got stolen.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
> As it stands bitcoin is a decentralised casino. Casinos serve alcohol.
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by cpurdy 4y ago
>We're literally seeing that now. The money is flowing out of BTC even faster than all the other investments losing value. Yes, but other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Additionally, Josh's first generics implementation in Java was reified (like C#), but the necessary JVM changes were delayed, so he had to quickly do a second implementation using erasure. Sometimes, reality bites.

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