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by samatman 2y ago
Anecdotally, sending mail to example.com from example@mydomain.com can cause a whole host of human-factors problems which can be eliminated with something like RaoulPtoExample@mydomain.com.
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by samatman 2y ago
I'm not seeing the connection between a hefty VR headset with AR passthrough, and a camera you wear on your face. It also seems extremely unlikely to me that a camera you wear on your face will be the next smartphone. Technologies whi
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> Oh, and to the sycophants Preemptively insulting people is not the sort of thing which is done by people who are secure in their own opinion.
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That should mean you know better than to accuse one of your colleagues of ethics violations on the basis of a cursory perusal of Wikipedia. Would you do something like that using your real name?
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I believe the kiddos refer to this as "trauma dumping". The topic was programming. You switched it to horrific mutilation. Don't do that.
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by samatman 2y ago
Defaults matter. In C, allocation is customarily done with malloc, a single, global allocator. It's possible to bring in a memory arena, but in the case I was replying to, you'll note that they didn't. In Zig, everything whic
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One of the nice things about Wikipedia is that you can use it as a time machine, instead of just blindly throwing about accusations. If you look at the first page in 2014, the time of the article, you'll find this: https://e
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It's very easy for moderns to forget (or just not know) how difficult it was to find information before the Internet really took off. When Ken cited "Unknown Air Force Document", you can be sure it would have been a direct ci
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by samatman 2y ago
Worth pointing out that in Zig, you wouldn't have had this problem in the first place. The natural way to write a program of that nature is to create an arena allocator, immediately defer arena.deinit() on the next line, and then alloc
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by samatman 2y ago
Every memory-safe language has a runtime written in a memory-managed language. Yes, even Rust: Rust is implemented using many (well-vetted) unsafe blocks. So projects to improve the quality, and lower the defect rate, in memory-managed prog
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It's just as simple, frankly. A gallon is four quarts, each of which is two pounds of water. A quart is two pints: and a pint's a pound, the world round (Yes, most of us are aware of the irony of that couplet). These are all thing
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This isn't 100% true, it's closer to 90% true. There is a narrowly-tailored "research exemption" to patents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_exemption So "private tinkering" where y
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Both of the people you mention are/were fairly obviously of high intelligence. A conservative lower bound would be the top 5%. As intelligent as Jim Simons? Almost certainly not.
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by samatman 2y ago
I know it will never happen, but I'd very much like people to stop anthropomorphizing LLMs. LLMs aren't racist: sometimes they might emit predictive text, which can be interpreted as racist. LLMs don't lie: sometimes they mig
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by samatman 2y ago
The difference here is that there aren't C programmers who don't know about Rust, and since they're writing C, they have reasons they aren't using it. The same is not true of Zig. Some of the reasons not to be using Rust
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by samatman 2y ago
This has been extensively tested with the other M series chips, for example: the MacBooks Air do not have fans, while the MacBooks Pro do. On very intense workloads, the fanless products do eventually throttle slightly. It's after seve
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It appears that this solves exactly no problems which I have, while introducing a slew of problems I don't have currently and am grateful not to. I know this comment risks falling to the low-brow dismissal bucket, but it's hard fo
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I use GoodReader. I'm open to trying something else, but it has folders, bookmarks, annotations, the basics. It lacks all of the fancy stuff in the linked program, though. PDF reading is the main use I have for a 13 iPad, and I do eno
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> Logic doesn't really have a direction, it works backwards or forwards. Implication is one of the primitives in logic, and gives us several of the classic logical fallacies: affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent, falla
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I've been a Nim respecter for many years, it's slept on in general as a language. The difference here is that Nim compiles to C and you can turn the garbage collector off: Zig compiles C and there's no garbage collector. T
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> Ah yes its fine to kill them Yes. Fundamentally, most people, including myself, believe that it's fine to kill animals and eat them. There's no hypocrisy here, disgusting or otherwise. You have your own concept of morality,
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Let's say you have a C program to write, and you really want exhaustive pattern matching on the tags of unions (which is what Datatype99 provides: "Put simply, Datatype99 is just a syntax sugar over tagged unions"). Let'
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by samatman 2y ago
It's not. Two counterexamples: LuaJIT's interpreter/VM, and Wren's, both use NaN boxing, and are among the fastest VMs out there (we're ignoring JITs as out of scope). It isn't tagging pointers that makes thing
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> It's curious - perhaps related - that in English the difference between "salary" and "wages" also remains and is even relevant in some parts of the market. This is a useful distinction, and I'm mildly su
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Revoking the charter is in fact an option, however seldom it's invoked, but it's not actually necessary. Courts can, and do, pierce the corporate veil, either criminally prosecuting responsible parties or holding them to full liab
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If that were the goal (I don't think it is), they'd be better off shipping enough storage to push people into the 2TB tier, which is $11 vs. $3 a month for 200GB. I said this in a sibling comment already, but I think it's jus
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I don't know about 'concern' necessarily, but it seems to me that 512GB for the base Pro model is a more realistic minimum. There are plenty of use cases where that amount of storage is overkill, but they're all served
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It's fairly absurd that they're still selling a 256gb "Pro" machine in the first place. That said, Apple's policy toward SKUs is pretty consistent: you pay more money and you get more machine, and vice versa. The Ma
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"Per trip" is an utterly meaningless way of looking at the data. Some car trips last ten minutes and a 10 or 12 hour flight isn't uncommon. You know for a fact that it's more dangerous to drive from NYC to Miami than it
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Julia has gained a lot of mindshare in array-heavy coding, with a lot of hard work put into making it possible to get comparable speeds to C++ and Fortran. The manual[0] offers a good introduction to what's possible: this includes spa

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