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by francasso 4y ago
Not familiar with .NET, virtual threads in Java are an alternative to async await in other languages. The approach Java took is similar to green threads in go.
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by francasso 4y ago
I say it's time to bring back cassette tapes and a new edition of the TPS-L2. If Leica can release a new M6, Sony should release a new TPS-L2
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by francasso 4y ago
This actually bothers me. I think the rust performance here is praise worthy. What bothers me is that we piled complexity over complexity at the hardware and compiler levels, and ended up in a situation where you got no way to get a reasona
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by francasso 4y ago
Not even at his funeral can poor Atom be at rest, so many comments torturing or ignoring it while praising the killer. I, for one, salute you dear Atom. You have been a worthy contribution to the community. Thanks you for all you have done.
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by francasso 4y ago
I don't think so, it should mean "reducing things that are currently reported as errors but shuouldn't"
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by francasso 4y ago
I think it comes down to how big/experienced the team is, how old the product is, and how many unfortunate decisions where made in the history of the project that are there to stay. To me the point of the article is that rust would not
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by francasso 4y ago
In my experience, the vast majority of examples where that fails is because of two reasons: project evolution that doesn't spend time re-evaluting memory managemnt together with the new requirements on the data, or inexperienced C code
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by francasso 4y ago
I think you are overestimating the expressive power of lifetime annotations in rust, and how smart the borrow checker is
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by francasso 4y ago
Oh boy, that is so not true. Anything where the boundaries of the lifetimes are easily determined at runtime but unknown at compile time is extremely easy to model safely in C, and a nightmare in Rust. At least if you want the same level of
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by francasso 4y ago
I have written around 30k+ lines of rust by now, and I have to agree with OP. I have encountered many situations where perfectly reasonable, zero copy, memory management that would be completely normal, fast and safe in C, it basically impo
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by francasso 4y ago
With a DSL you need to learn syntax, semantics and either the API for interacting with your GP language or the tooling for external DSLs. With a library you just need to learn the new semantics. I much prefer this to a DSL. Plus a library h
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by francasso 4y ago
Welcome back to the 70s! Jokes aside I think there are use cases for this style of memory allocation even today (embedded systems for example). I just have never felt its need in a DB (or rather, I have many more desiderata from a DB than &
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by francasso 4y ago
Frankly, it would be better to just spend the money on building political support for a monopoly case against Steam. Even though, technically, Steam is probably not in a monopoly position (afaik that would require for them to be able to rai
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by francasso 4y ago
I will add myself to the others suggesting you to look for another job. 1) A rewrite from scratch is almost always a bad idea, especially if the business side is doing just fine. By the way, when you want to sell a rewrite, you don't s
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by francasso 4y ago
If you are interested in the old (and new) quantum theory, with all reasoning and formulas derived in detail, I cannot recommend highly enough M. Longair's two books: "Theorerical concepts in physics" and "Quantum concep
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by francasso 5y ago
If js had async/await from the beginning there would have been no need for the callback version. Also the sync apis would exist in any case because of the event based architecture of node and the fact that at times you don't want
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by francasso 5y ago
Markets by themselves tend to explore only spaces where large parts of the population take them. Because of limited information, most of us often prefer clear short term benefits over long term uncertain and often unclear benefits. Legislat
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by francasso 5y ago
I won't hold back (as you asked): it seems to me that the most likely reason someone would write something like this is if they had a lot of bad experiences that they ascribe to failures in the principles described in the document. I t
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by francasso 5y ago
That's not the case, intellij text rendering looks perfect on X/Gnome with fractional scaling (at least for me)
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by francasso 5y ago
In my opinion it's verbose and more complicated than necessary. If you just want to understand programming language design with a lispy flavor I would suggest Essentials of Programming Languages by Friedman, Wand (not much theory, sche
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by francasso 5y ago
For the life of me, I never understood, nor will ever understand, why people think making RPCs is easier or leads to better design than making normal function calls ("split your code into microservices, it will make your code modular,
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by francasso 5y ago
This is so bad, and the implications are so huge, that the solution will be to pray and forget it ever happened.
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by francasso 5y ago
I will relate my personal experience (take from it what you will). Around 2017 I was ~100kg when I started a keto diet which excluded basically all carbs except for what is present in green vegetables, and ate more than 50% of calories from
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by francasso 5y ago
I don't think either of those examples is in the same category as consciousness, or actually lets stick to "modeling of human and animal behavior", because I don't know what you mean by consciousness since we all have a
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by francasso 5y ago
I don't find it that difficult, in fact yours is just as much of a belief as the one of the people you subtly criticize. You believe that the standard model and gravity (or whatever unknown theory that can have some experimental eviden
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by francasso 5y ago
Agreed, in fact the review process worked and now they are going to ban all contributions from that university, as it should be. I think it all worked out perfectly
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by francasso 6y ago
I think it depends on the target audience. If it's math grad students that have had a first course of DG and probability and statistics, then it's elementary. I think the statement that it's self contained is practically inco
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by francasso 6y ago
I understand that for gamedev it's more natural to think in terms of the exterior product of two vectors rather than the normal, because you have to deal with transformations a lot. But the normal is a vector, it's a definition
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by francasso 6y ago
I don't understand the "geometric algebra" goal. The people that I've seen pushing for it usually say kids in high school are being taught the wrong thing, we should do away with the cross product and start teaching this
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by francasso 6y ago
Sorry but there is nothing obvious about any of it. It all boils down to the measurement problem and entanglement. While I don't like psi-epistemic interpretations either, it's not like there is anything clearly inconsistent with

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