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by shellac 6y ago
On G1 you used to be able to use `-XX:+UseStringDeduplication`, which gives you back something like the string sharing used pre-whatever it was (8?).
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by shellac 6y ago
Working fine on Safari 13.1 on my mac.
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by shellac 7y ago
I think the operative phrase is 'a CDN company'. URLs are names for things (companies, mailboxes, pictures of cats), but they're also (encoded) directions to get representations of those named things. CloudFlare is concerned
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by shellac 7y ago
> In 1992 Tim Berners-Lee created three things, giving birth to what we consider the Internet. The HTTP protocol, HTML, and the URL. What we call the web, surely? I appreciate we conflate the two, but in this context I think that's
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by shellac 7y ago
This is very old news now, but still worth repeating. Use URI
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by shellac 7y ago
Does the Netherlands not have the equivalent of https://crimesurvey.co.uk/ ?
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by shellac 7y ago
The article is a curates egg. The d-notice stuff is interesting, although mostly well known I thought (?). The Assange and anti-semitism parts are evidence light re-heats of Canary-level reports with added "it's the spooks".
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by shellac 7y ago
I think it was aimed at getting him to stop excusing antisemites, which is an embarrassment. It's unclear what you think those links demonstrate, other than many writers thought that too. "So, @georgegalloway was right" is on
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by shellac 7y ago
Yep, those fences are awful. You need to essentially walk through a car park and keep going to find TNMOC. But it is wonderful. Far better than next door, to be honest.
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by shellac 7y ago
OpenJDK BigDecimal::doubleValue() goes via a string in certain situations https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/sha...
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by shellac 7y ago
The UK used to prescribe heroin for addicts, which I understand inspired the Swiss treatment of addicts. Rolling that back as part of the war on addiction seems to have been counterproductive in terms of overall health.
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by shellac 7y ago
He also guided the evolution of java from 1997 until 2006, so from 1.1 to 1.6, a very significant period in java's development. He's also one of the team behind Dart. Hrm.
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by shellac 7y ago
Swift probably inherits that from NeXT/OpenSTEP/Cocoa which was very unusual at the time in its degree of unicode support. For example it used something like unicode equivalence in string comparisons. (You'd see objective-c b
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by shellac 8y ago
Obviously its purpose was to support Java, but a number of languages - most prominently Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, Groovy and Ruby - run on the JVM. With perhaps the exception of Kotlin, these are not especially Java-like. There is an interest
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by shellac 8y ago
In this article ‘graft’ means corruption or similar, rather than ‘hard work’. Slightly confusing.
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by shellac 8y ago
I did try that once, and found it quite a challenge. It feels like all the controls go well beyond '11' for the intended (bass line) use.
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by shellac 8y ago
Although weirdly preempted by an Indian record 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' in 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4RYBpwV0A This is what "the TB-303 bass synthesizer uses [the artist] to reproduce itself&
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by shellac 8y ago
You might be interested in the Fortress language (RIP), whose input allowed, and was canonical rendered using, mathematical notation. So, for example, xˆy could be written as x superscript y. SUM[i<-1:n, j<-1:p, prime j] a[i] xˆj was
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by shellac 8y ago
Startup Security Utility -> Secure Boot -> No Security https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208198
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by shellac 8y ago
Suppose you're told that somebody has halved an apple and put the two pieces in separate boxes. You are given a box, and the other is sent to a friend on the other side of the planet, who phones you when it arrives. You both open the b
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by shellac 8y ago
> P2P is banned in the French academic network. I expect the same in neighboring countries There's no Janet policy (UK academic network) against P2P, although there are institutional policies in place (typically for student resident
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by shellac 8y ago
My understanding is that Graal is doing whole-application compilation, so the dependent jars will be compiled. Reflection is an issue that they have a work around for. There's a good article illustrating various issues [1] in the case
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by shellac 8y ago
On my machine it's an order of magnitude larger than `true`. /usr/bin/time -f "\nmaxRSS\t%MkB" true maxRSS 1276kB I'm not sure what to make of that.
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by shellac 8y ago
This is the answer I wanted :-)
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by shellac 8y ago
You mean a python implementation on truffle? Or ruby on something truffle-like on RPython?
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by shellac 9y ago
Yes, in the words of the ICO: > A personal data breach means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data. This includes breaches that a
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by shellac 9y ago
You've got that completely the wrong way around. An erasing compiler has full access to the type (obviously - it's doing the erasing) and so can verify whether you're putting the correct types in or out of a collection. Where
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by shellac 9y ago
> A New Zealand City the Size of Berkeley, CA Population of around 120,000 for people like me who found that less than informative. 0.04 Wales, in standard units.
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by shellac 9y ago
> ...it was set up to own The Guardian for purely philanthropic reasons. You're right, of course, but the Scott Trust is not philanthropic in itself. It only exists to keep the Guardian and Observer going as they are. As such when f
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by shellac 9y ago
s/Gradle/Graal/? In the case of python it's clear that the heavy reliance on c extensions is a blessing and a curse: it's kept python relevant in communities like science even though it isn't very fast. However

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