AlexSW

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by AlexSW 1y ago
It's not obvious to me that comparing GDP per capita is a fair comparison when talking about one country with immigration vs one without. A lot of the immigration I believe to be not so skilled. But we needed lower-skill jobs filled to
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by AlexSW 2y ago
Ah of course! It's improving the branch target predictor. Makes sense, thanks!
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by AlexSW 2y ago
I'm struggling to confirm that my intuition of why the compiler optimisation is faster than the naive switch expansion. Is it about the layout of where the assembly instructions end up, and spacing around them? Or the CPU pipelining wo
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by AlexSW 2y ago
There are reasons for not wanting to sell their brainchild to Musk (of all people) that don't involve money.
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by AlexSW 2y ago
Timeline, maybe.
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by AlexSW 2y ago
Could you give an example or two of languages/frameworks that have demonstrated abstracting the transaction blocks away? I'm not sure I'm following so I think this will help.
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by AlexSW 2y ago
C.f. 'git', which you probably do use and etymologically is obviously a bit rude and humorous too.
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by AlexSW 2y ago
Could you link to the particular case you're referring to?
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by AlexSW 2y ago
An error in the article.
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by AlexSW 3y ago
Agreed!
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by AlexSW 3y ago
Hard-coded in what? Every DoH client?
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by AlexSW 3y ago
Interesting ideas and vulnerability! With a nice and concise summary. Thanks for sharing
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by AlexSW 3y ago
As always, it depends what properties you're relying on MD5 for. Just because something uses MS5 doesn't mean it's broken, because its preimage resistance (i.e. 'invert this hash') and second preimage resistance (i.
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by AlexSW 3y ago
The overlap with VS Code is very helpful for Neovim too though, as Neovim integrates well with technologies and plugins intended for VS Code. My C++/Rust debugger setup comes from installing VS Code, getting it to install its debugger,
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by AlexSW 3y ago
Or at least which country?
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by AlexSW 3y ago
Why should one be bothered by it?
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by AlexSW 3y ago
Presumably that the opportunity cost can be rather high.
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by AlexSW 3y ago
+1 to BetterTouchTool! I'm mostly a keyboard person (typical 'vim' user etc.) but being able to switch tabs using a two-finger tap left and right on the touchpad is so pleasant that I find it worth the investment for BetterTo
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by AlexSW 3y ago
Is the scripting language based on bash (etc.)? One thing I enjoy about fish is that it's not just a shell, but also a modern scripting language alternative to sh/bash. Seems like I would lose this with Murex? (There's no rig
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by AlexSW 3y ago
I personally have run into breaking changes in Python's regex module, which is pretty fundamental to such uses as mentioned above. If I recall correctly, they changed how `re.escape` worked between Python 3.6 and 3.8 (I'm not sure
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by AlexSW 3y ago
Where are you running into problems which require these mathematical techniques? I don't ever recall wishing I'd memorised any of these. For context, I did a Maths degree, so I'm familiar with them all. I just never find myse
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by AlexSW 3y ago
I don't think this is a completely accurate comparison, as TypeScript is transpiled to JavaScript and this provides restrictions to the expressibility and usability of types at runtime, which I've sometimes hit my head against. C#
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by AlexSW 3y ago
How so? I believe I understand Windows' thread scheduler and this conclusion isn't obvious to me at all; from my understanding it seemed perfectly reasonable.
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by AlexSW 3y ago
I think that, strictly speaking, this cannot be entirely true, as VS Code gets language support from the same place that Neovim does - namely from LSP servers. VS Code simply packages these up in extensions, whereas in Neovim you need to in
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by AlexSW 3y ago
OP didn't reply, but here's my set of dot-files in case you still wanted to have a gander at someone's. You can find the Neovim configuration in the neovim directory. https://github.com/AlexSWall/dot-file
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by AlexSW 3y ago
What did Vim give you that Neovim didn't provide?
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by AlexSW 4y ago
Which SOLID principles have you found issues with, either theoretically or in practice? They still seem like broadly sensible principles to me.
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by AlexSW 4y ago
How did you get it out of RAM so cleanly?
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by AlexSW 4y ago
Glad it made a bit of sense! But that's a fair point about whether it really constitutes 'understanding'. I suppose it's equivalent here to whether knowing the meaning of a particular sentence in the alien language quali
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by AlexSW 4y ago
I think you're getting at the point with this though: > I actually wouldn't have figured it out if he hadn't pointed out this is induction. A lot of these other ones are not that complicated either, it's just hard to

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