entha_saava

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by entha_saava 6y ago
They are mostly JITs or have specific purposes (like stackless python). JITs like pypy have a raw performance advantage. But implementation is more complex, and there is startup time overhead. Also I have heard CPython reference implementat
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Google had a project called unladen swallow which was about having a JIT in CPython. Google has also created grumpy, python to Go translator.
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What Is Wrong with Academia?(a3nm.net)
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by entha_saava 6y ago
How do you measure "meaningful business impact". Because everyone optimized for "meaningful business impact" I have no space on my SSD to install your app. (and even if I install it, it would cause my laptop fans go wild
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by entha_saava 6y ago
> Not even a company like Slack wants to get into the headache of maintaining a couple of native desktop apps Nope, it is because some bullshit MBA can't see beyond quarterly profits.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
There are some alternative slack clients.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Is it possible to run a process (and its children processes) in sandbox manually with only given permissions?
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by entha_saava 6y ago
See termux app's addons and some simple mobile tools apps for Android. They have paid versions on play store which are actually open source. But you are paying for the privilege of getting them on play store instead of compiling them a
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Some of blame is to be put on modern development environments that pretty much require the latest best hardware to run smoothly. > It's our responsibility to minimize our carbon footprint. This, a hundred times.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
I use windows (although not a heavy user, I mainly use Linux these days), and only outsider apps I have installed are lightweight open source ones and some "official" versions of software. You don't need an antivirus apart fr
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by entha_saava 6y ago
I know some basic C++ and STL. Is there anything like streams in C++. I mean things would be as easy as vec.stream().map(lambda).fold(T::operator+), so it wouldn't require any more allocations than those done by copy constructors.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
It has nothing to do with caste system. It is that younger people are not supposed to say elders are wrong or oppose them, even if they are clearly wrong. I don't know about other countries but this kind of culture is root of many prob
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by entha_saava 6y ago
I am from India and I think it is because many people try to game the system instead of actually working hard. It is rooted deeply in the education system itself.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
I am an Indian student studying in freshman year in one of the so-called "top" colleges and there are just too many problems. * First of all, the system is very rote learning oriented. The questions in the exam will be exactly sam
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by entha_saava 6y ago
> Developers can always get faster or larger machines if they need them. Those who can get top notch hardware are already on top notch hardware and those who can't are limited by management decisions. Even with top notch machines, c
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by entha_saava 6y ago
The engine is restricted to be WebKit..
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In practice, 3G is quite slower than that.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Buy an Android which has OEM unlock and well supported by LineageOS. Don't listen to apple fanboys here. On Android you can have a full blown Linux Terminal, because Android is Linux underneath. Termux works without rooting. You can se
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by entha_saava 6y ago
> Except of course all the Plan 9 garbage (like Go's hand-rolled assembler) brought in to underpin Go from the 80s This is unfair criticism. If Go had used LLVM, it would affect its selling point (fast compile times) and authors kne
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Probably the problem with iOS browser. Works well with Firefox on Android as well. Also does your apple phone browser not have anything like a "reader mode"?