biorach

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by biorach 5d ago
It's long been clear that there were fundamental implementation choices that mattered between async runtimes, but _nine_ design dimensions? Damn. I think async is deceptive in that it seems like a self-contained and relatively straight
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by biorach 5d ago
No. Because concurrency vs parallelism
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by biorach 5d ago
> What is "await" if not a synonym for "suspend"?!? it's a question of whether the runtime is guaranteed to suspend at an await point or if it may choose not to > async/await is one product of a long line
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by biorach 5d ago
At last someone took the time to pore over all the tedious crap that I have been trying and failing to keep straight in my head since forever.
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by biorach 7d ago
Please no. Africa has suffered enough.
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by biorach 7d ago
This migration predates the arrival of Celtic speakers by many thousands of years.
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by biorach 8d ago
I did not. Having spent considerable amounts of time undoing the effects of overconfident junior programmers who decided to be interesting and novel on small business code bases, I guess if we're going to replace juniors with AI we may
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by biorach 8d ago
It's extremely unlikely that there is anything interesting or novel in the optimisation of a small SaaS SQL
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by biorach 10d ago
> Regardless, saying it would be too much effort for Apple That's not what they said. Please don't misrepresent > is laughabe And this disparaging language about commenters is not OK. Please stop.
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by biorach 10d ago
> not locking you out is not a big heroic move you're trying to picture here. The person you're replying to didn't say that. Please don't misrepresent and please keep it respectful
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by biorach 13d ago
Kind of hard to hang a globe on a wall in a satisfactory manner.
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by biorach 22d ago
> I'd run Linux on the hardware if it wasn't a hack. It's a hack in a good way and this is a really bad reason to not run Linux.
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by biorach 22d ago
That's Steve Cooney. It was Dolly got the one in a lifetime opportunity.
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by biorach 24d ago
No one worth listening to is claiming that there will be a COVID-style pandemic. The concern here is the very high mortality rate. Granted the transmission rate is low, but in countries where facilities and health-care workers are scarce th
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by biorach 26d ago
You might think. The UK would be the most prominent example and in fact has been a much more predictable and consistent trading and negotiating partner than the USA
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by biorach 1mo ago
oh! damn! I did not notice that. That does answer my question.
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by biorach 1mo ago
looks like the bug fixes are in individual commits here: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/compare/master...antithesis... I'd be interested in seeing what the SQLite people have to say about them if/
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by biorach 1mo ago
this is a deliberate mischaracterisation of the content of the article
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by biorach 1mo ago
I don't see a need to be dismissive. There is a lot of evidence that there is a relationship betwwen sleep and learning. The hypothesis advanced by the OP is worth evaluating on its merits rather than being dismissed as a fale equivale
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by biorach 2mo ago
> Using Sol or Fable for implementing is like having your Principal Staff Engineer with 30 year tenure routinely write CRUD functions for a REST API. A Principal Staff Engineer who costs $2400 a year and never feels any work is beneath t
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by biorach 2mo ago
I think you're being very harsh. I read it as a side project of a scientist meant to entertain as much as educate. Holding it to the same standards as the Event Horizon project seems pedantic and excessive.
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by biorach 2mo ago
> uv run ruff check --fix Generally gets you 90% there.
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by biorach 2mo ago
Forget Iraq, forget Afghanistan... because This Time It's Different and of course ground troops _have_ to invade Iraq, Saddam has WMD's. And it will finally bring stability to the region. And they _have_ to invade Afghanistan, the
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by biorach 2mo ago
An Atmosphere (atm) is a standardised unit of pressure. 1 atm = 101,325 PA It is not an SI unit but it is widely used and very useful in situations, such as this, where pressure relative to atmospheric pressure is relevant.
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by biorach 2mo ago
oh wow. this is a rarity on an internet dominated by toxic rage-bait. apology accepted. I think you probably have interesting things to say on the matter and I look forward to reading them on a better day. respect.
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by biorach 2mo ago
This is not page 1 of computer science. And you're being bitchy.
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by biorach 2mo ago
> "Algorithm" is not a word with a definition what?
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by biorach 2mo ago
> So much of this culture war jockeying exists purely online, to sustain an infrastructure of monetized outrage that is increasingly preoccupied with Western chauvinism, racism, and just plain antisocial weirdness.
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by biorach 2mo ago
> Those frameworks have a bit (more than a decade) head start A decade? More like 21 years
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by biorach 2mo ago
> With a skepticism towards consensus, Thiel says: “We always think that democracy is a good thing, and in a Democracy, the majority is more right than wrong. 51% is more right than 49%. 70% is even more right. But if you get to 99.9%, m

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