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by gary_0 4y ago
De-tweeted: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1577667445719912450.html
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by gary_0 4y ago
That was my first thought. Once the world's richest economies hit the EV tipping point where automotive gasoline becomes a shrinking market, gas costs are going to go crazy, especially since things like refining capacity will go down a
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by gary_0 4y ago
I got most of them right. My god, what have I become?
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by gary_0 4y ago
And a similar story will be on the front page next month, too. Apple and Google will shrug it off. Dog bites man.
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by gary_0 4y ago
All this hand-wringing over a troll site losing its DDoS protection, and meanwhile Apple and Google blow away people's entire livelihoods at random and everyone hardly even blinks.
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by gary_0 4y ago
Those grievances are kind of what I meant by " peculiar ". (Sorry, I forgot there's no tone of voice on the Internet.)
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by gary_0 4y ago
"You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle."
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by gary_0 4y ago
Cloudflare is being surprisingly tactful regarding the apparent inaction from law enforcement. The legal and judicial systems clearly lack effective measures to ensure physical safety from these kinds of digital threats -- they're abou
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by gary_0 4y ago
OpenGL is what you use if you just want to render some triangles on the GPU with a minimum of hassle on the most platforms (which is quite a few if you include GLES, WebGL, and ANGLE). Most people aren't writing graphics engines for AA
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by gary_0 4y ago
This answer is what every argument about IPv6 and NAT boils down to: they say "NAT" but really mean "firewall". In my opinion, using NAT for IPv6 networks is just a false sense of security to make you think LAN nodes are
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by gary_0 4y ago
This sounds similar to complaints I've heard about music for film/TV. Often stock music is used as a placeholder during post-production, and then composers are told by producers to just rework the stock music instead of being give
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by gary_0 4y ago
Short answer: No, that can't happen. Fusion reactors and conventional nuclear (fission) reactors are very different. Only poorly designed fission reactors can meltdown and release large amounts of highly radioactive material into the e
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by gary_0 4y ago
Who is the "nuclear lobby"? I'd be interested to know about which industrial interests are pushing the government for nuclear investment. I was under the impression there weren't many, especially compared to the fossil f
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by gary_0 4y ago
Especially considering how easy it is for duplicate content to reach the top results on Google these days.
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by gary_0 4y ago
I noticed that K8's the 3-wide pipeline has 3 AGUs alongside the ALUs, which led me to wonder how modern RISC architectures handle address calculations. Do they still have separate AGU circuitry? [edit] After some furious Googling it l
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by gary_0 4y ago
https://lmms.io/ is free and open source, and similar to FL Studio (though not as full-featured). LMMS might have a bit of a learning curve, but having used FL Studio in the past I had no problem plonking out some simple tu
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by gary_0 4y ago
> move to creating and using new domains This is a decades-old spammer trick. Google used to not rank brand new domains very high for this reason. It's hard not to think that the only reason Google abandoned most of its old site ran
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by gary_0 4y ago
Netflix was a brand. A household word for streaming, ingrained in popular culture. "Netflix and chill". They had absolutely no idea how to cultivate and protect that brand, and now they're giving up and selling ad space. It w
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by gary_0 4y ago
There's no website at piz.za. I'm so disappointed.
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by gary_0 4y ago
Specifics might depend on the language, domain, and team (and individual preference), so it's hard to avoid being general. I would say some junior devs can get too fixated on hierarchies and patterns and potential areas of code re-use,
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by gary_0 4y ago
Yes, that's kind of a "fewer moving parts" way of looking at it. To be clear, I (like the parent post) was using data structures as a metaphor for the organization of source code: "trees" being code that is conceptu
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by gary_0 4y ago
On a similar note, tree/graph structures should be avoided versus lists unless there is a good reason. Flat is better than nested. A linear block of code is far easier to reason about than a network of function calls, or (heaven forbid
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by gary_0 4y ago
> python was not meant to scale So many successful projects/technologies started out that way. The Web, JavaScript, e-mail. DNS started out as a HOSTS.TXT file that people copied around. Linus Torvalds announced Linux as "just
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by gary_0 4y ago
AFAIK, AArch64 instructions are roughly 2x longer than x64's average, but that's 3x as much cache as a comparable Intel core.
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by gary_0 4y ago
I think it goes beyond LLVM, it's software in general. 20 years ago, software was locked into a particular architecture because proprietary compilers and binary blobs were the norm, and vendors still ruled their platforms with an iron
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by gary_0 4y ago
And those bytes matter when most Intel CPU cores have only a few dozen KB of L1I cache. Interestingly, the M1 and M2 performance cores have a whopping 192KB of L1 instruction cache.
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by gary_0 4y ago
Newer allocators like mimalloc[0] don't even support sbrk (I think jemalloc still does). Mimalloc seems to have some interesting features. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc
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by gary_0 4y ago
That's what makes C programming fun: doing what the compiler/language people say you shouldn't be doing and seeing if it works anyways. At least, it works on my machine...
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by gary_0 4y ago
Even in C-land, you're technically not supposed to fabricate arbitrary heap pointers, you're supposed to offset something you get from malloc(). The Standard says (if memory serves) that only pointers from the beginning of a mallo
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by gary_0 4y ago
It's also possible to have a problem, and then that problem makes you depressed on top. But the depression is a symptom and focusing on it can come off as "everything is fine, there's just something wrong with your brain.&quo

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