cryptonector

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by cryptonector 5d ago
FCIS is basically that. You don't need an interpreter/VM, but that is an option.
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by cryptonector 5d ago
I bet things fall by the wayside. The firehose volume is very high.
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by cryptonector 5d ago
Then we can use the printers we have now to bootstrap more domestic printer manufacturing.
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by cryptonector 5d ago
Correct. FCIS is about testing. Testing pure code is a lot easier than testing impure code, but most of what you want to implement can be done with pure code, and you can isolate the impure code to a shell that can be tested apart from yo
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by cryptonector 5d ago
If you want to avoid the word 'functional' then say pure: pure core, impure shell. Or maybe: pure core, I/O shell. Otherwise it's too long :) Idk. I like Gary's formulation. No, I love it. One time when designi
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by cryptonector 5d ago
> Other than just than "we can" and historic interest, I can't imagine why anyone would choose to run System Vr4 over 4.4BSD Nostalgia is my guess. SVR4 on Amiga was the first SVR4 commercial release IIRC. Solaris 2.x cam
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by cryptonector 5d ago
> But this optimization seems important This is the only point I don't fully agree with. I'd want to know that this optimization is worthwhile. Is it?
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by cryptonector 7d ago
Repeal the compiler optimizer dev employment act.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
They are not useful enough for this, no.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
Is it a good answer though? How often does this opportunity come up? And if you have two trivial infinite loops one after the other, do you really need to insert `yield()` in order to be able to merge them?
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by cryptonector 7d ago
That is not worth this nonsense.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
In Spanish there's a wonderful portemanteau of verbal and hemorrhage 'verboragia', that means something like 'they won't shut up'.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
> or the AI is improving. I hope not.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
Compute the Ackermann function, write the result, terminate.. when the sun goes red giant and swallows the earth.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
Alternatively every flag that changes the semantics of the code is a workaround for either legacy code no one will fix or language committee decisions that have unintended side effects.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
Because one can bleeping see that that's what would happen. Locking up a thread isn't a good thing, but it's a lot better than UB. There was never a need to make this UB.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
"No." <-- the C++ committee.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
Yes, but now it has to. I guess that's better? than UB, maybe.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
There needs to be a way to stop this. A trivial infinite loop can be useful such as for getting you into a state where you can attach a debugger and examine state then have execution resume elsewhere.
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by cryptonector 7d ago
That's not reason enough to have the compiler initialize.
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by cryptonector 9d ago
Not so. You can have high enough mass-energy density and yet not a black hole because the momenta are all outward -- dynamics details matter.
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by cryptonector 9d ago
Edward Arthur Milne's proposal was that the universe started out expanding. That is Milne cosmology, and oddly enough it's equivalent to Standard cosmology when you take out the gravitational effects of mass-energy. What's
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by cryptonector 10d ago
Your dictionary is wrong. For example, in the UK Parliament is sovereign, not the people. That's effectively how it is in representative democracies or republics where there is no fast representative recall mechanism. The U.S. Const
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by cryptonector 10d ago
But the people in the building go outside too you know. Few like the brutalist style.
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by cryptonector 10d ago
> Architecture is optimizing for people inhabiting the building, not just staring at it in a photograph. Entertainment is a non-productive activity. But people need entertainment. People like to live comfortably. But people also like b
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by cryptonector 10d ago
'Sovereign' here means that the US govt is able to impose export restrictions, not that the People's will or special interests' desires are relevant. Of course 'can' != 'will'.
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by cryptonector 10d ago
"demand destruction" == demand falling [here because of the war] E.g., recessions, etc. Morbid would be if demand destruction came from deaths of many humans, but GP clearly did not mean that.
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by cryptonector 10d ago
GP means source as in for transportation.
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by cryptonector 11d ago
Often people mean "architecture" when they say "design", yeah.
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by cryptonector 11d ago
Design docs are great for some things. In particular they are good places to document interfaces and contracts for those. However, for interfaces it would be better to have architecture documents instead of design docs, with design docs r

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