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by mmirate 8y ago
If it did, then good riddance. Linux is barely able to attract hardware vendors to write less-than-afterthought drivers as it is; let alone with, say, even more non-Unix OS flavors as distraction. Things like Redox and Haiku may be intere
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by mmirate 8y ago
Uhh, that one is very fair. Two cross-ring context-switches per byte (!!!), is insanely idiotic at best; any BSCS program worth half its salt will teach you why; and one would certainly hope that a developer of a central/core users
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by mmirate 8y ago
> we write software for humans not computers. The "humans" are in every case either ourselves or our customers. Empathy is certainly not needed when communicating with ourselves; and with the exception of the (rare) type of dev
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by mmirate 8y ago
The median is what really matters when making almost any kind of decisions; else you forever chase after improbable outliers.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Aren't both of those attacks all-but-negated by djb's Curve25519?
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by mmirate 8y ago
There's no way for anyone (other than Cloudflare's most trusted managers) to know that. All we know is it's somthing Cloudflare explicitly claims not to do.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Aside from the usual "we promised the customer we can do X ; whaddaya mean you need 8 months to make it happen!?" ... here's one of the anecdotes: * * * The company makes numerous products. Some people in one of our other lo
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by mmirate 8y ago
I wouldn't want to live in that kind of area, no matter how much I enjoy working in it; the land is far too valuable as office parks. Why are people willing to spend out their butts for just the right housing, when all they really
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by mmirate 8y ago
Image-searches say their clothing appears to be long-sleeved, multilayered and often head-covering. I can't tell the weight or the fabric-type, but I'm pretty certain they're not minimum-weight synthetics. That much insulatio
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by mmirate 8y ago
A shower after biking in shitty weather - while certainly helpful - does not address the characteristic sensation-of-imminent-death during biking in shitty weather.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> marketing Ah, yes, that would indeed explain. And it certainly agrees with the accounts I've heard about my employer's Marketing department's abject stupidity.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Sure. But in other geographies, what kind of clothes can possibly protect from 96-degree heat and 100% humidity?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Don't worry, Atlanta in the summer is no less ridiculous for cycling. :)
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by mmirate 8y ago
^ This is precisely why I think biking is crazy.
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by mmirate 8y ago
"Bad faith" research is almost certainly non-replicable, but non-replicable research isn't necessarily in "bad faith". But that doesn't matter, because non-replicable research is still non-replicable research.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> You've been abused, therefore you want to pass the load of that abuse on. Maybe you delude yourself into calling it "tradition" or "high standards" or maybe you're just honest and enjoy the sadism of it al
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by mmirate 8y ago
> that value isn't and can't be captured by the educator. Oh, but it is. Quality of education is clearly valued by parents. And depending on which school-district you live in, your property tax rate varies, and the quality of t
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by mmirate 8y ago
Ignoring that your average first-grade teacher is an employee of the State rather than of any kind of private entity ... ... it's a question of ephemeral facts. In a given area, companies who employ software developers, able to retain
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by mmirate 8y ago
> I have no clue where you're coming from with that last statement. Because a code of ethics "with teeth" doesn't exist, we shouldn't adhere to one? "I shouldn't do X" logically follows from the co
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by mmirate 8y ago
Halfway-safe languages (including Haskell) that aren't Rust, have a nasty habit of eating memory (and usually CPU time, too) for breakfast, compared to equivalent programs in C, C++ and Rust. That's what I meant by "resource
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by mmirate 8y ago
From the perspective of a dev: why should I be anything less than a yes-man, on topics where the decision authority clearly isn't mine? The ACM Code of Ethics has no teeth, meaning CS isn't a profession; and even if the decision
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by mmirate 8y ago
... to get an initial implementation of. It's much easier to read, debug and refactor Rust code than in almost any other language that offers similar resource-efficiency.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Which Python? 2 or 3?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Shorthand. Compare the lengths of these two strings: > fast, cross-platform, easy install > Written in Rust Also note how the second statement expresses a single concept; whereas the first statement is a list of concepts
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by mmirate 8y ago
> If everyone is sociopathic, everyone is worse off. In the world of sticks, stones and endurance hunting from which humanity evolved ... this would be true. But recent centuries' economic artifices have made a mockery of it; insofa
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by mmirate 8y ago
Theft is both. Except when the mob decides that someone is "too rich" and should "have their wealth be distributed for the common good", then it mysteriously becomes legal.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> mild sociopathy would probably be beneficial, but that's somewhat of a tautology Correct. Then why are people acting in contradiction to a tautology? Are they blind? Plagued by cognitive dissonance? Brainwashed? What gives? > I
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by mmirate 8y ago
So you would rather that if a bunch of people happen to come to agreement to do something immoral, that that immoral thing be done?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Luckily we still have some semblance of "rule of law" rather than "rule of mob", else vindictive people would throw medicine (among other industries) back into the Stone Age.
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by mmirate 8y ago
The central problem there is that we even care about gross income rather than net income minus housing expenses. > Is the problem lack of education, or is it that humans also have emotions to contend with? On second thought, it is indeed

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