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901.
by saulpw 3y ago
Any C compiler can generate better assembly for a function. But there's often some whole program optimizations that you can make, which the C compiler isn't allowed to do (because of the ABI/linker). For example, a Forth int
902.
by saulpw 3y ago
Yes, it would make things worse, especially if it comes right after. You wouldn't think "well chemo was already terrible so smoking probably won't make it worse".
903.
by saulpw 3y ago
At least make them send you the C&D! And you can get some attention for your hard work in the weeks/months before they do. Who knows what it will lead to?
904.
by saulpw 3y ago
yet
905.
by saulpw 3y ago
It's a shame not everything is for sale.
906.
by saulpw 3y ago
I took a look at Jia Tan's early behavior, and I found it to be consistent with being "compromised" from the beginning. They had months of contributions on private repos before forking a test library and making superficial c
907.
by saulpw 3y ago
If you look at their early commit history, "Jia Tan" was always a devious actor. It's easy to think that they would just have made a video call, but it is a lot harder to lie convincingly over sync videochat than over async t
908.
by saulpw 3y ago
Yes but that's a huge amount of work, and is not the 'fun' part of coding. It's one thing to have to spend those cycles looking for errors or incompetence, and hopefully helping the contributor improve their skills so t
909.
by saulpw 3y ago
I think your worst case is a bit off. Worst case you go to prison for a very long time? And if you do make that $3m as a hacker, now you have to spend your time worrying about whether someone will eventually catch you because of that one t
910.
by saulpw 3y ago
"Assume that 3% of the people you encounter will act maliciously."
911.
by saulpw 3y ago
But at least there's no one else around to bother you.
912.
by saulpw 3y ago
You're not responding in good faith. It just takes one person--one out of thousands of people--who is thinking criminally instead of rationally. Of course it's not going to be "Vanguard" (again not a person!) But it m
913.
by saulpw 3y ago
Not "Boeing" in its official capacity, but it has a lot of executives and shareholders, only one of which needs to have the hubris to think they can get away with it. That seems a lot more likely.
914.
by saulpw 3y ago
The ones who "made" their billions, sure. Not their kids.
915.
by saulpw 3y ago
Those do not have hard stops in the middle.
916.
by saulpw 3y ago
I think "lukecool" hasn't become a word for the simple reason that it has a double-k sound that doesn't jive aurally--it either sounds like two words, or one of the k's is dropped, or a small vowel has to be inserte
917.
by saulpw 3y ago
Creator of Hanukkah of Data here! We're working on another data puzzle game that we'll be announcing shortly, to be released in a couple of months. I think games like this are a great way to exercise SQL and other data skills.
918.
by saulpw 3y ago
Kary Mullis was/is also an AIDS dissident, which kind of tarnishes his intellectual reputation.
919.
by saulpw 3y ago
I don't know about you but I have way too many ideas. Some are good, most of them are terrible, and some of them are downright evil. It often takes a quiet mind to see which is which and not talk myself into indulging bad ideas.
920.
by saulpw 3y ago
Yup. I count my breaths in batches of 12 (batch count on the in breath, breath count on the out breath). So like "1-1, 1-2, ..., 1-12, 2-1, 2-2" and it works out that the batch count is the number of minutes I've been medit
921.
by saulpw 3y ago
> Maybe I'm an exceptionally paranoid person (high probability) but I would never ever ever send payment or my payment info if I am looking for a job. Sure, we all get wiser as we get older. Would you have known this when you were
922.
by saulpw 3y ago
I bought the a386 assembler (which was written in assembler): http://eji.com/a86/
923.
by saulpw 3y ago
But I don't want to write code to display ads on toilet paper :(
924.
by saulpw 3y ago
How about making `exit.__repr__` raise a CleanExit exception that gets caught in the outer REPL and then exits?
925.
by saulpw 3y ago
It may not be about optimization, but about user experience. You may have to be clever and think outside the box. Can you save a snapshot of all that work so that the next instance doesn't have to do it before showing the window? An
926.
by saulpw 3y ago
Neither is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but no one blinks at that kind of text art anymore. Unicode is everywhere--even if not all glyphs are supported, the vast majority of the BMP is. ASCII-only art is a relic like trigraphs. Also note that most ASC
927.
by saulpw 3y ago
> I think 9 seconds startup time with 1GB of memory use is pretty acceptable. 9 seconds of startup time on a modern GHz computer is completely unnecessary and unacceptable IMO. There may be 9 seconds of work it wants to do at startup, b
928.
by saulpw 3y ago
If I have 1MB on my blog, 100,000x would be 100GB. Just, no. OOMs are not to be trifled with.
929.
by saulpw 3y ago
Teachers and police officers don't benefit by definition because they do not have capital. Capitalism benefits the people who start private schools and private jails. Capitalists take advantage of labor in order to increase their own
930.
by saulpw 3y ago
And the email itself was from 2007

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