esrauch

27 ms·

391.
by esrauch 5y ago
I think there is a factor of UB that makes it have a steeper learning curve than the corresponding issues in other languages: with Java a lot of that category of bad code will throw exceptions and you'll get useful stack traces. UB oft
392.
by esrauch 5y ago
I think the point is just that unlike Rust there's no compiler enforcement that you only use refs in their lifetimes: you can easily accidentally cause a use after free. Some times it can be pretty indirect: eg if the ref ends up point
393.
by esrauch 5y ago
It can be pretty safe, but it requires restraint and selecting a good subset of the language. There's still plenty of footguns that an inexperienced person might hit.
394.
by esrauch 5y ago
We'll, it's 80 in both US and Germany and the total health-related expenditure per capita is twice as high in the US than Germany. I think the question is what that extra money is buying
395.
by esrauch 5y ago
There's correspondence play which allows engines (or any resource) and certain players which are consistently better at the game under those conditions. Some of the other players surely try just running Stockfish overnight and taking w
396.
by esrauch 5y ago
I don't think it's that simple. Imagine the game sends a message over the wire and presumes it can get an stateful ack calculated by code running on the other side before it takes any other action, and then does that multiple time
397.
by esrauch 5y ago
I also have gotten DMs on Reddit from companies looking for devs since I commented on a thread 10 years ago about an obscure toy language: it doesn't mean thats a reasonable choice for technology. I think theres legitimate reasons to c
398.
by esrauch 5y ago
It turns out that even if you accept "Python is great and JavaScript sucks" that "Python compiled to JavaScript" ends up even worse than JavaScript.
399.
by esrauch 5y ago
I've heard there was actually a vocal push from Chrome for Docs to use contenteditable and even with motivated Chrome engineers they couldn't make it competitive. They basically could never fix it for Safari.
400.
by esrauch 5y ago
I feel like the "I saved a silly game my friends play from certain death during the lockdown period" is just a priori such a fun and light hearted claim that it's ridiculous to respond to it the same way you'd respond to
401.
by esrauch 5y ago
I don't think that's fair: Software Engineer salaries in London are also relatively low compared to non-SV-major-city-US. And it's not across the board since Finance jobs in the same area pay better, so it seems that there&#x
402.
by esrauch 5y ago
I feel like it's also a stereotype that mathy nerds play piano and violin when they're younger.
403.
by esrauch 5y ago
Most of the movies in Zurich at least do have de/fr subtitles on top and bottom.
404.
by esrauch 5y ago
So I recognize the world bollard but I definitely wouldn't have been able to think of it off hand. I feel like its just not an entity that needs referring to very often.
405.
by esrauch 5y ago
I feel like they must have just seen it was a library from Square and assumed it sent data to Square. I doubt that 40% of the apps were written with no SDK or library.
406.
by esrauch 5y ago
They're comparing AWS revenue to all IBM revenue. IBM is engaged in a number of other areas including fabless semiconductor design.
407.
by esrauch 6y ago
NY wouldn't give me a RealId since I don't have a physical SS card even though I have a passport and birth certificate. So it seems like the system is kind of broken.
408.
by esrauch 6y ago
SV companies tend to be better at account security then this.
409.
by esrauch 6y ago
> like drinking, Werewolf is not everyone’s cup of tea; do non-players simply get to stay home and get nothing? I'm someone who really doesn't enjoy Mafia/Werewolf, but it's just the reality that it's impossible
410.
by esrauch 6y ago
Essentially all conferences are intended to be a mix of "hard" information transfer and "soft" networking/socialization. Very little can actually be directly achieved at a conference, and connections are probably m
411.
by esrauch 6y ago
So I actually think this viewpoint vastly overestimates the ability for human reviewers to come to the right conclusion. I can tell you thats not really the case: paid trained human contractors for content moderation very commonly make far
412.
by esrauch 6y ago
It literally is a quote in the article though. Probably if NYT wanted to be biased they could've just have not put the word "terrorism" in the title at all?
413.
by esrauch 6y ago
I think Steam actually primarily catches cheaters by it seeing the other running software rather than looking at the input patterns. I'm not sure whether it would detect a cheat implemented via a camera and custom mouse hardware that s
414.
by esrauch 6y ago
So you're kind of mocking the guy above but it's a real thing: the American criminal justice theory shifted towards retributive justice (where the point is to punish criminals) around the middle of last century. There are alternat
415.
by esrauch 6y ago
So FYI most of those are misleading. When he's typing into a terminal and it does {}+{} it's interpreting it as and empty code block, and then an unary plus on an empty object, similar to: { }; +{} If you put parentheses around it
416.
by esrauch 6y ago
I don't actually subscribe to the "JS is a bad language" meme (and maybe the meme has died off a bit, partially thanks to typescript), but implicit coercion is one thing that people cite, with behavior exactly like that nontr
417.
by esrauch 6y ago
r==b and b==nil but r!=nil seems like the kind of thing that people give JS a lot of crap over.
418.
by esrauch 6y ago
The live transcription behavior is enabled by a button at the bottom of the volume control toggle. If it transcribes even if that button is off that seems a lot more concerning. I don't think transcribing on device and then uploading w
419.
by esrauch 6y ago
He said Android or iOS. It seems like massive overkill to have a phone that can run both. Even running Android apps well is a pretty tall order, running iOS apps natively on your own open source phone seems like a pipedream. It took even
420.
by esrauch 6y ago
I feel like it was actually rational for Magnus because it's literally his tournament. Even if the game actually mattered (it didn't), it might make sense to earn a lower individual result in exchange for making a lot more people

More ›