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by knorker 7mo ago
> For most practical purposes, Swedish electricity generation has been basically fossile free since the 1980's. I think "practical purposes" should include the fact that thanks to also shutting down a bunch of nuclear, Swe
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by knorker 7mo ago
How is being late acceptable? Let's say you have a job interview. You're 5min late, so they either don't hire you, or the receptionist says the interviewer is now not available. Are you now due the salary, because you being t
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by knorker 7mo ago
Sure. To repeat: "It seems that language-culturally, Go authors are fine with breaking changes". I just chose x as examples of near-stdlib, as opposed to appearing to complain about some library made by some random person with ski
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by knorker 7mo ago
>> But any time you need to step outside of that "That" here refers to the standard library, so: > I can't remember any regressions I experienced caused by code changes to the large stdlib at all in the last decade I
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by knorker 7mo ago
Well, for C++ the backwards compatability is even better. Unless you're using `gets()` or `auto_ptr`, old C++ code either just continue to compile perfectly, or was always broken. Sure, the Go standard library is in some sense bigger,
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by knorker 7mo ago
Really? My experience is that of C, C++, Go, Python, and Rust, Go BY FAR breaks code most often. (except the Python 2->3 change) Sure, most of that is not the compiler or standard library, but dependencies. But I'm not talking ran
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by knorker 7mo ago
It's going to be 92,001 after they fire whoever reported something to make dear leader look bad.
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by knorker 8mo ago
I've been promoted several times for adding business value, complex or simple in implementation. Saving every team from doing X manually, saving so and so many engineer hours per year. At cost Y per year instead in one team. The higher
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by knorker 8mo ago
> I also don't expect the US would be okay letting the Iranian people pick who comes next. Khamenei: Dead. Ahmadinejad: Dead. Maybe the US/Israel have a list of people they plan on making "ineligible" to run Iran? The
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by knorker 8mo ago
> if we had high confidence we knew where they were That's a very big gamble. They only need to have hide one on a cargo ship and the attacker is going to have a Very Bad Day. Nobody's made that gamble yet. Yes, there's be
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by knorker 8mo ago
> It likely wouldn't be kinetic, but nukes didn't stop us from chipping away at the Soviet Union. So all it stops is kinetic attacks? Do you not think that's a big deal? I'm pretty sure Iran and Khamenei think that&#x
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by knorker 8mo ago
How does it factor in? How doesn't it? If Iran had deployable nukes, would they get invaded? Name a country that got bombed to credibly destroy the government, and had nukes. I'll wait.
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by knorker 8mo ago
I think you're overestimating the intelligence of most criminals. And their gun logistics discipline. If it were possible to do, it'd help. Also, removing the marking mechanism would be a process crime. Process crimes are very use
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by knorker 8mo ago
I guess it's gonna have to have it, now.
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by knorker 8mo ago
>> I said miniscule cancels out miniscule. > You keep claiming it somehow incurred substantial overhead This is going nowhere. You keep putting words in my mouth. Final message.
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by knorker 8mo ago
Ok that's not what I said. So we'll just leave it there.
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by knorker 8mo ago
Again, I have no idea what you mean by networking being a "problem".
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by knorker 8mo ago
Not sure what you mean by "problem". I said miniscule cancels out miniscule.
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by knorker 8mo ago
I would say that I understand all the levels down to (but not including) what it means for electron to repel another particle of negative charge. But what is not possible is to understand all these levels at the same time. And that has many
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by knorker 8mo ago
> he told me they did. This is when they (or at least Carmack) was doing development on Next? So were those the DOS builds?
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by knorker 8mo ago
> Linux kernel builds took something like 3-4 hours on an i486 From cold, or from modified config.h, sure. But also keep in mind that the Pentium came out in 1993.
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by knorker 8mo ago
> "Shipping" wouldn't be a problem, they could just run it from a network drive. This is exactly the shipping I'm talking about. The gains would be so miniscule (because, again, and incremental compile was never actua
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by knorker 8mo ago
I think they are referring to the 1997 hack/leak: https://www.wired.com/1997/01/hackers-hack-crack-steal-quake...
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by knorker 8mo ago
Yes, but the gains may be lost in the logistics of shipping the build binary back to the PC for actual execution. An incremental build of C (not C++) code is pretty fast, and was pretty fast back then too. In q1source.zip this article links
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by knorker 8mo ago
> The first batches of Quake executables, quake.exe and vquake.exe were programmed on HP 712-60 running NeXT and cross-compiled with DJGPP running on a DEC Alpha server 2100A. Is that accurate? I thought DJGPP only ran on and for PC comp
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by knorker 9mo ago
I assumed that obviously this is very clever performance art to show how even the healthiest food can be turned into brainrotting sludge. But then I look at the comments, and it really looks like some people want this. Now I'm depresse
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by knorker 9mo ago
Woz is not just "some guy at apple". He's a force in his own right to the point of being bigger than Apple in some ways. "Woz" is googlable. His name doesn't need context. "Larry" could be Ellison or
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by knorker 9mo ago
The fact that you have to be more specific than "Scott" says a lot.
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by knorker 9mo ago
That auto flip back and forth between before and after is the most annoying thing I've seen since the blink tag was removed.
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by knorker 9mo ago
This is not exactly right. True, $8B is not earth shattering because of the US's enormous debt. But by removing a potential $8B owner, it is a reduction in demand, and thus a tiny reduction in price. This is literally the first rule of

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