vnorilo

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by vnorilo 7y ago
Reminds me of copy-on-write. Operation can reuse input buffer if it holds the sole reference to it. In the scenario you described, you manually ensure and write this behavior for the rest of the pipeline.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
After using darcs, I can never see Git as elegant, no matter how clearly it is a more pragmatic choice these days.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
There was a certain hub that had a role in git's rise. Kernel pedigree may lend it credibility but I doubt it's the driving factor.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I think it's fantastic that you have the desire to help. However, I'd guess it would be best to consider different means of helping for the sake of all concerned. Maybe you could run a computer club or something for kids at a stru
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Sure, but that's us evolving, not the animals, right? We have made quite a few other nutrient-dense foods that hack those signals. Evolution did not make cheese or chocolate in all these years, because it doesn't target our palate
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by vnorilo 7y ago
On the other hand, those million years of evolution did not select specifically for ”delicious and nutritious”.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
CTO at previous job was responsible for one of the better heuristic algorithms from the era before ML took over and our product dealt with this problem. I'm inclined to disagree with your assessment. Transcription is to polyphonic pitc
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I have plenty of love for academia (PhD here) but it does, like most large institutions and corporations, show a tendency to become a huge feedback loop that interfaces only with itself and excludes the society at large, apart from siphonin
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Besides, even for a single translation unit (such as a quick hello world) you could just #include the .c file to avoid setting up a makefile.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I don't like listening to music while doing routine tasks where thing A needs to be plumbed to thing B and mistakes should be avoided. However, when I need by subconscious to scan a vast non-verbal solution space, nothing is quite as g
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Github's api [1] makes sense to me - there are lots and lots of query patterns and the previous Rest api results in quite a bit of link chasing and bandwidth burning. It would actually be interesting to see if someone could design a ve
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I've always thought of compiler programming as systems programming. I guess it fits your definition of being something application folks interface with in addition to kernel.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Reading webassembly is not that difficult. The main challenge is that variable and function names are not available, but minified js is no better in that regard.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I think anyone would be a fool to NOT hire her and NOT treat her like a dangerous, high energy combustible material.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
The handicap in Go [1] works amazingly well. I have had enjoyable games with dan-level players despite being at best conversant at the game. That said, I've also enjoyed such games immensely with no handicap, despite no prospect of win
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I played with per-thread counters. The problem is you don't want them sharing a cache line, so having them inside the object is problematic. Having external per-thread counter arrays involves bookkeeping and indirection I could not mak
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Don't we kind of need to stop using oil though?
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I've been looking for an easy way of keeping git mirrors of my hg repos, and this seems like it would be a huge improvement over the previous extension! Here's to hoping it lands.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Although I did read some of Riftwar, I was completely unaware of the transliterary aspects of the game when it came out. I do remember being impressed by the game though; it was ambitious and well executed and I think one of the classics fr
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Sure, but I'd guess their incentives align with being better than median, and thus not necessarily with improving the standards with their market power.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Apple may be happy to differentiate on privacy but surely they don't care or might even prefer that android and others get worse in that regard.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I use it often as a giant sanity assert that guards my application state in dev mode. In lieu of static types. Helps me catch dumb type errors early at the site of mutation.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I’m not much of a haskeller, but friends’ war stories indicate that laziness leaks quite a bit.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I’m not sure lifetimes are that much more complicated than the way C++ does implicit type coercion of user classes, resolution of compile time polymorphic functions, namespaces or SFINAE. I do agree it’s more like death by a thousand paper
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by vnorilo 7y ago
To get an idea of the length of the tail: Suppose a deadline of 6ms to produce an audio buffer. If 0.01% of the callbacks choke on a lock, we get a dropout once a minute, which is quite a lot. This means we're interested in the 99.99th
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by vnorilo 7y ago
If you want to poke around and have fun, Bela [1] is pretty good way to get started. It's got a prebuilt framework where you can just push a piece of c(++) that gets to run in a xenomai real time audio thread with predigested signals f
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Volatile is, well, volatile. You can basically only rely on the fact that the compiler respects source order and keeps all reads and writes (instead of hoisting and reordering). I believe msvc used to put in memory barriers. Not sure if it
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by vnorilo 7y ago
That one would be more of a pessimisation, I think.
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by vnorilo 7y ago
I wish people would not say "undefined behavior" to mean something that looks vaguely iffy or dangerous. It has a pretty specific meaning. [1] x84/64 has a pretty strong memory model. Bareback sharing of 64-bit variables has
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by vnorilo 7y ago
Well, I've seen this exact stroke of genius in at least a dozen different code bases, so while it's a good idea, it's not exactly rare.

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