patthebunny

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1. 31.▲
   by patthebunny 7y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol
2. 32.▲
   by patthebunny 7y ago

   > 7. What motivates you to work? Money. Fat stacks. The desire for food and shelter, which I obtain with said money. I'm not working for you because I just love your product so much, if that's what you mean. > What do you be
3. 33.▲
   by patthebunny 7y ago

   I spent the better part of a year trying to get these switches and changes working in windows when I was at MS. Wasn't full time for a year, but it was a lot of "try to build, oops compiler error contact them and then wait for a n
4. 34.▲
   by patthebunny 7y ago

   Effort required vs rewards for doing it.
5. 35.▲
   by patthebunny 7y ago

   The entire toolchain is non-deterministic. People also do stuff to make it worse. For example the compiler backend is multi-threaded and spits out data in whatever order, doesn't matter normally because they designed it that way. But i
6. 36.▲
   by patthebunny 7y ago

   It's a legal and security question. If I have deterministic builds then the user can verify that the build matches the source. Otherwise it's potentially compromised (or the wrong version).