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811.
by maccard 11mo ago
Here's the thing - I don't really care if its' because the interpreter has to start up, or there's a remote http call, or we scan the disks for integrity - the end user experience on every run is slower.
812.
by maccard 11mo ago
A python file with import requests Takes 250ms on my i9 on python 3.13 A go program with package main import ( _ "net/http" ) func main() { } takes < 10ms.
813.
by maccard 11mo ago
Stupid question, but what does the default init program do? If I have a single application (say a game), can I just set up the file system, statically link my game and bundle it as an iso, rather than say containerising it? Purely academic.
814.
by maccard 11mo ago
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with consoles, and only affects PC builds of the game
815.
by maccard 11mo ago
Nowhere in that does it say “we did zero benchmarking and just went with hearsay”. Basing things on industry data is solid - looking at the steam hardware surveys if a good way to figure out the variety of hardware used without commissionin
816.
by maccard 11mo ago
Steam breaks your content into 1MB Chunks and compresses/dedupes them [0] [0] https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/uploading#AppStructur...
817.
by maccard 11mo ago
This isn't unique to games, and it's not just "today". Go back a decade [0] find people making similar observations about one of the largest tech companies on the planet. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/
818.
by maccard 11mo ago
I've been involved in decisions like this that seem stupid and obvious. There's a million different things that could/should be fixed, and unless you're monitoring this proactively you're unlikely to know it hsould
819.
by maccard 11mo ago
> but that doesn’t make them “places no one uses You're putting words in my mouth there - that's not my point. My point is that if they're not running linux, and the ones that are aren't running a modern kernel, then
820.
by maccard 11mo ago
Hah I’m not that young - it’s a figure of speech!
821.
by maccard 11mo ago
What’s your definition of tip of the tippy top AAAA games? Because an awful lot of them are using unreal too!
822.
by maccard 11mo ago
Pretty much everything in unreal aside from the rendering code and platform interaction layers is written in uobject and actor land - which is garbage collected. The rendering code also isn’t “just” not garbage collected - it eschews all th
823.
by maccard 11mo ago
I’ve done a decent amount of low level code - (never written a driver but I’m still young). The vast majority of it can be safe, and call into unsafe wrapped when needed. My experience is that a very very small amount of stuff actually need
824.
by maccard 11mo ago
How many of them are running Linux, and how many of them are running a modern kernel?
825.
by maccard 11mo ago
Every game made with Unreal has GC bolted onto it. GC is absolutely viable for shipping games.
826.
by maccard 11mo ago
https://www.quooker.co.uk/ - these are the only "boiling water" ones (as in 100 degrees C), but if you're ok with 98C, then you can get https://www.screwfix.com/p/swirl-danube-3-in-1-inst
827.
by maccard 11mo ago
I think CI/CD to those platforms would be more useful than “one click deploy”. Submit your changes - 2 minutes later it’s deployed.
828.
by maccard 11mo ago
Python with celery is not my stack of choice but: This is awesome and I would use it in a heartbeat.
829.
by maccard 11mo ago
You're getting all up in arms about a strawman argument that you feel very strongly about. I' > as a result laptop makers have no incentive to making long lasting repairable laptop and our planet will look like a giant electric
830.
by maccard 11mo ago
One thing in that thread; > Most UK kettles are not 3000W, and most of the ones that are, are junk. Y They may not be 3 kW, but even the most basic of them are 2200W [0], and 3000W ones are readily available are not much more expensive [
831.
by maccard 11mo ago
> It doesn't have to be insulated like an insulated water bottle or anything, plastic is good enough for this. Yeah I agree, but I was responding to the point of: > The standard kettle already tries as hard as possible to insulat
832.
by maccard 11mo ago
So can a random deb, or npm package, or pip wheel? You’re either ok with executing unverified code or not - piping wget into bash doesn’t change that
833.
by maccard 11mo ago
For all intents and purposes “mispricing” doesn’t just happen widely. This is a policy problem with the stores. The difference between an accident and fraud is intent - it’s pretty clear there’s systemic intent here. > do you honestly be
834.
by maccard 11mo ago
> I will add that most places, forums, sites don’t deliver the hash OOB. Unless you mean like GPG but that would have came from same site. For example if you download a Packer plugin from GitHub, files and hash all comes from same site.
835.
by maccard 11mo ago
If we really cared about efficiency of these devices, they'd be insulated.
836.
by maccard 11mo ago
Not OP but - I can't answer the specific regs, but 16A/240V is absolutely bog standard for the UK and every high street store stocks ovens that will draw this down. They need to be on their own circuit, e.g. this [0]. I've ne
837.
by maccard 11mo ago
> Obviously the battery should be replaceable. (It should be in most electronics, really...) This is super wasteful when we can just hook up a heating element to an insulated tank and keep it hot like Quooker [0] does. Assuming the 3L ta
838.
by maccard 11mo ago
> These are however all software, not hardware bound issues Completely agree, which is why the only part that I really care about being replaceable is a battery - the hardware from 2017/2018 holds up to most use cases.
839.
by maccard 11mo ago
> IME the problem with corporate Windows laptops is often the enterprise software crap on them rather than the hardware, necessarily. I work for a small org, the laptop was bought from Dell and shipped to me. It's running vanilla Wi
840.
by maccard 11mo ago
> The assumption here is that the MacBook is better because of soldering components rather than because Apple simply made a better chip and has a better OS than Windows. That's your assumption - my point is that I don't care a

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