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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Can you point to an example of a software project that was re-written without the rewrite causing more problems than it solved? Joel Spolsky of Stack Overflow wrote an article on this very topic, titled "Things you should never do - pa
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I don't know why some devs think rewriting everything will make everything better, the resultant lost business knowledge be damned. From what I've seen the ones who advocate that usually just don't know what they're doin
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Tech debt to me is something that will cause additional work in the long term compared to if it had been done in a 'better' way. However, it might still be worth accruing to gain new features or to have temporary bug fixes sooner
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Nice. I'd still rather it be aiming at somewhere in the middle of the sea though. What if birds or aeroplanes get in the way of the beam?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I'm a bit concerned at the idea of beaming high power microwaves at the ground from something that's free floating. If this is done can we please at least have the ground stations on former offshore oil and gas rigs far from land.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Don't forget about Microsoft COM components. That technology was specifically created as a system to produce "reusable components" with. What happened to that?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
If there's a problem sending too much data between back end services, perhaps there's just more data being sent than necessary. Perhaps there's some data usage costs or introduced latencies involved somehow?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Perhaps local backbone telecoms correspondingly differ in capabilities from one locale to another?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Would the UX concept of a 'next page' even make sense if the content doesn't get read by the end user? What would an app that's mindful of the unavoidable technical limitations look like I wonder? I'm not familiar w
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Not a great proposal IMHO and it misses the point of wasm in general. Strings and other high level data structures are distinctions the high level languages that output wasm should make. Anyone who's had to do java to .net clr interop
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Strings are only an array of numbers (codepoints). Wasm is intended as a compiler target that can be easily implemented with good performance. The text format is not a high level language on purpose. The proper term for this tool is not a c
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Much of the third world has very limited data thoughput or even much client side processing capability on their phones. "Not understanding" graphql is irrelevant. The key is to make as few requests and bytes transfered as possible
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I think this is the 8th separate attempt I've seen to get LLVM to output 6502 binaries. The others involved a presentation showing the issues involved and how the creator has got it mostly working and made a hello world app or simple g
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Just another proof of concept for a vaporware toolchain
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
My own view is that it is not legal for humans to produce derivatives of copyrighted works currently. So therefore it is probably already not legal to train an artificial intelligence using copyrighted works to in order to produce derivativ
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
So does this mean that Github considers mass copyright violations are not problematic if a corporation uses a computer program to do it?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Andy Warhol did something very similar to this with Avril Harrison's computer illustration of Venus. He just used the clone tool to add a third eye then called the result his own work. It even still had her signature on it.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
So if compilers did this better then processors wouldn't need the extra complexity and the transistors needed to support it themselves?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Ensuring register accesses are interleaved in a good way right?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
So my takeaway from this article is this: RISC largely displaced CISC except in legacy situations as you could get better throughput for the same number of transistors by moving work into the compiler. In turn Out-of-Order execution largely
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
If you've ever worked on a codebase with developers who are no longer around, you come to understand the data structures, algorithms and comments they leave behind give a sense of their personality. A 'ghost' if you will.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Tell that to Disney. I wonder can stable diffusion draw cartoon mice?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I sympathise with that. But C is a bit low level to do a lot of messing about with strings. I'd use JavaScript myself. Python is a decent, but slow choice as well. C# and Java are also serviceable, but they're not trendy any more.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Why isn't this capability highlighted more?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Does windows on arm have emulation for x86 programs? I'd think something like what apple has done in the past with rosetta would be a necessity. It doesn't have to be super fast, just work well enough.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Very nice. More lightweight virtualisation is a thing to celebrate :)
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Conceptually, I like that Github has social aspects to it. But Github needs to be more careful about what they emphasise. IMHO the existing mechanisms they have reward rather toxic behaviour.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
If you don't care about code reviews, why care about a PR process? don't protect the branch and just make your commits. The notion of a pull request is you're requesting someone pull in your changes. But you don't want t
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Do you mean antennae? :)
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
It's not my field of expertise of course, but if the speculative execution microcode knows what has and needs to occur, what's to stop a game of speculative execution vulnerability whack-a-mole occurring? I would think from a secu

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