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by pizza234 4y ago
The last app image I've installed took 800 MB. It was approximately 720 MB of libraries, and just 80 MB of core program. Using self-contained images is simply not scalable. I have some experience with packaging, and if we talk about st
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by pizza234 4y ago
The main topic of the article is about resource management (ie. allocation), which is automatic in Golang, so a comparison wouldn't make much sense in this context. Additionally, a requirement of the project is: > On the engineering
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by pizza234 4y ago
It seems accurate to me - after some time, several "degraded performance" flags have been changed to "major outage".
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by pizza234 4y ago
> I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with. I had, in a sense, the opposite experience. I was discussing in a social circle of mine the reasons why one should avoid as much as possible the upgrade to Windows 11...
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> ...and the reason we should make them feel bad is? > in your noble quest to make people who are fat "by choice" feel bad. If you're taking this personally, I don't shame anybody, and I don't spend time on &
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by pizza234 4y ago
This is true, but it still generates a (very) large amount of boilerplate and stylistically suboptimal code. Examples: - the base unit is the individual C file, which causes structs and symbols to be duplicated across Rust modules - for loo
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by pizza234 4y ago
> where there are measurable differences and what one prefers entirely subjective. It may be true, but the audiophile in question didn't bother to do any blind test. And I believe that actually most of the audiophiles don't do
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> Is it such a strange idea that there are as many people who are naturally thin as there are that are naturally fat? [...] Why should they feel bad about their body? Because naturally thin people, and the opposite case, are outliers. Th
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> I guess what I'm asking is: do you see a future where there is more explicit control afforded to people who want to pick their own tradeoffs without resorting to writing everything performance-sensitive in extensions written in C&
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by pizza234 4y ago
When the country I live in started to give money to Ukrainian refugees, an Ukrainian friend of mine requested them as well (although they aren't a refugee), and told me that _all_ of their friend were doing the same (again, all defraud
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by pizza234 4y ago
> For the price of a big 4 - 3 bedroom house in an mid income zip code in a moderate to low cost of living city in the US, I could buy a smallish 2-3 bedroom apartment in my country's capital city, in a similarly nice area. I think
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by pizza234 4y ago
This is the exact same dynamic that happens with comedy. When a comedian offends a group, it's typically not people from that group who complain - it's third parties who step in to represent that group. IMO the purpose of language
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by pizza234 4y ago
AFAIK, power and speed. There's an interesting paper on this topic: [Cache Design Trade-offs for Power and Performance Optimization: A Case Study]( http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/CS497/LP5a.pdf ).
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by pizza234 4y ago
> And C++ just... doesn't have that many real problems. From Carbon's README: > C++ [...] is struggling to improve and meet developers' needs, as outlined above, in no small part due to accumulating decades of technical
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by pizza234 4y ago
This is the perspective of a woman. Personal experience as a man: > present yourself exactly as you are > be picky with this approach, I'd get exactly zero attractions, to put it in her terms, which doesn't reflect
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by pizza234 4y ago
An astronomer on Reddit* says: > because the light we see is ~25k years old from the center of the galaxy, we are seeing it as it was 25k years ago. However, in astronomy we do not worry about this and instead just use the time at which
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by pizza234 4y ago
I used to be a fan of LineageOS, but after a few devices, I've found that it's not very robust (for different reasons). There's a bug where location services don't work (and require a fix). Then my latest phone where I&#
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by pizza234 4y ago
Relationship disorders are more complex than just not meeting women (as in "going out"). A part of those who are not able to get a partner may solve their problem by "just" meeting women, but for many, there are signific
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by pizza234 4y ago
How do you solve the GPU reset problem? I've given up entirely with my Radeon 6000 series. First, there was one feature that had to be disabled, hurting performance (can't remember; had to do with 4 GB RAM/mining or similar).
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by pizza234 4y ago
> And don’t get me started on lindy hop vs west coast swing. I'm puzzled where this comes from, since they're entirely different scenes. On a social dance night, or say, a festival, one may find Blue/Balboa/Lindy Hop
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by pizza234 4y ago
Very interesting the sad contrast with reality, in particular, considering that there has been an occurrence of this event already, and then lesson hasn't been learned: > Construction amnesties, which allow owners to register unlice
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by pizza234 4y ago
I've observed some level premature optimization in the Rust community, surely coming from being performance oriented. I received a review comment some time ago about changing a line of code in order to spare one allocation, for a call
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by pizza234 4y ago
Regarding the apt "recommended" concept, it's a generic concept of optional functionality; it's orthogonal to security. If one wants to make a generic association with security, less recommended packages -> less funct
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by pizza234 4y ago
The `apt` tool provides the option `--no-install-recommends`. If you want to disable the recommended packages installation by default, you can: echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "0";' > /etc/apt/apt.con
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by pizza234 4y ago
A lot of dependecies are pulled from the (recommended) asciidoc-dblatex package, which depends, indirectly, on x11 packages. Don't install the recommended packages (whose concept is anyway in conflict with keeping a system lean) and se
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by pizza234 4y ago
Not on my machine: # apt install asciidoc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: asciidoc-base asciid
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AFAIK there are no other services that provide multiple languages, automated testing and team features, but if you know of any, it's certainly useful to report them in this thread. Exercism is the closer service I can think of, but it&
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by pizza234 4y ago
It's more complex than that. People may need stimulation in order to follow through a certain learning process. Providing a structured path and (automated) test means can be stimulating, and can make the difference between (deciding to
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by pizza234 4y ago
The idea is very good - the tests approach is effective and stimulating; they also provide a range of products to study/experiment with. However, I think that the approach to the learning material is "love it or hate it". By
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by pizza234 4y ago
If one wants control over everything and manual memory management as safe as achievable (ie. systems programming), currently, this is the only (major) way. IMO the market share for this profile is indeed small. Languages that trade off a pa

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