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by zer8k 3y ago
Except gluing yourself to LLVM has it's own problems. Like, for example, any platform that LLVM doesn't support you can't support either. LLVM is great. The monoculture and smug elitism it produces is not. > Acting like it
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by zer8k 3y ago
> Who out there is seriously using a compiler churned out in a weekend? Someone at a chip manufacturer writing something for a brand new chipset, for example. It takes a long time to get stuff shoved into GCC. It's only in recent hi
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by zer8k 3y ago
> In the long run, unsafe programming languages will not be used by mainstream developers, but rather reserved for situations where high performance and a low resource footprint are critical. I see no world where so-called "unsafe&q
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by zer8k 3y ago
Linux DISTRIBUTIONS have their own set of problems. There are a lot of reasons to run Windows that aren't games. For example, the level of support you get for server-based stuff is very nice as a corporation. It's also more consis
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> The list goes on, but the bottom line is that many folks will be happy to optimize for their personal "local minima" but literally harm the organization in the process. Yes, because doing exactly what you're supposed to,
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It probably has more to do with the stated business rather than what's possible. For example, nothing is stopping you from going on whatsapp and, one hexadecimal byte at a time, writing out the entirety of a zip file full of whatever i
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> Instructables used to support Chinese characters, and someone made a decision that broke that support and it got pushed to prod. (Did someone change the text encoding of UGC and migrate the DB without thinking about other languages?!)
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> - If you walk backwards from where the non-deterministic Turing machine halted, the list of taken state machine transitions is polynomial in length (naturally, as the machine stopped in polynomial time). > - Walking that polynomial
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by zer8k 3y ago
To add to this NP can also refer to the more formal idea of a non-deterministic turing machine being able to compute the problem in polynomial time. We learned NP as "Non-deterministic Polynomial (time)". I think the more practica
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by zer8k 3y ago
I don't think the downvotes here are fair given the corrections this person has received. These misconceptions are wildly common. I'm sure 90% of the downvoters couldn't even accurately identify this stuff.
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by zer8k 3y ago
If they take over you're home while your there it is called a home invasion and in some states there is a castle doctrine. Police or not, you have the right to defend your property as many states consider this kind of invasion to meet
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> discussing capitalism as it actually always has been, So you replied to my post calling out your theorycrafting saying my theorycrafting is wrong. Alrighty.
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Simple, Tovarisch. No medications are available. Many of the comrades are counting and re-counting wheat berries in the already scarce tillable fields. We have no private property so smart chemists will not produce more than the minimum med
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by zer8k 3y ago
You are conflating crony capitalism with free market capitalism. If we are going to argue in terms of pure theory (which you are) then more competition, and therefore the free market, would select for systems that reduce friction betwee
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by zer8k 3y ago
I used to think medicine shipped to my door was great too. That is, until I lost my job. My benefits were cut off immediately (the company did a layoff at the end of the month on purpose) and I could no longer access my medication. Despite
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by zer8k 3y ago
Personality test? We have predictive AI! Minority report style workplace analyzer startup designed to find the Quiet Quitters and Loud Laborers. We're not too far off with the swaths of employee tracking already done at most companies.
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> "Believe it or not, some people talk too much about their accomplishments — or lack thereof — because they lack self-esteem or are insecure. Therefore, they overcompensate," explained Price. Forget "loud laborers" I
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by zer8k 3y ago
> and this "fear my ISP is watching what I'm doing" Then I realise it's a US thing I'm not sure about it being a US thing. But I don't personally have a privacy fear with my ISP because I can't really
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by zer8k 3y ago
"Truss me bro" - Engineer
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These are everywhere and often times well disguised. You need to research where you are publishing before sending it in. I, like many young graduates, were tasked with finding 5-10 "less popular" journals to publish to in order to
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by zer8k 3y ago
> Now that the platform is evolving and innovating again, more and more things are moving out of the frameworks and back into the platform. Javascript has massively improved. A language so good you need to write another language that co
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by zer8k 3y ago
Waiting for your direct to Amazon book about how AI will kill software OP. Always entertaining. ChatGPT will likely be added to the list of dead things that were supposed to "kill" the software developer. I've noticed this pe
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> IMHO we're going to look back historically at single-family-detached-suburban-sprawl as not just the fulcrum in destroying the environment, but also actively harmful to the people that live there, especially children. Spicy take.
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That's your PMness speaking. PMs never consider who will manage the code down the line. They never consider the implied difficulty multiplier because if you can't party poker it, you can't build it! That's what the agile
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by zer8k 3y ago
Rust is nothing like C. It's not even a midway point between C and Haskell. Rust is C++ with stronger typing and a better memory management model. Comparisons between Rust and C aren't really accurate because Rust is the modern st
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To put it simply it's very difficult to determine what objects (in the C term) are garbage. Hence why we have things like reference counting. We need extra data to hint to the collector what is, in fact, garbage.
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I don't think you know what you're talking about. Defcon was quite literally the target of federal fishing expeditions. They were especially heavy when Defcon was often hosting some of the best hackers the planet had to offer. Lon
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by zer8k 3y ago
6:15 174612 on normal mode. Strangely fun.
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by zer8k 3y ago
People conflate "functional programming" with things like pure functions (for some definition of pure), lambdas, immutability, ADTs, etc. Like many languages called "functional" (rust being one of them) they are not func
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by zer8k 3y ago
Yes I am referring to such "opt-in" religious groups. It's not irrelevant because if you swap a few words around you wouldn't be able to tell this type of article from a televangelist. That's bad optics for an other

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