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by joosters 7y ago
I think the author has not yet encountered C++ vtables, they should take a read of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_method_table
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by joosters 7y ago
I agree, but part of the problem is that CPAN is old , i.e. it's been around for years, so you can find very out-of-date documentation and advice on the web about how to install packages. For example, if you find a page suggesting you
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by joosters 7y ago
Perl isn't dead. It's a perfectly good, stable language with excellent library support. It's just not sexy and new, so there's no buzz about it. Perl6, on the other hand, is effectively another language altogether, and I
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by joosters 7y ago
Is it really worth optimising the test runs in this way? The potential for making a mistake in the test resource specifications is huge. Sure, you might save a few minutes per test run, but at the cost of buggy, unreproducible tests that fa
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by joosters 7y ago
Being a multi-millionaire probably helped a bit, too...
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by joosters 7y ago
When the DNS blockchain forks, your browser just opens two new tabs instead of one and you get to visit both sites. Simple!
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by joosters 7y ago
A 'real time' OS does not mean fast . It is simply that the OS can promise an application/driver that it will get the processing time that it requests. e.g. a nuclear power station controller might use a RTOS to guarantee th
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by joosters 7y ago
Well, I can run a Turing Machine using javascript on my phone's Safari browser. Do you have another definition of 'general computing' ?
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by joosters 7y ago
Why not to trade a multitude of "custom" database managers for a single well-designed distributed database manager? It's not clear whether the author is arguing that all existing OS data structures should be replaced with a
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by joosters 7y ago
Yes, this is more convincing, but is still a little concerning. Given current interest rates, presumably these people 'gifted' the 5% loans could have already borrowed money at lower cost, they just wouldn't have had any acce
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by joosters 7y ago
Why bother with the middle man? If Softbank is so confident that its vision fund is going to make much bigger than 5% returns, it should be putting the money directly into there. The fact that it doesn't do this is a little ominous. Wh
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by joosters 7y ago
Just because you've not bought something by clicking on an ad doesn't mean that the advertising has changed your purchasing habits. ...unless you are magically immune from advertising?
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by joosters 7y ago
Thanks, and please do add them. Sites that are up-front with their fees and much more trustworthy in my eyes. If the fees aren't shown, it is often a sign that there's a nasty reason why.
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by joosters 7y ago
Why does your website hide your fees? Are you ashamed of them, are they very high and scammy, or is the small print so small that I can’t read it?
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by joosters 7y ago
They aren't too bad IMO. However, you need to set up a build environment/VM with your choice of your earliest-supported Linux+glibc. Build on old, run on new works well. Linux backwards-compatibility is pretty good, in that a stat
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by joosters 7y ago
And Hoover vacuums, once the star of every living room in the UK, sit in closets gathering dust Bad choice of phrase for the end of that story!
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by joosters 7y ago
Or maybe I've just revealed Google's secret new 5xdpi range of phones :-)
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by joosters 7y ago
Wow, first photo is a 2000x1489px PNG (4.5MB) and it is scaled to just 451x335px. (not even clickable to view at full size, it's just for page decoration) Nice web design, google!
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by joosters 7y ago
I thought that the Linux-on-PlayStation was actually a tax dodge? Something like it let them claim the devices were not just games consoles and so their import duties could be reduced in some regions.
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by joosters 7y ago
Techcrunch pages seem to have the highest number of adware/spyware scripts and links attached to them. I'd be amazed if the site hasn't also got a huge number of GDPR breaches in its workings.
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by joosters 7y ago
Thanks for that link - fascinating videos, I've already lost a couple of hours browsing through them.
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by joosters 7y ago
A similar comparison: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings than to the building of the Great Pyramid. (And not just by a small amount of time but about 500 years or so)
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by joosters 7y ago
> That said, even on Linux allocators will return NULL when they're just out of address space; there's no overcommit going on there. Try calling fork() in that process then. By rights, the new process should inherit its own c
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by joosters 7y ago
That's not a problem with NFS, that's a fundamental issue with computers. Things fail. Nothing protects you from losing data, your local log-structured filing systems won't save you either. They'll help you protect an ex
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by joosters 7y ago
It's the transparency of memory allocation that makes it so difficult to deal with failures. Even 'trivial' library functions could allocate memory, hell even calling a tiny dumb function might cause the stack to require a ne
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by joosters 7y ago
Actually, I'd say that if malloc (or equivalent) returns NULL then the system really is out of memory. Every general-purpose memory allocator is going to contact the OS to ask for more memory if it doesn't have anything free in
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by joosters 7y ago
Yes, but ideally you want to be throwing some ‘memory pressure’ signals before absolutely running out of memory, so that programs can take simple actions like emptying caches, etc. Catching an otherwise-fatal out-of-memory fault and recov
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by joosters 7y ago
FWIW, you can 'lock down' a hash so that reads or writes of non-existing keys will cause a fatal error. Not only does this stop autovivification on 'writes' to a hash, but it will also help catch typos in your code just
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by joosters 7y ago
Send me your money then, thanks!
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by joosters 7y ago
I was wondering this. Surely a captcha needs to have some form of 'hidden knowledge' that is validated only by sending something to the server for it to check - like the jigsaw puzzle captcha at the end of the article, or a '

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