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by zaphar 5y ago
Alternatively if my compiler has a "run faster" flag I would not expect it to change the "semantics" of my code in the process. Additionally in C UB is often not intentional nor trivial to detect in your codebase since i
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by zaphar 5y ago
Most places build their software using incredibly subpar tooling. This will not change anytime soon.
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by zaphar 5y ago
A merkle tree is an excellent way to represent an immutable record. Adding a cryptocurrency does nothing to the system that makes it more immutable. You only need the currency bit if you want to create a financial incentive for the strang
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by zaphar 5y ago
Until such a court case happens you literally don't know how that will shake out. If the artist runs out of money and can't pay for their server and the image goes down what exactly do you expect the court to do? I suppose they co
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by zaphar 5y ago
I don't see the behavior you describe on those sites so it suggests it's something unique to your setup. For instance: if your browser is set to clear cookies then they won't be able to store the preference for you and will
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by zaphar 5y ago
This is depressing. Like really really depressing. I was homeschooled, albeit not in the pandemic form and I got all of that from my parents. I can't even express how much more grateful your comment makes me that my mom sacrificed what
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by zaphar 5y ago
It's hard to just pick one but I'll mention one that I don't think get's enough attention: Working on external codebases. We all use frameworks and libraries that are maintained outside of the company we work for. Those
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by zaphar 5y ago
It sounds like you are struggling with two different things. Problem 1: Your manager isn't giving you the space to diagnose and fix the issue. The solution to this is to explain to them the situation in as much detail as it takes why y
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by zaphar 5y ago
And yet we are probably multiple decades away from 90% adoption and it is quite possible given the level of coordination required that we may never get to 100% adoption. We are more than 20 years in and I am still required to support ipv4
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by zaphar 5y ago
I think his point is that what you claim to be "here" and "now" is different than what is actually here and now. Just having funding and effort getting put into it does not mean it actually delivers on it's promis
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by zaphar 5y ago
The only real way I know to go from intermediate to advanced is to build something advanced. The good news is that you don't have to rely on a job to do so. The barrier to entry for building something bigger and more complex is far l
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by zaphar 5y ago
There is more to the liability than just the threat of malpractice. Holding data of a sensitive nature means you might accidentally leak that data. The more you hold the worse the leak is. Being able to delete that data enables you to somew
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by zaphar 5y ago
My phone doesn't always have an internet connection, or the internet connection can be flakey. Many of the apps I have on my phone work without that connection I find it valuable. It also has the side effect of not introducing random p
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by zaphar 5y ago
Not sure if you are asking whether it's possible to use twitter sans algorithm or not but https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ allows you to view things in purely timeline based fashion and never reverts back to the algorith
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by zaphar 5y ago
That isn't even close to what the author wrote. The "quote" reflects nothing of substance from the article.
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Why the C Language Will Never Stop You from Making Mistakes(thephd.dev)
53 points by zaphar 5y ago|35 comments
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by zaphar 5y ago
The absolute truth in your statement is the threat of getting burned alive. You make the decision to escape based on that absolute truth and then you choose the route based on relative probabilities to survive. But you wouldn't even be
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by zaphar 5y ago
Email's federation is an escape hatch. It's presence means that I can go to any provider I want to if I'm dissatisfied with my current provider. I can even run my own as a last resort. (Or first resort if that's your pre
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by zaphar 5y ago
Writing is how I work through hard problems. If I'm going to think through something and come up with a solution I may as well share the solution with other people. There is very little reason to keep it to myself and setting it up as
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by zaphar 5y ago
This is probably more of a feature than a problem. Those are the exact countries that we are asking to shoulder a higher burden than the others since they are behind the curve on development. If richer countries provided financial opportuni
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by zaphar 5y ago
The only thing that makes it difficult is human nature. We already know how to remove co2 from the air. Plant large amounts of fast growing plants like bamboo, sequester them after they grow. Repeat. But there is no financial incentive to d
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by zaphar 5y ago
If I can implement it as an AST Walking interpreter, Have the syntax be lisp, and leverage most of the runtime of the language I write it in I could produce something in a week and probably teach them to use it for some definition of use as
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by zaphar 5y ago
Bad solutions to real problems can still win in the market. The market's definition of optimal can be different than an experts. I personally think that Crypto DeFI is a sub optimal in many cases actively harmful solution to real probl
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by zaphar 5y ago
Value is a human construct. I'm guessing the people who buy this land in the metaverse believe they can tell a convincing story around it's value and if enough people buy into that story it will indeed have that value.
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by zaphar 5y ago
Is this partly due to the fact that everyone is depending on the libraries having logs instead of throwing the correct exception? Then the application could log it.
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by zaphar 5y ago
I'm not entirely sure libraries logging is a good idea anyway. I think there is a strong case that logging should be entirely an application concern not a library concern.
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by zaphar 5y ago
I would work on tooling to make monorepos tractable and easy for any organization to use. Most of the problems that orgs run into is the absence of good tooling for monorepos.
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by zaphar 5y ago
If someting is factually wrong I give the person the benefit of the doubt and assume they just don't know. In those situations rather than downvoting I usually just post a comment with a correction. I don't think understandable ig
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by zaphar 5y ago
I only downvote when a comment checks all of the following boxes for me: * It has little to no content relating to the conversation. * It is also unnecessarily provocative. Basically if it looks like a troll, walks like a troll, and acts li
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by zaphar 5y ago
You might not be. Make sure you take some time off after this. You deserve it.

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