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by zik 6y ago
I'm not OP but statically linking a compact libc like musl gets you just the parts of libc that you need and nothing more. This can be a lot more efficient than a dynamically linked program which has to bring in the entire bloated mess
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by zik 6y ago
Rust is approximately a 0.5 language. It takes longer to write but results in more reliable code.
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by zik 6y ago
This is awesome. I've often thought of doing a bit serial CPU project. Yours looks great.
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by zik 6y ago
It's widely assumed that it would have been prohibitively inefficient.
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by zik 6y ago
The crazy part is that all over the world nuclear is being phased out as it's uneconomic compared with renewable energy. I wonder why they chose now as the time to endorse it, just when it's no longer relevant. So strange.
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by zik 7y ago
India have implemented nation wide lockdown so maybe they'll be ok. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-52044058/coronavirus-first...
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by zik 7y ago
Running aircraft has significant externalized costs on society so it's probably not unreasonable that people should be able to keep track of that.
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by zik 7y ago
I'm not talking about non-owner-occupied housing. A group here did a survey using water consumption figures to determine which houses were actually occupied and found that substantial numbers were completely unoccupied. https:/&#
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by zik 7y ago
I don't think it's as simple as that. In Australia we've had a massive housing boom and consequently the market has been flooded with houses. Strangely this hasn't led to lower house prices. There's a large amount o
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by zik 7y ago
It looks like they're in the process of decommissioning nuclear power plants in most places and they're expected to be functionally extinct by 2055. https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/png/10-12.png
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by zik 7y ago
There are a lot being decommissioned at the moment too. I'm not sure if that's more or less than the 50 that the World Nuclear Association page claims are being constructed.
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by zik 7y ago
Check the rate of nuclear power plants being built. It's fallen off a cliff. The people who finance nuclear reactors already think that nuclear power will be uneconomic in the lifetime of any new plants.
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by zik 7y ago
I think you're confusing memory mapped files with swap. They may be sibling technologies but they're not the same thing at all.
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by zik 7y ago
> When all your function ptrs have to be cast to and from (void*) - hell yeah it's an issue. I don't know how you got this impression. This is 100% incorrect.
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by zik 7y ago
No, not at all. Go uses the stack for most variables so it's a lot less heavy on GC than Java.
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by zik 7y ago
These arguments sound like the arguments of someone who hasn't programmed much in C. C's undefined behavior is a non-issue in almost any realistic programming situation - it would only normally crop up in cases where you're d
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by zik 7y ago
You're quite correct in saying that none of those things are true but you're wrong in saying that these are "the proposed benefit" of C. I feel that's a common misconception really. A huge advantage of C that most p
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by zik 7y ago
I would never guess any of those gestures. It's very much the opposite of intuitive.
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by zik 7y ago
In terms of general compute speed Go is many times faster than Python - approximately on a par with Java speed-wise but with much less memory use. That means your server costs are many times cheaper and your page latencies are much faster t
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by zik 7y ago
Go and Python would have to be the two easiest to use and most productive languages I've ever used. Other languages might have more powerful features but Go and Python just get more coding done more quickly and more efficiently. Other
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by zik 7y ago
> the proper modern programming language I understand wanting to advocate for your favorite programming language but this kind of elitist attitude doesn't do the cause any favors, it's more likely to turn people away than anyth
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by zik 7y ago
Accepting bribes is illegal.
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by zik 7y ago
Since you don't know whose tracker it is maybe the best thing to do is "lose" it again. Drop it down the nearest drain so you can plausibly say you never saw it and it must have fallen off.
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by zik 7y ago
To be fair the author does say "it has since turned into a game of trying to take on the venerable wc with different languages". Of course the real message is that the original wc isn't particularly efficient and it can be be
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by zik 7y ago
...which has been happening for years and is well known to telcos who seem to be doing very little about it despite the fact that it's their security flaw.
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by zik 7y ago
It also doesn't mean you're safe to use airbnb. If you're the first person to try a given scam listing you'll get scammed. And then airbnb will de-list it, after the fact. And then the scammer will create a new listing p
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by zik 7y ago
"research purposes" sounds pretty benign though. Most people don't mind helping out some scientists for some intangible greater good. On the other hand if it was phrased "so we can pin crimes on you or your loved ones&qu
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by zik 7y ago
Does Telsla work with those?
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by zik 7y ago
But how are they going to decide which type of charging point they'll be? Maybe what's needed is some kind of standard charging point which has options for future enhancement. And then you have to convince the electric car manufac
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by zik 7y ago
Employers can't refuse to accept your resignation in Australia. Or rather they can refuse as much as they like but your resignation still holds.

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