UltraViolence

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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I'm looking for a cheap ARM MCU with I2S support and one that I found was a Chinese part from GigaDevices which is $0.50. On the other hand, lots of software is written for STM devices so spending a couple of bucks more for their parts
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
True that. Their political system is extremely dangerous if it depends on the mental disposition of one man. If Xi has a bad day he could start a nuclear confrontation with no one able to reign him in.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I heard U.S. officials say that it's definitely a spy-balloon. They refused to say how they know this, but I assume they have their sources. But a balloon has to intrude in someone's airspace. Doing so could trip off an internatio
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I'm very surprised that China would take the risk of fueling a political firestorm when these balloons are only marginally more effective than the satellites they already have. These intrusions are clearly a violation of our airspace a
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Isn't Montana sparsely populated? If the Air Force can't shoot it down there good luck trying to do so over New England.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
The markets have been wishing / predicting a decline in the rise of interest rates, which clearly isn't going to happen.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I've been using Firefox for twenty odd years now. It's performance is comparable to that of other browsers. But the pilfering of Mozilla by its management (giving themselves million dollar bonuses and pretending they're manag
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
> here are abundant reasons why Google would want a non-Linux operating system internally. You may be in the right, but I personally don't see no reason for it. Linux is the best supported operating system in the world and Google al
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I don't see why this would make the experience better. Java has been a huge part of Android's success allowing for backwards compatibility in a smooth manner. Java should also be given credit for Android's stability, due to i
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I see Fuchsia's benefit mostly in security and stability. Linux is one big blob with potentially huge security holes in it, many of which simply haven't yet been discovered (except maybe by intelligence agencies). Fuchsia's a
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Fuchsia is one of Google's most interesting products, so these layoffs put out a huge question mark. The company will soon have to decide how to move forward since replacing Linux will require a sizeable investment in manpower. My sugg
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Logical bugs are out of scope for any programming language.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
But then you'd need to entice Tor users to turn on Javascript since it's turned off by default.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I doubt the Tor user was identified on the Tor network. Most likely his Bitcoin donations gave him away, since Bitcoin is far from anonymous. He might also have left other clues such as an email address which he accessed from clearnet. Anyw
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Do you really need to know? All that matters is that the GC will eventually clean up the used memory. When you're interested in that sort of info you're using the wrong language or asking the wrong kind of questions.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I'm speaking from my own experience here. I've tested a couple of Rust programs which were developed in relatively short order yet were quite complex (a Minecraft type game being one) and there wasn't even the slightest hint
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
It may slow them down during their initial development when they're new to Rust, but I'm convinced that it will be much cheaper during the entire Application Lifecycle (ALM), not to mention customer satisfaction.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I believe Rust will ALWAYS be beneficial compared to MMM languages because it will save time in the long run. Programs with Rust will always be rock-stable, unlike many C/C++ programs which are more like a house-of-cards.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I disagree. It depends on the type of project you're working on. If you're writing a public facing high-performance application it MAY be more beneficial to use deterministic memory management. Most tools, even very technical tool
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
"Rust has made the decision that safety is more important than developer productivity. This is the right tradeoff to make in many situations — like building code in an OS kernel, or for memory-constrained embedded systems — but I don’t
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Memory bugs! I mean mean memory bugs. Every project should have exactly zero (0) memory bugs. That's nigh impossible to achieve with large codebases written in C/C++ or some other unsafe language. Chromium and FireFox are still bu
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
You don't know that. Life might be possible with simpler chemistry too. Chemistry was sufficient 100 million years ago for intelligent life to evolve, so some other solar system could've easily have had intelligent life for that l
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Mind you that only a handful of developers worked on LadyBird and it has Javascript and CSS working. LadyBird only needs video and WebRTC to be fully functional for day-to-day use by non-power users. WebSockets and WebGL would be nice too,
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
The management team should've been fired along time ago. But they essentially hijacked Mozilla. All the trademarks and copyrights belong to the Mozilla Corporation, not the Foundation. Management are filthy crooks, scum and carpetbagge
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Right now they don't have a unique selling point (USP). Rust could've been that selling point but they instead focused on making divisive UI changes and adding subscriptions. Also their crusade against taking money from Google is
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I believe you're 100% wrong. There are probably hundreds if not thousands of bugs in the old code. Just because they haven't been found yet doesn't mean they're not there. If a handful of developers at SerenityOS can wri
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
It also shows the poor management Mozilla has since they effectually cut-loose the Rust team and aren't investing too much in rewriting parts of FireFox in Rust. Rust would've been a great USP for FireFox. They squandered it and n
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I believe Google is putting too much effort into bringing interop between C++ and Rust. Why not simply rewrite the core of Chromium in Rust? I mean, if a handful guys at SerenityOS can write a web browser from scratch in just a few years su
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
So there could've been civilizations that are literally BILLIONS of years ahead of us? Imagine what these people know about the universe! This reminds me of the Star Wars lead-in: "A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away.&qu
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Microservices are merely just another hype in the IT world. Everyone ran with it and now we're stuck with thousands of fragile and unmaintainable systems which will ruin companies in the coming decades.

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