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by moomin 1y ago
Good guide. I _think_ UOH is “unpinned object heap”, which is a variant of the large object heap that allows compaction. So the only things going into the LOH these days are both large and pinned. But I’m not 100% on this.
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by moomin 1y ago
The writing itself is fine, but she’s assuming a LOT of knowledge e.g. what a GC0 budget is and what increasing it means.
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by moomin 1y ago
See also: go.
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by moomin 1y ago
Sum types are the ones I really miss. The others would be nice but processing heterogeneous streams is my biggest practical issue.
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by moomin 1y ago
Terry Pratchett says something very similar in Pyramids.
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by moomin 1y ago
There’s plenty of groupings that oppose nuclear power, for a variety of reasons. I’m merely arguing that this grouping has been consistent in its enthusiasm for nuclear for decades.
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by moomin 1y ago
Yes, but specifically the Labour Right are the grouping that are in power right now so their opinion matters. No-one thinks Corbyn is pro-nuclear but the stance of the Blair->Brown->Starmer axis has been extremely consistent. Without
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by moomin 1y ago
I know a small bit about energy in the UK and one thing I know is this isn’t the first time a Labour government has taken a big swing for nuclear. Indeed, I suspect the exact same guy has been behind it both times. But it’s never happened,
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by moomin 1y ago
This is wild if so. They’re basically saying the UK gets what it needs (investment) in return for something the Labour Right has always wanted (Nuclear). This is an insanely good deal from Starmer’s perspective.
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by moomin 1y ago
Funnily enough, the book goes into the anti-war thing a bit. The idea put forward in the book is that straight after the war there wasn’t a great deal of anti-war sentiment, just anti-losing sentiment. But after the Cold War started, and th
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by moomin 1y ago
I’ve read the book. It’s genuinely interesting. It’s very interesting to see how people misremember the post-war years. It also contains a) passages that are very much quoted out of context and b) an awful lot of stuff about “national chara
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by moomin 1y ago
It’s something of a red herring. Britain got the largest slice of the Marshall Plan money, they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire. One thing you’d learn from the book is Germany definitely wasn’t in a good shape in
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by moomin 1y ago
Problem is, there’s a well known principle of library design: any behaviour you exhibit eventually becomes something someone relies upon. You can choose to live with silent breakage or you can validate your inputs within an inch of their li
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by moomin 1y ago
Yes it was, it wasn’t exactly an obscure archeological find.
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by moomin 1y ago
It appears auto news has archive.ph defeating tech. (This comment used to contain a link, but the link was useless.)
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by moomin 1y ago
I remember being in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the guide said in a large hall “Only one of these objects is a replica, can you guess which one?” I said “Unfortunately, I know exactly which one because I saw it in the British Museum a wee
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by moomin 1y ago
If you’re not familiar with Gaudi’s life I think you’ll find it equally inspiring. He was extremely successful and heavily communist (He was always Christian for all that some think you need to be atheist to be communist), and ended his lif
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by moomin 1y ago
Technically speaking, it’s never going to completely realise the vision, which also included an enormous set of stairs on land that is now both heavily occupied and completely flat.
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by moomin 1y ago
Ironically, IBM and Google 100% could just pay for it to be maintained under current licensing. (But won't.)
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by moomin 1y ago
My take is that it’s pretty minor. Modern C# has across the board null checking and for the most part you’re not designing things where this even comes up. You are, however, correct, in that I have 100% seen the ?SetName thing used by devs
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by moomin 1y ago
At a social level, I 100% agree with you because I’ve started to see those behaviours in the community. But considered technically, C++ is on a whole different level from C#. The community seems to embrace “What does this print?” style puzz
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by moomin 1y ago
You’re not wrong. Every language feature that gets added there’s someone who wants to stop the clock and hold the language definition in place because “people might misuse it” or “people might not be familiar with it”. It’s not language spe
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by moomin 1y ago
Literally unplayable.
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by moomin 1y ago
This is a case study in why it’s so important to understand how your users actually use your product.
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by moomin 1y ago
Padme: AD uses salts in its protocol, right?
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by moomin 1y ago
As an old Spectrum head I was obsessed with JG’s output back in the day. Chaos may have looked awful but it was so much fun. I still have core memories from that, Rebelstar Raiders and Laser Squad. (Beating people online is one thing, beati
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by moomin 1y ago
My 1993 Nissan has FSD. I can fully drive myself anywhere.
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by moomin 1y ago
All of the examples in the article of “simplicity” involve the orchestration of complex platforms that are, for the most part, written using types. Try writing a browser that can pass Acid2 in Ruby and then try to convince anyone that what
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by moomin 1y ago
Ok, but that’s more of an argument that the US is an unruly anarchy.
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by moomin 1y ago
It's a pity that Clojure is kind of a hermetic space these days, because the concept of bitemporality really deserves much more attention. It's amazing how often you want to know "What was the P&L for March using the data

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