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by zvrba 8y ago
> Not a very reliable tool. Exactly. Alternatively (note the missing "THE") > "Come by the shop tomorrow. And bring table" then, confused by seemingly nonsensical request of bringing some table along [why "som
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> I'm curious how you can figure out from context whether you can figure out something from context. Erm, memory? You remember whether something has been introduced or not. Take a hypothetical phone conversation, an example that nob
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by zvrba 8y ago
> Imho, code generators and schema files are a feature. Yes, especially if data has to be consumed by different languages. Personally, I don't see a need for yet another C++-only serialization framework.
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> I've never understood the need for noun genders As a native speaker of Slavic language, I've never understood the need for differentiating between "THE table" and "A table". It's useless and clear fr
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by zvrba 8y ago
> You can't because it's a bs metric like "culture fit". I'd disagree. An indirect metric is "Can I as the technical lead [1] communicate effectively with the candidate?" If the leadership is stable, th
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There is ispc: https://ispc.github.io/
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by zvrba 8y ago
> "When performance doubled every 18 months, people would throw out their desktop computers that were working fine because a friend’s new computer was so much faster." So we have finally reached some sustainability. Good.
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by zvrba 8y ago
A fascinating topic. Another fascinating surface is a projective plane, that I've never managed to grasp. Any suggestions on how to visualize a travel on the surface of the projective plane?
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by zvrba 8y ago
No different from Google docs nagging me with a popup to install Chrome whenever I open a Google docs document. And no option to disable it, it seems.
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by zvrba 8y ago
I've been using Edge on Windows for at least a year now and I'm quite happy. Now that it supports plugins, I haven't fired up another browser for months now.
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by zvrba 8y ago
It happens once in a while. Or you're lucky and stumble upon a team where people made the right choices in the beginning.
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by zvrba 8y ago
It's already there: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/ProcThread/... You can set various limits, though I haven't seen functions to stop/resume a job.
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by zvrba 8y ago
> Why would you want to do that? Use (RPC | shared memory | some other IPC mechanism). Yes, structured data exchange is the correct answer. When I have the opportunity to code something from scratch, this is the route I take.
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by zvrba 8y ago
… and no scientists tried to find out why he is seemingly resistant to the virus?? That is the _real_ secret in his blood.
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by zvrba 8y ago
> many would agree with me when saying all of ME's functionality should be implemented by the OS. ME's use case is to be able to manage the machine when there is no OS installed, is unbootable or unresponsive. So somebody doe
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by zvrba 8y ago
Further optimization potential: the four lines sum = Avx2.Add(block0, sum); sum = Avx2.Add(block1, sum); sum = Avx2.Add(block2, sum); sum = Avx2.Add(block3, sum); have all a serializing dependency on sum variable. But (
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by zvrba 8y ago
The concepts of objects and ACLs are in the NT kernel itself. So things have worked like this on all windows versions built on the NT kernel: from WinNT 3.1, to Win2k, ... to this day. Windows TCPIP stack has improved since then, but I&#x27
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by zvrba 8y ago
Windows does it nicely: everything is a securable (with ACL) object. Process, thread, file, socket, console, service... is an object, in a namespace. The only exception I've encountered so far is network management stuff, like routing
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by zvrba 8y ago
Yes because, IIRC, they use their own compiler installation with know set of files.
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by zvrba 8y ago
> References in C++ are non-nullable so the precedent already existed. Wrong analogy. References in C++ are not first-class entities. Conceptually, they're _alias names_ for existing objects. Unlike C# and Java "references&quot
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by zvrba 9y ago
> In a related vein, it seems characteristic of the kind of philosophy that the later Wittgenstein, and more recently Peter K Unger, criticise as linguistic illusion, I tend to agree. Thomson's lamp paradox assumes that time is cont
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by zvrba 9y ago
So, in C++ class M { // This is private std::vector<int> _sorted; public: // This is your "import" M(const std::vector<int>& v) : _sorted(v) { std::sort(_sorted.beg
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by zvrba 9y ago
It seems to me that you can get the same thing in C++ with classes <> modules ; templated classes <> functors. What am I missing?
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by zvrba 9y ago
> you got issues, mate. No, the school/community he was at had issues. They didn't take bullying seriously, did nothing to prevent it and did nothing to punish it when it went too far. It's the same here in Norway, a coupl
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by zvrba 9y ago
White-box cryptography. AFAIK, all attempted implementations got broken, but it's still an active research area.
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by zvrba 9y ago
Ha, the truth about AV vendors back then: > that we would no longer support their legacy apps with deep hooks in the Windows kernel — the same ones that hackers were using to attack consumer systems. Our “friends”, the antivirus vendors
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by zvrba 9y ago
> actually has programmers on its staff who think its ok to write a program whose sole purpose is to try and break the law It's not that simple. Team A is given the task of writing SW that locks down all computers in case some alarm
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by zvrba 9y ago
More importantly, it also switches stacks so user-mode code cannot modify the return addresses on the kernel's stack.
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My Review of Yegor Bugayenko's “Elegant Objects” (abstract and PDF)(zvrba.net)
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by zvrba 9y ago
More interestingly: the targeted datacenters have installed drivers with EULA that didn't include this clause. So if they don't upgrade the drivers, they should be OK?

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