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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Nice bait. A professional embedded developer doing serious work would never in their right mind forgo C for embedded development. The fact that these people are working on porting Rust to increase safety over C is laudable and it's sad
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I don't think they are asking to not take a cost of living adjustment. I think they are asking to be able to work somewhere in the world other than Seattle.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Anyone have tips for how they manage their ADHD, specifically when you aren't able to get yourself motivated at all with the task at hand or feel like you have too may balls to juggle? I really struggle with yak shaving and perfection
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
That's not how that works. Rust can actually make power usage worse because it generates larger code sizes which causes more I-cache churn and thus more power usage. Making efficient use of caches, power states, and reducing polling ar
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
As a "systems" programmer I feel strongly that Rust is the wrong fit for most applications, but is suffering from web and application programmers needing that next fix of rewriting the world in a new shiny toy. You could have a ga
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
But C++ is an outlier in systems software. Systemd is written in C. Grub is written in C. The Linux kernel is written in C. Firmware is written in C. Sure there are some kernels that use a bit of C++, but it's an outlier, not the norm.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Being easier than C++ or Haskell isn't really saying much at all. Neither of them have improved code readability and are notorious for their learning curve.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
With all due respect, writing one program with a small memory footprint doesn't disprove my point. I'm referring to writing very large, complex programs that interact directly with hardware - kernels, boot loaders, firmware, all o
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
As a systems programmer any mention of the word Haskell next to the word Rust sends shivers down my spine. Haskell is the king of yak shaving abstractions and is almost the polar opposite in all the ways that made C the most practically suc
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Ask HN: Jumping onto the moving train of an active and large OSS project?
26 points by ilovecaching 4y ago|7 comments
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Absolutely. Tech companies already learned their lesson with the transition from the personal PC to the phone. VR will be even worse.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
How bad was the recovery? When could you start reading a computer screen?
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
My doctor keeps saying all the side effects will clear up within a few months for most people. But I hear a lot about light sensitivity and halos as being permanent. Is zero side effects just marketing? Does the light sensitivity include co
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Any side effects? It must be really frustrating to go months with vision that isn’t as good as just glasses. I’m worried about trading good vision with glasses for less that perfect and light sensitivity.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Would you do it again?
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Ask HN: PRK worth it and recovery time?
6 points by ilovecaching 4y ago|21 comments
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
How do I bypass the paywall
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Were you trying to make your own config, or use something prerolled like Doom?
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
You can try using emacsserver remotely. I would recommend using SSH proxying instead of messing with emacs over tcp. Personally I use emacs on a large dev machine running in a container in a terminal emulator. I can work from my iPad Pro, i
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I highly recommend modern Emacs over VSCode. If you don't want to tinker, Emacs has multiple levels of preconfigured distributions like Prelude, Nano, and Doom Emacs that give the same out of the box working experience. Modern Emacs in
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
That take detracts from the amazing work people have done over the decades to research and implement improvements to C and C++. We can innovate without throwing things away, even if it may seem boring to the uninitiated.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
They sound like someone that is attracted to chasing the high of the next technology to learn rather than picking a language like C/C++ that would have worked and given them way more career stability. Rather than mastering a bunch of p
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Web apps are applications and are the opposite of systems software. Systems software would be the web server itself, or something that runs beneath the application layer. Yes definitions are sometimes nebulous but that doesn’t mean words sh
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
The best language to learn and use right now for systems programming is C/C++. It is by far the most marketable skill with 99.999999% of all low level systems written in C or C++. Large scale systems used by companies that pay top sala
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I think you’re very confused about the purpose of a systems programming language.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I use an iPad Pro 12.9 inch and a Magic Keyboard as my primary dev machine and I love it. I have large bare metal servers I can connect to where I run vim+tmux using Termius. I also have a desktop, MacBook Pro, and a Thinkpad so I actively
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I wish I could use mosh, but unfortunately it can't use ProxyJump to tunnel through a bastion host which is how I always use SSH, which makes sense as it's use Proxy commands itself.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
You might be able to convince me that for certain languages and tasks, a Jetbrains editor is better than using a plugged up Vim or Emacs. And the up front cost is well known, and their corporate model is easy to understand. You’ll never con
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
We already have eBPF.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I'm really tired of the cargo culted idea that Rust is a silver bullet and C hasn't evolved since the 1970s. Neither of those things are true. The vast majority of people spouting opinions on Rust don't even write systems sof

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