chaz72

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by chaz72 1mo ago
Regardless of focusing on correctness or performance, it looks to me like the author didn’t understand arenas that well. Like the other commenter said, “You use an arena when you have computation that might consume a bunch of scratch memory
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by chaz72 2mo ago
My reasoning, which you may not agree with, is that I think that I have seen pron say unkind words before and I thought I had a better chance of persuading Steve to let it go. (Sorry pron, that’s how I was thinking of it. No, I have no sp
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by chaz72 2mo ago
I do see that you often have kind words for Zig and some attempt to more precisely define the differences. What I mean is a bit different though, it’s that these arguments you get drawn into end up drowning out any real discussion of Zig’s
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by chaz72 2mo ago
Yes! I think Fil is great so far but I think as he gets a bigger audience he should, well, consider that and focus on clarity a little more than humor. You can see Andrew’s growth in that respect. Rust folks, this whole thing is a thread
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by chaz72 2mo ago
If you choose to build static or dynamic libraries, I expect you’d still get to do that, and I expect as long as those don’t change and only the main binary needs patching it’d work the same. (Though I’m waiting for the next tagged release
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by chaz72 2mo ago
I know this is mostly a joke but I have seriously wondered if “no hidden behavior” made it easier to port from Zig. Like, regardless of how easy or successful the port was in general, I think Zig’s explicitness may have worked in its favo
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by chaz72 2mo ago
I don’t disagree. I responded to “clearly an anti-rust statement”, which is a bit of a stretch.
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by chaz72 2mo ago
“Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge” to me sounds like it is directed primarily at C and C++., it’s a much more direct translation.
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by chaz72 3mo ago
My specific reply was to laszlojamf saying “it seems like go, but with manual allocation”. To your point though, if Rust is getting it done, go for it. A lot of people still write those in C though.
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by chaz72 3mo ago
I think Zig would do better than Go at things like kernels, drivers, game engines, lower level sorts of things. Edited to add the obvious: SPIR-V, for instance. Of course there’s lots of programming that can afford to pay for GC side effe
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by chaz72 4mo ago
My interpretation of what they said is closer to “we already improved compilation speeds by 4x and we did it without compromising our plans to go much further - also this PR introduces specific timing bugs.”
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by chaz72 4mo ago
Apples and oranges, yeah. I should have spelled that out more, thanks.
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by chaz72 4mo ago
My guess is that one of these (Andrew) is measuring syscalls and the other is measuring vtable indirections.
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by chaz72 5y ago
Seriously, turn on the news once in a while.
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by chaz72 5y ago
That’s what I am betting on - but it isn’t 1.0 yet, and that matters too.
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by chaz72 5y ago
This is great! https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy/tree/master... looks like the raw data (yaml) for all these commands, including commands for macOS. With that, it’s at least plausible to audit
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by chaz72 6y ago
Yes! I try to always phrase it as "the part I can see from here will take at least X time".
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by chaz72 6y ago
Okay, so your source is Giuliani. Well that is an answer, I guess. Sorry I was looking for a news source and not a political one. This is not nearly as credible - until evidence reaches a courtroom - as “somebody on the internet”.
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by chaz72 6y ago
Never heard of this source - I hope it’s okay in this time of misinformation to ask for a recognizable source? Edit: I mean I am okay with leaving it as “somebody on the internet says”, but wondered if the evidence was more clear than that.
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by chaz72 6y ago
Then you can definitely name one.
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by chaz72 6y ago
I am less certain that Fox didn't know who @whyspertech was.
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by chaz72 6y ago
It still might be a reasonable tradeoff for me, for some projects but regardless: thank you, that adds some nuance that I didn't get from your earlier comment.
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by chaz72 6y ago
I've been actively wondering about generating some efficient and portable C code, and for this project it wouldn't be super-complicated, but undefined behavior is the one thing that keeps me away. C++ and Rust and C# and many othe
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by chaz72 6y ago
I think they just missed the memo that Windows now has a modern Chromium-based Edge option for a web view component. I mean, before that, the situation was really pretty bad, but now I'd expect it to be fine. (Have not tested it yet.)
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by chaz72 6y ago
It sounds like that, but I don't think it's really true. I think that only means that with the previous tradeoffs available, they chose to keep being tracked. No reason not to try something new and maybe they'll choose someth
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by chaz72 10y ago
Good example. First I've seen, and it doesn't apply to me so I will continue using them as I have, but good example.
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by chaz72 10y ago
I find the way you argue very frustrating. I respond to "This is a great way to make sure you have an unjust community wherein no one has the opportunity to defend themselves and speaking ill of someone is enough to evict them." b
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by chaz72 10y ago
A slippery slope, if you will? No, let this case stand on its own: The leaders of the Tor community were shown evidence they considered to be sufficient to boot this guy. It's a community they lead, they get to decide who is welcome. Y
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by chaz72 10y ago
No. Jail needs to wait for formal charges, but the community can make its own decisions whether they will accept his behavior - and they may decide they care about things that are both vile and legal, they may use entirely different reasoni
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by chaz72 10y ago
You wouldn't write the app in C at all, most likely. You would write the library in C, because every one of those alternatives can call a C library.

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