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by masklinn 1y ago
while the article does not provide specific dates for the “prehistory” the Not Rocket Science piece refers to an automated integration system working circa 2000~2001: > February 2 2014, 22:25 […] Thirteen years ago I worked at Cygnus&#x2
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by masklinn 1y ago
Unicode implementation was always a ton of work. Far as I can tell there have been few novel features beyond ZWJ sequences maybe? I don’t know if these are treated separately or as ligatures by engines. The big thing is that historically th
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by masklinn 1y ago
> But I think you can tweak musl to perform well You can not, its allocator does thread safety via a big lock and that’s that. > musl is closer to the spec than glibc Is it? > even if its slower in the default case for multithreade
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by masklinn 1y ago
The cybertruck cleared “released”, what it failed is “decent”. > The QC Was never Tesla’s forte.
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by masklinn 1y ago
> This echoes the past when the tobacco industry performed such tactics. Or Monsanto. Or GM / Ethyl Corp. Or Purdue. Or... Purdue is a pretty close match I think: they didn't have to be completely bereft of ethics and actively
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by masklinn 1y ago
AMD's threadrippers had 64 cores in 2020. The workstation targeted threadripper pro reaches 96. These are desktop parts, the top end of their server offering has 192 cores.
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by masklinn 1y ago
“The allocator is perfectly fine as long as you don’t use it” is more a confirmation than a disagreement.
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by masklinn 1y ago
“Generalised to a wide range of use cases” is a really strange way to say “unsuitable to most multi-threaded programs”. In 2025 an allocator not cratering multi-threaded programs is the opposite of specialisation.
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by masklinn 1y ago
The rust project made a sensible decision given its direction and goals, and musl’s allocator is garbage for any multithreaded program.
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by masklinn 1y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
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by masklinn 1y ago
These are beginner horrors. For me nothing beats the insanity of the gnu style: https://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle.html#_style=gnu
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by masklinn 1y ago
> why is Rust performance contingent on a C malloc? Because Rust switched to “system” allocators way back for compatibility with, well, the system, as well as introspection / perf tooling, to lower the size of basic programs, and to
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by masklinn 1y ago
The new allocator does nothing to improve the performances in a threaded / contended application: https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2025/09/04/3
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by masklinn 1y ago
moved-from objects are not in an empty state but in an unspecified state, they are only required to be destructible, every other operation can be disallowed. That is not a useful state for default construction. Thus being movable does not i
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by masklinn 1y ago
> It's not like it's the only part of the language that mandates a default constructor though It’s… not a part of the langage which mandates a default ctor in the first place.
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by masklinn 1y ago
> Granted, these repercussions of these defaults also result in (in my opinion) verbose language constructs like iter, into_iter, iter_mut ↩ Note that assuming the into_iter comes from IntoIterator that’s what the for loop invokes to get
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by masklinn 1y ago
In most of Europe high current would be 32A, 16A is generally the standard (though I know Switzerland uses 10A and I believe UK plugs are rated for 13).
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by masklinn 1y ago
Are you talking about shore power? Because that has nothing to do with EV charging.
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by masklinn 1y ago
We’re not talking about high current anything, we’re talking about standard mains electricity.
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by masklinn 1y ago
> Standard circuits are either 8A or 10A. Both type E and F plugs are rated for 16, and afaik that’s generally the rating in countries which use them. I’m sure there are others but Switzerland is the only country I know of in Europe were
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by masklinn 1y ago
Wow your phone and laptop have a feature which makes the battery never run out? The wonders never cease.
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by masklinn 1y ago
It might be that the average euro is less aware of continuous draw limitations since there’s so much more power normally (compared to US residential power). Could also be that for historical reasons you could have a house wired for 10 or 13
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by masklinn 1y ago
A hybrid can do that by running the ICE (or not). An EV can do that how exactly, refusing to run? Mugging the elderly for loose kWh?
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by masklinn 1y ago
> People who have bought them abroad are sometimes advised to keep the battery between 20%-80-90% full. You want to keep batteries roughly in that range to maximise their lifetime health. That doesn't mean the battery will explode i
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by masklinn 1y ago
A big difference is that if you go to a gas station you’ll have both (and possibly more). At least in Europe. So while you need to fill with the right fuel unless the pump is broken or the tanks are empty the fuel you need will be available
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by masklinn 1y ago
> The EU only mandates CCS2 in _charging points_ Right but that’s the most important one. If you have a leaf it means you know you need an adapter always , so while it’s a bit of a hassle to waste space on that there’s no question wheth
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by masklinn 1y ago
> Anyone who follows Jeff will know he's US-based That was obvious from the article but given they specifically mentioned CCS2 bundled with the mess that is US charging I thought important to point that (anecdotally) the situations
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by masklinn 1y ago
> Lack of standards: For 'L3' DC Fast Charging, the Leaf has a CHAdeMO port. Teslas and many newer EVs have NACS. Then there's CCS1 and CCS2. And charging stations are run by multiple vendors with multiple apps and payment
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by masklinn 1y ago
True, but the low latency and constant-ish access patterns of flash makes a lot of its performance characteristics closer to ROM than CDs, even with the intermediate copy.
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by masklinn 1y ago
While they’re flash rather than rom, the switch 2 still supports physical distribution media.

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