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by jcranmer 2y ago
It sort of is and isn't true. CPUs are designed to make certain programming models work very well, and they've done so at the costs of making other kinds of programming paradigms work well (as compared to, say, a GPU, which wants
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by jcranmer 2y ago
> Yemen, which is doing a humanitarian intervention to help the Gazans. Firing rockets indiscriminately at ships is not even in the same planet as humanitarian intervention.
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by jcranmer 2y ago
Whenever you have a proposal like this that essentially laments that we don't have the nice shiny thing, it's quite useful to take a few step backs and ask "well, why don't we have it," and try to consider some of t
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by jcranmer 2y ago
Tesla is an interesting case, because it seems clear to me at this point that Musk is both a disaster for the company in terms of actively hampering its growth and an absolute necessity for the stock price. Given that Tesla's market va
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by jcranmer 2y ago
You know, right now, I sort of want to be an investor just so I could get on the investor/analyst call and have Elon Musk answer one question for investors: "Name 5 things you did in the past week for Tesla." Partially, just
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by jcranmer 2y ago
The NodeJS dependency is purely for running some tests. You shouldn't need it to actually build Firefox.
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by jcranmer 2y ago
IMHO, the real issue with Google isn't the control of the web browser, but the complete vertical integration of the ad space. Divest Google of its position as the ad broker (i.e., unwind its acquisition of DoubleClick), and prohibit an
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by jcranmer 2y ago
I haven't bothered to read the feed, but I'm going to go with "all of them", because what I personally object to is the process , so even trying to frame it in the veins of "do you support spending on X" is th
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by jcranmer 2y ago
> Hasn't this been debunked multiple times already? No. One of the main problems with the C user base is that there's a sizable number of developers who attach some sort of special status to C as the closest thing to assembly l
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by jcranmer 2y ago
The reason this makes panspermia less likely is that the panspermia hypothesis would prefer to put the point at which all amino acids become L-amino acids before arrival on Earth, whereas the evidence is that the amino acids on this asteroi
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by jcranmer 2y ago
Chirality means that there is a mirror image of a molecule that cannot be twisted into the original shape, despite being structurally identical. Due to the particular ways molecules tickle each other in living organisms to do interesting th
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by jcranmer 2y ago
It's been a while since I've read them, but I recall Heretics and Chapterhouse being better than God Emperor. Although also weirder.
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by jcranmer 2y ago
In the TV space, there's been, for 30 years (and mandatory in all new TVs in the US for the past 25), the V-Chip [1], which was specifically designed to be able to let parents disable viewing of inappropriate content. So it's not
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by jcranmer 2y ago
The Xbox 360/PS3 era of video game consoles is probably the hardest era to emulate. Subsequent generations of consoles are essentially the same hardware as regular computers, just with a custom OS (and known hardware profile, certainly
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by jcranmer 2y ago
He's not constitutionally able to do so. But DOGE has been trying to do effectively that for the past month, and has been distressingly successful at it. (For all that conservatives whined about the existence of an unaccountable deep s
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by jcranmer 2y ago
My guess is the first phrase is lawyer-brain for "we send the words you typed in the search bar to the search engine for you." (Yes, they need your express permission to do that, because copyright law is really fucking dumb and ma
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by jcranmer 2y ago
Mozilla is quite adept at own goals when it comes to privacy. If I were a Mozilla executive reviewing this policy, I'd send it back to the lawyers to make a lot more effort to be clear about what Mozilla will and will not do for stuff,
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by jcranmer 2y ago
> It's against the Terms of Use to use Firefox to... watch porn? Firefox isn't a Mozilla service. The Mozilla services are things like account sync, or the review tool they use.
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by jcranmer 2y ago
Judging from nearby wording, this is primarily geared towards the Firefox account stuff as opposed to the Firefox browser. (I'm not happy with Mozilla's decision to name everything Firefox, it makes things like this confusing.)
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by jcranmer 2y ago
> This is easily corrected in C by adding a small extension Unfortunately, easily corrected it is not. Yes, probably >95% of arrays have a nearby easily-accessible length parameter that indicates their maximum legal length (excluding
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by jcranmer 2y ago
There are definitely some regions of existing code where legitimately replacing the existing C/C++ functions with Rust is justifiable on its own. The big one I can think of is parsing code--things like parsing fonts (as sibling mention
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by jcranmer 2y ago
Why do journalists so rarely link to the actual court documents when talking about a complaint? Anyways, here it is: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.44...
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by jcranmer 2y ago
If that's the extent of your knowledge, you probably haven't understood enough of the issue, and why so many people are freaking about it. The deeper issue is that people thought it was (Matt Mullenweg is to WordPress) as (Linus
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by jcranmer 2y ago
It wasn't a single software bug. Broadly, what happened was this: * A power company failed to trim trees from its power lines properly. Four of their major transmission lines failed in one afternoon due to shorting out via tree. * The
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by jcranmer 2y ago
> > Optimization, hardware. > Quite don’t understand why these concerns are “concerns” here. One of the most frustrating things about C is that it is generally taught together with assembly, so that there is a general conflation be
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by jcranmer 2y ago
A temporary restraining order is an extraordinary measure, never granted as a right. To grant one, the plaintiff needs to succeed on all four factors: irreparable harm, likelihood of success on the merits, balance of equities, and public in
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by jcranmer 2y ago
> What actually happened is that the people who wanted to do the research (and/or pay for the research) dried up. C won hearts and minds; Fran Allen (and you) are lamenting that the side you preferred lost. Eh, sort of. The rise of
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by jcranmer 2y ago
C takes backwards compatibility quite seriously, so anything it adds has to be opt-in (not that it stops some people from trying to propose seriously breaking changes, but c'est la vie). Something like a borrow checker can be added (an
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by jcranmer 2y ago
> The assembly outputted from C compilers tend to be more predictable by virtue of C being a simpler language. The usual outcome of this assumption is that a user complains to the compiler that it doesn't produce the expected assemb
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by jcranmer 2y ago
Honestly, if I need to do bit-banging, I'd go with Rust over C these days. Rust has a much richer set of bit primitives than C does.

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