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by kgeist 4y ago
>In Java 20, MemorySegment::address returns a raw memory address in the form of a long rather than a MemoryAddress object So the API assumes pointers can't be larger than 64 bit?
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by kgeist 4y ago
>So Olric has client implementations in all major programming languages.
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The most common performance problems I've encountered in our projects are: 1) lack of indexes resulting in extensive table scans 2) I/O calls in a loop without batching. I don't know if it counts as "I/O bottlenecks
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by kgeist 4y ago
Being from Eastern Europe myself (I confirm that it's not very popular), I never understood the appeal of Twitter in the current form (I'm not talking about the original idea of just posting your current status). It's like a
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>According to statistics cited by the NCMEC, most missing children are abducted by relatives or parents It's safer to be around strangers than relatives, when it comes to kidnapping.
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by kgeist 4y ago
>Someone high up at the FSF called the first WSL "GNU/kWindows" What does "k" stand for?
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by kgeist 4y ago
I don't think it can be optimized without altering semantics. If it's a pointer to a value in the slice, changing the slice's values (ruleset[i] = ...) will be reflected in all Rule values returned from the function, because
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by kgeist 4y ago
My detection ratio was 100% successful and I didn't pay attention to anything in particular, it just clicked. I don't know what gave it away. I suspect that is because I looked through so many pics on thispersondoesnotexist.com, m
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by kgeist 4y ago
>Go isn't polymorphic enough Can you elaborate?
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I wonder what was the rationale for their formatting rules. No spaces around "=", "==" or "," but there're spaces around "?" and "||".
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>Just let me throw exception, collect entire stacktrace, let me catch exception whenever I want or dump stacktrace if nobody caught it and goroutine died. Go allows you to do that with panic/recover, although it's not quite idi
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> You check that stuff when the data enters the system. There can be N entrypoints where data enters the system (different controllers, CLI), so you must always remember to validate emails in N places, otherwise broken data could end up
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>Attempting to retry these failed jobs tied up our worker and it was unable to process new incoming events, resulting in a severe backlog in our queues. Interesting - we have this kind of thing quite often. Basically, an event is stuck i
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by kgeist 4y ago
Here in my country, to officially be recognized as a disabled person, you're required to undergo full medical examination every year (which can take weeks) and spend hours in lines to be reevaluated, otherwise your status will be revok
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by kgeist 4y ago
Fat events once overloaded our message broker with OOM under high load and the broker's default behavior was to block all publishers until the queue was emptied (to release memory) - downtime as a result. Another issue was that under h
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by kgeist 4y ago
Kudos to the author but I got the impression that they equate "learning to program" with "learning syntax" which, I think, is a mistake. I've noticed the article talks a lot about things like "print", &quo
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What the article is missing is how they learned the new error messages are now more helpful to the end user. Some kind of metrics: maybe, the number of support tickets/angry reviews decreased? Otherwise without clear criteria for succe
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by kgeist 4y ago
I'm familiar with a different C-- developed by Peter Cellik which appeared before the language in the article (1997). But the article has no mention of it. The discussion page of the article does mention there used to be many languages
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by kgeist 4y ago
With Apple leaving Russia and removing government-affiliated apps from App Store with no way to side-load them, the only other option is Android now and blocking Google completely will probably render most smartphones useless, as most Andro
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by kgeist 4y ago
None of Google's services are banned in Russia.
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Doesn't server rendering increase load on the server? I like to off-load as much processing to the user's browser as possible. We have ~1 million users and I like to think that when we off-load a lot of processing to the browser,
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by kgeist 4y ago
Symfony is actually more like several different frameworks under the same name. Some of our projects are stuck with Symfony 1 and upgrading them to the latest version is aking to switching the frameworks because they have almost nothing in
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According to Raymond Chen, this usually happens when software relies on undocumented APIs or undefined behavior. When Windows removes undocumented APIs or changes behavior not covered by the documentation, such apps break and people blame M
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by kgeist 4y ago
>By the way, Yandex was showing Crimea as unqualifiedly Russian territory since 2014 Google and Apple used to show it as part of Russia to Russian users as well. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/
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by kgeist 4y ago
Is Russian "New Year" really different from American "Christmas"? Both are about a certain old man giving gifts to children, both are about a certain kind of tree, etc. From what I gathered, it's not really a religi
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Indeed, since one of Lua's primary use cases is bindings to C/C++/etc., whenever you have C<=>interop you have to adjust indices.
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I also hate microwaves, why do most of them have such loud sounds. If I set the timer to 1 minute there's no need to remind me when it ends, I'm literally standing next to it. Yet it produces this loud sound, so you can't use
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by kgeist 4y ago
I heard Stable Diffusion's model is just 4 GB. It's incredible that billions of images could be squeezed in just 4 GB. Sure it's lossy compression but still.
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The graphics and animations look somewhat dated, but I assume the footage in question is about figuring out gameplay mechanics and most of the assets are dummy assets quickly put together for the prototype.
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Interesting, we have a similar situation. A lot of information all at once, hard to navigate, search etc. Usually developers are so confused a figma doc is often used more like a prototype to show during a demo than a spec to share. Instead

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