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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Emacs does this. See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2364/what-is-the-f...
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Yes, people in this thread are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Everyone knows that doctors are overqualified for the vast majority of tasks they are responsible for. Normally, there's good reason for this, because you w
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Yes, of course. But you were suggesting it was necessarily fraud. I'm just pointing out that that's not necessarily the case.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice: You'd be surprised. There's often enough give and take, enough ambiguity, in contract law and/or in any given contract such that disputing a debt is not a further wrong (cr
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice: disputing debts is not by itself fraud, even if you end up losing. If you have some "colorable claim" (i.e. some basis in law and fact to think that a court might plausibly rule
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Dangerously misleading headline. There is a circuit split on the interpretation of the CFAA, including on what counts as “unauthorized access”. If you are sued outside of the Ninth Circuit, you might get very different results.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I would never advocate for being mean. There’s no warm and fuzzy way to put it, that some people are taken advantage of because of their low intelligence. I was responding to someone who said that the suggestion was “insulting”.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
You acknowledge it yourself. There’s “risk” to both complying and ignoring the call. Anyway, risk tolerance isn’t the right lens to look at this. It’s about knowing whether that’s the way the government would actually issue demands and take
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Can we really not acknowledge that some people are dumb or ignorant and easily taken advantage of? It’s harsh but if you’re not willing to accept that, then you won’t be able to understand the world and make it better.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
The function of a patent is to give a temporarily monopoly to someone who has invented something new. It’s disingenuous to say “slightly different business” as if that’s the only possibility. It is true that they encourage disclosure, but t
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
This is a pretty absurd thing to say. Natural or accidental deaths are different than planned attacks. There is no shortage of murderous, suicidal people. If you made it easier for them, more of them would go for it. The 3 successful attack
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I don't think it's about long-running vs. short-running. That might be a heuristic, but what really matters is whether there is idle CPU time to be had between when you need large zeroed chunks of memory, or even if not, if you ha
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Because if you're needing to repeatedly free giant amounts of RAM, the OS probably doesn't have many zeroed pages and will need to zero them itself. Linux, at least, does not idle-zero, so if you want to take advantage of otherwi
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I’ve never understood why they had to port it at all. The 32-bit version of Pinball would have kept working just fine. And apparently, the binary from Windows XP still runs on Windows 10.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I doubt it. Needing to zero ultra large chunks of memory often enough that you care about performance to this extent is a very niche scenario. If I had to guess, Java probably just zeroes the memory upon garbage collecting it or before han
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Do you have a link where I can read more? I also wonder, for typical workloads, what percent of CPU time is spent zeroing pages.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
If you're routinely zeroing this much memory and the performance matters, you might benefit from idle-zeroing it. That is, when you need to zero the massive block, just switch to a different block that has already been zeroed or partl
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Take out the bulb and get a floor lamp. Better yet, unplug the damn thing altogether.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
It's just not true that those things are problems because of some lack of money. Those things are problems because of corruption, crime, and bad government. Regimes that get it right, e.g. the Asian Tigers, experience rapid growth.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Bezos is not simply some idiot who happened to be first. He runs a massive organization with extremely tight margins, hits targets year after year, delivers low prices from consumers, keeps a giant bureaucracy in check and prevents it from
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Congrats, you bought everyone a new iPhone or bike or shed. In a few years, it's ancient history and now you have no money left to loot. You're talking about a one-time distribution that would wipe-out all of the billionaires&#x
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Yes exactly. People act like this wealth is held in cash accounts in Switzerland or something (and even if it were, it would be reinvested by those banks).
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
If you took all of their money ($8.7 trillion) and gave it away to the 4.6 billion people, that would be $1891 per person. Now before you get excited, that's not per year or anything. That is if you took the total accumulated wealth o
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I can also attest that lots of “modern C++” code exists in Windows. There is code in Windows that was written yesterday and code in Windows that was written over three decades ago.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Absolutely, but that kind of code doesn’t really speak to complaints about modern C++ and all it’s become. I just wanted to chime in with that extra information. I don’t really have a dog in the fight, other than having a lot of love for C
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
A significant portion of the C++ code in Windows uses very few C++ features or idioms and is basically C with classes or one or two useful features.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Any number is a bad guess because we don’t have any sense of the likelihood of life emerging, even in the “optimal conditions”. It could be so unlikely that it’s probable there is no other life, it could be so likely that almost every “viab
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I was disappointed to see that the authors have decided to keep it closed source for now. Has anyone done a security audit of it?
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Even in a reference counted or RAII environment, you still have to think about this. Your C++ function might do something with a file (or other resource) and then a bunch of other stuff, or vice-versa. If you care about holding that resourc
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
> I'm asking out of curiosity because I want to learn a "system" programming language If you mean that you don't know any right now, just learn C. This isn't web programming, where everyone is always hopping to

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