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by starbugs 3y ago
Got it. The title of an article is a detail and this title in particular doesn't draw any attention from people interested in C or the claims made by performance comparisons between different types of programming languages in general.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Well, maybe read the original title again: "Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22"
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by starbugs 3y ago
Exactly. This is why without the original title nobody who's not into Ruby would even consider reading it. And only a fraction of those people who are into Ruby and upvoted it would consider upvoting it. Thanks for confirming it.
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by starbugs 3y ago
And how do you decide if you're going to read the article? Ah yes, the title. I guess we will always find someone who tries to word-wrangle their way out of an obvious fact. The title is the first thing you see. It's printed in a
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by starbugs 3y ago
Critizising the title is not exactly nitpicking. The title is important. And it’s misleading. I disagree that this article is well written. It is hard to identify what is compared exactly, at least as someone not deeply familiar with the ru
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by starbugs 3y ago
C was never intended to be a model of what the CPU is actually doing. This is purely an optimization issue and the article compares apples to oranges for clicks.
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by starbugs 3y ago
I think this is a somewhat misleading title. It does not outperform C. This article appears to compare a suboptimal native C implementation to a JIT optimized version of some similar Ruby code. The JIT only outperforms that particular hand
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Wow. They still don’t get it People paid double. They did get it. Even before they tried.
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Fun Facts About Llamas(thoughtco.com)
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by starbugs 3y ago
> No, it's not fine. Legally, maybe, but not morally fine. I don't understand how everyone is ok with this system which seems to be selecting for the worst humans. Wait. If you invest your money into something, do you not expec
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by starbugs 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | iOS/macOS | Swift/Objective-C, C/C++ Location: Oldenburg, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: UIKit, SwiftUI, Swift/Objective-C, C/C++, React, Vue, TypeScript, JavaScri
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by starbugs 3y ago
Come on. You know who the "shareholders" are that the parent commenter talks about. They are board members and people with a huge amount of shares, not "normal" people who hold 5 shares in their retirement portfolio. The
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by starbugs 3y ago
Maybe also worth a watch is this video from Ian McGilchrist: Ian McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4AFdNxLmb4 Intro skipped: https://youtu.be/N4AFdNxLmb4?t=340
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by starbugs 3y ago
Anything pushed to the extreme will result in its opposite. There's an interesting Wikipedia page about a concept from philosophy called "Unity of opposites": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_of_opposi
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by starbugs 3y ago
While that makes sense, I still think it would be more effective than having big multinational companies manipulate their way out of a well intended law.
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by starbugs 3y ago
That makes it very easy to come up with new manipulation about the meaning of "good for you", I guess.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Why not just legislate the supermarkets to put a label on the respective shelves?
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by starbugs 3y ago
I got it to say: > Based on the information provided: > 1. Mable's heart rate at 9 AM was 75 bpm. > 2. Her blood pressure at 7 PM was 120/80. > 3. She died at 11 PM. > It is evident that she was alive at both 9 AM a
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by starbugs 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | iOS/macOS | Swift/Objective-C, C/C++ Location: Oldenburg, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: UIKit, SwiftUI, Swift/Objective-C, C/C++, React, Vue, TypeScript, JavaScri
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Thing is, producing crappy, cookie-cutter, uninspired, overpriced junk that falls apart within 5 years (generously speaking) pays more to the shareholders. That's how we got from there to here. This summarizes it quite well for me
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by starbugs 3y ago
If only there was something to enable lots of people to coordinate easily ... like ... a big computer network?
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by starbugs 3y ago
As SO contributors, _we_ have a say with regard to our future consideration of SO as a destination of our contributions. Since SO is just a platform, it can't survive without _our_ content. People have much more power than they think.
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by starbugs 3y ago
I think it's about time that we no longer accept this strategy as valid.
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by starbugs 3y ago
I get your point, but I don’t believe it’s gonna make cars cheaper for me. All the software and connectivity tends to be misused for extracting more money via subscriptions, controlling me and in extreme cases even holding me hostage by upd
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by starbugs 3y ago
I have owned both a shitty beginner car without any extras and two more or less fully equipped ones. I would love a car that does not have a single display and just connects to my phone or pad for setting things up and streaming audio. All
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by starbugs 3y ago
One can also be very dedicated to the beach.
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by starbugs 3y ago
That is a good point that I missed in my list. In fact, I think in a recent update, they made the pins dots in an apparent attempt to declutter the map view. Now what you described got even worse, because the points have an even smaller hit
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by starbugs 3y ago
I was assuming this was a Europe thing. It seems as if they don’t have correct and complete data of the closed entries and exits. The closure itself was on the map, but the algorithm still failed to plan an appropriate detour. I have had mu
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by starbugs 3y ago
> You're coming off as condescending and for what, exactly? Someone's preferred map app? I am the author of the original comment. I might come across as an Apple fanboy to some. While I get your point and I think you're ri
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by starbugs 3y ago
I try not to, but there are some apps whose main purpose depends on location data. In those cases, I check who's behind those apps and try to restrict the times at which they are able to attain location data as best as possible. > I

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