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by pdpi 4y ago
> Each format must be built on the platform it runs on, there is no cross-platform support. So now you're back to platform-specific packages, except you don't have Go's support for cross-compilation. Hardly much of an adva
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by pdpi 4y ago
Java's GC has better throughput, because Go's GC specifically optimises for latency. This may or may not be the right tradeoff for you specifically, but it is a perfectly reasonable tradeoff. Jars are more portable at the cost of
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by pdpi 4y ago
The point isn’t that “getting X to work” is a one-and-done job. Rather, you’re using major websites as indicators for what features to target next, because those are largely one-and-done.
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by pdpi 4y ago
I can't see it failing to pass muster. It's more complicated than most proofs of Pythagoras's theorem I know, but it's still simple enough that several people have reconstructed it from just a diagram and some basic note
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by pdpi 4y ago
Many game studios release fake patch notes for April Fools. The IETF has such wonderful proposals as RFC 1149 (IP over avian carriers) and RFC 2324 (Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol). These things are harmless and funny and make the wo
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by pdpi 4y ago
We live in a bubble where we don't notice it, but desktop as a platform is... not dying exactly, but maybe returning to 90s levels of popularity. Common enough, but something tech-minded people use, and not necessarily for everybody. M
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by pdpi 4y ago
CoW is a strategy where you don't actually copy memory until you write to it. So, when the 10GB process spawns a child process, that child process also has 10GB of virtual memory, but both processes are backed by the same pages. It&#x2
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by pdpi 4y ago
Just literally draw a flowchart of what your program is supposed to do, then translate that flowchart. Something like each box gets its own label, diamonds are just some variation on `jz some-box-label`, etc. The problem with assembly isn&#
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by pdpi 4y ago
>In any case, you bring up an important issue: can monkeys bitcoin? What's the hashrate of infinite monkeys on typewriters?
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by pdpi 4y ago
Yup, you're right: > Candidate contributions to their own campaigns are not subject to any limits. https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate...
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by pdpi 4y ago
It's well understood that Cohen was Trump's fixer, so I don't think that'll be that big a hurdle.
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by pdpi 4y ago
I meant in general, not for Python specifically (which I don't use nearly enough for it to be a problem). On the one hand, it bothers me that software is so brittle that you need a container around it so that everything is just right
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by pdpi 4y ago
I expect that's because the post itself was deleted. Also, deleted threads don't get much traction, so Reddit didn't have much to say on the topic :) https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/commen
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by pdpi 4y ago
I commented on my understanding of the situation on reddit a while ago. Copy/pasting here: He paid off Stormy Daniels to keep her from talking about their relationship. Paying her to stay silent is 100% legal, there is absolutely no is
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by pdpi 4y ago
I thoroughly resent that I'm being forced into that workflow. I'm trying to get enough distance to tell if it's actually overkill or just being a curmodgeonly old git.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Then you have releases like Hi-Fi Rush that come out of nowhere, and are almost enraging, because it means they get it . They know how to make interesting, innovative, oddball games. They choose not to.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Believing in tightening immigration controls is a matter of policy that people can reasonably disagree on. "I'm going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it" takes that policy and makes it populist vote-grabbing. Likewis
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by pdpi 4y ago
The other reason you want to use a function of time and avoid using state for things like animations is that you don't want animation speed to be frame rate dependent.
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by pdpi 4y ago
And, if we're suggesting Shadertoy, this video by one of its creators is probably worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk
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by pdpi 4y ago
> And the better question: what do you think the list would be for the ten questions? That list would be the section headings. The individual questions in each section are just drilling down on the details.
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by pdpi 4y ago
If I were to invest in a company, I'd want to know if you're going to have a problem retaining talent (either due to firing people for no good reason or for failing to give them career progression), and I'd also want to know
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by pdpi 4y ago
What do you mean, 3D doesn't actually exist?
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by pdpi 4y ago
Everybody keeps saying this, I just don't get it. There's whole domains where AI doing it is just infeasible. For all the other domains, who tells the AI what to do? Who knows how to be specific enough and precise enough to get th
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by pdpi 4y ago
> The couple had another big consideration in planning their travels: Personal safety. (...) Waiting to charge a car can take much longer than filling one up with gas. That was my regularly scheduled reminder that, no matter how hard I t
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by pdpi 4y ago
I was trying to google for some sort of reference to what I meant, but couldn't find one (found this thread instead...) but NSProxy seems to have been around long enough that it might well be the core of the implementation for what I w
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by pdpi 4y ago
The original Doom was developed on NeXT, so a lot of the tooling (like DoomEd) was written in ObjC. If I recall correctly they abused this whole thing by making proxy objects that would happily call methods across the network, so they had l
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by pdpi 4y ago
> semver specifies that only public API matters People get really hung up on what is, or isn't "technically" a change to the API. "This now breaks the build" is a change to the public API in the only sense that m
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by pdpi 4y ago
> Apple themselves have confirmed with them they have no plans to lock their boot loader out from folks like them. Didn't they make an undocumented change to the boot loader that serves literally no purpose other than to give Asahi
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by pdpi 4y ago
It is possibly the one Markdown feature I'd like HN to have. I use it all the time on Reddit to correct my comments without making replies look like nonsense.
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by pdpi 4y ago
> And I certainly don't need the levels of abstraction that design patterns or Haskell typeclasses demand. I think it's fair to say that AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean[0] is something of an abomination, but it's importa

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