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by sfink 3y ago
Generally because although you can easily generate new versions, it is difficult to generate a new version that is different from the old version in a specific way, without also being different in 100 other ways that you didn't want. I
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by sfink 3y ago
80% of my high school physics experiments disproved accepted physical laws, like the law of conservation of energy. Or they would have, if any of us had trusted my measurements. In high school, you're not actually doing what they claim
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by sfink 3y ago
In theory, you don't have to wait for borrow checking before passing things on to the back-end. But that doesn't help the compile-edit-compile cycle when you're working through borrow checking errors, so perhaps it's not
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by sfink 3y ago
This is rather fascinating to me, as someone who maintains a flow-sensitive checker. No relation to the Rust borrow checker, since mine is an unsound linter for C++ code. Though there are similarities, as mine is also about memory safety (i
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by sfink 3y ago
Stupid question: does the back-end have to wait for the front-end to do borrow checking? If so, why? (I'm not suggesting that it's doing anything wrong. I'm just wondering if borrow checking establishes invariants that the ba
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by sfink 3y ago
I regret to inform you that you are due for your regular re-watching of The Matrix. You need to leave a relief valve, an opportunity for the malcontents to go express their need for rebellion in a wholly controllable way. They will then dig
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by sfink 3y ago
Maybe it's not a big deal, but it seemed weird to me that this article didn't mention that the cleanup satellite would need to burn fuel for propulsion to drag things around. The way it was written seemed to violate conservation o
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by sfink 3y ago
We'll see, but I would argue that at least for most of the conversations worth having, fragmentation is good. It is of course annoying and not what anyone wants in the short term, but it's also the only thing that has been observe
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by sfink 3y ago
> the circumstances today don’t exactly match the circumstances of the mid-19th century That's a bit of an understatement. I'm not great at history, but my understanding is that the mid-19th century was a little lacking in vide
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by sfink 3y ago
Thank you. I came here to say this. We're homeschooling, and I made the mistake of reading the train wreck of comments on the Post article. It was irritating how many people were absolutely certain of what homeschooling is and what its
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by sfink 3y ago
It would also include users who happened to close their laptop lids and suspend for an hour, right during pageload.
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by sfink 3y ago
You mean only displaying and discussing the 95th percentile in a blog post? There's no reason to assume that what is brought up in a blog post is going to match what engineers are looking at. In this case, I'm a developer at Mozil
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by sfink 3y ago
> That’s not the same thing, though — your dad forgot the oxygen! Oh, I'm quite aware. The other fun game we played was with his acetylene welding torch and balloons. It has separately controlled tanks of acetylene and oxygen. Acety
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by sfink 3y ago
Something that helps me: instead of reading "blazing/blazingly fast" as "blazingly fast ", read it as " blazingly fast". As in, it is fast at doing whatever it's doing, as are almost all entrants in
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by sfink 3y ago
I would say there really isn't any fundamental difference. Any system requires a balance, and you never want that balance point at an extreme because that's where one type of cost is at a maximum. If you squeeze out all freeloader
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by sfink 3y ago
My dad did this once. He drained the acid from a car battery and put it in a container with a narrow opening, then dropped in a bunch of zinc galvanized nails. Sulfuric acid + zinc = hydrogen gas. He then stretched balloons over the mouth o
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by sfink 3y ago
In my limited understanding, neither one really explodes. The petrol one would look like a huge impressive fireball that launches a big black mushroom cloud and then just burns like crazy. The hydrogen one, if the hydrogen is fairly pure, w
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by sfink 3y ago
No comments or ideas, but a question triggered by watching this video: Two prisoners in soundproof cells are communicating through a shared underground puddle that has a small opening in each prisoner's cell. They communicate with Mors
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by sfink 3y ago
I'm not sure what you're recommending here. There are many, many ways to trigger undefined behavior. The compiler won't tell you when you might be. Well, unless you're using a sanitizer like ubsan, but even then it'
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by sfink 3y ago
I will probably say something stupid and subtly wrong here, but my understanding is that the only concrete thing that you can say about the compiler's reaction is that it will assume that whatever would trigger the UB will never happen
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by sfink 3y ago
I would like to see an estimate of how much Google earns from the Apple search traffic. The article talks about the payment as if it were pure cost to Google, which obviously isn't the case. They earn truckloads of advertising revenue
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by sfink 3y ago
Which is a fair request. Perhaps Bard should be taken offline. The curl devs might even be the right ones to do it, if they slipped a DDOS into the code...
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by sfink 3y ago
You mean, it's impossible unless you go to Preferences and choose to do exactly that? Settings/General, uncheck "Open previous windows and tabs".
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by sfink 3y ago
When you resize a large gap buffer, it seems like you could mremap the pages after the gap and avoid almost all copying. The usual alignment problems don't apply since you can adjust the position and size of the gap slightly as needed
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by sfink 3y ago
Ugh, that sucks. I've been relying on this bug to create persistent sticky notes on my screen. Why do browsers insist on breaking stuff? https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by sfink 3y ago
How wide are these stairs, typically? Because I've been in a staircase built by hand out of stone (and yes, I was given this exact explanation for why it was built clockwise, despite it being in Carmel, California, which is not exactly
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by sfink 3y ago
I wasn't personally bothered by your post, but I would still suggest that you not do that. You are suggesting that a ChatGPT output can serve as a reference of some sort. That is not correct. Mentally prefix any ChatGPT response with &
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by sfink 3y ago
Both points are valid, and I agree with both. It's ok, they're different points. First, it is a problem that people don't recognize and acknowledge the external factors behind success. It leads to poor decisions, helplessness
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by sfink 3y ago
They're not all for the same purpose. There are some things that don't need to be actively looked at most of the time, but need to be visible so that you know when something happens that you do need to pay attention. You could d
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by sfink 3y ago
I agree, though I find journalctl to be even worse to type.

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