simias

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by simias 6y ago
I admit that I'm a Rust fanboy so it probably wraps my view a bit, but from personal experience I don't consider unlimited compile-time code execution to be a completely good thing. Yes, it makes the language more approachable, ye
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by simias 6y ago
The "why" is memory safety without GC, which as far as I know no other non-toy language provides. It's also why I feel that the comparison with Zig is a bit unfair: Zig is not memory safe. If Rust was willing to compromise wi
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by simias 6y ago
72% is a very significant deviation from 50% though, I wasn't expecting such a result. >The highest predictive power was afforded by head orientation (58%), followed by emotional expression (57%). Liberals tended to face the camera
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by simias 6y ago
Yeah I just preordered mine, I also like the hardware button. I have a previous version of the Nitrokey but it's just a backup for my Yubikey at the moment because I find the Yubikey's form factor and confirm button superior, but
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by simias 6y ago
I wouldn't have said anything if the game was released one month ago, but GTA V is almost 8 year old now and it's been ported to several generations of hardware (IIRC they've even announced "next gen" ports to relea
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by simias 6y ago
I think the really embarrassing part for Rockstar is that they didn't bother to investigate what took 5+ minutes to load in their star product, a simple profiling would've made the issue obvious. So either they knew and they didn&
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by simias 6y ago
I address that point specifically in my comment. What you say is that the units of the operands matter, which I agree, but the order doesn't. 2rows x 3chairs and 3chairs x 2rows is the same thing.
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by simias 6y ago
I agree that it's a generally pointless distinctions, although it might be useful in some cases such as number systems where the multiplication isn't commutative, or for a particular implementation where the distinction matters.
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by simias 6y ago
But does it work with the OSS shim for alsa shim for pulseaudio shim for jack shim for pipewire? Jokes aside my first reaction upon hearing about pipewire was "oh no, not yet an other Linux audio API" but maybe a miracle will happ
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by simias 6y ago
Most serious weightlifters in my experience supplement their diet with protein shakes or similar, many vegan formulations exist. It's not super tasty, but I wouldn't call it "highly impractical". Beyond that in my experi
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by simias 6y ago
>Bash is a lowest-common-denominator language, available on almost all platforms, with a very stable (old?) API, which makes it ideal for broad distribution & bootstrapping of systems. /bin/sh is, bash isn't. Portabili
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by simias 6y ago
You need to reach your audience somehow. Even creators who earn a lot from Patreon and other websites had to build their following, often on Youtube. People can complain as much as they want (and sometimes rightly so) but it's a simple
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by simias 6y ago
If I had known about this client I might be using bitwarden today! Thank you for that.
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by simias 6y ago
I don't do a lot of "serious stuff" on my phone, so whenever I need to input a password there I just display the password on my computer and enter in there, if I regularly needed to access my passwords however my current solu
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by simias 6y ago
>But OTOH Firefox Lockwise/Sync is client-side encrypted, and the server just holds an opaque data blob for you. Back when I used lastpass that's also how they handled it (you can read through their open source command line cli
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by simias 6y ago
I'm using pass as my password manager but I heard a lot of good about bitwarden so I decided to give it a try, that would be one fewer thing to administrate for me. One very important feature for me is having a command line interface b
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by simias 6y ago
I write a lot of C but I literally never use scanf. C simply lacks the facilities to make such an API truly useful and flexible. You can't scan custom types, error handling is super limited, it's very easy to mess up the format st
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by simias 6y ago
That doesn't make sense, saying that the game still managed to be profitable doesn't show that the loss was insignificant. Those loading times are really annoying and detract from the game, and although I can't quantify the l
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by simias 6y ago
The JSON parsing is forgivable (I actually didn't know that scanf computed the length of the string for every call) but the deduplication code is a lot less so, especially in C++ where maps are available in the STL. It also comforts me
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by simias 6y ago
I wanted to stick to the original as close as possible, I agree that my code isn't very idiomatic (or even generally a good idea).
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by simias 6y ago
I enjoyed GTA online but haven't touched it in well over a year, and the insane loading times are definitely a big reason why. For those who haven't played the game it's important to emphasize that it's usually in the 5m
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by simias 6y ago
I agree. I played GTA online for a bit and quite enjoyed it but I haven't touched it in a while and the insane loading times are a big reason why. It kind of baffles me that they haven't bothered to fix this trivial issue when the
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by simias 6y ago
I must admit that I never understood what these particular examples had to do with Lisp being such a great programing language given that you can implement exactly the same logic in basically any programing language, including for instance
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by simias 6y ago
I don't think it's a good comparison. The architectures mentioned in the pyca/cryptography repo are: - Alpha: introduced 1992, discontinued in the early 2000s - HP/PA: introduced 1986, discontinued in 2008 - Itanium: int
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by simias 6y ago
Note that packaged electron apps are not portable across OS, so it's orthogonal. What this could do is make the same electron package work on different OS without rebuild by using a portable browser binary. Meanwhile Cosmopolitan doesn
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by simias 6y ago
Compiling ASM and even C is very fast these days. No generics, small compilation units etc... Even with optims it's usually a non issue in my experience. For a datapoint it takes me ~2 minutes to build a reasonably fully featured ARM l
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by simias 6y ago
The entire field of astrology is based on similar confirmation bias, very broad and vague assertions on character are likely to resonate on way or the other. That's the main reason I took this test with a grain of salt. Here, let me pa
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by simias 6y ago
There's a lot of baseless conjecture in this as far as I can tell. >The SolarWind backdoor was deeply integrated into the code, it was injected during their build process, and there is no way that the server having a weak password w
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by simias 6y ago
Oh I never thought about that either. Thank you.
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by simias 6y ago
It composes better if you were searching for something and then want to replace it IMO. You basically just have to remember the search syntax and then you can reuse it for replacing. It's also better if you don't actually want to

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