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by anextio 3mo ago
Runtime binding only occurs for Objective-C interop. Swift functions are bound at compile time when statically known. Dynamic dispatch is done through vtables for native Swift classes, and through witness tables for protocol existentials.
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by anextio 3mo ago
Yes, it has a borrow checker.
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by anextio 7mo ago
> "Democracy" is when "bad actors" (as defined by the establishment) are shut out of all online discourse. The point of ID laws is not to stop "bots" or "sockpuppets", it's to enable governmen
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by anextio 7mo ago
>[1] https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/propo ... -- apologies to the authors, but even as a previous C++ guy, my brain twisted at that. Inside Swift is a slim language waiting to g
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by anextio 1y ago
Malicious compliance? The EU DMA says they have to allow third party browser engines access to the same resources (the JIT) that Safari has. It specifically allows them to place reasonable requirements on those third party alternatives: &gt
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by anextio 1y ago
Replying to your other comment. > You are claiming that static code analysis tools extensively used in C++ cannot detect all conceivable and hypothetical memory issues. The weasel words in here is that it is possible to detect them, but
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by anextio 1y ago
This is not a very good example, because this Rust code is a thin wrapper around pthread_mutex, which is an unsafe API that can cause undefined behavior (such as use after free) if used incorrectly. The Rust code in question is using the un
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by anextio 1y ago
> mainstream compilers provide support to detect and throw warnings/errors for some of these issues You cannot detect all of these issues with static analysis. Rust does it by requiring the programmer to annotate lifetime dependenci
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by anextio 1y ago
You can hammer an applications programming language to do systems things, but it will never be a good experience nor have optimal performance.
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by anextio 1y ago
Java does not provide performance comparable to C/C++.
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by anextio 1y ago
CMake support started as a community project but was adopted officially by Apple after they started adopting some Swift in the compiler codebase – an extremely large and complex CMake project – so the support is extremely robust now.
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by anextio 2y ago
Comments like this are the clearest sign that this topic has become so politicized that rational judgement is out the window. If fluoride in the water is opposed by *those people*, or is supported by *those people*, then even if new clear e
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by anextio 2y ago
I'm not sure why you would think they are climate deniers. The odds are that they are exactly the opposite. Having been around far left activist groups in my past, there are many who think that doing things like this on purpose is mora
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by anextio 4y ago
https://meduza.io/amp/en/news/2023/02/17/close-to-15k-russia... An investigation via open sources by the BBC and Meduza (an anti-Putin media outlet based in Latvia) has confirmed the deaths of
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by anextio 4y ago
They don't have to occupy the whole of Ukraine to do that, they only have to defeat Ukraine's military and destroy NATO's materiel on the battlefield. If they intended to occupy the entire country they would need several mill
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by anextio 4y ago
The Russians have shown that they don't care about holding territory in the short term, see Kherson withdrawal, etc. They are only focused on attrition and minimizing their own casualties. If Ukraine goes into Transnistria it will not
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by anextio 4y ago
Gasoline is not in itself an incendiary bomb, it has a specific meaning: — it burns for a long time - it resists suppression https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_device If you want gasoline to meet the definition
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by anextio 5y ago
This logic didn't stop them from running a fake vaccination program in Pakistan to try to find Osama. It directly led to a significant rise in vaccine refusal in the region. https://www.vox.com/first-person/2225659
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by anextio 5y ago
This is a selection bias toward Covid patients who had to be hospitalized. Most Covid cases are mild and patients recover at home. The “extent of what you have to deal with” varies considerably .
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by anextio 5y ago
> Borrowed from Yiddish שטום‎ (shtum, “mute, dumb, voiceless”), from Middle High German stum, from Old High German stum. Cognate with German stumm, Dutch stom, Swedish stum. [1] [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sht
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by anextio 6y ago
How the laptop was "obtained" is actually a separate story from the content of the laptop, if the content is real. Given that the content HAS been verified as real, then bringing up the circumstances of how the laptop ended up in
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by anextio 6y ago
This is wrong and a total mischaracterization. It *was* an opinion piece that they blocked: From Greenwald's resignation blog post [1]: > The latest and perhaps most egregious example is an *opinion column* I wrote this week which,
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by anextio 7y ago
callAsFunction() isn't really intended to be used in a type like Dice there. It's a bad example. It's for Swift for TensorFlow's integration with Python, in which a bridged Python object can be called as a function. Func
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by anextio 7y ago
While I sympathize with your political position on free software, I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that this point of view is idealistic[1] and short sighted. The vast majority of engineers don’t commit to switching to free softwar
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by anextio 9y ago
Developers are to ARKit what merchants are to Apple Pay. Users wouldn't care about Apple Pay if merchants didn't take it as payment.
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by anextio 12y ago
MDMA is not capable of making you forget who your friends are, except maybe in serotonin-syndrome inducing doses. Primarily it is an empathogenic[1] drug, not a hallucinogen. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathogen-
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by anextio 12y ago
It costs energy to do that, which is reflected in the lower price of the impure balloon air, no?
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by anextio 12y ago
> more potent than vaporizers It's not the method, it's the toxicity of the chemical itself. As others have mentioned, regardless of the method of extraction, purification, or intake, this does not change the ridiculous amount
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by anextio 12y ago
Your characterization of a product successfully marketed to people as "corporate brainwashing" whenever you don't like someone pointing out that a thing is perpetuated by corporate profit motives is also disingenuous. I think
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by anextio 12y ago
> nor are we driven by some need to display this disinterest as some kind of marker of class rank or intellectual superiority. Not to disagree with you, but I was under the impression that most research on social signaling has shown that

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