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by yxhuvud 2y ago
In Sweden? Oh yes.
422.
by yxhuvud 2y ago
What? No, that is laughable. What would be career ending would be the massive reduction of income within Apple. That would end careers, and quickly change enough minds that they would change policies.
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by yxhuvud 2y ago
Same is true here in Sweden, we just have deep enough reservoirs. We also have nuclear, but hydro is also a really big part and as Canada has even lower population density than we do it shouldn't be unreasonable. But perhaps terrain in
424.
by yxhuvud 2y ago
Are there no rains in western Canada? Why is hydro not an alternative?
425.
by yxhuvud 2y ago
But libc is more than a set of global functions - it has a bunch of global state associated with them as well. And manipulation of that is what I consider a runtime.
426.
by yxhuvud 2y ago
Yes, it is a runtime provided by libc, but how on earth is it not a runtime?
427.
by yxhuvud 2y ago
Some other languages also perform this optimization, for example Ruby and Crystal.
428.
by yxhuvud 2y ago
Yes it typically does have a runtime. For example, it has persistent structures in memory related to malloc/free, and the manipulation of those most definitely show up when you profile.
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
It's roughly twice what I pay for 1gbit. So no, it is not fair.
430.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
Yes. For example EU have eliminated excessive roaming charges between telephone operators in the EU. That brought down costs for consumers by multiple orders of magnitude. In practice, price controls can work well when there is no efficient
431.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
Do you realise 70% of the atmosphere is nitrogen? We will not run out of it.
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
> That’s just how type programming looks. Then that is an argument to do less of it. Or at least to back off and learn to write better types that are not a mess.
433.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
Indeed. For example, they could learn that Copilot is a winning name so lets go with that.
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
Very, very impressive. It will be very interesting to see how much of crystal is supported, of IO and fibers and gc etc.
435.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
You can go without protective shell, but it is so slippery you want one just to avoid airborne phones.
436.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
In this case the creator left the company a year ago or so.
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
Ruby does not use reference counting. It has a mark and sweep generational gc that is incremental and use compaction. I doubt it would be state of the art, but it is not too bad nowadays.
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
If anything, the drift is towards GC being only tracing as it is so dominant in the languages that are normally considered having GC. But before C++ (via boost) introduced shared pointers, and Swift ARC, I'd expect the separation to ba
439.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
If we are talking long running multithreaded processes, then libc malloc have issues that isn't even fragmentation. There are many workloads when it seems to forget to return whole empty pages and just accumulate allocated areas despit
440.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
> while Google based manufacturers are competing Yes, this is exactly what the DOJ likes in that part of the situation. Companies that compete.
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
Glibc allocator is also notoriously prone to not giving back memory that could be given back to the OS when running several threads over a long time period. Reducing pool size helps a bit, but not sufficiently to make memory stable.
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
How is it awful on the Ruby side? In my experience it is a solved problem since bundler was invented 15 years ago. It's been very free from pain during the last 10 years or so.
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
I generally don't agree with the direction withoutboats went with asynchricity but you are reading in a whole lot more into that sentence than is really there. It is very clear (based on his writing, in this and other articles) that he
444.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
Yes, those umlauts made it sound more like a fake french accent.
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
Or that sort order is locale independent. Swedish is a good example here as åäö are sorted at the end, and where until 2006 w was sorted as v. And then it changed and w is now considered a letter of its own.
446.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
So what happens if someone puts those two in a git repo and a Mac user checks out the folder?
447.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
On the other hand, stuff written on macs are a lot more likely to require normalization in the first place.
448.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
It would be nice to have a version without paywall, or an alternate source. What are the details here?
449.
by yxhuvud 3y ago
This is true, but the comment you replied to was about the cookie law, not about GDPR. They are separate issues, even if they are obviously related. Cookie law is about not using other peoples storage for usage that is not needed, GDPR is a
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by yxhuvud 3y ago
The article explains why DWARF is not an option.

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