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by fefe23 6y ago
I sure hope OP does not write code for medical devices, aerospace or self-driving cars, reactor or heavy machinery controls or anything else where lives are at stake. Your current product may be a free TV series reminder service where you c
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by fefe23 6y ago
Good to hear that rumors of X11's demise have been exaggerated.
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by fefe23 6y ago
I didn't say optimizing code doesn't work or does not yield speed-ups. In fact I am optimizing my own code, too. But I only get ~10% speedup, tops. Because perf is decided at the design level, in the architecture, data structures
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by fefe23 6y ago
Unfortunately the probability of failure also scales up. Let's say you bought good hardware and the probability it will fail is x. Let's say you buy a hundred of those. The probability that one of them fails is now 100x. You just
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by fefe23 6y ago
I recommend against optimizing. If you optimize after the fact, you probably already made bad design decisions earlier. Those usually cannot be corrected by another optimization pass over the code. It is much more effective and efficient to
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by fefe23 6y ago
I may be missing the point here but this postings makes little sense to me. There is nothing in the C standard that requires dynamic linking. In fact, I have been creating statically linked binaries with C for decades (and still am). Also t
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by fefe23 6y ago
I recommend hiring at least one person who actually knows how to get the job done. I also recommend making sure you don't interrupt them with senseless meetings, spam them with a doom scrolling e-mail stream, or force them to be in use
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by fefe23 6y ago
I hope you realize the posting was about how the same factual basis and assumptions can be used to support the opposite conclusion, not about me or my personal standpoint and the developer. That said: Actually, if you think about it: It is.
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by fefe23 6y ago
I am someone who both publishes and contributes to open source projects, and also regularly files bugs against other people's open source projects. I start from the same intuitions as the OP but they lead me to the exact opposite concl
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by fefe23 6y ago
You may be confused about the meaning of "flame". I did not flame anybody. Flaming is an insult directed against a person. I rephrased what they confessed about their deeds. The deeds are, indeed, in my estimation, unethical. I as
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by fefe23 6y ago
So basically you used unethical trickery to cheat yourself 10k meaningless internet points? You also shoehorned AI into the story so you could generate some meaningless internet points with the impressionable youth on Hacker News, too? How
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by fefe23 6y ago
The title is deceptive. OP is not some independent site doing a neutral review. This is a competitor pretending to be neutral (and doing a laughably bad job at it; the "referee" is their evangelist). So they basically make a untru
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by fefe23 6y ago
Why would anyone be interested in what D-Wave has to say? Their previous "quantum computer" wasn't actually one, so why would I even waste time finding out if this one is?
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by fefe23 6y ago
I don't understand. How is it better privacy-wise to give your users' data to big tech company B from California (Cloudflare) instead of big tech company A from California (Google)? I as your user did not consent to you giving my
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by fefe23 6y ago
Your perspective is all wrong. It's a hospital attached to a university. They were already operating at a loss before Covid made things worse. If they find 1 million bucks on the street, the first priority will be to fund repairs for e
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by fefe23 6y ago
They did not actually attack a hospital. They attacked a university which happens to have an attached hospital, and ended up on some servers used by the hospital. The ransom notice was targeted at the university. When the cops contacted the
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by fefe23 6y ago
Whatever are you talking about? Cult of the free? Are you kidding me? I did pay for MDN. Google monetized my personal data and gave some of that money to Mozilla. I paid for MDN. Not with money, but same difference. Mozilla got money. Now i
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by fefe23 6y ago
AFAIK MPEG-4 experimented with encoding 3d objects but it never took off. As usual for MPEG they did not specify how to get the 3d data from a scene but how to encode them, actually how to decode them, so that innovation could happen on the
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by fefe23 6y ago
It's even worse than that. The main driving force behind VVC is AFAIK the Heinrich Hertz Institute, which used to be independent and has now been sucked into the Fraunhofer mothership, which is one of the big research organisations in
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by fefe23 6y ago
Suggestion: If you are impatient, do not become a programmer. Programming is a craft. It needs patience. You need time to learn the ropes. Some people look for shortcuts, learn the tricks of the trade instead of the trade. Please do not be
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by fefe23 6y ago
Thank you for this. Really. Thank you. I wish we had more postings like this. No complaining, no whining, no "my framework is better than your framework". Just what problems you had and how you solved them. This actually gives me
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by fefe23 6y ago
YOU may not care about old crappy systems, but you'd be surprised how much cruft is still in use in large organisations. And I for one am glad GNU went through all the trouble to make their code work on non-standard environments, becau
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by fefe23 6y ago
The reason (for me) to use msys in the first place would be so I can create binaries that do not depend on obscure DLLs like winpthread. If depending on 3rd party DLLs was no problem, I could have used Cygwin. Also, as I heard it, winpthrea
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by fefe23 6y ago
If only that were so! At least up to gcc version 9.3 it does not work. I will try gcc 10 soonish but I don't have high hopes. The whole reason I installed a cross compiler to Windows is so I could cross compile some search engine code
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by fefe23 6y ago
autoconf is a typical GNU project. It looks like it would be horrible and crufty but when you make an effort to get to know it it is actually pretty sweet. Just a little example of how clever it is: If you want to cross compile to a target,
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by fefe23 6y ago
My biggest problem with gcc for Windows is that libstdc++ does not support threads. There is a workaround with a pthread compatibility layer but that is just horrible and awful. I can't bring myself to do that. This has been an open is
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by fefe23 6y ago
I noticed two big omissions: 1. No automatic numbering (and no automatic table of contents generation). 2. Latex will indent the first line of each paragraph (except the first one in a run). This is the reason why it gets away with very lit
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by fefe23 6y ago
A few points. 1. Looking at the Java bytecode is practically meaningless, you would have to look at the machine code the JIT is creating. 2. A division by 2 is identical to a shift right by 1 only if the integer is unsigned. Java integers a
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by fefe23 6y ago
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Microkernel = move all the code OUT OF the kernel. These slides are about moving all the code INTO the kernel. Putting your application logic into the kernel would be more like a u
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by fefe23 7y ago
Why would you use this over the profile guided optimizations that gcc and clang already offer, that use the same data? What kind of perf benefits can you expect? What kind of application have you tested this with?

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