gshrikant

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by gshrikant 7y ago
Actually a Forth written in a language apart from English would be a cool idea. The 'words' model maps directly to natural languages and would be straightforward to apply to other languages.
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by gshrikant 7y ago
I'm probably being a blockhead but I didn't quite get how the testcase macro is used in instrumenting coverage. Can you explain that?
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by gshrikant 8y ago
I don't think that's harsh for the title of the video as posted on HN. Like many others interested in programming, I've tried teaching it to my loved ones and come back with the understanding they either they don't need
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by gshrikant 8y ago
You might be interested in etckeeper [1]. [1] https://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/
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by gshrikant 8y ago
Rightfully so. Part of the problem is the way that we speak about the technology - calling it 'artificial intelligence' when the underlying technology does not resemble true intelligence at all. This raises expectations and lets p
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by gshrikant 8y ago
I agree, it is not the same sandbox as for example, browser sandboxes which restrict capabilities for multiple tabs to a given set of resources. However, its closer to KVM or Docker than to VirtualBox. The host and the 'guest' app
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by gshrikant 8y ago
I'm sorry of this is a trivial question but what does open coding mean? This is the first time I've heard of that term.
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by gshrikant 8y ago
Unfortunately, that's not entirely accurate. The problem with language level benchmarking is that the benchmarks are only as good as their implementations and while I agree that different languages encourage different kinds of idioms i
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by gshrikant 8y ago
I've been on something of a language tour recently - trying out C++, Typescript, OCaml each for a couple of weeks just to get a taste of living in each ecosystem. I haven't been actively following Rust beyond reading Hacker News a
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by gshrikant 8y ago
Can you point me to a resource with details about this? I'm relearning C++ and a comparative evaluation of a language feature like that would be very useful.
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by gshrikant 8y ago
I didn't understand the references to TLS (with GMail, for example) and why the goverment likes that better. Is there previous legal precedent which makes TLS more vulnerable or does the protocol itself make snooping on it easier?
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by gshrikant 8y ago
I meant the fact that you're actually reinterpreting bits and not really copying them somewhere.
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by gshrikant 8y ago
I'm curious, AFAICT Linux uses -fno-strict-aliasing with GCC which promises not to enable strict aliasing based optimizations even at higher optimization levels. But they also rely on the GCC blessed behavior of union based type punnin
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by gshrikant 8y ago
Not sure about the accuracy of this (or even the original source) but interesting tidbit from what I've read was that driving on the left side of the road is a remnant of British colonial times which lives on in the modern Commonwealth
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by gshrikant 8y ago
Exactly this. Science is supposed to be reproducible. Computer science is much more easily reproducible than many other disciplines and it is just sad that many papers don't publish their data/code to reinforce their conclusions.
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by gshrikant 8y ago
Pledge (previously `tame`) did use bitmasks in its earlier iterations. See Ted Unangst's post about it: https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/string-interfaces
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by gshrikant 8y ago
Not a very insightful comment but I really like the way OpenBSD names system calls - both `unveil` and `pledge` are great, descriptive Unix-y names for what these system calls do.
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Ask HN: Health and Medicine book recommendations
2 points by gshrikant 8y ago|0 comments
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Pledge and Unveil in OpenBSD [pdf](openbsd.org)
125 points by gshrikant 8y ago|34 comments
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The Really Big One (2015)(newyorker.com)
1 points by gshrikant 8y ago|0 comments
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by gshrikant 8y ago
Looking at the examples and how the product is spelled (British English) it seems like the product would be restricted to India.
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by gshrikant 8y ago
This is a strange article with a regular message but a clickbait title just to grab attention. I feel like either the author doesn't really understand mainstream humor of a primetime TV show like 'Friends' and/or is tryi
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by gshrikant 8y ago
First, personal preferences aside, I'm sure that the team would have worked hard on the redesign so congratulations on launching that! Second, while I appreciate the opt-out option, is it here to stay or is it a fallback mode until the
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by gshrikant 9y ago
Doesn't the compiler produce a warning by default (on comparing a `char ` and `int `, for example) when using -Wall?
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by gshrikant 9y ago
Thanks! However, I still don't understand this completely. So the sizeof is there just to force evaluation of the comparison and because == can only be used among compatible types the compiler would warn? Why is the !! necessary then w
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by gshrikant 9y ago
What exactly is the typecheck macro doing here? I get that it compares the sizes of two pointer values but I don't know why and I feel like there is some C standard nuance involved here that I don't understand. Also, is the `sizeo
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by gshrikant 9y ago
I’m only an amateur Python programmer so grain of salt please. Python is excellent at being intuitive and readable for the original programmer or when you’re skimming the code looking for broad logic. Not so much for the maintainer. The pro
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by gshrikant 9y ago
Github pages + Bash + Python script. I have a very simple page layout for posts. A drafts directory maintains ASCIIDoc files for posts I'm writing. After writing I run `post.sh` with the file as the argument. It invokes a Python script
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by gshrikant 9y ago
That example doesn’t reflect the real world differences in page load time, however. IMO the load time arbitration doesn’t belong in the “search” engine. If your search engine fetches 10 fast loading pages but lacking the depth of informatio
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by gshrikant 9y ago
No, I believe it is for Christmas.

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