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by winter_blue 2y ago
> she's seen more recruiters being hired This is a good sign for the whole industry at large, considering how bad the tech job market has been for the last two years.
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by winter_blue 2y ago
With regards to “live free or die”, I’d say it only makes sense if the enemy want to genocide you. Like in the case of the Nazis, I would say fighting them is best (if you’re not “aryan”), since they’d murder you anyways. But you have to be
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by winter_blue 2y ago
Are you referring to the Zig compiler switching to become self hosted [1], or the Zig website switching to becoming self hosted [2]? (I assume the latter.) [1] https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-self-hosted-now-what/ [2
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by winter_blue 2y ago
All of this late binding, and needing a runtime, seems to suggest even a JIT LISP implementation (e.g. SBCL) might not be able to achieve performance similar to a "zero-cost abstraction" language like Rust. When you're in deb
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by winter_blue 2y ago
> Once tripped, you can expand each element in the stack to see and inspect the variables local to that function. When a breakpoint is tripped, with most modern IDEs and languages, you can see the local stack, global state (and pretty
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by winter_blue 2y ago
> Three things are killer features for me with the slime+emacs running sbcl. First is that you can see the underlying source for anything down to the lisp implementation, e.g. the definition of 'macrolet'. If you’re working on
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by winter_blue 2y ago
I wonder how vDSO works for an x32 ABI program (ie a program with 32 bit pointers, but access to the rest of the x86-64 feature set).
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by winter_blue 2y ago
> Decades of awful immigration Care to defined "awful" here? Is this an euphemism to refer to non-European immigrants? Canada has done very well with immigration IMO. A far more sensible and welcoming system, and most immigrant
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by winter_blue 2y ago
> I’ve used a pretty old 16-bit DOS app on Windows 10: a C compiler for the Intel 80186 It’s amazing that stuff still runs on Windows 10. I’m guessing Windows 10 has a VM layer both for 32-bit and 16-bit Windows + DOS apps?
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by winter_blue 2y ago
Thank you. This is a good reminder.
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by winter_blue 2y ago
The duty on tablets & e-readers in Canada is 0% regardless of which country the tablet / e-reader was made in, according to: https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/dte-acl/est-cal-en... (there's a
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by winter_blue 2y ago
I don't get why the Canadian price is CA$929 when the US price is $579. That's an "exchange rate" of 1 USD = 1.6045 CAD. That is a far cry from the actual exchange rate (which is 1 USD = ~1.35 CAD). And ReMarkable isn&#x
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by winter_blue 2y ago
I use Firefox a lot (and occasionally Chrome), and I haven't had any issues with Firefox. I've been pretty happy with it.
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by winter_blue 2y ago
This is pretty cool. I have two questions, regarding the mirroring: 1. For the mirroring, are you using something like rsync (with modifications for the web socket script injection) underneath? Also, will the mirroring reflect destructive c
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by winter_blue 2y ago
The overhead is for doing computation (fr cryptographic hashing). No language has zero cost computation. Rust advertises what’s called zero-cost abstractions; which is a major improvement over many languages where abstractions can be expens
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by winter_blue 2y ago
What about those books made you happy, specifically? Could you distill it down to a set of points or aspects or ingredients? (Which, if another book series possessed, would make you happy as well.)
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by winter_blue 2y ago
So the only practical near-term effect the tariffs have is increasing the cost solar adoption. Incentives would have been better than tariffs to boost U.S. solar manufacturing.
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by winter_blue 2y ago
Flow (by Facebook) used to be fairly significant in the JavaScript several years ago, but right now it's somewhat clear that TypeScript has won rather handily.
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by winter_blue 2y ago
This is a pretty cool theory that resonates well with me. What are some good places I can read more about this (and related theories)?
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by winter_blue 2y ago
Oh wow. Wouldn't this make it easy for someone to just use/fork the code here to create a competitor?
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by winter_blue 2y ago
It’s partly (1) due to the structure (or rather, flaws) of the US constitution, (2) a ridiculous senate rule, and (3) gerrymandering as others have mentioned. On (1): needing the approval of the senate, house, and president makes it very ha
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by winter_blue 2y ago
This is awesome. Thank you!
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by winter_blue 2y ago
> If Star Trek Replicators were invented today, we're so stupid we'd outlaw them. Something like this already happens with housing and NIMBYism.
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by winter_blue 2y ago
81mpg is extremely impressive. The best MPG cars available in North America top out at the high 40s and low 50s. 81mpg is +30 over the Prius.
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by winter_blue 2y ago
Hopefully with better LLMs, the patent office can judge patent applications better, and search for prior art better as well.
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by winter_blue 2y ago
Absolutely agree. Utility company lobbyists in California recently ruined net metering (with something called NEM 3.0 that cuts solar benefits down by 75%), and wrecked the solar industry in California in the process. Nothing has been done
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by winter_blue 2y ago
Wow, California’s NEM 3.0 seems absolutely horrible. I hope it gets repealed.
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by winter_blue 2y ago
It sounds like the author of this piece lives in a jurisdiction without net metering. (The UK, perhaps?) If you have net metering, being able to push power back into the grid is a major plus.
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by winter_blue 3y ago
> They often spit out a semblance of the spec, and enable it by default almost immediately. On the flip side, standards committees can be painfully slow. Can anyone explain why DOM access from WebAssembly hasn’t even been specced out y
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by winter_blue 3y ago
> 3.2% is absolutely disgusting You’re being dishonest here. You can’t count temporary residents, especially after the Liberal government recently announced that they’re going to cancel many temporary residence visas to bring down the TR

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