xKingfisher

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by xKingfisher 4mo ago
Even worse he changed his name from Carnagey, presumably to deliberately cause confusion.
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by xKingfisher 5mo ago
How does it seem that Radley is talking past Gary? All discussion of the 'Misrepresentations' article is responsive to Gary's mention of it in the original article. And at no point does Radley appear to endorse its contents.
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Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit?(radleybalko.substack.com)
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by xKingfisher 11mo ago
> Coding for others is not art. It absolutely is, and I think it's what separates good from bad and junior from senior devs. Most devs can produce an artifact that more or less works. But one that has an internal consistency others
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by xKingfisher 11mo ago
I think a distinction can be made between bad taste and different tastes. One of the greatest developers I've worked with, who I learned a lot from and respect immensely, has extremely different tastes in software from me. To the point
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by xKingfisher 1y ago
It's a "rain shadow"[0] The predominant wind is from the east, and the air cools aid forms rainclouds as it tries to rise over the mountains in the center of the island. Then warms again as it descends down the eastern slopes
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by xKingfisher 1y ago
I've had the opposite experience recently. Going from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica is $30s for a Waymo and runs up to $50s for Uber/Lyft (sometimes). Otherwise, they tend to be within a few dollars. I figured it was a comb
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by xKingfisher 3y ago
We have common carrier laws to cover cases like Comcast. Which Section 230 explicitly says social media platforms are not. And the problem with Comcast is not necessarily that they will make speech decisions we don't like (an inherent
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by xKingfisher 3y ago
The issues with the Darling 58 project had some good discussion here two weeks ago[0]. Tangentially: A distillery in Los Angeles, The Obscure, is making a rye whisky aged in American Chestnut barrels, with some of the proceeds going to the
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by xKingfisher 3y ago
I try to avoid nits totally unrelated to the changes at hand, since on a subconscious level they may discourage people from even wanting to touch older/less loved files at all. The critical exception being avoiding issues due to path d
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by xKingfisher 3y ago
I think it's just a very confusing, hard to use correctly behavior. And according to the article, very bug prone in implementations. In the example given, the result is that both writes happened before both reads, which directly contra
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by xKingfisher 3y ago
There is more than just hope to rely on. Diverse Double-Compiling[0] can provably detect this class of attack. [0] https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
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by xKingfisher 3y ago
But you can do almost all that while working at Google. And imo, the stability makes it even easier to do so. It's been my experience that Google is a super chill place to work, especially when you take advantage of the fact that you&#
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by xKingfisher 4y ago
It's mentioned in passing at the end of the "the trouble with interpreter loops" section. A traditional switch/goto loop can thrash the branch predictor. Separating into different tail calling functions gives you more sl
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by xKingfisher 4y ago
An interesting application of this is massaging the branch predictor using tail calls to speed up a parser/interpreter: https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-i...
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by xKingfisher 4y ago
Federal prison doesn't have parole, it is a fixed 'good conduct' credit of up to 54 days per year. So she's serving a little more than 9 years minimum.
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by xKingfisher 5y ago
They still have a number of issues. * They're expensive (~4-8 dollars per follicle) with a single transplant being 1000-5000 follicles. Severely bald men may need multiple * There is a finite number of follicles that can be transplante
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
It's definitely a lot to process. I found these two articles really helpful when trying to understand moves: https://abseil.io/tips/55 https://abseil.io/tips/77 Though I'd also say don&#
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
The article did touch on a possible reason for the misunderstanding. If you already know from previous versions that push_back makes a copy and that C++11 added move semantics and emplace_back, it's not a huge leap to connect the two.
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
And explicit constructors won't save you from this one.
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
Given the whole scanf/strlen thing going on, more blog posts about API pitfalls wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. And that is basically the premise of the Abseil Tip of the week series, which are an incredible resource for lear
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
Maybe they're fans of why's guide to Ruby :) Though place_back still has the connotation of 'take this thing and put it over there' that emplace_back is actually the opposite of. Naming things really is hard.
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
It's not bad advice. I see many code reviews that use emplace_back because it's 'faster'. Though I think the abseil article does a better job of explaining why: https://abseil.io/tips/112 [Googler;
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
Something like construct_back would've maybe been a little clearer. I imagine that would have it's own issues as well though.
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
Not to mention the very real risk of accidently invoking the wrong constructor. If you change the type of a vector, push_back is a good deal safer than emplace_back. Especially since many of the standard containers have many more constructo
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
You are correct. Literally is commonly used as an intensifier and has been for ages. Complaining that modern people are literally ruining the word literally is a popular internet gripe.
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
The 'misuse' of literally has been part of the English language for almost 300 years at this point [1]. It is older than the USA. [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
A lodge cast iron pan will last forever and isn't that expensive. And maintenance isn't terribly hard. Just rub down with oil after using (I use plain canola) and keep it dry. Serious eats has a lot of information on this. Modern
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
Butterpat Industries is another. I have one of their pans and it's excellent.
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by xKingfisher 6y ago
I was on the Ocean Diamond. Not the newest or nicest but still more than comfortable. And barely over 100 passengers, which is the max that can be on shore at one. I can't say enough good things about Quark, they were incredibly profes

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