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by pizza234 5y ago
> I've written tons of Go as well, and I write Rust faster The overhead in Rust, when compared to comparable languages, is very concrete. On top of my head: - using hash maps is more convoluted (in some cases, arrays also need some
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by pizza234 5y ago
I'm a Rust "fanboy" (if one wants to say so), and I still think that the use cases for Rust are just a minority in the landscape of modern languages (that is, where there is a choice). Rust has a mind-boggling overhead, for m
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by pizza234 5y ago
At least in Rails, DDL migrations syntax is not really part of the ORM syntax; it's something separate, that mimics SQL. I recognize and support the advantages of using an ORM in application code, but I find the migrations syntax (whic
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> What killed Quora for me was their push towards canonical question/answers, not allowing for any context to a question, ridding it of a lot of the nuance that made many discussions actually interesting I've stopped using Quor
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If one actually watches, instead of making rhetorical arguments, they'll observe that there are different types of products, and one can't make a generalized statement. Windows for example, is expanding their ad-base, even if they
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The solution is to simply use a live usb tool, which creates a usable partition in the rest of the device. There are plenty, for example, dus. It seems that the developer isn't aware of this, indeed they developer were using something
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> Sponsored messages on Telegram are displayed in large public one-to-many channels with 1000+ subscribers and are limited to 160 characters. Sponsored Messages are based solely on the topic of the public channels in which they are shown
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by pizza234 5y ago
It's technically a glue language, and can be considered a language due to the constructs it provides (e.g. arrays and hash maps). The fact that every language has a variable amount of a certain property doesn't mean that the amoun
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by pizza234 5y ago
I have a similar strategy but Bash... "easy for anyone to read and edit"? Heck no. Bash is a terrible language by modern standards, with obscure syntax, many weird quirks, no type checking, no return values... How could developers
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Some relevant information ( https://twitter.com/avantgame/status/1467236223550779392 ): > someone else reported the same thing happened to them on Reddit recently, using the same RMA for a similar phone at the sa
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by pizza234 5y ago
There is a middle ground between automation and full-blown programming languages. In the past, this was represented by Visual Basic 6. For the use case presented - large organizations with considerable time spent in repetitive tasks - proba
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by pizza234 5y ago
Anecdata as well: I had similar conditions, procedure, and outcome. Unfortunately though, my nose worsened (got progressively stuck again) in the few subsequent years, although, better than it was before surgery.
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> Firefox is compromised by the fact it’s core active users are also its largest liability. It’s the innovators dilemma. They want it to (more or less) stay the same How much of the users are actually technical? The Firefox user share is
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by pizza234 5y ago
SBC are generally not intended for typical desktop usage, although they're sometimes advertised to do so. The memory limitation is not the only problem; out-of-the box storage speed is (some competitors have an eMMC port, or even a bui
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by pizza234 5y ago
> I grab one of my mid-drives. But usually I grab one of my hub-drives. Why? A THROTTLE! Throttles are magic and give you the option of pedaling as little as zero. Not sure about there, but pedaling as little as zero is illegal in severa
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by pizza234 5y ago
In the past, where I had no language requirement, I used to download movies illegally, then purchasing the ones I liked/wanted to support. I can't obviously suggest this officially :)
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Netflix's model is shoving content down the user's throat, not providing them good content¹. And they're madly successful at that: most the movies on their top list are arguably garbage, but they're up there because they
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> But I'm the loser of the story here, as those guys are now working for even bigger companies with bigger salaries Another way to look at this is that a lower-paid SWE is paying for their mental health and morale. In my books, that
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by pizza234 5y ago
> From the github user's ("i-voted-for-trump") bio: > EDIT - read some of the comments and there is some anger and confusion. Folks, this is a troll. Yes, npm and the JS ecosystem have some flaws, but let's not get
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Independent researches (Microsoft/Mozilla) showed that around 70% of security vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety bugs. That's one heck of a "memory safety and stuff" :) Here's one reference: https:/&#
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> if I were to do that I would still feel like a massive screw-up for going back to university in my 30s There's no shame in this; I'm wondering where you got this feeling for, especially, because radical changes in 30s/40
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by pizza234 5y ago
Thanks for the information! > he also tries to simplify the internals, unlike Oracle who just churns out features along with regressions. Sadly, very true. I don't know how it was on 5.7 and before, however, at least since v8.0, eve
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There's a significant difference - misleading/malicious content. A fake trailer can for example be spotted by the number of negative votes. If the negative votes concept is gone, using a low number of positive votes as indicator i
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> It is. Actually, that's the best thing about running MySQL on ZFS. The doublewrite buffer is not just another form of overhead There has been an interesting discussion on the MariaDB mailing list, questioning this, called "Is
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Even if the argument is taken to the absurd, the parent's approach can still be valid; if the user worked on an infinite number of environments (remember, this is the assumption of the parent poster), it'd be overall more producti
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by pizza234 5y ago
> There just isn't much of a perf penalty. It uses more CPU, yes Not in my (although small) experience with ZFS vs. databases; the bottleneck is the disk (although it's correct that ZFS is quite CPU-intensive). Databases have t
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> How much time would it take for a smart, competent and self motivated person to get up to speed on this new but related field? This depends on the position; smarts are not a replacement for (domain) experience, because certain knowledg
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> When the NSA leaks came out, there was some sections that showed how shipments of electronics could be intercepted and backdoored. I would 100% believe there are groups out there that have or are working on chip level attacks for iPhon
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> Someone wrote that gamedev isn't really software engineering Could you elaborate on that? I find this perspective very interesting. I had a brief experience with gamedev, and I've actually found that even the smallest bit of
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Sadly, I couldn't make Nouveau work neither for recent cards (20x0) nor for old ones (7x0). I hated Nvidia; now I'm a happy AMD user :)

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