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by klabb3 2y ago
This is very exciting. I don’t have any GPU background, but I have been worrying a lot about CUDA cementating itself in the ecosystem. Here devs don’t need CUDA directly which would help decoupling the ecosystem from cynical mega corps, alw
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by klabb3 2y ago
Right, but that’s a global property of everything that uses the lock, so if you’re writing a library you'd have to run the analysis against real or synthetic call graphs. Plus it’s very easy to accidentally break that property if you’r
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by klabb3 2y ago
It’s a mixed bag. Yes there is a lot of hipster fanboyism. But I’ve also seen a lot of old timers coming from a career in C++ where Rust basically formalizes a lot of best practices and removes a lot of the worst footguns. I see the hope in
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by klabb3 2y ago
GGP here. I think you’re both right. As a formerly involved contributor I can assure you that there are legitimately hard problems, and that there are very bright people working on it. However, the reason why it’s so hard, is imo because Ru
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Scoped threads have been reintroduced to Rust Right, but those are a mere shadow of what they used to be, which was JoinHandle with a lifetime parameter. You can’t build a thread pool or async runtime with static borrowing across tasks
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Big remaining problems involve deadlock analysis, both in the thread sense and in the Rc/borrow sense. Those are somewhat equivalent. I'd like to have static deadlock analysis in Rust. If you had that, I think you could get s
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by klabb3 2y ago
Very cool! Do you have a link to a demo to see what it would look like?
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Instead, they're a product of Eink Holdings, Inc. From what I remember, most of the screen refresh algorithms etc are Eink IP. And by the way, the cost of the display module alone was eye-watering Layman here, but what you describ
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by klabb3 2y ago
Yes, I like responsive too, although it’s borderline industry jargon. I still think snappy is perhaps a bit more down to earth but I don’t know how common it is outside of American English, which could be a problem with an international aud
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by klabb3 2y ago
Note that hackernews is notoriously anti “marketing speech”. I don’t think there’s anything bad with elaborating but lightweight/snappy/slim is pretty much what’s important, given that there’s so much slow bloatware out there. Not
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by klabb3 2y ago
Mozilla had this famous sign 8ft up on the wall that said “you must be this tall to write multi-threaded code”[1]. A lot of people will claim to be able to master it. The track record shows that even the superhuman domain experts make mista
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by klabb3 2y ago
As a maintainer that just makes it worse. Familiarity with the code base is typically necessary to make a good quality contribution. Issues are a sign of love, imo, because they don’t want to stop using your project, they want it to improve
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by klabb3 2y ago
> As the article states, no sensible application does 1-byte network write() syscalls. Software that does that should be fixed. Yes! And worse, those that do are not gonna be “fixed” by delays either. In this day and age with fast inte
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by klabb3 2y ago
As someone who needed high throughput and looked to QUIC because of control of buffers, I recommend against it at this time. It’s got tons of performance problems depending on impl and the API is different. I don’t think QUIC is bad, or eve
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by klabb3 2y ago
If massive surveillance is so necessary for our safety, why isn’t there any reporting on all the threats to society they’ve been averting, or criminals caught? I get that they can’t reveal everything, but as it stands now it’s all hush hush
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by klabb3 2y ago
It’s already obvious from the comments that it’s sensationalism and this is an older plane that didn’t crash. So at least HN is working that way. The fact that there is a negative sentiment against a company which have degraded their engine
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by klabb3 2y ago
> it's about avoiding being the party responsible When you wander the world, and see something odd, out of place, it’s often caused by an ancient mystical force known as liability.
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by klabb3 2y ago
I don’t understand the confidence that leads to such misuse. I’m NOT a db guy by any means, and yet when I need one I’m carefully looking up things like “what’s the space complexity of compound indices”, at a development stage. Defensive an
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by klabb3 2y ago
Please send a message to the manufacturer asking for a free product sample to try this out on a public beach.
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by klabb3 2y ago
Tiring is good though, it means you can reach a maximum of energy expenditure. There’s a trade off with how big to make the fins though, similar to gears on a bike. Too small and you get bigger losses, I assume. Also depends a lot what you
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by klabb3 2y ago
I’m not saying one or the other is better for your family members. But MacBooks last very long. We'll see about the M series but for myself for instance I got the M1 air without fans, which has the benefit of no moving pieces or air in
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by klabb3 2y ago
What stuff is weird? I have so far had very good experiences with Apple (although not iOS yet). Almost everything I do on my Linux workstation works on Mac too. Windows though is beyond horrible and different in every way. > I do network
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by klabb3 2y ago
As a single market, US is probably biggest. I’m seeing numbers that say that the “Americas” is a bit less than half of global revenue, and that would include Canada and all of South and Latin America. So the rest of the world is of course v
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by klabb3 2y ago
> The thinkpad, […], lasts 2 hours. This echoes my experiences for anything that needs power management. Not just that the battery life is worse, but that it degrades quickly. In two years it’s barely usable. I’ve seen this with non-Ap
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by klabb3 2y ago
Did you reply to the right comment? Feels like we’re talking about different things altogether.
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by klabb3 2y ago
Clumsily phrased. What I meant is that iPhones or similar priced smartphones are affordable and common for say middle class in countries with similar purchase power to Eastern European countries. You’d have to go to poorer countries like Vi
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by klabb3 2y ago
> but it is about selling luxury hardware. Somewhat true but things are changing. While there are plenty of “luxury” Apple devices like Vision Pro or fully decked out MacBooks for web browsing we no longer live in a world where tech are
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by klabb3 2y ago
> You can't hire smart motivated people and then be surprised when they figure out to optimize for their rewards. Never said that. I don’t have a solution. Well I have a partial solution, but not complete: Reward all team members eq
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by klabb3 2y ago
> getting people to use even the first layer of threads is very difficult Partly a UX problem. In slack and discord, the default is to send unstructured message to the whole chat - with a big text box and send button at the bottom. The r
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by klabb3 2y ago
Spot on haha. The promo design doc is directly incentivized by managers: “if you just see a bunch of CLs, it doesn’t tell a story. You need to write it down as a coherent narrative and get some >L5s to comment on it”. “It’s not for me it

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