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by drob518 11mo ago
Yikes. This DDR shortage is distorting everything.
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by drob518 11mo ago
Yea, for Python it’s also just slow (not the language, but CPython; you can do much better with PyPy).
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by drob518 11mo ago
Which does best with pets? We have a German shepherd that sheds like crazy. We vacuum every week and it will often fill a Dyson canister vac. We empty it every time we vacuum. We had a Roomba back in 2002 or so, but it was little more than
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by drob518 11mo ago
Certainly better, but you’re always going to be better off maximizing the runtime to a level where it just swamps any of the other effects. Then do multiple runs and take an average.
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by drob518 11mo ago
I suspect this is it. Any benchmark that takes less than a second to run should have its iteration count increased such that it takes at least a second, and preferably 5+ seconds, to run. Otherwise CPU scheduling, network processing, etc. i
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by drob518 11mo ago
Startup time doesn’t seem to be factored in correctly, so any language that uses a bytecode (e.g. Java) or is compiling from source (e.g. Ruby, Python, etc.) will look poor on this. If the kids of applications that you write are ones that e
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by drob518 11mo ago
No, the real question is whether it provides that greater value for a reasonably acceptable, commensurate effort. Looking for greater value with less effort is looking for a free lunch, and we all know TANSTAAFL.
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by drob518 11mo ago
I think the answer is #2, the tautology. But just because it’s a tautology doesn’t mean it’s a worthless thing to say. I think it’s also true, for instance (a corollary), that Rust eliminates more types of bugs than C does. And that may be
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by drob518 11mo ago
Anybody who thought the simple action of rewriting things in Rust would eliminate all bugs was hopelessly naive. Particularly since Rust allows unsafe operations. That doesn’t mean Rust provides no value over C, just that the value is short
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by drob518 11mo ago
It just doesn’t matter… to you. Which is fine. Not everything matters to everyone equally. Typefaces are fundamentally art and they get the same level of appreciation that artwork receives, everything from none to abject worship. Don’t assu
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by drob518 11mo ago
Seems hung up on defining a ring buffer as something non-blocking (dropping). Having used ring buffers in both software and hardware systems for 40 years, we always called them ring buffers without this distinction. We would have called the
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by drob518 11mo ago
Yep. Cache is always the wildcard.
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by drob518 11mo ago
As a wise man once said, “Anything + computer = computer.”
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by drob518 11mo ago
You’re probably right in the long term. So, when the world is 100% self-driving cars, we can probably change the rules to favor the machines. In the near-term, however, it’s probably good to make the robots obey the human laws so that the h
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by drob518 11mo ago
Still a lot of software involved in controlling the aircraft. The 737 Max incidents were eventually tracked to software quality issues, IIRC. All those old designs are being upgraded with modern avionics, so even if the airframe and linkage
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by drob518 11mo ago
Yea, I went through this exact fiasco a few months ago trying to do the same thing. Or rather, I went through the first two-thirds of it and then gave up.
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by drob518 11mo ago
Yea, this to me signals that Qualcomm is starting to hedge its ARM bets. Given all the kerfuffle around licensing they have had with ARM already, I suspect that they are signaling to ARM that they have options and so ARM's leverage is
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by drob518 11mo ago
The OP link is overwhelmed. You can catch the release announcement on Planet Factor. https://planet.factorcode.org
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by drob518 11mo ago
This seems to be rediscovering "pets vs. cattle."
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by drob518 11mo ago
Yea, my immediate reaction was, “Okay. Stop doing all the stupid stuff.” If you want to program like it’s 1999, go for it. I generally don’t use AI, for instance. I just haven’t found it to be a net-positive yet.
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by drob518 11mo ago
Or it’s I/O-bound.
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by drob518 11mo ago
I guess he made his escape before the users with torches and pitchforks could get ahold of him. Liquid Glass my a**.
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by drob518 11mo ago
The builders should be patting themselves on the back. The fact that some of this infrastructure was built in the 1890s is amazing.
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by drob518 11mo ago
I suspect they learned a lot over the years and the API shows the scars. In their defense, they did go first.
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by drob518 11mo ago
Force them to buy nothing but SPY. If you’re in Congress, you’re allowed to get the market return. Or a government bond fund, or cash. That’s it.
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by drob518 11mo ago
The film is in the public domain and the original versions of Mickey and Minnie are public domain. But that does NOT apply to the later versions of Mickey that you'd find Disney pushing today (e.g., at parks, on apparel, etc.). Further
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by drob518 11mo ago
I don’t blame Disney for having a copyright or for trying to protect it at some level. Again, we want creators to be compensated. But where does it end with Mickey? Does he ever become public domain?
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by drob518 11mo ago
Exactly. A lot of people didn’t understand the contract between the programmer and the compiler that is required to use -O3.
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by drob518 11mo ago
Seems we’ve reached that point.
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by drob518 11mo ago
Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture is a great read in this space. It discusses all the societal issues with long copyright terms. Mostly, long copyright terms are driven by Mickey Mouse. Every time Mickey is near going into the public doma

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