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by marvy 10y ago
This means that Rust has experience with wraparound and with panics. So this question should be answerable by someone on the Rust team: how much does the check cost? A few percent? A factor of 2? Surely not more than that?
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by marvy 10y ago
You should provide a link to your language for those unfamiliar with it.
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by marvy 10y ago
not always prime: try n=3 or n=5 or n=6 or n=7 or n=9 or n=10 or ... fun fact: all of these counterexamples have been divisible by 3 or 5.
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by marvy 10y ago
:)
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by marvy 10y ago
> Computer Modern, is [...] unreadable at low resolution I agree it's much worse at low resolution, but it is readable. How low do you have in mind?
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by marvy 10y ago
3. nitpick to the nitpick: your example is a bad way to prove that arrays and pointers are distinct: a = a; // also doesn't compile const int x, y; x=y; // also doesn't compile :) The following is m
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by marvy 10y ago
So that they can lose $2 billion instead :) Just kidding; bad joke; I just couldn't resist.
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by marvy 10y ago
You're joking, right?
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by marvy 10y ago
Looking at the rest of the thread helped. Thanks!
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by marvy 10y ago
more details?
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by marvy 10y ago
I've heard that Plan 9 doesn't have ioctl. But I guess that doesn't count as mainstream.
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by marvy 10y ago
Neat!
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by marvy 10y ago
Wow. I am truly impressed.
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by marvy 10y ago
I prefer to avoid the expression "beg the question" it's misused so often that you can't guess reliably which meaning the speaker intended, (or which meaning the reader will assume).
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by marvy 10y ago
dang, do you hear this?
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by marvy 10y ago
It means hardly anyone sees them.
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by marvy 10y ago
A lot of your posts show up as [dead]
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by marvy 10y ago
I admit that if you postulate that all needed breakthroughs are done within 10 years, then it starts looking plausible. But as you said, that's a BIG assumption.
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by marvy 10y ago
20 years sounds optimistic for "ubiquitous". Consider: it took over a century to go from Maxwell's equations (1861 and 1862) to modern cell phones. It took over a century from the time that Babbage proposed his analytical e
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by marvy 10y ago
They're working on Concepts, and they're working on yield (search for resumable functions). Maybe they can say "no" to "saying no"? :)
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by marvy 10y ago
It seems that you're just complaining that some applications read from /dev/random, but you wish they would read from /dev/urandom. If I understand you correctly, then it seems there exists a simple solution. (Dis
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by marvy 10y ago
Not 16 either. 25. Or maybe 24 if standing still is forbidden.
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by marvy 10y ago
not 8; 25
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by marvy 11y ago
No doubt it's easier, but it's worth mentioning :)
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by marvy 11y ago
That's not the table of contents, that's the whole book.
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by marvy 11y ago
I wonder if the Linux folks are even aware of this paper. Maybe they're not?
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by marvy 11y ago
I said this in the previous thread and I'll say it here too: Rethink the Sync is an attempt to solve this problem from ten years ago. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi06/tech/nightingale...
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by marvy 11y ago
Yes, definitely! If the edit timer hadn't expired, I would rewrite this. I wrote this in a horribly unclear way.
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by marvy 11y ago
Looks like I remembered, but there aren't any comments.
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by marvy 11y ago
I ran across a nice paper a few years ago: Rethink the Sync. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi06/tech/nightingale/... The basic idea is that the file system provides two guarantees, one borin

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