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by pdpi 4y ago
This sort of lightweight thread is at the core of things like Erlang or Go. You can just spin up processes/goroutines by the thousands without impacting performance too much. It just completely changes the way you write concurrency cod
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by pdpi 4y ago
My understanding is that salt leading to high blood pressure is a problem that affects some people, but not all.
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by pdpi 4y ago
> A couple of percentage points change in interest rates is not a thing that should bring your bank down. If it does, you have failed, no excuses. In context, it's even more egregious — Rates after that "couple of percentage po
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by pdpi 4y ago
Technical books aren't just about the code itself. Programmers don't necessarily make for good technical writers, and non-native speakers of any language are worse writers on average in that language. Put those two things together
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by pdpi 4y ago
That native code still needs to be able to interact with your Python objects somehow. You can't change the API around PyObject without forcing all C libraries to make changes on their side, and that API forces you to expose things a ce
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by pdpi 4y ago
> I guess Sony considers Call of Duty more of a game changer than the God of War and Horizon franchises. GoW and Horizon became as big as they are today while being PS exclusives from day one, so them being exclusives tomorrow is busines
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by pdpi 4y ago
The article gets the 50/50 case subtly wrong. The really naive analysis is that you have two doors so it's 50/50. A less naive, more interesting analysis, is that there are twelve possible outcomes, of which six are favourabl
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by pdpi 4y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear: Tree maps have built-in indirection, hash maps can use open addressing but they can also use chaining, which has indirection. An array-backed list is the only collection type that obviously requires no indirectio
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by pdpi 4y ago
That's the point, though. Java's Optional<T> always incurs that extra cost, but e.g. Kotlin's T? doesn't have that (because ? just allows null), and Rust has an optimisation for Option<Box<T>> that redu
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by pdpi 4y ago
Sure, but Optional<T> is what we were already discussing, and List<T> is the collection type that most obviously requires no indirection. Feel free to replace Optional<T> with any other sort of sum type and the point still
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by pdpi 4y ago
GC performance isn't the only thing you need to care about here. Iterating over an ArrayList<T> in Java already makes you chase pointers all over the place due to Java's lack of value types, which wrecks cache locality. Arra
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by pdpi 4y ago
The problem is that that shoring up comes at the cost of enabling bad behaviour. Banking right now seems to run on the assumption that you’re allowed to erode the stability of the system for your personal gain, because governments world-wid
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by pdpi 4y ago
Ventura is macOS 13.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Current. E.g. the camera cursor is used by the screenshot tool (cmd-shift-4, then space)
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by pdpi 4y ago
No, I don't see people benchmarking BeOS on a Surface. Then again, I've never heard anybody say "well, if this whole Windows thing doesn't work out, I'll install Be on my Surface". At any rate, this article isn
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by pdpi 4y ago
They would mind the price. All of the videos at the time of announcement highlighted how hard they tried to keep the price down.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Well, the Steam Deck is meant as a dedicated gaming PC, and explicitly supports replacing the OS, so Windows performance is eminently relevant. Also, every single reference to Windows is in the context of testing whether the performance iss
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by pdpi 4y ago
For anybody else reading the discussion, knowing that GoW is not advertised as fully supported is important context.
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by pdpi 4y ago
You might want to look into the nonsense the demoscene folks get up to, then. .kkrieger is a pretty serious FPS in 96kB, 8088MPH gets 1k colours out of an 8088 with CGA graphics. Things like that
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by pdpi 4y ago
If this is your first time reading one of these, Derek Lowe’s “things I won’t work with” series is a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
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by pdpi 4y ago
You can achieve that effect with salt, msg and/or marmite (depending on what sort of flavour you're going for). Inversely, there's things you can achieve with actual stock that you can't with any of those, mostly relat
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by pdpi 4y ago
The reason you care about the protein is completely unrelated to nutrition, though. Rather, it's because of the flavour and mouth feel.
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by pdpi 4y ago
> The only upside is that the pair traveled directly to a CO in the same office park, so we would routinely see 1-2ms pings to anycast IPs like 4.2.2.2, 8.8.8.8, etc Those are the pings I see on my residential connection, though?
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by pdpi 4y ago
Countersue for slander/libel/defamation/some other sort of "illegaly saying bad things", and use that as leverage.
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by pdpi 4y ago
The problem we're talking about here is pervasive, and needs a more or less universal solution, not something vendor-specific. So, while Apple has no reason to care about non-Apple users, we, as a society, should.
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by pdpi 4y ago
The goal here is to provide a safer implementation of the core tools you need for a Unix system. The nature of these things is set in stone. You’re describing an interesting project, but it’s not _this_ project.
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by pdpi 4y ago
You might want to look at Overtone, which is a clojure environment built on top of overtone, and which integrates with processing and a few other similar things. https://overtone.github.io/
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by pdpi 4y ago
The point is that they don't go on sale, not that it's $30 forever.
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by pdpi 4y ago
I think you misunderstood me. The point I'm making is that you should redefine "winning a debate". Learning (and hopefully coming to a consensus) is exactly what winning should mean in your head. Just altogether abandon the n
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by pdpi 4y ago
I don't like the position of "losing is good". I want to win every debate, because I define winning a debate as coming out of it knowing more that I did going in. Debating isn't a zero-sum game, me winning doesn't

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