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by eximius 7y ago
Others address that this is not uncommon in languages, nor is it unhelpful even if you don't know. But for a different counterpoint, lets say we gave a specific name to everything. For example, in my new, totally not-fake language, a h
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by eximius 7y ago
Do you know if this exists for learning other languages? Because this is exactly what I've been looking for as a language learning tool.
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by eximius 7y ago
This is why constant time functions are used in cryptographic implementations, even over the network. These are called timing attacks and they're less common now because professional cryptographers know how to deal with it. But this is
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by eximius 7y ago
YES. It requires statistical techniques to remove the noise, making the attack harder, but not necessarily infeasible.
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by eximius 7y ago
Could a proc macro be written that uses dynamic dispatch in debug and static dispatch in release? That would be optimal for dev compilation speed and binary speed, at the cost of binary size. It seems like a pretty good tradeoff for most ca
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by eximius 7y ago
Flip the order of the sections and it's how I write Svelte components.
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by eximius 7y ago
I think the real sentiment I see in the comments about "using web tech instead of native is selfish/unethical/etc" is: why isn't there a desktop technology that can compete with the ease of development as using web
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by eximius 7y ago
God, as a normal consumer investor this is terrifying because I don't know what to do without contributing to the problem - if there's even anything I can do.
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by eximius 7y ago
I'm sure that https://svelte.dev/ is not the end goal of web development, but it is the next step. What I want to see is more support for serving svelte and integration between front end components and backends. (I.e.,
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by eximius 7y ago
This article is wildly wrong because effort and skill is non-linear. I can be in the 90th percentile in a handful of areas if I'm a talented generalist. The effort needed after a certain point becomes exponential. Truly, what is the di
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by eximius 7y ago
I am not saying I don't want those features, but I do hope that a VPN in the kernel with one of its primary features being small, lean, auditable code, will think twice about adding a bunch of stuff. Have you considered Nebula?
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by eximius 7y ago
If they really want to reach gamers, they should buy Discord and integrate it into their platform. And then we can make fun of them for having yet another chat app. It's a win-win.
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by eximius 7y ago
You mean the Rust language that has dozens of cross platform implementations of coreutils binaries? Go might be larger, but I hardly think Rust qualifies as sitting on the sidelines. That's a fair opinion. I think the article is richer
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by eximius 7y ago
> What I'm suggesting is that wasn't demonstrated. An in-depth analysis of the respective languages APIs for a particular targeted problem isn't enough? I won't disagree that readers might make a leap to intuit the au
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by eximius 7y ago
Rust is better _at the problem presented_. Rust not being perfect does not mean other languages can learn from its successes.
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by eximius 7y ago
While the problem is not quite AGI, it's damn close.
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by eximius 7y ago
I mean, don't you automatically have one even if you don't define one? At least on AWS? In that sense, explicit configuration rather than relying on AWS defaults that can change underneath you has value.
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by eximius 7y ago
> primes greater than 1 I mean, many theorems about primes do not apply to 1. 1 is very often not considered a prime. And, as another commenter noted, there is not just one definition of prime.
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by eximius 7y ago
That's kind of how unsafe rust works, except that the compiler doesn't check that you maintained the variants. Your unsafe code is expected to conform such that safe code interacting with it is safe. > But a solution to this
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by eximius 7y ago
And rusts default hashing implementation is hardened against these attacks
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by eximius 7y ago
Rust has a concept of ownership and borrowing. (I think) everything is fine when you just have immutable references everywhere. But as soon as you start taking mutable references (of which only one can exist at a time) or ownership (stronge
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by eximius 7y ago
I don't disagree that climate change is not the only threat to our way of life. I am highly skeptical of disease being a cause. COVID-19 has killed 2,000+ people so far. It is dangerous and we have to handle it appropriately, but its s
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by eximius 7y ago
Oh, humans, as a species, will survive. I don't think the race is in danger of dying out. Our way of life? Billions of lives? Yea, those are in danger.
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by eximius 7y ago
Okay, so what would a secure email alternative look like? Can we design a system such that sending a message from alice@foo.com to bob@bar.com is reasonably secure and private? How does Signal/NOISE solve this? Why can those not be app
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by eximius 7y ago
Professional guilds for maintaining industry-wide standards of competence and unions for corporate bargaining power. Still waiting on the first one.
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by eximius 7y ago
I meant this both literally and metaphorically. No one is the same person after 15 years, but sometimes the same principles remain. Maybe theirs haven't. Further, I don't know how big the original team was, but I doubt the majorit
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by eximius 7y ago
I learned Toki Pona in a few hours. Highly recommend if you need a language 'win'.
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by eximius 7y ago
It is unfair insofar as they are not unique examples of it. Otherwise, I agree.
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by eximius 7y ago
Yes, the people who built Reddit no longer run Reddit.
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by eximius 7y ago
This isn't unique to Quora and somewhat unfairly picks on them. However, just because it is common doesn't mean it isn't utterly ridiculous and unenforceable.

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