wwright

34 ms·

331.
by wwright 7y ago
Not only can you cast away anything, but: - casting away types unsafely is required for many common patterns in C, including any form of runtime polymorphism - basically anything involving numerics has a good chance of happily casting for y
332.
by wwright 7y ago
What bottlenecks are you seeing from Node? How can we verify that it’s not impacted by kernel characteristics?
333.
by wwright 7y ago
Things like “danger,” “skill,” “knowledge,” and “safety” aren’t really part of license exams in the US. They’ll pretty much just give a license to anyone here, literally. It’s actually one of our bigger problems (it has big implications on
334.
by wwright 7y ago
IMO, this even applies when replacing most C/C++: a lot of that code doesn’t need most of the benefits or C++ or Rust. Often, it’s better to replace it with simpler programs doing less work in Go or JavaScript or Python. I love Rust, b
335.
by wwright 7y ago
I believe Skype for Business has been discontinued, but I may be wrong. Edit: I actually bothered to check and the EOL is 2021. New customers are directed to Teams. I used Teams at work, and it’s crap quality UX, but it does the job. For ch
336.
by wwright 7y ago
Haskell has monadic loops ( https://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-loops-0.4.3/docs/C... ): let limit = secondsToDiffTime 60 start <- getCurrentTime iterateUntil id $ andM [ someAppl
337.
by wwright 7y ago
Unicode handling can be really, really, really, hard, and I’m willing to bet a there’s a lot of edge cases there that are not unique to Bazel.
338.
by wwright 7y ago
If you haven’t seen Bazel, you should take a look. It’s definitely not as minimalist, but it has a very, very similar model for specifying the build. In me experience, it’s pretty easy to get going, and it makes it pretty hard to screw up a
339.
by wwright 7y ago
I believe the structured concurrency article is written by the author of Trio (I could be wrong.)
340.
by wwright 7y ago
Even if we assume all motherboards using BIOS can be replaced, it is still valid to want to find software downloads for those that still exist.
341.
by wwright 7y ago
It’s called “appeal to authority”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
342.
by wwright 7y ago
If you haven’t seen yet, Twin Peaks got a third season back in 2017. It’s a lot more like Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire than the original show, but personally, I think it was one of the most amazing shows I ever watched :-)
343.
by wwright 7y ago
The Return is full of shots that are very reminiscent of his past works; there’s multiple nighttime highway shots that look a lot like Lost Highway, for example.
344.
by wwright 7y ago
An “OS thread” is the most basic part of the program that can actually do things. When it is blocked, it can’t do anything. OS threads can be expensive, so libraries try to only create a few OS threads. A “hot loop” (usually, I think, calle
345.
by wwright 7y ago
Does Rayon use iterators, or just iterator-like combinators? I don’t think a for-loop would work with Rayon, would it? You can also definitely implement iterators using first-order functions: const iterate = array => { const
346.
by wwright 7y ago
ime, what is called “political correctness” is often interpreted as “respecting others” by different people. You can disagree with what expectations they have for interpersonal respect, but I think that’s how the other side sees it.
347.
by wwright 7y ago
Do you not feel that gifted/nerdy/aspy kids reciprocated? It might just be that I’m a complete asshole, but I grew up in Mississippi feeling very isolated and estranged from everyone around me. I think I definitely felt like I was
348.
by wwright 7y ago
This is antithetical to the core concept of American government: it literally is up to everyone what happens. Vote, campaign for others, lobby, run for local office, or bigger offices if you find yourself successful. Look at AOC. People wil
349.
by wwright 7y ago
You should check out Idris: https://www.idris-lang.org/
350.
by wwright 7y ago
Check out structural typing. I would say it’s the type system JavaScript uses for non-primitive values. The “dynamic” appearance is just that JavaScript doesn’t center the type system in its UX.
351.
by wwright 7y ago
JS doesn’t have to do computation on a single language. Web workers an option, and I believe Node has additional tools as well. It definitely can’t compete with true threads for work that needs true threads, but you probably don’t have much
352.
by wwright 7y ago
As someone who has worked a lot with both Qt and React at my current job, I feel that React is significantly easier for almost everyone. Qt’s complexity negates a lot of its benefits in most hands.
353.
by wwright 7y ago
I tried porting some Qt code to iOS and Android a couple of years ago — I found the experience to be extremely lacking. I’m not a fan of Qt or C++, but I will admit it is at least a very pragmatic and efficient choice for Linux GUIs. It’s m
354.
by wwright 7y ago
Those programs definitely do not use the same UI conventions as the rest of the platform.
355.
by wwright 7y ago
I would definitely call Qt a platform, just like Java is a platform (it actually has a lot of similarities to Java). The platform happens to run on multiple other, lower-level platforms.
356.
by wwright 7y ago
Even though the core runtime is a web standard, I would say this performs worse in every other way. The entire rendering stack has to run in a VM.
357.
by wwright 7y ago
If it can be automated, then obviously, yeah. If not fully automated, many CI platforms allow you to pause the pipeline by requiring manual confirmation from an authorized user. I know Jenkins and CircleCI support this off the top of my hea
358.
by wwright 7y ago
Rust has the exact same semantics there. Drop is useful when you need to explicitly notate that a value should end its life early.
359.
by wwright 7y ago
How is the PR author supposed to fix it without complex Git commands? Error prone copy and paste? I _really_ love working with Git, but in my experience engineers unfortunately do need to tap into the long tail of “advanced” commands fairly
360.
by wwright 7y ago
For terminal stuff, 1Password offer a CLI client that you can build around.

More ›