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by deschutes 5y ago
Reference counting implies non deterministic frees. If you knew who the final owner of an object was, you wouldn't need reference counting. While it is true that many (most?) GCs have STW sections, it's not at all clear that it is
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by deschutes 5y ago
It's easy to argue for ascetism for other people.
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by deschutes 5y ago
powercfg /lastwake will tell you why the machine woke up. Honestly I'm not sure where else you can find that information.
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by deschutes 5y ago
It's absolutely their fault. Folks have been saying from day 1 that aviation has dealt with this very problem. Telsa should know since they're trying to claim they mean autopilot in the technical rather than colloquial sense. The
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by deschutes 5y ago
My reading of his argument is that sizeof is (compile time) function that maps expressions or types to their storage size. From that lens, C has a design mistake. I'm inclined to agree.
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by deschutes 5y ago
If it is possible to have multiple revisions of libraries you will have multiple revisions of libraries. I've seen this play out "at scale" and what happens in practice is software rots until some kind of crisis or feature de
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by deschutes 5y ago
Is it a good counterexample? It seems to have approximately the same misuse resistance as parameter binding or equivalent apis. (For example, the dom api.) In particular, this property of the described system makes it trivial for the unknow
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by deschutes 5y ago
The Tesla safety numbers are pure marketing. They make no attempt to control for obvious problems like the kind of miles. Notice how they say autopilot engaged not autopilot equipped when talking about autopilot miles. I bet gm has great
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by deschutes 5y ago
Efficacy and safety are intertwined. Safety can sometimes only be evaluated in the context of efficacy. For example, you wouldn't amputate a healthy arm. But for a gangrenous one, it may be the only option. For establishing efficacy an
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by deschutes 5y ago
It's evil.
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by deschutes 5y ago
Mince words all you want. It's a scam.
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by deschutes 5y ago
What's stopping your adversaries from seizing hardware? Nothing? So the system relies folks playing nice in the physical world? The whole thing is a ridiculous fantasy with an asinine threat model.
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by deschutes 5y ago
How do you come to the conclusion that autopilot is safer? The Tesla press releases? It's the kind of uncritical analysis that you would expect from a company trying to market something. Food for thought: By considering only automated
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by deschutes 5y ago
Undermining trust in bitcoin is a plausible goal. An attacker with that goal wouldn't stop at one attack.
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by deschutes 5y ago
Crypto is a grift that grew into a scam economy. That's why it's unpopular on this site.
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by deschutes 6y ago
Even if one accepts the theory of military power your argument puts forth, how is bitcoin any different? What part of reality prevents a better armed group from taking over bitcoin mines? And for that matter, I don't accept the theory;
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by deschutes 6y ago
Bitcoin has the energy consumption of small nations. Banking is one of the many things that can be self contained in the energy budget of a small nation. On the other hand, bitcoin's transaction throughput would constrain my neighborho
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by deschutes 6y ago
This comment sums my thoughts on that issue: > Using uninitialized data as entropy source is an AMAZING idea in first place. “Fixing” or “unfixing” doesn’t make it any better.
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by deschutes 6y ago
A 2 datacenter configuration doesn't give you much if you want to survive a temporary outage of said datacenters. Observe that if you wanted to survive the loss of the dc with the minority of nodes you could place all nodes in the othe
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by deschutes 6y ago
The unforgivable thing here isn't the anachronism -- it's the lack of a suitable replacement. If you want a full i64 worth of duration at a reasonable resolution, you're on your own.
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by deschutes 6y ago
The truth is that most folks writing c++ are spending a ton of time debugging their language knowledge or sticking to what they know. The language is almost totally unprincipled in my opinion so you just have to know the minutiae to reason
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by deschutes 6y ago
The authority on coping with cats: https://youtu.be/mHXBL6bzAR4
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by deschutes 6y ago
What is your point? The way refcounted smart pointers are used in modern c++ doesn't come close to addressing all the memory safety issues. Iterator invalidation, bounds checking, use of uninitialized memory, use after move, dangling r
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by deschutes 6y ago
What is the size of the served wasm binaries?
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by deschutes 6y ago
I'm not familiar with the controversy, so I went looking for actual views of said professors. Wikipedia states 'Massad has characterized Israel as "a racist Jewish state."' There might be more to this story than Gle
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by deschutes 6y ago
After watching the video again I stand by the description. At that position in the video the man faces them and has his knife arm fully extended before the shots are fired. There is a second perspective following the first that shows this m
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by deschutes 6y ago
The Seattle police department releases bodycam footage of lethal encounters. I'd encourage you to watch some of the controversial ones and draw your own conclusions. What's been interesting to me is that the narrative that develop
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by deschutes 7y ago
The article is highly misleading. in the heating test, they heated the drug to 130 C, far beyond the temperature you'll find in a car. The gastric simulation with nitrites seems legit though.
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by deschutes 7y ago
To my understanding, all of jetbrains products run on the jvm. They work pretty well although I wouldn't characterize them as lean.
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by deschutes 7y ago
CO2 emissions are only part of the story when it comes to the effects of aviation on the climate [1]. For example, contrails and formation of clouds contribute to warming. Additionally, the proportion of emissions attributable to flight is

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