rcgorton

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by rcgorton 7y ago
emacs as a binary editor: useful. Any other uses: counter-productive. I've (painfully) watched some amazingly gifted researchers/engineers using it, and saw them waste about 50% of their attention trying to use it. Emacs is not
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by rcgorton 7y ago
A clear candidate for systemd
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by rcgorton 9y ago
If, as a novice, you wish to write assembly code: - compile your code with "-O3 -S" and examine - analyze it. Assume that glibc for your architecture is going to be hand tuned (and exceptionally highly optimized) Read and try to u
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by rcgorton 9y ago
From the press release: - It happens in 2018 - They brag about "40 cloud regions" across the world. But do not say anything about their current capabilities in Africa. - 40 "Regions"? where are these 'regions&#x27
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by rcgorton 9y ago
No it is not. It is incredibly bloated and inefficient due to the the number of keystrokes required to do simple stuff. Eliza mode. I've personally watched some incredibly talented researchers/engineers using emacs to perform eve
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by rcgorton 9y ago
Elm (software): an interactive mail system Elm (physical): a tree Elm (this): "functional" software. While I do Knot No the language, any language which claims to be functional, but stateful behavior (such as network timeouts) is
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by rcgorton 10y ago
The power: require a rethink of approaches to programming The failure: the claim by such folk that all compute problems are best solved by prolog/clojure/related even when such a domain specific language is not pertinent.