shakow

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1. 391.▲
   by shakow 3y ago

   GCC already compiles quite a lot of languages, why not add one to the toolbelt if contributors feel like it?
2. 392.▲
   by shakow 4y ago

   I don't remember LVMH being considered a risk for national elections or dealing shady propaganda business with Russian agencies or ‶research″ firms, but sure; whatever floats your dictionary.
3. 393.▲
   by shakow 4y ago

   > I’m not even surprised because it’s from the continent that still has a lot of kings and queens 1. LVMH stems from France, a company famous for not being really friendly to royals. 2. The bulk of LVMH's brands customers are not ro
4. 394.▲
   by shakow 4y ago

   > France isn't known for having neutered nonviolent protests It definitely is.
5. 395.▲
   by shakow 4y ago

   > Xsara Picasso does around 60MPG 3.9l/100km in a Xsara, really?
6. 396.▲
   by shakow 4y ago

   > This is another disaster in the making Frankly, I don't buy this. Many languages have a single functionally complete implementation (PHP, Perl, Nim, C#, Ocaml, Haskell, Julia) – or virtually a single one (Ruby, Go, Python) and th
7. 397.▲
   by shakow 4y ago

   They only seem obvious to you because you are used to them. Quite the opposite to you, Rust is obvious to me because I'm used to low-level programming and careful memory management, where JS is more than often very surprising. Another
8. 398.▲
   by shakow 4y ago

   I love option types, but I don't think they make a lot of sense in dynamically typed languages.
9. 399.▲
   by shakow 4y ago

   Feel free to share your know-how https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
10. 400.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    This would reallocate, wouldn't it?
11. 401.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    And the programming semaphore comes from the semaphore used as train signal to ensure that two trains are not using the same track segment simultaneously.
12. 402.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    Depends on whether you have to sell it.
13. 403.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    A few millions a days is a few dozens per second; we currently have a service running this order of magnitude of jobs with a SELECT/SKIP LOCKED pattern and no issue at all on a medium AWS box.
14. 404.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    > which mostly comes from a low yield open pit mine in niger. That's literally bullshit. Main import sources of uranium in France are Kzakhstan, Australia, and Canada. Please stop spouting Russian and/or Greenpeace propaganda.
15. 405.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    This is only true for France because at some point, presidents decided that the electricity production plan was enough and stopped it in the middle.
16. 406.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    They can, of course, but it's harder for coup-ing superior officers to make dozen of thousands of 20y.o. Grunty McGruntFace follow them to overthrow the government when the very oath they swore was to that government, and that this oat
17. 407.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    All I see is that France is doing much better than Germany in electricity production and in the rest, so I'm not sure what your point is.
18. 408.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    > the president is also the top military commander It's also true in quite some other countries, and it is to ensure that the military remains subordinated to the civil government, after the many examples of military coups in Histor
19. 409.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    I do hop they reduce their emissions faster, because God knows they have a long path to go down https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iNLUw70c8Yw/VuCyTjcOxQI/AAAAAAAAA... With an average at 560 gCO2/kWh vs. 47 gCO2&#x2F
20. 410.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    Sure, there is this one outlier, but there are quite a few >100s deaths incidents in the West too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure
21. 411.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    > a false choice between nuclear and fossil fuel That's not a false choice, there is also hydro (unfortunately my country is more or less saturated there), solar (OK if you're a really sunny country and only need electricity du
22. 412.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    > could present semi-permanent damage to the biosphere. Burning coal, gas or oil present immediate, virtually permanent (at least on a human time scale) damages to the biosphere; hydro electric power already killed at least two more ord
23. 413.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    Better understand what happened, and if/how you can fix it.
24. 414.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    That could be a lot of mid-to-high end cars. Matrix headlight makes me think of Audi, but none of these features are especially cutting edge nowadays.
25. 415.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    Are you implying it is contradictory to wish for both the wealth redistribution levels of the 50's and the human tolerance of now?
26. 416.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    Such discussions are dime a dozen on any major GH repo, no need to follow the latest, most fashionable, scandal.
27. 417.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    Please tell me what people who would discover this thread on HN could constructively add to this conversation. > Real discussion and transparency can involve multiple viewpoints that conflict with each other while each having their pluss
28. 418.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    I really dislike giving HN exposure to this kind of issue; it only brings us the forbidden pleasure of voyeurism while not helping the maintainers & contributors in the slightest – and can even crystallize conflicts while we eat popcorn
29. 419.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    Good, tell me how your company will be doing. What people sometimes fail to understand is that code is a mean to an end, not an end in itself. If you want to make code for itself, work on an opensource and/or personal project. If you a
30. 420.▲
    by shakow 4y ago

    Disk accesses should not lie. If only 6GiB are read from the disk, then I believe either the model is indeed sparse in its computation, or there may be a bug somewhere.