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by eloff 4y ago
Actually he wrote the Rust version first, so you're wrong jumping to conclusions. I'm not trying to say Go is faster than Rust, it's usually slower. But there are always exceptions to the rule. The Go code, on the other hand,
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by eloff 4y ago
Because different programs, implemented differently, run at different speeds... I'm saying the performance of Go can sometimes be surprisingly fast. Not that it's magic.
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by eloff 4y ago
You'd need to change malloc too so it doesn't do extra work. You could do it. Go obviously isn't going to be faster than well written C. But sometimes you can be surprised.
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by eloff 4y ago
For a script like this your be surprised. If you don't do too much allocation, the garbage collector need not run. In fact it's common to disable it at the start. Now you can allocate much faster than C because you never clean up
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by eloff 4y ago
Yeah, I don't like that method for encoding variable length integers. I usually use something I came up with years ago where the low 2 or 3 bits are the length - 1 in bytes. It's more compact and can be serialized/deserialize
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by eloff 4y ago
Only if they can do something with the CO2 other than releasing it into the atmosphere. Like trapping it underground or storing it somehow. It's not a totally crazy idea, carbon capture from the atmosphere is very hard - there's o
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by eloff 4y ago
Yes, but not as a general purpose encoding. It's more fit for it's intended purpose.
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by eloff 4y ago
Culture != Civilization. Culture is a term used to denote the manifestation of the manner in which we think, behave and act. Civilization refers to the process through which a region or society, outstretches an advanced stage of human devel
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by eloff 4y ago
Protobuf was the first major project I was aware of that uses zigzag encoding for integers. They then encode those integers using the typical 7 bit encoding scheme where the msb indicates there's another byte following. I'm sure t
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by eloff 4y ago
I can see the headlines now "you won't believe this one weird trick for bigger gains and better performance in bed".
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by eloff 4y ago
I see it the same way. Semi nomadic bands of a couple hundred people without permanent structures is "not much in the way of civilization".
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by eloff 4y ago
So does this only work with copper wires then?
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by eloff 4y ago
All of that is pretty cool, but it's nothing compared to what the Greeks accomplished over 2000 years earlier. Or the Romans, or the Chinese, or the Egyptians, or the Incas, etc. The Native Americans were downright primitive by compari
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by eloff 4y ago
I've never heard of a binance debit card before, that's very interesting. Don't you feel like you're getting screwed by the conversion lately? Bitcoin is so volatile to use as a currency.
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by eloff 4y ago
Do tell how you pay in a store or restaurant with Bitcoin. Are you just a weirdo who doesn't leave your mom's basement?
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by eloff 4y ago
Cryptocurrency isn't very useful as a currency, so it doesn't compete with fiat currencies. You can't use it to buy things, apart from illegal things. The exceptions are fringe uses only.
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by eloff 4y ago
I mean they didn't have much in the way of writing, architecture, science, or organization. They were thousands of years behind the more advanced civilizations. They had a primitive civilization. There wasn't much left of their ci
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by eloff 4y ago
There was not much in the way of civilization there 150 years ago. There were indigenous, sure.
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by eloff 4y ago
That's the city I was referring to. The estimates I saw said 20k, so it depends what estimates you look at. It's still very small compared to other major cities of the time.
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by eloff 4y ago
I think we disagree on the definition of "a lot". Were there even any permanent settlements on the Canadian prairies? Most of the natives were nomadic.
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by eloff 4y ago
A German friend phrased it this way for Americans: We have beers older than your country. The depth of history and culture in Europe never ceased to amaze me while I was travelling there, especially in Greece and Italy. I grew up on the pra
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by eloff 4y ago
It's my personal anecdote, I make no claims that other people feel the same way. If they were logical, they should though. Paying $10 to get several hundred dollars in productivity gains is a no-brainer. It's the same reason I pay
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by eloff 4y ago
The thing that blew me away about France is you could buy a bottle of wine in the supermarket for less than a bottle of coca cola.
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by eloff 4y ago
It doesn't need to be sustainable, a short-term reduction in emissions it's also helpful and buys more time to go carbon free. It's a complete lie that we have to transition directly from our current state to zero carbon with
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by eloff 4y ago
Even just encouraging fracking (cheap gas vs coal means 2x reduction in carbon), or stopping to subsidize fossil fuels would make a massive difference.
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by eloff 4y ago
Because people don't look at issues like climate change rationally. We're attacking the problem almost randomly based on what's politically expedient/ popular instead of what gives the biggest greenhouse gas reduction fo
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by eloff 4y ago
My experience with copilot has been very different. It easily pays for itself, and getting my employer (seed stage startup) to spring for it for the entire team was an easy sell. Yeah it's pretty dumb most of the time. But I know that,
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by eloff 4y ago
People do, but it's hard to get out. There are monetary controls, so you have to break the law to get your money out. You will also end up with very little once the exchange rate and fees are covered. So you will take a huge haircut on
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by eloff 4y ago
I don't think it does. The people who are doing that are probably not that good to begin with. The people they outsource to are not that good. And then you have to communicate requirements to them, and manage them. I wouldn't be m
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by eloff 4y ago
I run Linux for work, and gaming laptops tend to have the best performance characteristics. Plus I can play games on it with dual boot. I got it for half the price of equivalent hardware in a MacBook Pro (8-cores/16 threads, 64 gb ram,

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