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by pizza234 4y ago
That's my understanding as well; Coinbase does sell Toncoin, for example. 1 TON currently sells for 1.83$, by the way.
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by pizza234 4y ago
An example is Ruby MJIT's: https://blog.heroku.com/ruby-mjit . I'm not a big fan of this strategy - as a matter of fact, Ruby's future (reference) JIT is a conventional JIT.
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by pizza234 4y ago
Passing a reference is semantically different from passing by reference (the latter being a functionality of the language); doing the former (behind the scenes) doesn't imply that the language supports the latter (if one wants to b
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by pizza234 4y ago
It depends on the culture, I guess - AFAIK the birth rate in western countries is decreasing. On the other hand, the taxi drivers I remember talking to about children, had all a certain (non-western) background, and they had (as far as I re
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by pizza234 4y ago
> "what if it suddenly dies and I loose everything?" This is not a hypothetical; all drives do fail at some point - it's just a matter of when. The only way to be safe are external backups, not even RAID (which in unlucky
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by pizza234 4y ago
There has been a case of a firmware bug, which caused SSDs to fail after a fixed amount of power-on time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048148 . There are some discussions of how RAID disks may serially fail, which
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by pizza234 4y ago
The type of advice given makes sense if one has either a huge amount of free time (both in the short and long term), or works professionally in that field (like the guest did in the past). But in real world, that's not something that w
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by pizza234 4y ago
I think this should be more specifically referred as game engine programming (although, this is certainly a gray area). Engines (for example, the Unreal Engine) take care of the really hard part for the vast majority of the games, leaving
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by pizza234 4y ago
It's by Andre LaMothe. He has written several popular books in the 90s. His first (major, I believe) book was "Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus", which revolved around Wolfenstein 3D (ray casting). In reality, it was an o
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by pizza234 4y ago
Are you using the "Gameboy CPU manual"? If so, don't :) there's a better reference at https://github.com/gbdev/gb-opcodes (renders to this page: https://gbdev.io/gb-opcodes/opta
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by pizza234 4y ago
The stats come from Google project(s) - you can be sure that they've used the best practices. If they've failed, rest assured that 90%+ of the rest of the devs will fail, and much worse.
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by pizza234 4y ago
> For small projects, I could agree. What would your recommended alternative be for massive codebases in large tech companies that need fast and efficient code? The poster wrote very clearly: > where you are not forced to use it If on
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by pizza234 4y ago
> Also, most FAT corruptions will cross-link together different chains of different files Made me smile :) I remember this particular message, from the time when Flip destroyed my disk.
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by pizza234 4y ago
There are very significant differences between distributing programs in a static vs. dynamic language. Github's Hub tool is a good example. It was originally written in Ruby. This requires that the user: - may need to handle a certain
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by pizza234 4y ago
It really depends on the nature of hobby coding. I dedicate considerable time to "hobby coding", including open source, and once a topic - independently of the topic - reaches a certain depth, it becomes "work", and then
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by pizza234 4y ago
Historical curiosity: during (MS-)DOS times, having two FAT copies at the time could be very helpful. Malware that manipulated FATs was sometimes incorrectly implemented (for example, assuming that the FAT was either 12 or 16 bits), and in
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by pizza234 4y ago
> The slow(ish) Crystal compilation will not please Ruby users I don't know what's the general opinion, but distribution for dynamic languages is a nightmare (and I'm including intra-machine, ie. switching between environm
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by pizza234 4y ago
Putting together the available document "JayPrimer" (which may be obsolete) with the blog post, Jay it seems a language designed by somebody who's was fed up with C++, and deciced to write their own, tailored language; this l
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by pizza234 4y ago
> This seems to be the inverse of a zero-sum game: the West might have got a lot richer, but hundreds of millions of people were lifeted out of extreme poverty at the same time. Parent's thesis is that it's not a typical zero-s
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by pizza234 4y ago
Packed boolean arrays are an entirely different thing; as a matter of fact they are arrays , not a primitive data type. The boolean primitive data type is a standard in modern languages. Take any language: Rust, Go, Zig... and C99 (kind of
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by pizza234 4y ago
He addresses this point in the article: > [...] we would have to go gently and open up for allowing new C99 features slowly > A challenge with that approach, is that it is hard to verify which features that are allowed vs used as exi
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by pizza234 4y ago
Smaller language isn't necessarily better, either. Case in point: no booleans make a language "smaller"; result: each codebase will have their own, different, implementation.
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by pizza234 4y ago
This is a styling example in PlantUML: class TestClass { ""Monospaced"" <color:green>Colored } See here: https://plantuml.com/creole . Regarding the comments, here's a
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by pizza234 4y ago
I've been using PlantUML and Mermaid for my own diagrams. Mermaid is quite basic; it lacks functionalities that for me were necessary; for example, direct connection between attributes of different classes. All in all, PlantUML seems s
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by pizza234 4y ago
> I ended up downloading a program that mapped the level as I played it What's the program? I've never heard of something similar, and sometimes I've wondered if they exists :)
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by pizza234 4y ago
I'm of the opinion that in cases like this, it'd be better for the organization to close, and allow the gap to be filled naturaly. If the current OpenSSL maintainers closed the project, given its importance, there would be a rush
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by pizza234 4y ago
Interestingly, the author updated the post, which now says "this was not 100% reliable". There isn't anything inherently unreliable with TSRs; DOS even provided interrupts for this specific operation (although some malware wo
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by pizza234 4y ago
Owncloud/Nextcloud... beware. It's significantly worse than the other services. I've tried really hard to make it work (including self-hosting), but it's just poor software, for a few reasons. Worst problem, which I have
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by pizza234 4y ago
> By that standard, centralized social networks have utterly failed us as well. They're not on the same level; moderation of social networks like Twitter/Facebook can be considered insufficient, but it exists. Contrast to the v
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by pizza234 4y ago
> Hard disagree with this. Email is the example I give people of how federation could work. That depends on how one looks at it. If spam and illegal content are considered, it may not be "working" in the sense a public service

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