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by shakow 2y ago
> I'm not sure what you are hinting at. Probably the various ethnic cleansings that happened in the *stans at the fall of the USSR, where most more western ethnicities (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarussians, Armenians, ...) were at bes
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by shakow 2y ago
Decades of empirical evidence prove that people are more comfortable with functional, reactive, beging/end delimited programming, i.e. Excel.
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by shakow 2y ago
> I can’t imagine working on any performance critical low-level code without a good sampling profiler. cargo-flamegraph: am I a joke to you? https://github.com/flamegraph-rs/flamegraph
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by shakow 2y ago
That's not a “gotcha”, but an interrogation on whether what I experienced in bioinformatics (i.e. working on tools, especially already existing ones, is a carreer trap) also applied to maths.
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by shakow 2y ago
> people who use or contribute to lean And do they get tenure- or funding-able output of it, or is it more of a side-hobby?
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by shakow 2y ago
But as long as the stats are not reliable, that's unknown territory. Maybe the police is getting more lazier, maybe less, maybe there are less people reporting because it is seen as useless, maybe there are more because they get tired
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by shakow 2y ago
Most of the world money is purely numeric; only ~10% is printed in cash IIRC, so a worldwide EMP (outside of all its drastic consequences on the world) would wipe out much more value in fiat money than in cryptocurrency. And most of the gol
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by shakow 2y ago
If you are frequently swapping out 32GB, a laptop is not the right tool for the job.
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by shakow 2y ago
Because: > it is still more than an order of magnitude slower than RAM, and is harmful for the disk cells. I mean, if that's not an issue for you, be my guest. But that's not the global optimum.
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by shakow 2y ago
But it is still more than an order of magnitude slower than RAM, and is harmful for the disk cells. If you have enough money to provision NVMe and still swap multiple gigabytes, just get a 16GB RAM stick for $40.
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by shakow 2y ago
I don't think that NixOS as a main stream OS makes sense. I personally use it because I'm a nerd, but I would not recommend to my sister anymore than RHEL or Oracle Linux. However, to efficiently administrate an heterogeneous serv
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by shakow 2y ago
You're comparing a user-facing GUI to a system administration tool. Just like I don't expect Jack from accounting to read a doc to launch Chrome from Gnome, I would expect James from IT to read docs before setting up the Oracle Li
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by shakow 2y ago
But dictators don't want electronic things – especially the one whose very design imply them being fully traceable such as ETH/BTC. If you are in the circles where having to move $10M illegally is a common occurrence, paying a guy
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by shakow 2y ago
> in helping dictators evade sanctions Let's be realistic here, most of dictators evading sanctions do it (i) with good ol' bags of $/€/CHF/£, (ii) gold/platinum/diamonds/..., (iii) whatever ad-hoc
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by shakow 2y ago
> many of those in Ukraine *with factories & workers relocated from Ukraine. The SSR of Ukraine having been under the Nazi yoke for most of the war, what could be saved was moved to the East, to the famous factori complexes of e.g. T
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by shakow 2y ago
> It was Russia the one who started the war in the first place I'm all to shit on stalinism, but let us not jump into absurdities here. The USSR didn't start the war, Germany did. The USSR then feasted on Poland's carrion
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by shakow 3y ago
¿Por que no los dos?
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by shakow 3y ago
> nuclear energy couldn't be used anymore because there wasn't enough water in the rivers for the process anymore That's a deformation; production had to be reduced (not stopped), not because there was not any water anymor
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by shakow 3y ago
They are not the same process at all. Commercial ‶automated″ kits only genotype you, i.e. look at a couple thousands of well known SNPs to put you in the group you share more with. Resolution is low, extrapolation is virtually impossible, b
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by shakow 3y ago
Shhh, why would you comment without any actual data-supported opinion or personal experience regarding bound checking performance impact? This is HN!
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by shakow 3y ago
> %1 difference in tight loops I'd love to see how you can reach this number. I hear a lot of people complaining about supposedly degraded performances due to bound checking; but IME, even on number crunching HPC code, I have never
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by shakow 3y ago
> C/C++ can be made memory safe Famous last words.
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by shakow 3y ago
As long as you don't have kids.
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by shakow 3y ago
> they force you to be explicit on allocating new memory. Not at all. With e.g. `append` being a “maybe I'll allocate, maybe not, take a guess” kind of method, it's basically just like Java's `List.add` with extra steps an
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by shakow 3y ago
I'm afraid you hit the wrong ‶reply″ button.
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by shakow 3y ago
Agreed, the Rust syntax is no golden standard either - but at least it's regular; this one really weirds me out.
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by shakow 3y ago
Why do you need a tilda for `S ~[]E`, but not for `E comparable`? Both are type-constraining annotations, so why two syntaxes?
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by shakow 3y ago
Programming is hard and one can not destroy complexity, only move it; other news at 12.
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by shakow 3y ago
IMHO, all these comes from the million dollar mistake that Go made from the very beginning, with slices being a bastard between both an owned and non-owned data container. Indeed, any function accepting a slice may simply use it as an immut
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by shakow 3y ago
Noone is talking about Sweden, the thread is on the UK.

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