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by throwawayish 10y ago
E5-2xxx.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
In your example you'd just have two different types with no subtraction operation defined between them. That has nothing to do with type hints. What you probably meant: This is where being strongly typed helps. Python is and always
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> It's a different usage of the term than the normal case Is it? How? It's a simple case of length extension, just that here, since we have two independent starting points sharing the same state, we start with a collision and w
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Color the character boxes and display in two adjacent lines.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Memory mapped files are incredibly hard to use for consistent, durable storage. I mean, so is POSIX I/O in general, but if you do MAP_SHARED you made your life even more complicated. (MAP_PRIVATE and rewrite-the-whole-thing-for-every
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I have been using various operating systems for a while. I feel like Linux has, in general, from a UX point of view, the worst behaviour when swapping and the worst behaviour in general under memory pressure. I feel like it has gotten worse
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by throwawayish 10y ago
The "PDF language" itself is not that complex per se and ofc. executes in a VM. PDF also allows to embed various stuff, including Flash and JavaScript, which both execute in a VM as well. No PDF reader was supposed to just execute
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> when the desktop comes to an end. Just... lol.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
XP was released sixteen years ago.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
This is what rST solved and got 100% right ~15 years ago.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> wireless headphones increase in popularity Do they? > It also adds to confusion as to why you only get static in some cases, or a message about wired headphones being required. Poor humans, constantly being confused. Life must be di
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by throwawayish 10y ago
All true, but if we say "type" then the default assumption will be "int", "string" etc. -- "pixels" and "millimeters on a piece of paper" are the same type then. This is, after all, exactly
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> But yes, the fundamental idea was to convey information about the type of the variable as part of its name. No. There are two types of Hungarian Notation. The original one ("apps hungarian"), which made sense and sometimes
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> They're quite thorough (though they have the fault of being heavily steeped in git jargon). So you actually agree. To understand the docs you have to understand git jargon, and the docs aren't too helpful about that. I certai
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I remember the old page / look and I feel like that one had much more character. This kind of design is very generic and has been for quite some years now.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> This is a good point. I think once developers learn Git (or as much as they need to use), then they forget how esoteric the the cli tool is. This is more up to git being horribly leaky about all it's internal implementation det
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by throwawayish 10y ago
"Distributed processing is not only more complex to implement but also turns out to be less efficient in most if not all cases" -- not sure where I got that one. Google tells me it's not literal, or NotOnTheInternet(tm).
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Yes, clustering and virtualizing things is pretty much how this has been handled at a scale, be it modern web applications, (Open)VMS or mainframes. It's simpler and has other advantages to architect the application for this than to do
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Applying updates without degrading service has always been somehwat difficult to do; but it can be done in ways similar to "graceful reloading" that is relatively widely used in web servers. However, it requires custom integration
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by throwawayish 10y ago
DLLs and other components installed system-wide are almost never the same file: Updates install new versions of most DLLs into the SxS system and compatible applications load newer versions when they are restarted.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Where did you get the impression that GP was talking about "doing front-end web development"?
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by throwawayish 10y ago
GSM crypto was designed to not be strong (in the late 80s).
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by throwawayish 10y ago
A coworker mentioned that multidexing also take ages and uses huge amounts of memory.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> fjernvarme We Germans have that, too - Fernwärme :)
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Network buffers are a completely different animal, also harder to optimize... Disk IO buffers, it's easy nowadays, just use something like a MB, which is just fine for almost any application, and doesn't stack up to much memory us
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by throwawayish 10y ago
It is.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
No, mkfile creates a file with written extents (no sparse or uninitialized areas), while fallocate will (with ext4/xfs/...) only map some extents which are marked uninitialized. So while mkfile 10G would have to write ~10 GB of da
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Like I said, just the extent (cluster run) operations; if you're overwriting they shouldn't block and I didn't manage to make them, if you're extending they usually don't seem to but some times do block.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I would wish that the whole (disk) I/O mess would be cleaned up. It's just laughable how broken that is across operating systems. And it's supposed to be the back-bone of most operating systems as well. Also, memory managemen
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I can tell you right off the bat that POSIX might be better than no "standard" at all, but porting stuff between any POSIX-ish OS still means an actual port. Practically every non-trivial POSIX-ish program is not portable. This al

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