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by nsajko 4y ago
You're wrong, both the doc entry for -Ofast and the one for -ffast-math say that they can result in incorrect programs . Programs are produced by linking, so I don't see what other way to interpret this is possible.
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by nsajko 4y ago
Well, how would you improve the docs? Both documentation entries seem reasonable to me. That said, I don't see why the -Ofast option even needs to exist, except backwards compatibility, as -ffast-math and the others can (and should IMO
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by nsajko 4y ago
-Ofast isn't a good name for the option, but in GCC's defense the manual is pretty clear about all this, and there's no excuse for blindly turning on compiler options - they literally change the semantics of your code.
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by nsajko 4y ago
"Comparing programming to architecture" might sound silly, but it's possible to learn about design in general from other design-heavy fields.
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by nsajko 4y ago
No, GOF didn't introduce the "strategy" pattern. What they did was catalogue and describe the "patterns". Perhaps GOF invented the name "strategy", don't know about that.
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by nsajko 4y ago
Like the 1980 movie Cannibal Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust
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by nsajko 4y ago
Correction: Poland and Czechoslovakia weren't Soviet Republics, and Slovenia (Yugoslavia) wasn't even in the USSR sphere of influence.
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by nsajko 4y ago
What does "factor" even mean here? The unary base is only good for natural numbers (and isomorphic sets), right?
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by nsajko 4y ago
Software isn't the worst thing for UI efficiency on NumWorks: the buttons are very low quality. So not only are many key presses necessary (according to your benchmark), but each key press must be relatively carefully performed to avoi
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by nsajko 4y ago
> But Python, yeah, definitely. Well, it's a forked MicroPython. It doesn't actually support Python, just something similar to Python.
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by nsajko 4y ago
> I think the creators do legitimately want to build a truly open source calculator. Somewhat like Google legitimately wants to "do no evil"? Sometimes it is said that deeds, not words is what matters. But in this case even the
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by nsajko 4y ago
Mods, please correct the editorialized and wrong title. NumWorks isn't open source and never was. What it is is source-available , because the source is available. Or at least it still was available the last time I looked at it. NumWo
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by nsajko 4y ago
No. 1. Optimizing compilers exist. 2. Addressing at fixed offsets is cheap (a single instruction): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addressing_mode 0-based indexing is superior (as a default) because it simplifies a lot o
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by nsajko 4y ago
I'm not for clearing out djvu, but it sure is frustrating when a PDF isn't available. It's not just about laziness preventing one from installing the more obscure ebook readers which support djvu. It's about security: I
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by nsajko 4y ago
> Evince doesn't come by default with Archlinux (my desktop distribution of choice) This doesn't make sense; nothing comes "by default" on Arch, but evince is in the official repos as far as I see.
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by nsajko 4y ago
Getting quite off-topic, but Vienna is the capital of Austria; while Bratislava and Košice are the only two Slovakian cities with a population greater than 100000, so presumably it's one of those.
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by nsajko 4y ago
Vague insinuations such as this one always harm the discussion. Why not just communicate clearly? > the country that was Austro-Hungary, Slovakia No, Slovakia wasn't Austria-Hungary, rather it was just a small part of Austria-Hungar
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by nsajko 4y ago
So you've decided to abandon a technology stack because of an unfavorable discussion thread on HN?
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by nsajko 4y ago
> Does anyone following the Julia community know if the situation is getting better? Which situation exactly? The linked article lacks a salient point, so there's really no way to know what you're referring to.
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by nsajko 4y ago
> this way is threadsafe by default No? Concurrent updates of integers can be accomplished with atomics: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/multi-threading/#Ato...
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by nsajko 4y ago
> Typed global variables will be great What purpose do you see for typed global variables? I'm sure they'll be useful for interfacing with external ABIs, OS interfaces, or hardware; but I'm not sure the added complexity wi
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by nsajko 4y ago
Skip it, it's aimed at laypeople.
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by nsajko 4y ago
You do know about package managers and software packages, right? Debian has its own packagers, and so does Arch, there's nothing in common between Debian and Arch packaging (except for certain elements of the philosophy, etc). What do
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by nsajko 4y ago
> [...] I can only use it on the low setting (1 out of 3) because the machine (VM) is sometimes powered off and its time gets de-synced. The server is running ntpd but on this security level you're not allowed to change time by more
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by nsajko 4y ago
> I'm willing to bet that most people running Arch or Gentoo are still using quite a bit of 'Debian resources'/assets. More like the reverse, the Arch Wiki is the best so everyone uses it. Although for some topics it
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by nsajko 4y ago
Relevant sub-thread from a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24297406 "Fantastical" quote from the above: > > Our banking partners recently notified us that they are no longer willing
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by nsajko 4y ago
Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_ejaculation Note that both male and female ejaculation may be faked in a porn movie.
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by nsajko 4y ago
> Perhaps not Linux, but I suspect there would be a place here for a Unix-like platform that feels familiar. It's just a tiny microcontroller, how could it run a Unix-like?
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by nsajko 4y ago
Don't know whether there was an update to the fine article, but the article currently seems to mostly refute your points. > Pine formula is that it reliably gets brand-new hackable devices into the hands of the community at an affor
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by nsajko 4y ago
Your "black super-predators" comment is unfair to the degree of being slanderous of Clinton, in my IANAL opinion. Going by the information presented in the Politifact article, the final "mostly true" evaluation is garbag

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