KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Powerful men/women don't have to be sexually or in other ways abusive to subordinates. They really don't. Most of them, in fact, don't. You certainly hear about the ones who do, for a reason.
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Nope. Read the emails before discussing, please.
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
tl;dr: Because there were ongoing investigations (which was true) and it's generally considered bad to release your evidence before trial, or something like that, IANAL. This will also be Trump's (false) reason for not releasing t
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Swift, by design, does not have GC.
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Outside of hobbyist things, performance-critical code is the only responsible use case for a non-memory safe language like C in 2025, so of course it does. (Even that window is rapidly closing, though; languages like Rust and Swift can be b
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
This. The memory overhead kills you in large systems/OS-level GC. Reducing the working set size really matters in a complex system to keep things performant, and GC vastly expands the working set. In the best cases, you’re losing a hug
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Everybody loves Woz, for good reasons, but (a) he’s not a manager (b) he’s not executive material (c) he’s notoriously unmotivated (d) he hasn’t engineered anything significant since what, the mid-1980’s?
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Every bit of your second sentence is wrong. None of that was even on the drawing boards when Steve passed away.
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
usually a combination of money/benefits/locale is the answer to this question
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Yes. If you look at the ZILF compiler in particular, which is capable of compiling the original sources, there's a lot more MDL in there than you'd expect would be required for ZIL proper.
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
This is great illustration of the brilliance of Inform 7. I understand the appeal of Dialog -- Inform 7 can be really awkward for traditional programming constructs -- but I think I'd rather write ZIL if I'm going back to the usua
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
the other thing is that it would not be as effective as presumed because 5G cell service in residential areas in the US is spottier than people realize. A lot of us are relying on WiFi calling.
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Nothing against (or for) Zig, but the article author seems unfamiliar with other modern languages in common use... imagine if they saw Swift or Rust. Their mind would be utterly, utterly blown.
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
Swift is a peer to Rust, not Node / Python. It has some nice affordances that Rust doesn't, while still being a native-compiled language.
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
In practice, the problem with URIs is that it makes parsing very complex. You don’t really want a parser of that complexity in the kernel if you can avoid it, for performance reasons if nothing else. For low-level resource management, an ad
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
For one thing, they’re expensive and viral. “Zero overhead” implementations don’t take into account the need for unwind tables. For every function/method that might be thrown across. They’re disabled in a lot of production environments
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
Get back to us if that Dell makes it 10 years without catastrophic failure or pieces falling off.
108.
by KerrAvon 11mo ago
This is the correct answer. Why wouldn’t an actual AI just generate raw, fully optimized executables for production?
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
I don’t think that would be a real issue in practice. Coding LLMs need to be able to cope with complicated expressions in many languages. If they can produce legitimate code for other languages, they can be taught to cope with s-expressions
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
How are you defining "large"? Apple seems to do pretty well with the M-series.
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
Bernie was never a 3rd option, to be clear. He wasn’t running a Ross Perot-style third party campaign, he was running to be at the top of the Democratic ticket. And when the DNC cleared the way for Hillary, he was out of the game.
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
This is true. Anecdata, but I talked to some of the “Republicans for Bernie” back then, and it was real, not astroturf. We’d be in a different place if Bernie had been the Dem candidate in 2016. I think it’s likely Bernie’s actual presidenc
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
Wait, that's actually never legit. If the password popup comes from the OS on behalf of the vendor, that's OK; the third-party party never has access to your password, just a time-limited auth token to allow it to do something p
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
What are your actual complaints? And have you tried the trash fire that is Android?
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
So what? It's a trivial kindness and it takes a few seconds. What else were they going to do with those seconds? It's different if it's fast food, where maximizing people I/O does matter. But that's not the case her
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
Calling random things “spiritual cows” is a fine comedy bit, but has no place in a professional environment where you have to be able to communicate with others to achieve a common goal. TFA is just shitposting in blog form. Not sure if the
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
“spherical cow” seems to be a bizarre, pointless substitution for “encapsulation” or “object oriented programming” depending on the context.
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by KerrAvon 11mo ago
>Is this duct tape over historical architectural decisions that assumed trust? Yes, it's all making up for flaws in the original Unix security model and the hardware design that C-based system programming encourages. > Could we d
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
yeah, exa is a very convincing argument it replaces default `ls` in interactive shells on some distros, which is where I encountered it
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
YMMV. In my experience, concurrent process access to SQLite databases is a one-way ticket to database corruption city. I’ve not had the same problems with single-process concurrent access.

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