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   by tjalfi 7y ago

   The National Bureau of Economic Research is a nonprofit economic think tank. They have a weekly mailing list[0] of their new working papers. I subscribe to many newsletters but this is the only one I read every week. There are normally at l
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   by tjalfi 7y ago

   Sovrin[0] is a decentralized anonymous identity network that may be of interest. [0] https://sovrin.org
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   Abraham Wald's Work on Airplane Survivability (1984) [pdf](people.ucsc.edu)

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   by tjalfi 7y ago

   I don't think the numbers from PerformanceTest accurately reflect the usage of 32bit Windows 10. I find it difficult to believe that Microsoft would keep Windows 10 x86 around if usage was really that low. Backblaze found that about 4.
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   by tjalfi 7y ago

   Windows 10 32bit is still around and supports 16bit applications. My employer uses 32bit VDIs to run a few legacy applications.
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   by tjalfi 7y ago

   Others have mentioned most of the pitfalls with the suggested approach. Another potential issue is that the floating point rounding mode can be modified by shared libraries or plugins. [0] has examples of application crashes caused by a cha
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   by tjalfi 7y ago

   You might be interested in Cliff Click’s aa[0]. It’s still under development but intended to be a high performance functional language. The author has substantial experience in JITs and compilers. [0] https://github.com/clif
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   by tjalfi 7y ago

   There have been compilers that did this optimization. 179.art, one of the SPEC2000 benchmarks, has some poorly laid out structs. Sun Microsystems was the first company to introduce targeted optimizations for this benchmark. GCC also had an
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   Why Programmer-Specified Aliasing Is a Bad Idea (2004) [pdf](people.cs.pitt.edu)

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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    The Go developers have considered changing to a register-based calling convention[0][1]. I found these tickets a few weeks ago and they explained why the Go developers haven't yet made this change. [0] https://github.com&#x2
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    How popular is .NET in your market? Have you considered learning other technologies to enhance your skillset? I would recommend that you attend local user group meetings and talk to people. Weak social connections are an excellent source of
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    Thanks for the link - this article is eye-opening.
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    Cornell Vectorization Virtual Workshop (2018)(cvw.cac.cornell.edu)

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    Fifty States in a Week's Vacation (1998)(web.archive.org)

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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    Ingrid Lane[0] was murdered by a man she met on an online dating site and had been dating for a month. Meeting strangers may not be a high risk for you but it is for other people. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    Here is a line from Robert A. Heinlein's Friday that seems appropriate. “In this case, the trouble with ‘the people’s right to know' is that it strongly resembles the ‘right’ of someone to be a concert pianist - but who does not w
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    Cooperative Threading(byuu.net)

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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    I fill out undismissable popups as abuse@theirdomain.com. I'm sure their email support team doesn't want to miss out on the incredible rewards.
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    clang-tidy has a command to replace auto_ptr with unique_ptr[0]. I haven't used it in anger, though. [0] https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-rep...
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    LLNL used to have LRLTRAN manuals online. It's an extended Fortran-66 for Systems Programming.
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    Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability (2010) [pdf](cbe.anu.edu.au)

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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    Absolute power doesn't mean that you can act with impunity. Mohammad bin Salman must retain the support of the heads of the army, secret police, and such or he will be replaced. The Dictator's Handbook[0] discusses this topic in d
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    Baen Books[0] and Tor[1] don't use DRM. [0] https://www.baen.com/t-drm [1] https://www.tor.com/2013/04/29/tor-books-uk-drm-free-one-yea...
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    Were you thinking of Joel Spolsky's Law of Leaky Abstractions[0]? [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    It's easy to define a rule; the hard part is enforcing it. I've been on an HOA board for a couple of years. Here are some of the things I have learned. Some people (about 5%) are cranks. We have received legal threats because anot
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    Large tech companies can replicate anything but it doesn't make sense for them to clone products sold in a small market. Legal operations software, for example, is about a 1 billion market[0]. Your startup can compete in this space but
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    Cooperative Threading(byuu.net)

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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    I have Visual Studio configured to warn on blocks without braces. It finds a bug about once every two years.
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    You can have a contract with a company and take them to court for breach of service. If you don't like their work, you can switch to a different vendor. This isn't ideal but I prefer it to relying on the kindness of strangers. &qu
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    by tjalfi 7y ago

    Have you looked at their ticket queue? It could be a matter of work in progress or internal bottlenecks. [0] has a good summary of WIP after the heading titled "Why Do We Need To Visualize IT Work And Control WIP?". TLDR - read th