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by gizmo686 2y ago
I work in an industry that requires 2 seperate implementations of all critical software components; so I have been involved in several reimplemenations to help satisfy that. There are definitely times where I saw a feature and thought &quot
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by gizmo686 2y ago
Memory bugs is an entire class of bugs that we have simply solved. If you use a language with a modern garbage collector (e.g. one that can handle cycles), you will very likely go an entire project without running into a single memory bug.
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by gizmo686 2y ago
I actually think it is better to not think of derivations as a generalization of derivatives; but to think of derivatives as just one of many examples of a derivation. That the name 'derivative' comes from calculus and became the
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by gizmo686 2y ago
The minimum would be to ask for D(a+b) = D(a) + D(b). EDIT: Actually, according to wikipedia, that is exactly what is done in differential algebra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_algebra
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by gizmo686 2y ago
It is pretty common to talk about derivatives in abstract algebra in contexts where the calculus definition makes no sense. Broadly, there is a class of functions refered to as "derivations" that can be viewed as a generalization
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My guess would be that the server assumes that every call to recv() terminates on a message boundary. With TCP_NODELAY and small messages, this works out fine. Every message is contained in a single packet, and the userspace buffer being re
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by gizmo686 2y ago
Anime tends to have a pipeline. A lone auther (possibly with an illustrator) writes a light novel. Popular light novels get a manga adaptation. Really popular ones get an anime. At this point, I'm half convinced that most anime is made
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by gizmo686 2y ago
Rust is 9 years old. By programming language standards, it is the new kid around the block. C is over 50 years old. Python is 30. Haskell 35 Java 30
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There is also systemd-stub. It is technically a bootloader. However it looks inside of itself for the kernel, ramdisk, and kernel commandline [0]. This means that you can use objcopy to put an existing kernel and ramdisk into a standalone E
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Even the best public transport has downsides relative to personal vehicles. A perfect self driving car is a drop-in replacement for a current car that is simply a better product.
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So? Everything did less back than. The Vision Pro needs to compete in a world filled with smartphones, tablets, laptops, monitors, computers with multiple monitors, docking stations, televisions, etc. Most of what the Vision Pro offers is a
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by gizmo686 2y ago
I disagree with the article's comment on inevitability. Sure, if society wants to put a lot of effort into stopping something, we can. For instance, nuclear rock blasting might never happen, despite us having the technology to do so si
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by gizmo686 2y ago
In principle, using a thread for saving the game state is a much more difficult problem, since the game state itself will mutate. You need to be extremely careful to assure that the state you serialize is consistent and is at least a plausi
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by gizmo686 3y ago
The good thing about this usecase is that they do not need to solve the general problem of forking a multithreades program. The child process is doing a very specific job that amounts to serializing the contents of memory and writing it to
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by gizmo686 3y ago
If you build missiles, you are not responsible for deciding who to sell to. The government is responsible for deciding who you get to sell. You are just responsible for selling only to approved buyers.
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by gizmo686 3y ago
I work on building security hardended systems, and often see the opposite problem. Engineers, even ones who should really know better, will see a feature like this and assume it creates an actual security boundary. Then they design somethin
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by gizmo686 3y ago
This complaint is not really about the proposed change, it is a longstanding problem with Java. As long as you treat exceptions with the sane care in switch statements as you do in try statements, this doesn't introduce any new problem
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by gizmo686 3y ago
The only breaking changes I have run into are: 1) The "new" module system. (Which is, IMO, way to hard to disable for legacy code) 2) Removing some old crypto support from the default provider. And removing even mire support when
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by gizmo686 3y ago
I don't know about UK law, but my understanding of the law around here is: For custody issues, absent extreme circumstances, custody cases don't end until at least the child turns 18. Getting an unfavorable settlement here is a pr
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by gizmo686 3y ago
If -e is set you can use || and invert the condition.
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by gizmo686 3y ago
GPS isn't the only way to navigate. Given how small Israel is, inertial navigation is probably good enough to cover the last leg of the trip. Even without that, they could still rely on cameras and old fashion navigation.
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Most currencies are experiencing inflation (for mostly the same reasons); so it tends to cancel out in the exchange rates.
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by gizmo686 3y ago
Governments are made up of people. There is likely at least 1 real person (if not more) for whom this attack has been the entirety of their professional life for years.
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I think Linux uses it to implement thread-local storage.
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> Results > Fourteen recent cross-sectional studies from endemic areas with naturally high fluoride concentrations in groundwater supported the previous findings of cognitive deficits in children with elevated fluoride exposures. Thre
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Insurance with perfect info would be an amazing social good. If they could say "you can build a house there, but it will burn down in a forest fire 15 years from now", we could make an informed decision on if we want to build that
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Those are all costs you would need to pay regardless of appreciation.
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The presence of leverage means that appreciation still favors you. Assume you buy a $100k house, with a 30 year mortgage at a 6% interest rate and a 20% down payment. You then buy an equivalent house. Over the course of those 5 years, you w
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by gizmo686 3y ago
I'm not sure that is possible. The nature and limitations of current AI technology means that it is almost impossible to talk about it without coming to certain conclusions about the party using it. To put it bluntly, useing AI to deci
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by gizmo686 3y ago
We don't just look for oxygen. For instance, there was some excitement a few years back when there was a tentative observation of phosphine in Venus's atmosphere. To have a good biosignature, you want a signal that cannot be expla

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