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by wwright 6y ago
Have you read about the Munchausen Trilemma? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
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by wwright 6y ago
A Box is not a pointer. It is an object with regular one-owner, no copies semantics. Semantically, it just breaks the object out so that it isn’t “internal” to whatever contains it (useful for keeping individual objects small or working a
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by wwright 6y ago
It’s worth noting that C++ templates themselves are a purely functional language, and a Turing complete one at that
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by wwright 6y ago
That happens for global lookups, but methods should use a stack-like lookup for local variables which should be much faster IIRC (Personally, I really question the extremely-dynamic-by-default design of that generation of languages; is bein
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by wwright 6y ago
Eight megabytes and constantly swapping
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by wwright 6y ago
I’m a huge Rust fan, but this is a misrepresentation of C++. You can definitely use the vast majority of modern C++ features while also integrating with a C codebase (exotic control flow such as exceptions and coroutines are definitely dang
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by wwright 6y ago
Even no_std Rust has a lot of nice built-ins, for what it is worth.
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by wwright 6y ago
In that case, I would say HR is at fault not for asking that affirmative action be taken, but for not backing it up by making the job attractive in the first place. If you can actually attract people to your company, then asking that you hi
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by wwright 6y ago
The parent comment explicitly made it about gender. They explicitly said they had a man they liked but couldn't hire him because of HR.
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by wwright 6y ago
I wonder what people who have spent their adult life studying and implementing UI/UX think about it.
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by wwright 6y ago
Are you claiming that you couldn’t find any woman who was qualified for your project?
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by wwright 6y ago
I think the widespread practices may be calling from inside the house.
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by wwright 6y ago
That is certainly the opinion of the United States ;) (I'm referring to the laws being ignored by the US government itself, to be clear)
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by wwright 6y ago
"Largely" probably was the wrong word. The usage I describe will probably always be a minority, but my assumption is that it's been a relatively constant minority since journalism started. There's always an incentive to
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by wwright 6y ago
I said _treat_ it as valid. There are many valid laws we don't treat as valid (such as international ones). It was a genuine question though; I was wondering if someone more knowledgeable than I knew how it would be handled :)
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by wwright 6y ago
If we are going to truly treat this 1833 treaty as legally valid, does that mean that one party is entitled to compensation for 187 years of damages? Or is it more likely that we will somehow hand-wave it away and just find a way to retroac
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by wwright 6y ago
Could you point me to an era of journalism where it wasn't largely used to condemn certain figures over their words or actions?
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by wwright 6y ago
I think it's really not that some programmers do 10x more, but some people with the same job title do a different job. Some engineers take responsibility for product or for ecosystem; some engineers tick off tasks on a list. (Both can
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by wwright 6y ago
We needn't fill the young Rubyist's head with nightmares that deep, friend :)
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by wwright 6y ago
I say this a lot, but if you are this irritated by Rails, then you ought to see the 20+ year old legacy C/C++ some of us get to work with ;)
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by wwright 6y ago
My experience with it has always been that it is delightfully simple for the task at hand. There's a wide surface area because it covers a wide problem space (distributed computing), but any individual task has always felt simple and v
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by wwright 6y ago
CoreOS was not a direct competitor to RHEL, it was intended to be a "next-gen" rearchitecture of the OS. No one was going to seriously consider using one in place of the other; if you were considering CoreOS, then RHEL was already
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by wwright 6y ago
If you’re not familiar with Rust, one of the core features is that you can “pass” or “borrow” that stack-like scoping in a safe way. IE, if you create a file handle, it gets automatically cleaned up when the current scope ends… unless you t
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by wwright 6y ago
IMO part of what’s happening here is that Python’s GC model works well for memory and leaks for other resources. Rust’s ownership model works very well for many non-memory resources IMO, and even for memory it is very safe and efficient, wi
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by wwright 6y ago
IIRC, io-uring makes it very complex to expose a safe zero-overhead async interface, because the kernel expects any buffers that you pass it to live until the operation completes (ie, you can’t allocate your own buffer, give it to the kerne
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by wwright 6y ago
Or maybe it is possible for an economic phenomena to have multiple valid interpretations, and sources aren’t inherently aligned to some idealistic idea of objectivity and reliability
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by wwright 6y ago
Hey man, some of us draw the line somewhere ! ;)
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by wwright 6y ago
A group of people telling you that they don’t like what you say isn’t censorship, it’s being in the out-group, and it’s been a thing since animals evolved social behavior If you want to see real examples of censorship, a forum for liberal t
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by wwright 6y ago
Let’s assume that when code is first written, the cleanliness and performance is somewhat random within a broad range. If we want the code to be clean or performant, we will likely have to spend time iterating on and pruning the code. Let’s
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by wwright 6y ago
Oh, definitely agreed – just trying to illustrate that we have to design a society that accounts for the inevitable failures in enforcement as well.

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