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by drob518 7mo ago
You could always get around the compiler uncertainty using a RV assembler, no? These IO programs are not long or terribly sophisticated.
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by drob518 8mo ago
When that happens, get ready.
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by drob518 8mo ago
It feels like Windows is old and tired. Remember when Microsoft and Intel seemed unstoppable in the 1990s and early 2000s? The momentum is no longer there. The latest bad decisions around AI for Microsoft are just the straw breaking the cam
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by drob518 8mo ago
I’m not sure why you think those are not a confluence of smaller events or that something outside the design spec isn’t one of those factors. By “small,” I don’t mean trivial. I mean an event that by itself wouldn’t necessarily result in di
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by drob518 8mo ago
Indeed. Clean sheets of paper don’t stay clean very long in the real world. That said, in the manner of “plan to throw one away,” we can learn from our mistakes and do better the next time around. Though perhaps X10 was the one that got thr
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by drob518 8mo ago
Exactly.
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by drob518 8mo ago
Frequently, when you see these massive failures, the root cause is an alignment of small weaknesses that all come together on a specific day. See, for instance, the space shuttle O-ring incident, Three-Mile Island, Fukushima, etc. These are
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by drob518 8mo ago
I use MacOS, so I don’t have a dog in this hunt, but it seems like the foremost issue is distributions making Wayland the default before it’s ready to accept that responsibility, not with Wayland itself. That said, 17 years is a long time t
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by drob518 8mo ago
I get the motivation. Nothing wrong with that. Like I said, input is valuable for roadmaps. Just be respectful of the people who are working for FREE on Python. Unless you’re paying them, they don’t owe you anything, and saying that your de
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by drob518 8mo ago
Okay, thanks. I would revise the write-up then. It makes it sound like there’s a storage benefit here when there really isn’t. The real message might be that it’s very close to git’s aggressive optimization and it also gives you the sql ben
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by drob518 8mo ago
I’m confused by the benchmark detail. It says that the “on disk” size for pgit is always larger than the git aggressive size, but then it breaks out just the pgit data size and says that’s typically smaller. If you’re using PG to implement
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by drob518 8mo ago
I’m not a Python contributor, so no need to apologize to me. But if you have strong ideas about what Python should be, perhaps you should step up and contribute that code rather than saying that others are offering excuses for why they won
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by drob518 8mo ago
I’d like to be good looking and drive a Ferrari. But that probably isn’t going to happen, either.
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by drob518 8mo ago
You’re always free to create your own Python-like language that caters more toward your goals. No excuses, then.
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by drob518 8mo ago
In the old days, you could assume that a Par was being offered in good faith by someone who was really fixing a problem. You might disagree with the proposed solution and reject the PR as written, but you assumed good faith. AI has flipped
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by drob518 8mo ago
Overall, this is pretty accurate. Of course, it’s a range at every level, say 5x-15x. Large companies trend toward 15x and startups toward 5x, which is why startups out-execute large companies. Also, they just skip some levels of review bec
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by drob518 8mo ago
What about the immense energy that is released when it slams into the earth at supersonic speeds?
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by drob518 8mo ago
How much is your house worth? Whatever someone is willing to pay for it today. That's it. There's no right price. If they can cover costs and make a profit (or better yet a huge profit), then they're pricing it right. Sure, i
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by drob518 8mo ago
And I thought I keep a lot of tabs open...
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by drob518 8mo ago
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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by drob518 8mo ago
If your workload is very regular, you can still do better with an arena allocator. Within the arena, it uses the same pointer-bump allocation as Java normally uses, but then you can free the whole area back to the start by resetting the poi
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by drob518 8mo ago
It is a thing. But hardly anyone uses it because it’s way too much of a thing.
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by drob518 8mo ago
A simple Markdown to roff translator seems like an ideal project for an AI to tackle.
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by drob518 8mo ago
Yes, exactly. A lot depends on your expected volume. Essentially, masks are your fixed tooling cost for chips. You then amortize that over your full volume. It’s easier to justify another mask set to fix bugs if you are going to be selling
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by drob518 8mo ago
Having paid for multi-million dollar mask sets for ASICs before, I can confirm that this would take a lot of trust on Crossbar’s side. Great job on working with them.
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by drob518 8mo ago
Depends highly on the specific application. Take a simple example of looking at process usage. You can use ps from the command line to get all sorts of info about a process. But there’s no substitute for top to show you an updating list of
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by drob518 8mo ago
I agree. The animation on the site lost me when it placed a button. IMO, buttons are not part of TUIs. Those are just low-resolution GUIs, IMO, and that’s sort of the worst of all worlds. The first good TUIs were things like top and elm.
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by drob518 8mo ago
I seem to remember having a RAD IDE for terminals with Turbo Pascal back in the 1990s. But yea, still before GTA6.
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by drob518 8mo ago
It was brought into Cisco to do that but the project was eventually shelved, which was a shame because the prototypes delivered some really interesting reliability features. Most Cisco hardware products run firmware written in C. Management
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by drob518 8mo ago
Not specifically superior for text editing, but it has some specific capabilities that make it ideal for making an editing environment. Specifically, it’s great at incremental, dynamic loading of small code snippets. This allows development

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