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by zvrba 6y ago
Yes, atomic unlock + wait is the complex bit. Prior to Vista, Windows did not have a CV primitive. Existing emulations used multiple kernel objects and their correctness was difficult to verify. Performance also suffered.
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by zvrba 6y ago
This is beyond liking. The effect is similar to that of catnip when I watch videos of cats high on catnip. They start rolling, rubbing against surfaces, they beg for more, etc. And shortly after (10-ish minutes) the effect wanes off.
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by zvrba 6y ago
I never gave them olives by conscious decision; it never occurred to me that they'd like i t. I think I spilled some brine (few drops only) on the kitchen desk, the cat appeared to be there at the same time, sniffed at it, licked it an
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by zvrba 6y ago
> Every time someone creates a new programming language, the world builds yet another pile of broken HTTP implementations This tells a lot about HTTP as well.
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by zvrba 6y ago
My cats get high after eating tiny bits of green olives. They roll, are crazy for more, will literally lick my clothes if I spilled a drop of the pickle, and one of the gets a bit playfully aggressive. Just the smell of olives attracts them
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by zvrba 6y ago
But is _just reading_ from a database a "side-effect"? It is non-deterministic, but it has no side-effects. So IO jumbles together the two notions.
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by zvrba 6y ago
What I don't understand is why Higgs' boson wasn't discovered before LHC: its mass is 125GeV, which is way smaller than that of the top quark at 171.2GeV... Yet the top quark was discovered in 1995.
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by zvrba 6y ago
You know, I feel myself more "free" when using MS products then when I use Linux.
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by zvrba 6y ago
> how people come to conclusions like this Conclusions like what? That the then-latest linux did not support the then-latest HW is not a conclusion, but a _fact_. > But characterizing the story above as "linux has driver problems
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by zvrba 6y ago
I limit my brain-time on constructing a regex to 5 minutes max. If it takes me longer than that, I reach for a parser. Pick the right tool for the job.
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by zvrba 6y ago
WTF, the OOBE screen is not an "ad".
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by zvrba 6y ago
> Not sure what to respond to this. Experimental drivers are expected to be, well, experimental, as in highly unstable. This is what to make of this: The then-latest linux kernel did not support then-latest hardware.
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by zvrba 6y ago
First and foremost, sound. I tried to get mixing -- simultaneous playback from different programs -- to work, spent like half an hour on trying to figure out and gave up. On Windows, it works out of the box, so half an hour was more than ge
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by zvrba 6y ago
Hah, indeed. I had to build a custom Windows install image, so I had to learn about DISM and other stuff. Everything is documented, but rather badly organized.
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by zvrba 6y ago
Same here. I used Linux for 10+ years, then at one point, copy/paste between browser and terminal stopped working. I got mad at that shit (yes, also constant tinkering, subpar drivers, etc.) and installed windows, never looked back. An
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by zvrba 6y ago
> that we have done a poor job explaining Yes, indeed you have. I've tried to both skim and read the "introductory" documentation for `Options<T>` and the only gain I could figure out is monitoring + refresh. I still
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by zvrba 6y ago
In that comment you're comparing a statically-typed language (C#) with a dynamically-typed one (Python) and your main concern is that C# libraries feel "overengineered". This totally makes no sense to me because the whole dev
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by zvrba 6y ago
> It's incredibly fast and productive and has allowed me to create more as a single-person than entire teams using other languages. Another startup founder and CTO here. Can confirm this. Once you get to know the framework, it'
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by zvrba 6y ago
"loo" being a British word for "toilet" as well :) (See noun(2) here https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loo )
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by zvrba 6y ago
> I would add also Nvidia's hostility towards standards. With CUDA I get a comfortable C++ dev environment that integrates with their products AND Visual Studio, FOR FREE. I played a bit with raw OpenCL a couple years ago, and it&#x
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by zvrba 6y ago
But this is different: you find some DNA on a crime scene, don't find it in a database, then use the algorithm to sketch a face. Granted, they had to use some database to build their algorithm. Also: I looked at the examples linked to
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by zvrba 6y ago
I interpret this as: the world is just exactly as it is, whereas "moving" is a concept formed in the observer's mind. IOW, the "true"/"hard" reality follows its own course and does not care about inte
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by zvrba 6y ago
So how come all the spotlights are on RISC-V? Another case of "worse is better"?
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by zvrba 6y ago
> Ostensibly it's human-readable, but because it's generated by Xcode and filled with inscrutable UUIDs, people treat it like a binary file Inscrutable? It seems like a textual dump of in-memory project structure using UUIDs to
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by zvrba 6y ago
> In fact, ORMs have been a massive headache because I can think in SQL but not in whatever the creator of the ORM was thinking in. Yes, fully agree on ORMs. They DO have one nice feature though: simple CRUD operations are way less verbo
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by zvrba 6y ago
People were already worried about cache effects of transition of pointers from 32 to 64 bit, and this doubles the size again to 128 bits. Performance implications are as of yet unknown, but I wouldn't get surprised if it gets shown tha
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by zvrba 6y ago
I can't bother to dig out the reference, I know that but C explicitly allows such assignment when `p_dog` is the first member of `p_cat`, i.e., when struct Meow { struct Bark dog; }
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by zvrba 6y ago
Freely accessible paper cited in the OP: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/0...
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by zvrba 6y ago
> People have already been prosecuted for breaking quarantine Oh, good, that's somewhat reassuring to know.
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by zvrba 6y ago
> Everyone was shorter 100 years ago. Yeah, I knew that. But it's one thing to read about it and see the numbers and another to see in real photos. :)

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