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by dpc_pw 7y ago
It takes some time to get used to and change mental model from "program describes step by step what to do" to "program describes logical flow of information". I moved from first camp to the second one somewhere during my
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Maybe not all of it everywhere, but yes. Any tax is always passed on to the "end users" to certain extent (-/+ elasticity and competitiveness) - something that a lot of people don't understand. If you tax 50% income of p
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
I realize that, but it's still stupid. It's a tax. We'll pay it one way or another. I am planing to buy a house in CA, and it doesn't really matter to me that much if it's taken from me at the register, in the prope
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
"The program would be paid for with a state value-added tax of 10 percent on goods and services, with exemptions for (...)" VAT is such a PITA (I'm originally European, so I know a thing or two about it). Tons of additional p
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
I did used nixops. I quite enjoyed it, though the local state database was annoying. I wish it was more like k8s, keeping its state internally in a distributed db. I'll look into disnix. Thanks!
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Thanks. I will look at this and other comments, but I don't want stuff that involves docker in any way. Only NixOs + containers.
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Containers are great, but everything else that Docker does is very meh. Slow, inconvenient, hard to work with. What I'd really want is a system that takes nix files (see Nix & NixOS), and gets that running as a container. Or someth
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Voting is pointless. People are just brainwashed into believing it's so important (I don't know how else to call it: they are repeatedly told over and over again how important democracy is, and voting is like the biggest symbol of
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
The way I see it it: With C/C++, you have to to have a team of 5 senior devs, and they have to cross-check each other work all the time. With Rust, you could have 1 senior Rust dev, and 4 junior devs, and they would arrive in a better
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Dell's XPS and Lenovo are often mentioned as go to Linux laptop, but I went through a couple of them last few years (employer provided work laptops) and I always had some problems: wifi, audio, graphics, sleep, etc. For personal use I
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Under the hood docker uses `runc` which is fairly small and easy to use, IMO.
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
I worked 4 days (8 hours though) for a year, and it was just great. It is one day, but it makes you feel like half of your week is off (3 days of weekend, 4 days of work). I also think that politically speaking, lowering standard working ho
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
http://memecrunch.com/meme/2HKTR/no-god-please-no/image.png
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
"Short term fluctuations" can last decades. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QJPN628BIS And "forever" often turns into couple of years because of health problems, job opportunities, personal event
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
From what I can tell, they are roughly flat since around 2016. Example: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1174-Pomeroy-Ave-Santa-Cl... . Depends on what and where, of course. And AFAIK, generally rents are lagging beh
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
> Also strongest advantage of owning a house over renting is the stability you get. From: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3203-Benton-St-Santa-Clar... Neighborhood home value 95051 home values have fallen 8.3 % o
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
You don't look for Rust jobs. You rewrite your current job in Rust. :D
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
> forces the developer to know that the compiler will be doing such magic. Do you regularly order your stack variables? :D 99.99% of cases there are no expectations about details of a `struct` and having to think about it all the time is
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
To start: any personal attacks against the author are unacceptable. Anyone is free to write whatever the code in Rust they like, and it is wrong to attack them about it. But .... I think it is showing that the premise of memory safety in Ru
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On the other hand duplication is harder to review. If you have 20 lines of x1 * y[i] + z2 x2 * y[i] + z3 ... or other dense math code, then it takes a lot of effort to spot any tiny mistake. Duplication vs abstraction is a
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
They are computationally slow, no tricks. The purpose is to prevent attackers from calculating the plain passwords if they actually got access to the content of your DB. They are not that slow (let's say less than a second to calcula
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Excuse my confusion. I understand "the Bao project evolved into BLAKE3", but "is now based on BLAKE3" confuses me. Bao is based on blake3? But isn't bao ... the blake3 itself now? Circular dependency detected.
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
So this is bao + blake2? I remember watching Bao, a general purpose cryptographic tree hash, and perhaps the fastest hash function in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dya9c2DXMqQ a while ago. Nice job!
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Can you point in more detail where was the cheating? What you link to talks over the great `unsafe` drama, but that's not cheating. `unsafe` is in Rust for a good reason. Every C and C++ codebase is effectively one big `unsafe` block f
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
I highly recommend reading the whole thread, especially all Torvald's responses.
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For any sort of benchmarking like that you have to take care of affinities and cpufreq governor at minimum.
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Web is built for client-server architecture. And that's what we've got - bunch of big companies, storing all the data, and our thin clients downloading only the part we look at. Urbit is built for p2p architecture.
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Great talk. It could be an Urbit ad since most if not all of the mentioned problems (and many more) are exact reasons it was designed the way it is. Stagnation of development is caused by fragmentation of platforms. For every app we need to
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Ideally programming languages should include capability-based access control, so that a random library that is supposed to do X, can't do Y. Until then, we need to vet our dependencies. Check out https://github.com/crev
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by dpc_pw 7y ago
Obviously remote vs local is different. But Thailand vs Paris, for a company that is based in San Diego, is not that different - both are remote. So why would you pay differently? Anyone can pay as much/little as they want, and get pai

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