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by papaf 6y ago
Guess what building a pc is not worth it. I am not sure that going to a site calling itself "Hacker" News and writing such a comment is not blatant trolling. Or maybe this is a sad side effect of developers using Macs. I am usel
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by papaf 6y ago
How can D use so little memory despite sporting a GC? My guess is that you have experience with platforms such as the JVM or CLR (dot NET) and expect garbage collected languages to use up a lot of memory. The JVM and CLR use generational&
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by papaf 6y ago
Its impressive but colonialism pays better: https://www.businessinsider.de/international/how-todays-tech...
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by papaf 6y ago
Everyone is 30% Not everyone. Epic Games Store is 12%, Humble Store is 5% and itch.io lets the developer choose.
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by papaf 6y ago
I just tried it based on your recommendation. Unfortunately it doesn't support private mode and I run Firefox in private mode. Cookie AutoDelete works in private mode.
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by papaf 6y ago
This site does not work for me with Firefox 79.0 on Linux with a Yubikey 5: https://demo.yubico.com/webauthn Is this a problem with the backend rather the browser? Edit: This site works https://webauthn.io/
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by papaf 6y ago
Sites should be migrating to WebAuthn (and please people do not implement U2F instead of WebAuthn in 2020, for the same reason you wouldn't build a new Flash video site, nothing new supports that technology any more, stop it) I think
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by papaf 6y ago
They are not public services. And yet the public does bail them out which suggests a symbiotic relationship with the economy and that banks have some responsibility to the greater whole.
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by papaf 6y ago
My tip would be to keep a pad of paper on your desk and jot out ideas before implementing them. Use the pad of paper as much as possible and then you get practice in converting thoughts into pictograms. Because you draw for only for yoursel
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by papaf 6y ago
even separate physical machines I think that is overkill for self hosting. Also as the author says below, Go is more memory safe than C/C++ in that there is no use after free and buffers are bounds checked.
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by papaf 6y ago
I suspect that, programming in Rust is so onerous, that Rust programmers must take lots of breaks and troll Go threads so they feel less bad about themselves. Or maybe they're just waiting for something to compile?
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by papaf 6y ago
Could it use both methods of entry? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422... I cannot comment on how accurate it is, but I found the interactive overview in the Scientific American to b
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by papaf 6y ago
As far as I can see, it is possible for all internet users to see customers orders and addresses using this technique. Did I miss something or is this a real problem?
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by papaf 6y ago
I use Hetzner for quite a lot for personal projects and can recommend them for reliability and predictable costs. I've done reasonably high CPU tasks like compiling Android images on the larger Cloud instances. However, this morning I
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by papaf 6y ago
I am also not a fan of Zookeeper but I have come to respect it. In defense of Zookeeper, distributed systems are a GPITA. If you need to select some components why not go for ones that are solid [1]. [1] https://aphyr.com/po
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by papaf 6y ago
Is the telemetry available to users? I glady opted into Synchthing telemetry after seeing this page: https://data.syncthing.net/ When the data is available to the community, just like the source code, its a much easier sell
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by papaf 6y ago
This is a cunning plan. If someone writes a language that targets Rust instead of LLVM there will a language that compiles slower than Rust.
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by papaf 6y ago
If you have a physics background you might find General Chemistry from Linus Pauling interesting and approachable: https://www.amazon.com/General-Chemistry-Dover-Books/dp/0486...
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by papaf 6y ago
That's why Hadoop, for example, moves the calculations onto the storage nodes, if possible You make a good point about I/O and I actually wanted to comment something along the lines of "why not Hadoop?" since the progr
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by papaf 6y ago
1. Could you give a few examples of libraries that can’t be made in Rust due to lack of abstraction compared to C++? I'm guessing, but I think that something like Armadillo[1] would not be possible on stable Rust. Something like Catc
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by papaf 6y ago
The popularity of Gradle utterly baffles me. When Gradle got popular the main competition was Maven which involves copy and pasting random pieces of XML from the internet, gave stack traces rather than clear error messages and didn't
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by papaf 6y ago
This deallocation trick is neat but in C and C++ you could use a memory pool to do this. In theory, you could also use a memory pool in Rust but I think the standard library uses malloc without some way of overriding this behaviour.
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by papaf 6y ago
I have onboarded new project members remotely for the last few years and so I can try to answer this question by explaining what kinds of behaviour I think are helpful: - Ask for help whenever you are blocked. People do this face to face bu
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by papaf 6y ago
Chez Scheme has an interesting compiler [1] and has also been adopted by Racket [2]. It really cool to see a little used lisp have such a great impact. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15156027 [2] https:/&#x2
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by papaf 6y ago
In my experience, if you are reviewing 800+ line PRs you should be in an IDE. I believe the average human being can not review an 800 line diff reliably. Such large PRs would also probably benefit from live discussions over video (or in the
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by papaf 6y ago
still requires all the costs of living within commuting distance If you don't have to go in everyday, the possible commuting distance increases massively. Before the virus, I worked from home and my commute was 160km twice per week b
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by papaf 6y ago
I really enjoyed listening to his lectures. Two that stood out for me are below. Creative reading: https://archive.org/details/naropa_william_s_burroughs_class... The ethics of wishing: https://archive.org&#
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by papaf 6y ago
I have used Tsohost[1] for a long time. They used to be Daily.co.uk. For me the big advantage is that you can buy a domain for 10 years. The control panel is pretty generic but works OK. There is no API to control DNS that I am aware of. [1
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by papaf 6y ago
You make some good points but I disagree with: 4. Macros: Many other languages have good macros now (Elixir, Rust, etc). It can be useful in certain situations, especially how it's used in Rust's stdlib and third party libs, but
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by papaf 6y ago
There are many book resources and it’s way more fun. I recommend Practical Common Lisp - its free online: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

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