mananaysiempre

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by mananaysiempre 3mo ago
Username checks out :)
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by mananaysiempre 3mo ago
As long as you don’t care about interlanguage interop, sure. The opposite point of view, that every language tries to become an operating system (and consequently to prevent other languages from coexisting), is also possible, and I’m somewh
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by mananaysiempre 3mo ago
There’s a thin line between satire, which can convince, and sneering, which can only turn off. John Oliver, unfortunately, does end up on the wrong side of it from time to time, and can (together with his core audience) be something of a bu
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by mananaysiempre 3mo ago
Hebrew doesn’t count in my mind, but there’s also Portuguese (more for the sake of Latin America than Portugal itself). Arabic is missing from the list likely because almost every prospective immigrant with such a background has already mov
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by mananaysiempre 3mo ago
> If you go to lessons twice a week and dont do much else, yes. Right, this is with a schedule of 2–3 hr/wk of classes (and, as I’ve said, probably 1× to 2× that in homework). Remember this is for someone who likely has to work long
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by mananaysiempre 3mo ago
It is, in a sense. I maybe feel that, if one is unfamilliar with the CEFR levels, the description you gave might make things sound a bit more basic than they are: survival as a resident is more like A2, not B1. The B1 designation is like re
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by mananaysiempre 3mo ago
There’s also being poor, or working for an organization that’s poor. In both cases the obsolete(?) software might be various degrees of intentional, but the alternative is usually worse anyway.
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
Why does it need to be repeated? It is clear enough that the blogging era was a bit of an atypical period, that much is true; but why, on a website called Hacker News, should I need to care about what most people choose to do with their
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
> Social punishment (in the form of shunning, boycotts, "cancelling", etc) has been around as long as human society has existed and is incredibly popular. True. There’s a reasonable argument[1] that such things should continue
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
continued: Yohanan Johann John Jack Sean Evan Ian Jean Juan João Hans Jan Vanya Vano (and I’m not including feminine variants) Although if we’re talking Hebrew > Greek > European borrowings I’m guessing Chava = Eve is funnier. For bon
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
The phrase about omelette and eggs (or rather its direct counterpart, about timber and chips) ended up as the unofficial primary justification for Stalin’s Great Purge, so the point about strange bedfellows stands. Twentieth-century Russia
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
I mean, a lot of people these days, including a lot of anti-Facebook techies, seem to think it is right and proper to equate “freedom of speech” to the First Amendment to the US Constitution, scoped to the government only, whereas private
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
The dialectal form Aleksasha (following the common pattern Mariya > Masha, Pavel > Pasha, etc.) might reduce the confusion somewhat.
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
Probably not well enough for a game, no. But the Apple II[1] and even the Apollo Guidance Computer[2] used interpreted bytecode to make their programs more compact. (The AGC actually had near-seamless interworking between native code and by
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
> In movies, there is an extensive practice of showing "credits" at the end, and I enjoy reading them in detail. Thanks to huge protracted union fights. You’ll find the credits in an old US-produced movie—say, Gone with the Wi
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
Ah, so you want the function containing the interpreter loop to be compiled for the baseline architecture but some of the bytecode implementations inside it to use more advanced intrinsics? Yeah, I don’t think GCC has a good answer to that
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
I’m having vague flashbacks here so I might be guessing wrong, but: the only reason I’ve ever seen an “inlining failed” error from GCC when using intrinsics (and it was an actual error) was when it actually meant “you can’t use this intri
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
Fun fact: Watcom could also do fairly flexible inline assembly (and custom calling conventions) through its rather unassumingly named #pragma aux.
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
> While reviewing folks' C and C++ code, I've found the following reasons for inline assembly, where 1 is most common: 3a. rdpru (similar issues to cpuid) or rdpmc perhaps surrounded with lfence or cpuid inside the same assembl
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
A bit disappointing that (IIUC) for the common parsers you have to say everything twice, in HTML and in the accompanying JSON-LD form even though RDFa exists for the exact purpose of letting you point at the values already present in your m
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
> Can you LD_PRELOAD in front of the vDSO? I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that the kernel injects it directly. The kernel puts the vDSO in memory and tells ld.so where it is, but where if anywhere ld.so will put it in t
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
I don’t know how SMPTE works, but ISO meeting participants are, famously, unpaid volunteers. Or perhaps I should rather say negatively paid, as it costs money to participate in (more than one) meeting.
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
Not thus far, but I doubt one ever gets off this kind of chopping block once on it, so it seems to be merely a matter of time. It’ll probably take a year or two for CXMT to start producing consumer DDR5 in higher densities, if they even pla
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
So... anybody who was hoping for CXMT (or YMTC) to maybe cause RAM or flash prices to maybe drop, maybe just a bit, pretty please, can go pound sand? (YMTC of course is already on the Entity List.)
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
PII is a US-specific concept that has little relevance to the GDPR. So I wouldn’t say for sure that they have to give those photos to you but it wouldn’t be as simple as “not PII”.
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
With laptop ECC, which is admittedly a very niche thing. I believe ECC on desktop Zen 4 does work but I’ve heard reports that it took about a year of BIOS updates before it became stable. (Zen 4 was the first generation that shipped a DDR
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
Earlier, AMD also suprise-restricted ECC to PRO versions of (non-LPDDR variants of) their Zen 4 laptop SOCs, as in the “yes” in the ECC row silently changed to “no” on the product pages for the 7640U and the 7840U at some point between when
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
You’d have to spend a bit of time picking apart your arguments and releasing stuff on early error returns, but otherwise the Python/C API is completely banal and doesn’t really have much to learn. It might be worth the time to poke at
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
Yes, that was my point: just because people can’t react to unexpected events faster than ~100ms does not mean that shorter time periods can somehow be disregarded as imperceptible to the conscious mind or beyond human capability. The percep
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by mananaysiempre 4mo ago
> ~100ms represents optimal [human] reflex time in recent research. For unpredictable inputs. Intervals between a human own actions or discrepancies in delays between successive external events can be effected or perceived with significa

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