deschutes

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by deschutes 3mo ago
What is so objectionable about data centers anyway? That they consume utilities without employing a substantial amount of people? Compared to actual manufacturing like fabs the pollution concerns are laughable. The water use issue seems to
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by deschutes 4mo ago
It's hard to find anyone that doesn't have some motivation in this problem. I won't claim any percentages because I do not know them and I would not trust them even if I did. That said, my experience in a urban area on the we
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by deschutes 8mo ago
It sounds like std::atomic_ref<T>::{load,store}(relaxed) to me. 1. ad-hoc atomicity with ref 2. no ordering https://godbolt.org/z/4h893P7hG
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by deschutes 1y ago
You cannot use the rust standard library in environments where arbitrary allocations may fail but neither can you use the STL. The difference is the rust standard library doesn't pretend that it has some reasonable way to deal with all
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by deschutes 1y ago
You are correct, it does not affect the lifetime of the pointed object (pointee). But a shared_ptr manages at least 3 things: control block lifetime, pointee lifetime, and the lifetime of the underlying storage. The weak pointer shares owne
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by deschutes 1y ago
Average citizen on receipt of news that swiss business is impaired
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by deschutes 1y ago
If you squint hard enough, any potentially allocating function is fallible. This observation has motivated decades of pointless standards work defending against copy or initialization failure and is valuable to the people who participate in
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by deschutes 2y ago
Assuming memory is infinite for the purposes of a program is a very reasonable assumption for the vast majority of programs. In the rare contexts where you need to deal with the allocation failure it comes at a great engineering cost. It&#x
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by deschutes 2y ago
Trying to apply heuristics like patterns to this problem is attacking the wrong thing. It boils down to a lack of belonging, trust and motivation of reviewers to do the right thing. Absentee leadership not holding engineers accountable for
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by deschutes 2y ago
Be that as it may, from cursory research, there is a body of US law on these kinds of practices under the term "commercial bribery". I can't speak to the legal details at all but this doesn't seem to be a case of an hone
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by deschutes 2y ago
This is exactly the kind of scenario that the foreign corrupt practices act identifies as a crime. It would be kind of ironic if it wasnt recognized as a crime in the US.
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by deschutes 2y ago
Author is untrustworthy and misrepresenting the actual details of the purported misdeeds if the sources cited in this thread are accurate. Whether or not there is some legal argument that he didn't violate his employment contract anyon
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by deschutes 2y ago
It may be obvious but rarely is it the focus of public discourse on drug companies. Basically the only thing that gets discussed is the apparent naked greed of drug research companies. Frankly it's a miracle that we have private compan
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by deschutes 2y ago
It's a creative thought but this kind of thinking is in direct contradiction to the widely accepted principles of safe firearm handling. Trying to mitigate the damage of negligent discharges is the wrong problem to solve. In this case
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by deschutes 2y ago
I think the dark side of it is unintentional ADL but it's mostly good. C++ gets a lot of mileage out of concepts in templates. The newer language feature just makes the existing practice first class as something a bit beyond syntactic
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by deschutes 2y ago
This seems to be saying nothing. constexpr allows you to maintainably express the computation of a constant. This is useful, even if it morally is a script generating that constant it's valuable to not need to drag along a bunch of ext
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by deschutes 2y ago
To my understanding there is and there isn't. The driving force behind this demonstrated that it was possible to speed up the existing CPython interpreter by more than the performance cost of free threading with changes to the allocato
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by deschutes 2y ago
Better odds and no work at a game of chance. That's pretty damning.
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by deschutes 2y ago
Have you ever taken a cab?
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by deschutes 3y ago
As far as design and ergonomics go, I'd compare servicelogs to a pile of trash that may yet grow massive enough to accrete into a planetoid. A text based format whose sole virtue is descending from a system that was composed mainly of
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by deschutes 3y ago
Is there a better way for something like an optimizing (jit) compiler? My barely informed understanding is that many of these bugs aren't soundness issues in the compilation process but instead the resulting executable code. I don&#x27
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by deschutes 3y ago
You can't be everything to everyone. Packaging considerations for niche use cases rightfully take a back seat to debuggability and packaging considerations in modern web deployments and consumer devices.
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by deschutes 3y ago
It's not the same. You expect that the other team will score with so many possessions remaining. And when they do, they will be able to capitalize on the information gained from your 2 point attempt. In terms of expected value, 2 point
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by deschutes 3y ago
please. i'll take any odds that the vast majority of people on the plane are voluntarily flying for leisure. it's hysteria.
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by deschutes 3y ago
It's a symbol. Basically a glorified string literal.
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by deschutes 3y ago
It's an interesting question and one I'm unqualified to answer. From a brief survey I gather at least caching is enabled for some hard real time systems. The name of the game seems to be employing caches in ways that provably decr
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by deschutes 3y ago
There are a lot of people that don't want to be held accountable for their negligence and blatant disregard for the safety of others. Driving like you're the main character is so normalized that it will take generations to fix the
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by deschutes 3y ago
Chromium is a massive project spanning decades of intense active development that intricately connects just about every domain of programming. A few leaks fixed per month is nothing. Further there is no major language promising no leaks onc
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by deschutes 3y ago
People who have houses like it. Doesn't mean it's good policy.
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by deschutes 3y ago
And yet this was newsworthy for the unusual number of deaths. That's pretty telling. To your broader point, yes just ignore the problem and everything will go away. That has worked so well. The folks calling for an unconditional surren

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