lkirkwood

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by lkirkwood 20d ago
Semaphores are more general for sure. The common semaphore is just a counter, when you lock it you decrement the counter by one atomically. Therefore a mutex is just a semaphore with a limit of 1. I wouldn't say they're much trick
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by lkirkwood 21d ago
Really really cool. I am extremely impressed with the accuracy of the 3D model, and I suspect it is in large part thanks to the high quality ASCII art.
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by lkirkwood 26d ago
Have you got a source for this? I can't find anything
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by lkirkwood 1mo ago
Is capital gains / wealth tax a fix here though? Definitely not saying it doesn't work, I have no idea. But I'd be curious to hear both sides of the argument.
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by lkirkwood 2mo ago
Youre kidding! That's a great fact. Do you have a source for that joycon part?
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by lkirkwood 2mo ago
Seeing a lot of mentions of Tcl over the past couple days. Why so much love? When do you reach for it?
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by lkirkwood 2mo ago
Is this true though? Have you verified this claim? Or is it stemming from... a bad reputation
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by lkirkwood 2mo ago
2 large pizzas is near the threshold for the hours in a day?
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by lkirkwood 2mo ago
10 years ago though
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by lkirkwood 3mo ago
Not much skill in problem solving if you can't Google some react syntax
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by lkirkwood 3mo ago
Not that everyone should know it but it's definitely widely used. A Google search for "stack UAF" also turns it up.
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by lkirkwood 4mo ago
The tone here is a bit rude but I'm still curious: what does no runtime mean to you?
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by lkirkwood 6mo ago
Why? I thought it was pretty good, just get the rest of your function a lot of times and no context switching to type to an agent or whatever. It just happens immediately and if it's wrong just keep typing till it isn't. You can s
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by lkirkwood 11mo ago
... why? What does it offer that literally any other IDE does not? Genuinely asking.
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by lkirkwood 11mo ago
Are there that many people running Windows on ARM machines? I don't think I've ever met someone who was.
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
Tokio is fast, but it's huge! Check the size of any library or binary that includes tokio with even minimal features, let alone their recommended default feature set which comes with a complimentary kitchen sink.
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
I wish there was more of this in the world. Educational math content is very hard to do well. Great stuff!
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
If you're using LLMs for a large number of arithmetic calculations, you're exactly the problem GP is talking about. If you absolutely must use AI get it to generate code that will perform the calculations instead, so that you can
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
What is so superior about Visual Studios debugging experience that you're sure it can't be replicated anywhere else? I've never used it.
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
I find this infuriating. I get absolutely no sense that this is AI, and this bizarre attitude towards em dashes is nonsense. Loads of people use them, especially in less formal writing. Get over it.
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
Wow that is not encouraging
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
This is a funny thought, but do you think this would really happen? Surely anyone hiring a programmer would be aware of this.
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
Just nitpick but all odd numbers end in an odd number, not 1, and all even numbers end in an even number i.e. a multiple of 2.
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
Well that's the claim, isn't it. People tend to see an hour tick over and think "well, better wrap up". The impulse is much less strong at ten minutes to the hour. It's a bit like pricing things just below a round n
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
Yes, but once I'm at the checkout or it starts raining, I reach for it...
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by lkirkwood 1y ago
In my opinion it's unhelpful to pathologize behaviour like being blunt or speaking your mind. It's just another expression of the impulse to split the world into an in-group and an out-group. I especially agree with the last para
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by lkirkwood 2y ago
I felt the same but after switching to anyhow and thiserror in pretty much every Rust project I work on I find it quite painless. It's not ideal to rely on crates for a core language feature but I never find myself fighting error types
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by lkirkwood 2y ago
I think they probably do agree, GP says one per person wouldn't be enough.
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by lkirkwood 2y ago
... do you think people don't use Java anymore?
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by lkirkwood 2y ago
Sorry but that comparison is nonsense. Potato chips are just fried slices of potato. How would you squeeze 6-8 medium potatoes ( each weighing 5-10oz according to top Google result for "average medium sized potato weight") into a

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