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by weberc2 7y ago
What’s the advantage of lightweight threading features? I thought your position (based on comments elsewhere) was that kernel threads are roughly as fast as it gets? What am I misunderstanding?
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by weberc2 7y ago
You misunderstood the GP. He isn’t saying it’s correct, only that it doesn’t deserve to be dismissed out of hand. I.e., it deserves a more robust treatment before dismissal is warranted.
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by weberc2 7y ago
You’re right: they don’t. They tell us the progressives are exaggerating.
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by weberc2 7y ago
> The UK kept trade with the US when slavery there was rampant. And we’re I a citizen of the UK in this tortured analogy (with my contemporary morals and all that), I wouldn’t want my money supporting that. > Any country will have hic
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by weberc2 7y ago
> There’s a limit to how much leverage any one side has on a sovereign countries policies (and how much they actually enforce them when they agree). I’m not advocating for anyone controlling sovereign Chinese policies. They can continue
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by weberc2 7y ago
I would rather see more rigorous trade policy. Frankly fewer low-quality or fraudulent Chinese imports will probably be a net positive and even if it is more expensive, I would rather our trade dollars support countries with less corrupt go
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by weberc2 7y ago
That’s a laudable goal, and to that end I imagine it would do a world of good to stop the constant exaggeration of how disenfranchised those groups are (NOTE that I’m not saying these groups are fully enfranchised, only that the disenfranch
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by weberc2 7y ago
Damore's thesis was that Google shouldn't expect gender parity because (among other factors) the preferences of women are distributed differently than the preferences of men. So Damore was talking about both groups, but he was fir
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by weberc2 7y ago
I'm sure I'll be downvoted for merely asking, but I'm genuinely curious: what is the evidence for discrimination? Is it simply the null hypothesis (gap, ergo discrimination) or are there studies or something that actually hig
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by weberc2 7y ago
I wonder if they're trying to eliminate the VM substrate layer that clouds today currently run on by replacing it with hardware and an OS that is more amenable to running containers natively with good isolation/security properties
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by weberc2 7y ago
WRT to Frazelle, are you referring to her contributions on the Docker team as "creating software used by millions"? If so, that seems disingenuous, or perhaps she was more of a core contributor than I realized? If not, what softwa
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by weberc2 7y ago
While minimizing the use of violence is an indisputably good thing, there’s a big gap between the UK machete case and the US sniper case. There are certainly lessons the US police could learn from the machete incident, but I don’t see how t
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by weberc2 7y ago
Wow. I definitely read it as “ACLU would use robots to police” and I thought it was just a clumsier way of saying “ACLU to police the use of robots”. I didn’t actually realize police was a noun until your comment.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I’ve found the opposite. For the last year, I have to resort to Google more and more often. DDG was on par with Google when I started using it a couple years ago, but it has managed to get worse and worse over time. Note that I’m specifical
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by weberc2 7y ago
It is remarkable what can be accomplished when another much larger state is heavily subsidizing your entire economy. Good on the Belarusians for the progress they’ve achieved, but let’s not pretend it’s attributable to communism.
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by weberc2 7y ago
No idea if this idea is any good or not, but I wouldn’t recommend marketing this solution using the words “nuclear” and “torpedo”.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I know very little about any of this, but our ability to forecast weather has certainly improved in the intervening century; might that be helpful for avoiding storms?
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by weberc2 7y ago
IIRC (from some documentary on the subject) canids are somewhat unique in their “genetic plasticity” (I don’t recall the precise term).
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by weberc2 7y ago
Wow, thanks very much. I spent a good chunk of Saturday morning googling around for something like that last one. I’ll look into all of these. EDIT: TAG seems to focus on eliminating fraudulent Internet advertising; it's a much narrowe
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by weberc2 7y ago
Thanks for pointing me to fair trade; I'll have a look. There are a lot of things I'm interested in, but mostly they fall into one of a few groups. For any given product, I want to know: 1. If (or to what degree) the product was m
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by weberc2 7y ago
I agree that any organization can, but I don't know of any. I'm vaguely aware of orgs that certify organic/non-GMO/etc and presumably someone certifies kosher food and conflict free diamonds and the like, but I'm no
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by weberc2 7y ago
I believe you are correct about Go. The rationale I recall was that generated parsers were slower and afforded less control over error reporting. Notably wrt performance, fast compilation was a major goal for Go from the beginning.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I wonder if there are any organizations that can certify products and brands. From inhumane conditions to poor quality to scammy marketing and outright fraud (especially on Amazon), I want to avoid Chinese products as much as possible. It’s
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by weberc2 7y ago
> It's not at all a SF problem, it's a metropolitan city problem. NYC, Boston, Denver, Austin, Boise, both Portlands, etc all have the same housing crisis. I was responding to the claim that it's a state- or national-level
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by weberc2 7y ago
Genuine (outsider) question: how is housing not a uniquely-SF problem? The rest of the country and even other parts of California seem to have affordable housing, at least relatively speaking. EDIT: RE downvotes, shame on me for not being f
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by weberc2 7y ago
Programming languages lend themselves to different applications and the kinds of projects one contributes to in one's hobby time are different than those one contributes to in one's professional time. As such, I wouldn't expe
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by weberc2 7y ago
I've been using Go for 7 years and I don't think this is a mischaracterization at all. I definitely don't think it's something "only really novice Go developers do"--I see it all the time, including in popular
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by weberc2 7y ago
Please forgive the tangent, but I'm curious about how people are using Rust if it's not in their primary day job? My impression is that there aren't yet many Rust jobs, but many practitioners. What are people building with it
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by weberc2 7y ago
That made me chuckle, but apparently it’s a bit more nuanced. According to Wikipedia: > It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis, b
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by weberc2 7y ago
This is my experience after 7 years of Go as well. Error handling is actually fine. People make too big a deal about the error check (and Rust people make too big a deal about the compiler not forcing you to handle every error). The substan

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