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by yoklov 10y ago
I think point 2 is often handled by assuming everything that happens outside of our solar system (or wherever you choose to draw the line) is 'faked' in such a way that we couldn't tell.
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by yoklov 10y ago
but most of that code isn't iterating. the only parts in that function i see that are iterating ([0] and the similar loop below it) seems straightforward enough to me. i don't see how they would help here unless i don't kno
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by yoklov 10y ago
honestly, i think it's hard to say this generally without more context into the code. imo nothing there looks too egregious (or at least not abnormally so) for very low level code.
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by yoklov 10y ago
For splitting, there's a balance you need to strike. Split things up too far and the errors are definitely harder to detect. IMO rote splitting usually doesn't simplify, it just hides the complexity.
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by yoklov 10y ago
Worth noting you should probably disable -Werror for distribution if you expect users to compile your code. They aren't going to fix your error for you and you can't know what warnings will be added to future compilers, nor what p
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by yoklov 10y ago
> I did get an A, the professor said I should've gotten bonus points, but in retrospect he would've been within his rights to fail me outright Well, to be fair, in the real world its not too rare for engineers to write custom p
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by yoklov 10y ago
It exists, although it's often phrased more kindly. For example, complaining about lifetimes is often met with a comment that you probably don't understand them yet.
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by yoklov 10y ago
This would be in violation of the standard (in a way that would cause a lot of things to render wrong -- anybody who was rendering correctly would now be wrong!), and also it isn't practical in most cases. It's a common misconce
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by yoklov 10y ago
Should as in "it would be nice"? Maybe. Should as in it does already and this sort of thing is unnecessary? Definitely not. Hence EXT_sRGB.
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by yoklov 10y ago
Right, but you can't implement a lot of the APIs without calling into private kernel functions.
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by yoklov 10y ago
It's hard to know what the right call is here. In most cases the battery life hit seems to be fairly minimal (I've never noticed it in any browser, even back when I used chrome), and preventing data loss is, well, fairly important
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by yoklov 10y ago
Nothing, but you couldn't implement an alternative SDK using the public APIs, since, well, the public APIs are the current SDK.
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by yoklov 10y ago
> 1) Make background tabs completely frozen by default. No intelligent guessing. A lot of people will do things like listen to music, watch videos, etc. in background tabs. Stuff like slack/irccloud/gmail notifications would be
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by yoklov 10y ago
> Firefox would pop up a vague message telling me that "one of your tabs" is causing an issue (not telling me which one) and then I would need to randomly close tabs to try and get things working properly again Did you have any
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by yoklov 10y ago
> They don't allow using iOS SDK for building applications which download and execute dynamic code While this is true, it's also explicitly that "Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKi
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by yoklov 10y ago
HTTP header: These are small and so it's unlikely you'd overcome the overhead of sending it to the gpu. I could be wrong in some cases though, like servers which have to parse hundreds of HTTP headers at once (I imagine this kind
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by yoklov 10y ago
Both are bigger than the x64 address space...
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by yoklov 10y ago
Yes, IIRC. They're still imperfect and can lag the browser quite a bit IME, but what can you do... Switching to a different password manager is not easy, and the ones I've looked at all have this/other problems.
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by yoklov 10y ago
Is there a way to ensure that the amount of time you set aside for GC is, err, enough? I imagine the outcome of it being insufficient would be quite bad... eventually.
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by yoklov 10y ago
Err, it's always ok, and shouldn't ever return the wrong answer... Unless I'm misreading it. What arguments do you think it will do the wrong thing with?
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by yoklov 10y ago
It's more problematic in languages that encourage allocation since you have to work more to avoid it. I've done game development in C++, C#, and JS, and I had to worry about memory management far more in JS than in C# or C++, simp
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by yoklov 10y ago
Haxe is actually a programming language[0], which can target JVM, CLR, C++, Flash, JS, and a number of other platforms. It has found some use in game development, but is still fairly niche. This is (I guess) a tech overview of a new platfor
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by yoklov 10y ago
Ah, in that case I agree.
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by yoklov 10y ago
If Photoshop was Maya, Blender would be much better than GIMP. IMO Blender is still worse than Maya (but not by that much), although Maya is also substantially worse than Photoshop -- to make a bit of an apples to oranges comparison.
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by yoklov 10y ago
> just look at some of Cowboy Bebop I was under the impression that the accusations of rotoscoping in Cowboy Bebop were just rumor and that a number of industry professionals had come out and said that "no, this is just how Hiroyuki
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by yoklov 10y ago
> the first Zelda game that gave us _some_ semblance of continuity What continuity is there in WW? Nothing jumps to mind, especially when the previous game (Majora's Mask) was essentially a direct sequel to OOT in comparison.
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by yoklov 10y ago
A lot of the implementation defined behavior can be ensured with static assertions (either via new-fangled C11 _Static_assert or via the old fashioned negative length array hack), particularly WRT sizes.
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by yoklov 10y ago
Honestly, as someone who finds the current situation a bit abhorrent, and who generally disagrees with most things I've heard come out of Thiel's mouth, there are way worse choices. He has knowledge of the tech sector and doesn&#x
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by yoklov 10y ago
File size is probably the biggest reason.
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by yoklov 10y ago
You can go through a convoluted process to get the documentation for the standard from Adobe (Someone where I used to work did this so we could add support for PSD to a game engine). I'll concede that that's unpalatable, and that

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