weberc2

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by weberc2 7y ago
Really? When I lived in France there were Ford dealerships all over, or at least I was surprised by their frequency. I saw a lot of Fords on the road as well iirc.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Fair point.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I doubt "cowboy cosplay" is a primary driver of pickup sales in the US so much as utility and affordability (the US has wider roads and cheaper fuel than Europe).
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by weberc2 7y ago
> I closely with the fashion industry in the UK, and one of the things that surprised me a lot was finding out that "Made in the UK", at least for clothing, meant lower quality. While we used to have great manufacturing experti
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by weberc2 7y ago
I don’t have a source, but it’s common knowledge in the Go community. Not sure how GCC works, but it definitely produces slower binaries than gc (the standard Go compiler). There are probably some benchmarks where this is not the case, but
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by weberc2 7y ago
Go didn’t get much traction until they added Windows support? I could believe that Go began to take off around the time that Windows support was added, but that seems more of a coincidence than a cause. How many deployments are running on W
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by weberc2 7y ago
Of course, this is a theoretical conversation. My point is that you don’t refute the claim, “low latency GCs are suitable for game dev” with “I used a high latency GC and had a bad time”. Nor do you conclude that GCs inherently introduce la
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yes, that is correct. Anything that allocates on the heap requires GC or it will leak memory. Go doesn’t have formal semantics about what allocates on the heap and what allocates on the stack, but it’s more or less intuitive and the toolcha
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by weberc2 7y ago
What is Unity’s STW time? Is it optimized for latency? If not, you’re using the wrong collector. The pain point it solves is time spent debugging memory issues and generally a slower pace of development, but of course if you’re using a coll
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yeah, C compilers optimize much more than Go compilers. Performance is C’s most noteworthy advantage over Go.
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by weberc2 7y ago
It’s factually correct. My other post got downvoted for pointing out that not every GC is optimized for throughout. Seems like I’m touching on some cherished beliefs, but not sure exactly which ones.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yes, the idea is that you must invoke the GC when you’re not in a critical section. Alternatively you can just avoid allocations using arenas or similar. (You can use arrays and slices without the GC).
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by weberc2 7y ago
It will be a learning curve, but a much, much smaller one than learning C.
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by weberc2 7y ago
You didn't have a bad experience with GC in the past, you had a bad experience with a single GC implementation, one which was almost certainly optimized for throughput and not latency and in a language that pushes you toward GC pressur
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by weberc2 7y ago
In my experience it takes a few days for a moderate programmer to come up to speed on Go, whereas it takes several months for C. You need to hire C programmers for a C position, you can hire any programmers for a Go position.
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by weberc2 7y ago
You’re writing in a much improved C. Strong type system (including closures/interfaces/arrays/slices/maps), sane build tooling (including dead simple cross compilation), no null-terminated strings, solid standard library
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by weberc2 7y ago
Go’s GC is low latency and it allows you to explicitly trigger a collection as well as prevent the collector from running for a time. I would wager that the developer time/frustration spent taming the GC would be more than made up for
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by weberc2 7y ago
Isn’t that just a query builder? I’m not familiar with Perl or your library, so maybe you could tell me where I’m wrong?
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by weberc2 7y ago
Ah, thank you for the explanation!
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by weberc2 7y ago
TIL feral cat colonies exist...
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by weberc2 7y ago
Chicago has squirrels everywhere except for the loop. And there are rats absolutely everywhere too! I imagine it’s similar in most US cities.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yeah, I had to reread that several times.
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by weberc2 7y ago
> What one fact checker says (or is rumored to have said) does not invalidate fact checking by everyone everywhere It doesn't, but we're talking about that very fact checker, not fact checkers generally. And if you'd like
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by weberc2 7y ago
Why is cake a basic food but not cookies? Does cake mean something different in the UK?
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by weberc2 7y ago
(By the way, I didn't downvote you) I agree that Trump has no great respect for truth and facts. I also think the left is doggedly pursuing him in its own anti-factual aspirations. I see your sharpiegate and raise you the Covington Cat
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by weberc2 7y ago
Be wary of the "the far right does it therefore everyone else who does it is far right" fallacy. In particular, when a fact checker says that they need to do something about <conservative political movements>, _even though I
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by weberc2 7y ago
Per the article, we're discussing IA's efforts to flag "misinformation".
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by weberc2 7y ago
(I don't have a dog in this fight) From TFA: "The result is Trump and Brexit!" and generally the lack of anything disparaging toward the left. The article and the Internet Archive plainly isn't "focused on conservat
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by weberc2 7y ago
Maybe just community? Building something useful to oneself, releasing it to find it solves others' problems, seeing one's work have a broad benefit, collaborating with others to make it better, etc. Not sure if this is just a posi
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by weberc2 7y ago
CPP doesn't mean C++ in this context. It means C preprocessor.

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