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Tackling the C++ debugging UI nightmare with Pernosco(pernos.co)
2 points by roca 2y ago|1 comments
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by roca 2y ago
A response to the excellent recent Core Explorer blog post about why debugging C++ specifically is a UI nightmare --- explaining how some of the highlighted problems can be solved with a little creativity.
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by roca 2y ago
It's interesting how most of the problems that they're hoping to address are problems created by the use of AI coding tools.
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by roca 2y ago
That makes you an outlier. Despite everything, millions of people are still desperate to get into the USA. China, not so much.
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by roca 2y ago
Switching from OpenSSL to rustls solves even more problems than expected.
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by roca 2y ago
Wage growth has exceeded inflation in the USA for the whole of 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i... Real wages in all income brackets are at an all-time high (apart from a short bl
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by roca 2y ago
With or without Tiktok, the USA is nowhere near as restrictive as the CCP. The users who tried RedNote discovered that very quickly.
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by roca 2y ago
Tiktok influencer income was never going to solve any economic problems in a meaningful way.
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by roca 2y ago
It's not a stretch. For example a large fraction of Chinese private companies have CCP committees embedded in them: https://www.seafarerfunds.com/prevailing-winds/party-committ... Nothing equivalent in the USA.
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by roca 2y ago
The editorial lines of Fox News are completely different to CNN and PBS. Different subreddits are completely different. The idea that they're all part of some conspiracy run by the US government is very strange.
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by roca 2y ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tiktoks-content-political-subje...
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by roca 2y ago
FWIW "gweilo" literally means "ghost man".
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by roca 2y ago
What does "succumb to US financial policies" even mean? The situation has waxed and waned but in general West Germany and Japan at the government level have been pretty happy to have US troops stationed there while facing off agai
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by roca 2y ago
What steps are you thinking of? Nothing like what is currently happening with China, I'm sure of that.
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by roca 2y ago
I remember those years pretty well. There was a lot of hand-wringing but not a lot of concrete action, very much unlike the situation with China now.
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by roca 2y ago
You can cherry-pick problems here and there, of course, but the aggregate statistics are pretty clear. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
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by roca 2y ago
Record-and-replay debuggers are often better than anything else for debugging intermittent failures: run the program with recording many times until you eventually get the bug, then debug that recording at your leisure; you'll never ha
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by roca 2y ago
Adding print statements, rebuilding and rerunning the program and figuring out where in the logs the bug showed up this time can a lot more tedious than setting a (possibly conditional) breakpoint in a reverse-execution debugger and doing &
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by roca 2y ago
If it's a democracy and reasonably friendly to the USA, it's not a big deal. In the 1990s everyone thought Japan was going to be the next superpower and that was just fine.
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by roca 2y ago
On the contrary, real wages in the USA are the highest they've ever been. Social media and fentanyl are making people unhappy but for most people it's not an economic problem.
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by roca 2y ago
Rust if possible. But really my point was that even if C is your only option, it should not be considered "great".
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by roca 2y ago
C being the only option doesn't make it a great option.
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by roca 2y ago
> If you want to write device drivers, then C is great for you. No, it really isn't. It's 2024, people who should know better should stop saying this.
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by roca 2y ago
"we have reason to believe AGI can ultimately be built with less than $10B in hardware" "Within the next three years, robotics should be completely solved, AI should solve a long-standing unproven theorem, programming competi
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by roca 2y ago
I'm amazed OpenAI made these disclosures. My main takeaway was how wrong all the predictions of Sutskever and Brockman turned out to be, and how all their promises have been broken. Also interesting that up to 2019 OpenAI was focused o
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by roca 2y ago
Interesting article but gets at least one thing wrong. Not all models are trained on Nvidia chips. https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/
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by roca 2y ago
I don't know what details I would be allowed to share, so I'd better not share any. You can try looking it up on the Internet. But Google does a lot of work to protect against insider threats, because everyone understands that in
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by roca 2y ago
I'm only here to correct the parent's false claims.
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by roca 2y ago
> For other services to leak their data, all it takes is for one employee to do something they shouldn't. This is not true for Google, at least. I know because I work at Google. So I wonder how accurate your knowledge of Meta, Micro
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by roca 2y ago
Yes, I understand that some people actually are worse off, and a much larger group of people incorrectly believe they are worse off.

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