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811.
by o11c 2y ago
This implementation should be avoided; it is weird, buggy, and unnecessarily complicated. In particular, using some pseudocode to simplify: rb = new RingBuffer(... capacity=3, orderedReads=false/*the default*/) rb.put_all(A,
812.
by o11c 2y ago
Autotools is designed to solve one very important problem: how do you build the GNU tools in the first place if all you have is some obscure Unix from the 1980s. If you already have gnu make, gnu bash, gnu binutils, gnu coreutils, etc. inst
813.
by o11c 2y ago
In practice, Guile is usually not compiled in. Whereas I've never seen a version of make without `load` and its supporting infrastructure.
814.
by o11c 2y ago
Part of my point was that "check for contention" is often a silly thing to do in the first place, when you can just avoid it entirely (and with simpler code too). Admittedly, Java is fundamentally incapable of half of the solution
815.
by o11c 2y ago
That last question is a cryptography question in disguise; the answer is "the fact that SHA-1 collisions are still impractical for most people".
816.
by o11c 2y ago
Youtube comments said something about "multiple apparent sprites per actual sprite, with stretching"?
817.
by o11c 2y ago
Yet, the whole crate model giving up on ABI stability as a goal hurts a lot, both for performance and for sanity. Why aren't people designing modern languages to make it easier to keep a stable ABI, rather than giving up entirely?
818.
by o11c 2y ago
Gullibility has nothing to do with the logical question of "is this a free speech concern or not, and if it is is it in the subset covered by the Constitution?" You can't oppose chaos while giving up on rigor yourself.
819.
by o11c 2y ago
Huh, that's ... still quite inefficient. Since a multiple variables in a cache line is fine if all will be accessed from the same cpu, you ideally want a separate allocator for that, then you can avoid all the spooky dynamic growth.
820.
by o11c 2y ago
You're wrong in this case. All you have to do is replace the target and it becomes obvious. If a scientist currently or previously spammed papers of the form "why Nazis were right all along", we should all hope the governme
821.
by o11c 2y ago
There's only one game that has ever given me nausea - the video game of Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace (1999). [Not to be confused with Starfighter (2001), which was also based on Episode 1 and I think more popular?] It's
822.
by o11c 2y ago
To be fair, it looks like there was fraud in the Italy case - just of the builders not the scientists.
823.
by o11c 2y ago
Okay, honest question: in what world is a magnitude 5.9 a "major" earthquake? 5.x earthquakes happen multiple times per day somewhere , and the same area had known much worse earthquakes in the preceding century. How bad do your
824.
by o11c 2y ago
Okay, but even with that (though I really don't think there were >20% increases in any year prior to the ACA ...), all we get is my original point of "Obama promised change, but just provided more of the same."
825.
by o11c 2y ago
IIRC to decode raw zlib or deflate using only command-line tools, you have to prepend the gzip header and stream while ignoring errors at EOF.
826.
by o11c 2y ago
There's a reason I qualified "since the 90s". For the sake of this argument I'll assume all allegations are true related to him, but that doesn't invalidate my statement. Since the 90s we have seen 2 things, which c
827.
by o11c 2y ago
Eh, I don't think the "it's all based on Paul" can be a reasonable argument at all. Even when people do argue it, they only ever allege the same 2 points, which even assuming those points are valid would only be a tiny f
828.
by o11c 2y ago
Despite what news headlines love to say, I'm not sure "circling the wagons when someone is caught" has been accurate in the English-speaking world since the 1990s. Often it's more "please don't blame the people
829.
by o11c 2y ago
For the majority of people, the ACA just meant "insurance has an excuse to raise premiums without end (far more than the number of new people covered)". There was some corporate trickery involved, but that doesn't matter to
830.
by o11c 2y ago
If you actually click through, there is exactly one actual distro package there, and it is labeled "experimental". Everything else is exactly what I complained about - something that does not integrate into a real system. That&#x2
831.
by o11c 2y ago
And is there any actual need to use those right now? No. I lived through the C++11 transition (which was the only actually significant improvement C++ has ever had), and as much as GCC 4.6 was enticing, it really wasn't a burden to k
832.
by o11c 2y ago
You don't see people who can't walk saying "there's nothing wrong with me." I'm not saying society can't or shouldn't adapt to neurodivergent people, but it is absolutely necessary for all such adap
833.
by o11c 2y ago
The problem is that very often people can't distinguish ... or perhaps, refuse to acknowledge the importance of the particular rules they are personally inclined to reject.
834.
by o11c 2y ago
I must disagree with this very strongly; this attitude of "the problem isn't me, the problem is other people" is exceedingly harmful. You cannot blame others for their (alleged) inflexibility when you yourself are incapable
835.
by o11c 2y ago
Eh, the history doesn't support that meme; only the details and not the existence was allegedly burned (if it even happened at all). It's pretty well established that there were 7 major states (Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, and the 3 Jin (Ha
836.
by o11c 2y ago
For reference (since it both uses a non-Pinyin transcription and adds/drops characters), this refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang
837.
by o11c 2y ago
I disagree vehemently. For any active language, distro packages should be at most 3 years old. And for any language that's stable enough to be worth using, "3 years old" is good enough.
838.
by o11c 2y ago
Yeah, there is a lot of space to explore regarding RNGs (e.g. short period but with a large stream space), but this isn't helpful.
839.
by o11c 2y ago
And until packages are actually shipped for all mainstream distros, the stigma is completely accurate. No, neither "just install a tarball" nor "just install this docker image" count.
840.
by o11c 2y ago
Relevant link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change-making_problem Looking at cases where greedy isn't optimal, I see two patterns. Either: * there are two coins close in value (ratio of less than 2), e.g. both 20

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