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by zbentley 8mo ago
I hope this is a troll. The best, or cheapest, or most-loved, or most extensible software is often written to be as small as is practical in the problem. Huge codebases are necessarily going to be harder to process by humans (LoC -> hour
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by zbentley 8mo ago
Or train (and appropriately credential) more teachers and pay them like the critical specialists they are.
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by zbentley 8mo ago
Say more?
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by zbentley 8mo ago
Possible, yes, but certainly not easier —especially not if the test harness doesn’t manage filesystems anywhere else. And even then, that’s still a behavior mock, of a kind. There are lots of ways in which a dummy ISO mount behaves much un
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by zbentley 8mo ago
I thought lots of data indicated that millennials were drinking less than previous generations?
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by zbentley 8mo ago
Maybe, but that precedent has been set before for other types of loans, and in a limited way for student loans, and the sky didn’t fall. The upward price pressure on university prices is far more influenced by other factors (which should be
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by zbentley 8mo ago
Absolutely. But there’s so much more liberty in C land in that you can stay on an old compiler/language version for such codebases. I know it’s not pleasant per se, but the level of support needed (easier now with docker and better t
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by zbentley 8mo ago
Some of those already exist, e.g. https://bellard.org/tcc/ However, they're not in widespread use. I would be curious to learn if there's any data/non-anecdotal information as to why. Is it momentum&#x2F
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by zbentley 8mo ago
True! But C++ is popular almost entirely because of when (in history/what alternatives existed at the time) and where (on what platforms) it first became available, and how much adoption momentum was created during that era. I thin
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by zbentley 8mo ago
I can't upvote this enough. I mostly work in compiled languages now, but started in interpreted/runtime languages. When I made that switch, it was baffling to me that the compiled-language folks don't do compatibility-break
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by zbentley 8mo ago
I doubt it, but that's just a hunch. Is there data out there regarding compiler/language maintainer/standards committee members' contributions to other projects (beyond "so and so person works on $compiler and $appl
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by zbentley 8mo ago
> sundar made the call to bury proto LLM tech Then where did nano banana and friends come from? Did Google reverse course? Or were you referring to something else being buried?
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by zbentley 8mo ago
> Governments don't typically go "aw, shucks, you've caught us on a technicality" without getting the courts involved. That might happen here, but I don’t think that principle holds generally. If that were true, would
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by zbentley 8mo ago
But there are multiple ways to have execution leave a function. The function could return. The function could be aborted by SIGKILL. The function could be aborted by a non-SIGKILL signal that preserves subsequent execution invariants. The
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by zbentley 8mo ago
I know this is a joke, but pretending for a moment that it isn’t: this would immediately result in the rep system being gamed the same way it is on eBay: scam sellers can purchase feedback on cheap or self-shipping auctions and then pivot i
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by zbentley 8mo ago
What on earth makes you think that denouncing a bot PR with stronger language would deter it? The bot does not and cannot care. If that worked, then there would be an epidemic of phone scammers or email phishers having epiphanies and changi
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by zbentley 8mo ago
Fair (and you’re basically describing the xz hack; vouching is done for online identities and not the people behind them). Even with that risk I think a reputation based WoT is preferable to most alternatives. Put another way: in the curren
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by zbentley 8mo ago
I was disappointed that your paper devoted less than a sentence in the introduction to qualifying "slop" before spending many pages quantifying it. The definitions you're operating under are mentioned thus: > character
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Gambling is much harder to define, but also widely proscribed with popular support for most proscriptions. (And the sibling commenter's also right, that there's a larger subjective/gray area than you might think when it comes
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by zbentley 9mo ago
The copy on the linked "UK geoblocking" page doesn't contradict that, though. The authors say, basically, that there's a risk of prosecution in the UK that would financially devastate anyone that works on the project, an
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Too late to edit, but it appears that they are per this comment on a different article and the documentation it references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607265
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Er, sorry: I meant: if the first command runs, the plug is pulled, system starts again, second command runs.
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by zbentley 9mo ago
The challenge with that approach is memory: trigger conditions, if added irresponsibly, can result in unbounded memory and (depending on implementation) potentially linear performance degradation of filesystem operations as well. Unbounded
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Depending on metadata cache behavior configuration, if the system is powered off immediately after the first command, then that could indeed happen I think. As to whether it’s technically possible for it to happen on a system that stays on,
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Aren’t flock and POSIX locks backed by totally different systems?
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Sure, but the discussion is around whether they’re atomic, not whether they’re advisory.
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Unsure. Aren’t there filesystems which make O_APPEND less durable than it’s specified to be, which might be interpreted to adversely affect atomicity? Could that be it?
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by zbentley 9mo ago
And that kind of absolutism isn't helpful either! "Government" isn't an external actor; most governments exist on the spectrum between "a big chunk of the public is OK with or supports what they're doing&quot
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by zbentley 9mo ago
This kind of absolutism is unhelpful. At every point on the spectrum between "a good app that people choose to spend time on because it's valuable to them" and "heroin marketed to preteens in schools" there is no cl
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by zbentley 9mo ago
> It's whether we trust adults to manage their own media consumption, or if we need regulatory guardrails for every compelling app I think there's a wide regulatory spectrum between those extremes--one that all sorts of governm

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