gustavpaul

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by gustavpaul 7mo ago
I meant that the name of the language creator is irrelevant to the point being made in the article, unless the name has some out of band meaning that the intended audience knows and I do not. Turns out the article is AI slop, so makes sense
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by gustavpaul 7mo ago
> The Zig language, created by Andrew Kelley, takes a deliberate position on standard library scope. I'm missing the significance of this callout. Is Andrew Kelley synonymous with/well known as a representative of a particular
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by gustavpaul 11mo ago
The MmapReader is not copying the requested byte range into the buf argument, so if ever the underlying file descriptor is closed (or the file truncated out of band) any subsequent slice access will throw SIGBUS, which is really unpleasant.
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by gustavpaul 3y ago
Write the tests you need to sleep at night and avoid you and others you care about burning out when everything starts falling apart and even the smallest changes inspire dread.
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by gustavpaul 3y ago
PCAP or it didn't happen
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by gustavpaul 4y ago
After moving tk the USA I was shocked to find that fast food (mcD, burger king, etc) was cheaper than buying fruit and vegetables. In South Africa anything that tastes good costs a lot more money, so you're naturally more inclined to e
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by gustavpaul 5y ago
I told myself: I spent years studying (mostly) irrelevant material in university, what is a few months' worth of evenings studying (mostly) irrelevant leetcode problems if it doubles my TC. Still, it does suck.
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by gustavpaul 5y ago
Hmm - well I still feel relatively n00b as a 3k. For me the most prominent ones were 15/16k: I think that's the moment I started evaluating different moves instead of just playing what looked best and hoping I pick better ones tha
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by gustavpaul 5y ago
I don't really find that to be an issue - regardless of how good computers get, there would always be thousands of people better than me anyway. It is a personal discovery journey for me, like exploring a new mountain that others know
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by gustavpaul 6y ago
This reminds me of my 13 year old sibling yelling at our mother when we were teenagers for not buying them the exact item they wanted, but something pretty close. Disappointing. One should not hold people responsible for acting "non-pe
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by gustavpaul 6y ago
That picture likely contrasts lower middle class and lower class - middle class and upper middle class houses in south africa would not be across the road from an informal settlement due to unbelievable levels of theft and violent crime in
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by gustavpaul 6y ago
You can also just get a "professional" job in said country and move there under the same or similar conditions. The application for an employment visa to move to Germany from South Africa took about a week to get approved.
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by gustavpaul 6y ago
Exactly why I left northern europe for the USA. I find real and metaphorocal gated communities unbearably suffocating.
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by gustavpaul 7y ago
:-)
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by gustavpaul 7y ago
South Africa. And I guess Xhosa/Zulu. The electricity provider mentioned is Eskom. It's complicated.
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by gustavpaul 8y ago
Much respect for confirming to the rest of us reading this thread that your interlocutor's argument is the better one / yours is wrong. Having determined the correct answer, we all walk away correct, regardless of who was correcte
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by gustavpaul 10y ago
If it helps, I've been working here for 5 months (on the DC/OS security team) and I love it. For example, we identified pain points in our release process shortly after I arrived and some good people have been working full-time on