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by mratsim 3y ago
Intel VTune, Apple Instruments and perf have been able to profile without frame pointers.
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by mratsim 3y ago
It's not. 14 is still low compared to other ISAs.
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by mratsim 3y ago
It's not dependencies, it's bottlenecks that you need to fix.
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by mratsim 3y ago
Anything that interact with the kernel needs to be tested on the actual OS. Simiarly if you call native libraries. And Apple Clang masquerading as GCC or not having all upstream LLVM patches is also annoying.
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by mratsim 3y ago
`when myCondition():` instead of `if myCondition:` is done at compile-time. Alternatively you can use a `static:` code block to force compile time evaluation. Or tag a function {.compileTime.} or tag function inputs with `static` modifier.
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by mratsim 3y ago
The memory management is type-bound: type Foo = object -> no GC, stack object, can use destructors type Foo = ptr object -> manual memory management type Foo = ref object -> "GC", refcounting to be exact.
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by mratsim 3y ago
Nim is used to secure the Ethereum blockchain in the nimbus client.
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by mratsim 3y ago
{.compile: "myfile.c".} {.compile: "myfile.cpp".} {.compile: "myfile.asm".} does the same in Nim.
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by mratsim 3y ago
> netflix I remember Vectorflow for sparse neural networks.
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by mratsim 3y ago
What are the key metaprogramming features you miss when not using D? How do they compare to Nim's?
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by mratsim 3y ago
V-style hype?
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by mratsim 3y ago
Hopefully, AMD wakes up and allows ROCm / HIP on their 7040 series, that would be a killer feature. And AFAIK the Ryzen pro do have an "AI coprocessor" but unsure of the API to use them.
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by mratsim 3y ago
I actually studied rubber wheels for metro in engineering class. They are useful if stations are very near each other because of greater braking power, so you can stay decently fast in-between stations.
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by mratsim 3y ago
Can't an extension filter that event out?
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by mratsim 3y ago
Wouldn't anchoring be damaging in this case, you anchor some number and by having to pay more by a lot, you feel the loss more acutely? It sounds to me more like the real estate agent trick of presenting a poor house, a luxury house an
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by mratsim 3y ago
> Don't use Docker's --cpu flag and instead use --cpu-shares to avoid (mostly useless) quota enforcement. One caveat is that an application can detect when --cpu is used as I think it's using cpuset. When quota are used it
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by mratsim 3y ago
That sounds like dev and user experience nightmare.
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by mratsim 3y ago
The real question is "What's your threat model?" If it's people stealing your laptop and fear of identity theft, use the TPM. If it's the NSA, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by mratsim 3y ago
So you use soldered RAM. And the OS provides hardened memory areas that can't be dumped.
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by mratsim 3y ago
TIL, I thought TUI meant Terminal UI
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by mratsim 3y ago
Taxes not going where they have the most impact, and lawyers extracting money from the system.
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by mratsim 3y ago
Unless you use zero-knowlege proofs, there is always a 3rd party that needs to guarantee they checked your identity.
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by mratsim 3y ago
Self-hosted? Mac Mini Cloud? Oracle free-tier and otherwise Hetzner.
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by mratsim 3y ago
You said you wanted no queue.
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by mratsim 3y ago
It was broken because of a mathematical breakthrough using theory lurking in the dark corners of math. The protocol itself was also using some somewhat dark corner of math. Which is why having as many eyes as possible is important. Now it&#
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by mratsim 3y ago
How can you send and receive network packets without queueing? Besides quantum entanglement I mean.
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by mratsim 3y ago
Video encoding uses a *lot* of energy, Youtube, Netflix and friends. And capitalistic force are not fast enough and d not take environmental impact into account has carbon taxes are not there or not high enoigh or lobbied against or not mea
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by mratsim 3y ago
Wait until Hacktoberfest
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by mratsim 3y ago
They mean disputes go on for years, costing society a lot and enriching intermediaries.
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by mratsim 3y ago
Aren't Excel sheets still limited to 1M rows or so?

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