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by evmar 3y ago
The post says '64-bit x86 ("x86-64" or "x64")' which is also roughly what the first sentence of Wikipedia has to say about it. I personally picked it just because it was shorter to type and easily understood i
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by evmar 3y ago
(Wife is a dentist.) There are a lot of immoral people out there, but "see the dentist only if there is evidence of a problem" is a bad strategy. Tooth decay is a slow process and the treatments slowly ramp up in invasiveness: wh
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by evmar 3y ago
My wife was shocked to learn in dental school how many people were there focused on the money. From her experience I learned that dentistry in particular is a profession that has a low investment / high payoff ratio. Relative to medi
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by evmar 3y ago
I often use treemaps for quick datavis on hierarchical data, like this (ancient) analysis of Chrome binary size: https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/bloat/ . As part of that made a little web-based treemap
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by evmar 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/882/
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by evmar 3y ago
The comparison made between the UK and US states is one I was thinking about lately and which prompted me to make a little "compare EU countries to US states" app: https://evmar.github.io/states/ (For example
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by evmar 3y ago
If anything, the wide range of different approaches to run-time type information listed here is pretty good evidence that there are many different use cases and any approach built in to TS would not cover them all.
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by evmar 3y ago
The code: //a decent amount of this was copied/modified from backward.cpp (https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp) The license on the other side of that link: The above copyright notice and
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by evmar 3y ago
It's incredible that this person is still reliably trying to stir up drama about RSS after twenty years.
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by evmar 3y ago
Also, a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, so I’m not sure why when people are trying to learn about them they need any more than that. ;)
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by evmar 3y ago
I was at UW around the time they were thinking of introducing this. I recall someone saying they'd found that there was a gap between the students who had computer experience and those that didn't -- the latter could be equally s
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by evmar 3y ago
> to make all the constants known at compile time, everything has to be written in a const function. This means: No allocations [...] No for loops These constants are relatively unchanging relative to the rest of your program. Why not w
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by evmar 3y ago
FWIW the tire story is a legend from decades ago: https://press.nordstrom.com/news-releases/news-release-detai...
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by evmar 3y ago
Growing up outside of California I knew their name from a line in this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y0R-QccpcQ
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by evmar 3y ago
It was a memory limit imposed by the browser.
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by evmar 3y ago
I worked on some memory stuff for Figma, a similar app, though it's surely changed since I did. One interesting thing about Photoshop's perspective is that it's fundamentally about "files", which is like a single by
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Polywasm(github.com)
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by evmar 3y ago
Wow, thanks so much for this link!
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by evmar 3y ago
My understanding is that Go does a similar kind of optimization (where locals that don't escape don't go on the heap) but it does it automatically. This has the positive that you don't need annotations but the negative that
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by evmar 3y ago
https://archive.is/x3AiC
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by evmar 3y ago
It was kind of an internal joke at Google for German-speaking teams to make German-named projects. (It's maybe only a joke that makes sense to the infamous German sense of humor.)
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by evmar 4y ago
Looks like SF averages about one person killed by a car every ten days or so, though bikers are a relatively rare proportion of them: https://sfgov.org/scorecards/transportation/traffic-fataliti... (Edit: this com
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by evmar 4y ago
How do the "transitive-sets (tsets)" mentioned here compare to Bazel depsets[1]? Is it the same thing with a different name, or different in some important way? [1] https://bazel.build/rules/lib/depset
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by evmar 4y ago
I was curious so I found the bug where they tracked some of the post-XP cleanup work: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=579196
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by evmar 4y ago
They are running a Chrome from 2016, so they are vulnerable to ~every exploit found in Chrome since then.
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by evmar 4y ago
Coincidentally, I just saw that the "USENIX Test of Time Award" for 2023 was an analysis for deduplication purposes of real-world files. I found Figure 1 particularly interesting in that partial deduplication didn't save muc
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by evmar 4y ago
This (without a VM) is more or less what Wine does, but implementing the Windows ABI instead of the Linux one.
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by evmar 4y ago
How do you read a blog that says "So either way, Balaji is 100% guaranteed to lose money on this bet, no matter what happens. It’s not a risky bet; it’s a sure loser." and then come to this conclusion?
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by evmar 4y ago
That's true, but the styling of this modal doesn't look like any dialogs I've seen in Google Docs. (I'm not familiar with the MS equivalent.) (...it's possible this is also featuring some reskin of Google Docs tha
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by evmar 4y ago
It's interesting to compare the screenshot here with the one in Google's similar announcement: https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/gene... They look strikingly similar. Is it just th

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