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by gary_0 3y ago
I suggest changing the link to https://github.com/jart/jtckdint and the title to "A header file that implements C23 Checked Arithmetic".
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by gary_0 3y ago
It's weird how the US went from the "fuck it, let's visit the Moon" country to the "electricity stuff is too hard, wah" country. Snap out of it!
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by gary_0 3y ago
Upstreaming your drivers into Linux proper seems to finally be the obvious path of least resistance for hardware vendors. It's just less work for everyone this way. Even nVidia has seen the light, although they cheated by moving all th
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by gary_0 3y ago
It's December 7, 1941. The Japanese have just attacked Pearl Harbor. Suddenly, most people realize the status quo has changed. The economy needs to make a major transition. Things need to be built at an unprecedented rate. Sacrifices w
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by gary_0 3y ago
Not just operating systems, but everything that goes on under the application layer! All the way down to the bits living in the CPU registers and going out the PCIe/USB/Ethernet ports. Another thought: a focus on staying up to dat
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by gary_0 3y ago
> Wow, online resources on this stuff are terrible. I've been thinking this a lot lately, searching for things like: a detailed block diagram of the Linux kernel, how page tables work, a comparison of function call ABIs on different
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by gary_0 3y ago
Antitrust them all, and let G̶o̶d̶ the market sort them out.
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by gary_0 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring
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by gary_0 3y ago
There will definitely be complaints if we colonize Jupiter's moons but the .io TLD has been commandeered by open source projects.
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by gary_0 3y ago
It's silly nerd shenanigans, and I'm fine with a little of that showing up on HN. Although once sites like Kotaku start writing articles about it, the wacky fun has usually run its course.
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by gary_0 3y ago
I didn't realize there are two ways of looking at it until your comment. It didn't occur to me that if you randomly have Oxide on a list of 40 other companies to apply to, and you expect to talk to them about compensation as you w
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by gary_0 3y ago
Supertangential: Nihilists just don't believe existence is intrinsically meaningful, and sadists take pleasure in inflicting suffering. A more correct term for someone who is indifferent to the suffering they cause might be a "n
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by gary_0 3y ago
I'm not trying to say the "molecule" part is easy (heck no!) just that the business of drug patents is another kind of ballgame entirely. Also, just about any innovation in any technical field has decades of research behind
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by gary_0 3y ago
AFAIK the "manufacture a new molecule" part, or even the "find a molecule that looks likely to treat a disease" part, is in practice not even the main expense the patent secures; it's the "convince the FDA that
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by gary_0 3y ago
I would kill for a tenkeyless (standard, sans numpad) laptop keyboard.
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by gary_0 3y ago
To be fair, most of his talk is biased towards compiled and statically typed languages (topics like compiler switches, ABI, etc). Not that compiled languages can't have implicit variables, but a lot of people would find it surprising b
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by gary_0 3y ago
5x tps with 2x CPU is 2/5 = 0.4x the CPU (ie. it's more efficient per transaction).
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by gary_0 3y ago
> you can still vertically scale by adding more disks Parallelizing IO is a lot different from scaling up CPU power, though. I'd imagine DB server IO performance has a lot less lower-hanging fruit than CPU/software performance.
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by gary_0 3y ago
/newest is low-traffic enough that plenty of people hang out there, and there are no downvotes.
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by gary_0 3y ago
"There's a sucker born every minute." - PT Barnum
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by gary_0 3y ago
Also, knowing whether copyright or the CFAA has been violated might require a lengthy court case between the accused and the purported legitimate owner. RF violations are an FCC guy with an antenna telling you to cut it out. Everything is e
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by gary_0 3y ago
Anarcho-capitalists would argue strongly that all 3 of your examples are no different from any other service provided to customers. I've seen them (or sympathetic sci-fi writers) think up all sorts of imaginative scenarios about how th
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by gary_0 3y ago
I'm pretty sure if you can figure out how to arrange the many millions of dollars of funding and hire the various domain experts required to get a cutting-edge (or even last-gen) chip off the ground, your questions would get answered a
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by gary_0 3y ago
Shor's algorithm can also break elliptic curve encryption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
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by gary_0 3y ago
Satire is dead.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Run-of-the-mill trolling didn't make the Internet Nazi Germany. You just delete that crap and move on, otherwise the trolls win.
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by gary_0 3y ago
> Non-english people ... being connected to the internet are not problematic I didn't say they were. Also, I meant undemocratic nation-states. And GNAA, offensive? You think?
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by gary_0 3y ago
Does anyone have something like this for amd64 or aarch64? Might be useful when I'm tinkering with my toy compiler.
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by gary_0 3y ago
That sounds a lot like "telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it," to paraphrase Mark Twain.
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by gary_0 3y ago
> engagement optimization It turns out force-feeding the general public enraging hyperbole and scary conspiracy theories sells the optimal amount of advertising, and doing anything else with a tech company is a dereliction of fiduciary d

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