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by pierrebai 3y ago
So, the fantastical plot argument is that one can insert a singular hard-to-verify subtle error among a see of factually correct statements? That's not novel, it is a fact on about any decently sized compendium, \that there will be a t
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by pierrebai 3y ago
Probably the author thought that this typical AI-generation quirks were a funny wink to the concept of virtual threads. The elephants, of course, represent Postgres.
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by pierrebai 3y ago
I thought the blog was great but "in summary" conclusion bad. The summary merely stated that Java virtual thread are great. I expected a summary of the problem and solution, for example something like: When using Java 21 virtual t
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by pierrebai 3y ago
The copy-and-patch also assumes the compiler will generate patchable code. For example, on some architecture, have a zero operand might have a smaller or different opcode compared to a more general operand. Same issue for relative jumps or
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by pierrebai 3y ago
Worked on a similar problem (when looked at from a very high level), and the solution was to alternatively invoke each algorithm until everything is done. That is, do as much as possible in one form, then do as much in the other form, rinse
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by pierrebai 3y ago
Looks like the classic Soldat [1], except uglier, only 1v1 and less interesting maps... [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/638490/Soldat/
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by pierrebai 3y ago
The fact that it is easy to confuse the server with the client in X, it does not change the fact that the XServer and XEmacs are running on different computers, so each interaction is a round-trip.
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by pierrebai 3y ago
But the two lines they get on the pin-head-sized region is physical and has a particular physical orientation? How can the spin not be a physical orientation and yet the experiment result is all about the physical location of the lines? I&#
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by pierrebai 3y ago
I don't understand the experiment: even if there are only two orientation for the spin, the atom, itself, can be in any orientation?
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by pierrebai 3y ago
Your examples don't explain how both side can possibly be aligned when the differences are large. If they don't align, then the two view are independent and it's hard to see the correspondence. If they do align then... I&#x27
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by pierrebai 3y ago
"everyone seems to be happy reviewing diffs, rather than the actual code?" The split view does show the actual new code, just with extra empty lines... so sure it is a bit distracting if a lot of lines have been modified, but it
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by pierrebai 3y ago
How don't grasp why megi would close their github account plus prevent pull. Seems like not only a very unsympathetic move (to be very euphemistic) but quite against the spirit of open source. Did they write the entirety of the Linux
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by pierrebai 3y ago
Well, I'm going to disagree with her solution to bash. Bash is terrible, end of story. Just the *.txt is actually an endless pit of trap, badness and wrong behaviour. I've not written a bash script in years. I always use Python an
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by pierrebai 3y ago
The linear version is hard to test. The split-function one is much more testable. There is also that thing called complexity, which increase with function length and has been proved to correlate with bugs count. The problem with the examp
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by pierrebai 3y ago
Calling it civil forfeiture is in itself problematic. The assumption is that the person committed a crime and profited from it. Kinda of a weird mix. You must prove you did not commit a crime in a civil case.
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by pierrebai 3y ago
I really feel this is reinventing the wheel and the resulting wheel is not quite round. Would it not have been both simpler and more powerful to have a .curlrcscript file that gets executed and the output used as the config contents? Even t
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by pierrebai 3y ago
The examples given prompt me to say: if all you have is Rube-Goldberg hammer, everything looks like an Escheresque nail. Sieving primes by turning functions into coroutines, parsing text by yielding characters, all with unnatural functions
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by pierrebai 3y ago
I think the fact that the author somehow thinks that Greek letters are prettier and easier to understand hints at an enormous bias. Many people would not know their names, most people are probably unfamiliar to Greek letters beyond beta or
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by pierrebai 3y ago
... but maybe it simplifies and speed-up the internal processing? I haven't looked at Python 3 C implementation of strings, but that is a guess. Also, IIRC, Python 3 has the ability to keep different internal representations of strings
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by pierrebai 3y ago
I've read the same, almost word-for-word claims repeatedly, which is annoying given how misleading it is. Concretely... To know the context of the conditions, the conditions must give the information. Otherwise, the handler would need
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by pierrebai 3y ago
I learned Unix through its manpage. I learned abotu sh, awk, grep, I learned about sockets and tcp, I learned about semaphore and shared memory. When I started working on Unix, in the early 90s', it was on a true-to-form physical VT220
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by pierrebai 4y ago
It is interesting to remind ourselves how intellectual were disconnected with the reality of their time. All theoretical debates without ground in how political, economic power really worked.
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by pierrebai 4y ago
I disagree with the post. The goal of traits, or any similar mechanism in other languages, is not to implement a given functionality. It is to describe and enforce a common way and API to expose the functionality. To take the example give
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by pierrebai 4y ago
IANAL, but this seems easily circumvented by setting up an independent entity. (It's not an affiliate if it's not owned by the competitor.)
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by pierrebai 4y ago
That wiki graph does not show what you say. There are multiple place in the curve that don't follow your theory. And by places, I mean for example the stretch from 1980 to 2000.
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by pierrebai 4y ago
Or you simply are inverting cause and effect. Or at least cause and multiple independent effects. When the inflation goes up, both interest rates and unemployment go up. It's akin to saying that coughing causes lung cancer. Smoking cau
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by pierrebai 4y ago
This is ludicrous, but this kind of thing have been going on in science and physics in particular for a long time. Let's call the phenomenon maths side-blinders. One experiment finds the mass of thw W boson to be 80370 +/- 19 MeV,
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by pierrebai 4y ago
Too bad the linked article arguments are of poor quality and unconvincing. There was a bug on MacOS that ended-up requiring XCode to be install in order for the Go compiler to work? That example is bad because: 1. it was going to be very ob
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by pierrebai 4y ago
No. What is needed is less centralization, not more. I'll take the US society as an example: having congress, senate, president, courts, military, police, states, free press (with multiple participants), university etc means that to
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by pierrebai 4y ago
You are saying exactly what I'm saying, only with different words. As life goes on, this is a trend I get more and more acutely aware of: people bias, opinion and values make them re-interpret what others say to make it fit in their al

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