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511.
by usrnm 3y ago
> Goroutines in a single process map onto a fixed number of threads Not necessarilly true if you're using cgo
512.
by usrnm 3y ago
> but even this is far beyond the reach of current technology I saw an article not too long ago about creating chicken embrios with teeth. Doesn't seem that far
513.
by usrnm 3y ago
Yeah, just CRC32 the password on the frontend, should be fine
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by usrnm 3y ago
> the European continent isn't capable of producing a smartphone that people want Show me the smartphone produced by the US. The only place on Earth capable of producing anything currently is Asia
515.
by usrnm 3y ago
By that same logic, fighting crime should not be bound by any laws. After all, criminals break the law by definition so it's perfectly ok to not respect the law when you're fighting them, right?
516.
by usrnm 3y ago
I'm looking at the example and I just don't see how it's better than a Makefile. What am I missing?
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by usrnm 3y ago
I also grew up in the 90s, and I spent time reading books. A lot more fun than most shows you can find on Netflix today
518.
by usrnm 3y ago
It's about Mexico City
519.
by usrnm 3y ago
Well, C++ is a better, more productive language than C. It's by no means perfect, but having worked with both I do tend to miss C++ every time I touch C.
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by usrnm 3y ago
Absolutely. And running on sovereign hardware
521.
by usrnm 3y ago
Larian Studios has 450 employees, and BG3 completely blows any other modern RPG out of the water in terms of the sheer amount of fun content inside the game
522.
by usrnm 3y ago
I live in Europe and have never owned a car in my life. I don't even have a license. Overall, I like how things are handled here
523.
by usrnm 3y ago
Not exactly true, up until 2022 Google, Meta and others operated in Russia and were competing with Yandex and VK on a more or less even playing field
524.
by usrnm 3y ago
I wonder what you think of other stupid names, like "parsley", "cucumber" or "apple"?
525.
by usrnm 3y ago
Russia is an outlier right now because of a huge shortage of skilled developers, a lot of tech people left the country in the past two years
526.
by usrnm 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Pr...
527.
by usrnm 3y ago
The US already threatened to invade the Netherlands a few years ago, it worked like a charm. There isn't much the Dutch can do, when the US wants something from them
528.
by usrnm 3y ago
If you want to pursue an academic career in computer science, then yes, probably, I don't know. If you just want to "grok" algorithms to prepare for an interview, then there are much more time efficient ways to do it.
529.
by usrnm 3y ago
Yes?
530.
by usrnm 3y ago
Dismissing politicians as stupid is a simple way to feel good about yourself, but does nothing to solve the actual problems. Politicians are just as human as everybody else, and they love money and power more than they love some abstract &q
531.
by usrnm 3y ago
Not really. That's still something the owner of the domain has to do. What I'm talking about is a setting in the browser that lets me as a user decide what root certificates I want to trust and for what. Why can't I do that?
532.
by usrnm 3y ago
> every web browser in the world will be forced to trust the root certificates from all European Trust Service Providers What I could never understand is why limiting the scope of root certificates is not a standard feature? Why cannot I
533.
by usrnm 3y ago
Why do you think that believing that sizeof(int) == 4 is worse than believing that int32_t exists? It doesn't have to
534.
by usrnm 3y ago
Go is basically a very specialized language for writing small network services that are supposed to run on Linux. If this isn't your use case, then don't use go, but if it is, then golang is nice. Mostly the runtime and tools, not
535.
by usrnm 3y ago
The author is talking about a cross-platform interface standardised by POSIX, it's not really the same thing as the details of one particular implementation. It isn't about how, but why
536.
by usrnm 3y ago
> but adding a singular feature struggles to add even 100 kb to the executable Try supporting unicode
537.
by usrnm 3y ago
Technically, that should be Africans then. Neanderthals were the original Europeans and our ancestors came from Africa.
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by usrnm 3y ago
In the same way as Yandex is Dutch and Kaspersky actually used to be British for some time. Where the holding company is registered is not that important these days
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by usrnm 3y ago
It doesn't have to be miserable either
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by usrnm 3y ago
I'm not familiar with these languages, but which of them is closer to the actual modern hardware than C, while still being abstract enough to be portable?

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