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by jasonzemos 7y ago
Specifically, the Intel manual makes the following important points, one involving an `mfence;lfence` combo: * If software requires RDTSC to be executed only after all previous instructions have executed and all previous loads are globally
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> the fact that 99% of the population basically just uses the minimal subset of features The tendency is for people to invoke features situationally. If you are communicating with someone who is using rich-replies there is a tendency to
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Thanks Neil. It's difficult to find alternative servers on that page so I will help by linking to The Construct which is the only other federating server. Though it is not yet stable, it is the only functioning third-party server and h
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> messaging apps are all the same, making them easy targets for standardization and interoperability. This is patently false. Look no further than the other comments in this thread. Nobody can agree on what they want out of the messaging
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That's because they stole it. When you stand on the shoulders of giants it's not difficult to take the next step. In cases where the Soviets outpaced the west, most notably in the space race, they did so for lack of prudence. The
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Is Mozilla an example for the next major adopter of Matrix or are they not? If they are, and everyone else signs up for modular.im as well: at what point does this ship of Theseus called Federation only exist inside a bottle?
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This is really good news. I have only one question for Mozilla: why choose a solution whose hallmark is decentralization and the libre model- only to become a customer of a centralized host (modular.im). Why can't Mozilla actually fede
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Is this statement a joke? Who makes a statement from a company by saying they are making a statement by the management? What's the point? To look official? Next, this "statement" says nothing. Of course that's the point,
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Who am I to submit a proposal to fix fundamental problems in your company? That's called consulting. You just raised an 8 million dollar Series A you are soliciting me to work for you for free, in the leaf comments of a Hacker News thr
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I selected some examples because I don't want to be lost in abstraction, but please, I am asking kindly that you not focus on my examples (unless it's pressing) because the issue here is systemic. I'm not giving these examp
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I'll just pick one. Matrix is resource-heavy, even in the best of times. There is a confluence of smaller contributing factors, and several effects on both its usability and developer/platform friendliness. Consider this anecdote
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Others have better responses to the rest of these points; many of them are still significant issues though a lot has progressed over the last couple years. I can preempt one though by saying alternatives to Synapse like https://g
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I'd rather see interest in Matrix than ActivityPub.
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> You research the chemistry ... I would say that is literally the most public information in the universe.
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> Over the years, their numbers have included construction workers, insurance agents, pharmacists — even an underwear distributor. This is ironic for a conservative state because it's indistinguishable to me from Soviet communism. I
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I'm referring to a single 1cm^2 paper tab; of course the contents can vary due to the unregulated effects of prohibition. This is just not enough to induce strong visual hallucinations and Hunter S. Thompson type experiences. There has
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> It was akin to 12 hour, mentally-clear cannabis high. This is the best way to describe reasonable (small) doses of LSD. It's like the purest sativa possible; as if somebody removed all of the earthiness and stoniness and then ampl
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What is he really supposed to represent? Skipping all the hard work, middle-fingering the system, and getting rich quick? That's worth at most 15 minutes of fame, and a long long time ago. Mr. Buterin isn't in jail simply because
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> Either Vitalik is extremely smart or he just doesn't know what he's talking about. Overall, his opinions are just confusing and distracting like the whole Ethereum ecosystem. Vitalik started out years ago with writings consis
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Would you be alright if a VPN profiled and sold your browsing habits, engaging in very traditional, even benign business model similar to what everyone else is (e.g. credit cards, etc) doing -- but with the knack of keeping your real identi
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So my running conclusion is that Rust's founding decisions were made with a sort of "go big or go home" logic given this premise. To conclude that breaking even one part of C/C++ is grounds to throw up one's hands a
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> This means that effectively all C++ code would fail to compile under this implementation. You're implying that all C++ code uses pointers and that's patently false. It's even false for C code. Pointers was the first thin
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> Are you suggesting that the only language that should get to use KVM is C What I'm asking is why Rust can't read the C header. I know that sounds like a ridiculous question, but I'm asking it honestly and seriously.
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> Implementations are irrelevant And that's why Rust started from scratch. I totally understand the problem and the justification to address it. Yet nobody has ever been able to justify why it's necessary to dispense with the
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> Explicit compile-time tracking and enforcement of the scope of object validity, preventing (or at least making more unlikely) a class of bugs including use-after-free, uninitialized reads, buffer overflows, dangling pointers. Why does
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by jasonzemos 7y ago
Then perhaps correct me on what problems Rust is specifically trying to solve? As far as I can tell Rust stands on the shoulders of the LLVM backend- there are existing frontends, like C and C++ but Rust started from scratch. My question is
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What I don't understand about all of these languages born out of some inspiration to "do C++ right" which includes the inception of Java, Go, and now this: is the complete disregard for established systems and failure to stan
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This comment literally illustrates the pathology described by its parent. Not all organizations are cults run by cliche fascists who crush subordinates who make that kind of criticism.
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Why does that justify conforming the user to the software? Software, especially web software, has this magical quality of doing different things for different people even at the same time.
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> Her statements have been coherent, extensive and detailed; however, my overall assessment is that the evidential situation has been weakened to such an extent that that there is no longer any reason to continue the investigation. I use

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