malkia

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   by malkia 3y ago

   My father (ex air defense, working around really high current - ~40,000 volts) taught me this from long time - when you are about to touch a cable always do it with the back of your fist, because due to electricity you may clench your fist,
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   by malkia 3y ago

   best versioning is svn/p4/g4 monotonically increasing changelist/revision number
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   by malkia 3y ago

   Yes, that's true, and yet generations and generations have suffered from this and this affected their children for example it took so many years to get to this: https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/statement-apologizin
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   by malkia 3y ago

   The only two times I've touched something remotely tcl was - working on Metal Gear Solid's port from PS1 to PC - it used TCL-like scripting language for the levels, functions were main-like, e.g. "Chara_Init(int argc, const
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   by malkia 3y ago

   That's a pretty reasonable explanation, and one day I should sit down and write some artifical test/bench to get more details.
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   by malkia 3y ago

   Not sure what is currently in swift, but this paper described biased reference counting approach - e.g. in way two counters - one non-atomic to be used only by specific thread (supposed owner?), and another (atomic) by all other threads - s
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   by malkia 3y ago

   in C++ std::shared_ptr (similar story) has similar effect. One of our applications (3D editor) went way slower when an artist were given a server-class machine (NUMA) and we had to ensure that all threads would run on a single CPU socket (y
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   by malkia 3y ago

   While not fully ARPG, it felt like one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone_Warrior (1984) - one of my fav games from my childhood
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   by malkia 3y ago

   ah! Reading about Vale, I was actually thinking about Vala, now I see! (I barely know Vala, just from compiling some GTK/Gnome related code).
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    by malkia 3y ago

    But it just did, in the article itself - https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-023-01...
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    by malkia 3y ago

    backports?
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    by malkia 3y ago

    it takes heavy toll, but even then it might not be enough due to it's driver altitude. Some tips here - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ask-the-performance-t...
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    by malkia 3y ago

    Found this video too which is worth watching - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGRn5ZIbEW8
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    by malkia 3y ago

    For C++ check this one out - https://github.com/arximboldi/immer and this talk from the author - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oBx_NbLghY (CppCon 2018: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “The Most Valuable V
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    by malkia 3y ago

    Well in this case probably would've caught it, given debug mode, coverage. It's not even hw issue (AFAIT).
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    by malkia 3y ago

    I wonder if unit testing was ever considered, (or possible?) for the Linux source code?
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    by malkia 3y ago

    There are many good uses, and I wish the `new` always required it.
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    by malkia 3y ago

    Holy - the explanation you provided clicked for me! Thank you! And I should use now `phind.com` - awesome!
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    by malkia 3y ago

    Wild! I wish I had that utility back then! I'm glad though so many other games supported the Hercules. The machine was used by my uncle who went to the States, and he used it mainly for AutoCAD.
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    by malkia 3y ago

    Might've been or maybe I found where the "flip" code was in. Wow I can't imagine digging through compiled code like this today - lol...
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    by malkia 3y ago

    I've also found this message - https://www.mobygames.com/game/6522/trolls/trivia/ - but back then I could not read/understand english that well so wasn't sure what it was about, and that i
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    by malkia 3y ago

    My first PC computer came with Hercules card! Awesome resolution, but barely can play most of the games. So I hacked one game https://www.mobygames.com/game/6522/trolls/ to run on it. Here is what it involved
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    by malkia 3y ago

    You are probably right, wrong recollection then, or it might've been an episode where some time was spent on talking about other important points - culture, life, etc. Podcasts (not only this one) have evolved a lot! (another fav of mi
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    by malkia 3y ago

    https://twitter.com/ciura_victor/status/1662536472342192128 "Rinse and repeat That’s my std::launder joke " best answer I've got so far :)
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    by malkia 3y ago

    I've been listening to Signals and Threads podcast, and I remember listening to this episode - https://signalsandthreads.com/memory-management/ (I don't know neither Ocaml, nor Haskell, or any ML language), b
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    by malkia 3y ago

    Explain std::launder then - https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/launder - it's simple word, mostly used when talking about dirty money ;) - but hey - I've still no idea how/when/why
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    by malkia 3y ago

    Not sure if this would help, but saw it some months ago - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp-contrib/... - I've not used nginx myself, so not sure how viable/useful this is
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    by malkia 3y ago

    Dart/flutter can now target wasm (unstable), so better gc support is coming (e.g. not gc running from whatever you compiled, but rather the wasm vm would do for you)
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    by malkia 3y ago

    I remember seeing "gcc/clang/cl -o blah.so/dll/dylib" for an UDF functions (various DBs), and then dlload/loadlibrary/etc it. Nothing new really, but avoids having a compiler, and maybe the `wasm` san
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    by malkia 3y ago

    Also I would quickly return something to say the website is busy, and apply some kind of back pressure - since a process can handle only that much. But I have less experience there to say, though my surprise while working with Java used for