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by mtzet 6y ago
This easily turns into a strawman. Does writing good C code include checking the disassembly and reworking the C code when the compiler produces bad results? I've seen several examples of the compiler being brilliant until suddenly a s
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by mtzet 6y ago
> Doing this well is not easy Does this also apply to the in-language build system? Given both Rust and Zig's ergonomics, it just seems so brilliantly simple (at least in hindsight) to let the build system be a library. Is it just c
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by mtzet 6y ago
On the other hand, there's pretty good shadow detail even against the bright sky.
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by mtzet 6y ago
Compliance to what? I’m genuinely curious about who would mandate antivirus.
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by mtzet 6y ago
I kind of like M.G. Bulmer's "Principles of Statistics". It's short and to the point so there's a chance of getting through it all. I really like the discussion of distributions in terms of raw data, it makes thinki
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by mtzet 6y ago
The mathematics behind probability and statistics is about as ripe for intuition as calculus and linear algebra. A lot of it really comes down to counting in probability (calculus/measure theory for the continuous case) and quantifying
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by mtzet 6y ago
Well maybe. We don't know if pi is a normal number.
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by mtzet 6y ago
Not really. Under HyperV both the Windows and Linux kernel run subsidiary to the HyperV hypervisor, so in that sense Windows itself is "just a virtual machine". The work in TFA describes patches to make the Linux kernel communicat
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by mtzet 6y ago
The ZFS license (CDDL) is (arguably) incompatible with GPL. This is not a problem for FreeBSD since it’s not using GPL.
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by mtzet 6y ago
If you can live with switching between different applications rather than windows, this is the default behavior on Windows 10 and Gnome 3 using win+1, win+2, ….
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by mtzet 6y ago
I find that this type of duplication is incidental: I happen to need to do the same thing, but if one project has special requirements the other projects don’t need to change. Hence the boilerplate is fine and doesn’t need to be dragged int
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by mtzet 6y ago
The disk issue was probably going to be difficult to solve even with the WSL1 model if they wanted good IO performance. Using a proper Linux filesystem underneath is a decent compromise IMO. The RAM issue is a clear setback, and makes it an
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by mtzet 6y ago
While I agree that metaprogramming is rife for abuse, and I'd definitely prefer if my fellow programmers used it less than they do, I'd argue that the alternative to having metaprogramming is much worse and leads to brittle black-
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by mtzet 6y ago
Can't you just store your repositories in the ext4 partition then?
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by mtzet 7y ago
Not the author, but I'd prefer rewriting the code as the requirements become clear rather than building something unspecific. In my experience the benifits to code reuse are vastly overstated and the costs of added complexity vastly un
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by mtzet 7y ago
I feel the same way about most design patterns. They're useful to provide vocabulary, but too generic to provide any actual guidance.
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by mtzet 7y ago
> a single consumer GPU can test about 2^48 - 2^52 hashes per day Surely that depends on the hashing function. Moreover, these passwords are usually used for authentication rather than encryption, making the speed of the GPU irrelevant.
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by mtzet 7y ago
Such common variations are accounted for by dictionary attackers.
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by mtzet 7y ago
This doesn't move files in subdirectories? Or am I missing something?
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by mtzet 7y ago
Really? I seem to recall lld being comparable to cp in speed, with the caveat that compacting debug strings can take a long time (if you enable that option). Reference: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/l
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by mtzet 7y ago
In my opinion, the advtanges of Rust over C++ are not so much the borrow checker, but all the other features. In particular the error handling. I understand the reasoning for implementing exceptions in C++, but I really don't like the
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by mtzet 7y ago
This is really Microsoft catching up to the Mac in terms of integration with the open-source ecosystem which importantly drives the web. In the mid 2000's the Mac really took off due to being a good-enough Linux replacement on the comm
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by mtzet 7y ago
Docker desktop runs a Hyper-V VM. Prior to that, Docker used a Virtualbox VM on Windows. The current plan seems to be to integrate with WSL2 once that ships [1]. [1] https://engineering.docker.com/2019/06/docker-he
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by mtzet 7y ago
Yes. Examples like the one linked make it appear that awk is write-only language, which it really isn't. 'awk' is really a very beautiful little language. It's concise enough to solve many tasks in a single line, making
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by mtzet 7y ago
This really happened a couple of months ago, and really sucks. There aren't that many alternatives to Dropbox if you require both Windows, Mac and Linux client support. I ended up settling on Nextcloud (ownCloud fork) hosted by Hetzner
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by mtzet 7y ago
Let me expand a bit on the origin of category theory in mathematics. Mathematics is most commonly described in the language of set theory, where objects are constructed from basic building blocks to create bigger blocks. This is much in the
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by mtzet 8y ago
I highly recommend the book "An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry" by Karen E. Smith et. al., as an introduction. It'll give you a taste of the field, without delving too deeply into technicalities.
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by mtzet 8y ago
Component oriented programming seems to about about inherting only interfaces, but still abstracting the data behind function interfaces? That's not at all what ECS's are about.
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by mtzet 8y ago
By the obvious way, I'm guessing you would just have a single type 'entity' and put all entities in an array? While that may be obvious to you, it's not obvious to a lot of programmers (myself included) who grew up learn
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by mtzet 8y ago
I think the takeaway is both. Avoid state changes and use a functional style wherever possible. But, when you do need to make state changes, keep it inline rather than hiding it behind function calls. Better to have one long function, secti

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