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by smaddox 8y ago
That's an interesting claim. Do you remember the source?
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by smaddox 8y ago
I'm a bit surprised this isn't covered in any of the documentation, but it might just be because the semantics are clear once you understand associated types. The `Add` trait has an associated type `Output` that you must define wh
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by smaddox 8y ago
You're right about deadlocks and general race conditions. I was confused. Rust only (statically) prevents data races (arguably the only form of race condition that is always undesirable). Rust does nothing to prevent deadlocks. The adv
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by smaddox 8y ago
I'm not an accountant, but my understanding is that gift tax is paid by the gifter. I'm not sure if that applies to perks, though.
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by smaddox 8y ago
My extremely limited understanding is that a given bacteriophage only attacks a very specific strain, and thus that you would need to constantly evolve them to fight new strains. While perhaps not useless, that doesn't sound like a rep
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by smaddox 8y ago
Does textbook equate to real-world, though? Don't real world applications either use a thread per socket (i.e. per TCP stream) or something like epoll? Genuine questions, because I really don't know.
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by smaddox 8y ago
That's what happens when you let simple metrics dictate engineering decisions (and career advancement).
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by smaddox 8y ago
Rust doesn't magically fix resources contention. It just provides safe concurrency primitives (and the surrounding language semantics) that make it difficult -to-impossible to misuse in such a way as to cause a deadlock or race conditi
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by smaddox 8y ago
Agreed. There's certainly value in reading foreign code, but IMHO the value is much greater if you spend a bit of time trying to implement it yourself, and only then see how they implemented it and consider what you could learn from th
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by smaddox 8y ago
It hasn't served that purpose in decades...
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by smaddox 8y ago
> ... and I think this policy is the output of a calculated risk assessment where Google determined that the effect of the PR would be greater than the cash. Huh? It sounds like they're not changing course at all, but just spinning
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by smaddox 8y ago
A single hard-coded STUN server is a big face-palm for a "serverless" chat app. `ipfs.io` could at least host their own STUN server. As long as they disable TURN, it shouldn't require much bandwidth. It's not like very m
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by smaddox 8y ago
If you scroll over, it shows that the share increased from 1% to 3% from 2014 to 2017. And the total number of employees has almost certainly gone up in that same time frame.
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by smaddox 8y ago
My understanding is that this approach was rejected because of path-dependence of the layout, i.e. deterministic only if you include the full interaction history. Path-dependence in a layout engine would be a debugging nightmare.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Clearly you ruffled some feathers, but I have to agree. Microsoft playing nice with open source is a very new phenomenon.
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by smaddox 8y ago
My understanding is that the black hole's entropy gets encoded into a hologram on it's event horizon, and then is distributed with the Hawking radiation. Last I read, it sounded like it was still a somewhat open question, though.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Brilliant! I'm never reading an arxiv PDF again!
528.
by smaddox 8y ago
I find the best approach to KISS is to write it as simple as possible under the assumption you'll have to throw it away. If it turns out you don't have to (after measuring), then all the better.
529.
by smaddox 8y ago
My nephews are constantly on their iPads playing games or watching YouTube.
530.
by smaddox 8y ago
Great, so now I have to worry about a domain expiring because Visa is down when the auto-renew posts!
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by smaddox 8y ago
Nice. Coincidentally, I was thinking just the other day about implementing a real-time (or near real-time) ray/path tracing renderer with relativistic effects. Looks like they beat me to it, although using raster graphics. I'm a b
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by smaddox 8y ago
That's true of any advanced node, though.
533.
by smaddox 8y ago
This is an inevitable consequence of globalization and conglomeration (especially of agriculture).
534.
by smaddox 8y ago
Why? Magnetic bearings and copper work just fine...
535.
by smaddox 8y ago
Did these editor changes correlate with any other life changes, e.g. job change?
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by smaddox 8y ago
And if you assume standard probability theory holds. If you allow for so called Exotic Probability, then local hidden variable theories are not ruled out. See [1] for a list of relevant literature. [1] http://physics.bu.edu/
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by smaddox 8y ago
If it's cloud-based sync, then a subscription model makes sense, but I've yet to find a subscription price that is in line with what I think is reasonable (~$2 / month) for the service.
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by smaddox 8y ago
It is conjecture, because you're assuming there's no underlying deterministic theory of "everything" (quotes because such a theory would not necessarily help in understanding higher-level phenomenon). Such a theory is
539.
by smaddox 8y ago
I assume you're talking about "God does not play dice". Einstein's famous quote may yet be proven correct. Everettian theory (many-worlds interpretation), Bohmian Mechanics, and Exotic Probability theory are all determin
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by smaddox 8y ago
Ahh. Looks like the affect is proportional to the spacetime curvature. So not particularly effective for interstellar travel. Also, you wouldn't be able to measure a thrust, because there would be none; there would only be translation.

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