jhgb

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by jhgb 1mo ago
People of different ethnicities can differ by something as minor as just language and language-related culture, such as for example Czechs vs. Germans. So surely ethnicity is not the applicable term here.
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by jhgb 2mo ago
I see. I guess that makes sense, popularity-wise. I imagine the results were in the vicinity of PostgreSQL anyway, considering the similarity of approaches.
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by jhgb 2mo ago
I'm surprised that Interbase/Firebird seems to be entirely omitted from this despite pioneering the MVCC approach.
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by jhgb 2mo ago
> As for the bytecode, as far as I recall CMU CL did not have bytecode compiler at all The byte code compilation option is described in CMUCL documentation, section 5.9 Byte Coded Compilation: https://cmucl.org/docs/
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by jhgb 2mo ago
I simply assumed the tables in question were log tables. (No, not that kind of log.)
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by jhgb 2mo ago
I found very quickly an NYT article from 1993 that listed his date of birth as "April 5, 1952". I don't know if that's the source for the Wikipedia article but that info has been around for a long time, it seems.
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by jhgb 2mo ago
You can simply check Wiktionary, like you can with most words.
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by jhgb 2mo ago
No, database servers solve that problem. That the unnecessarily COBOL-like SQL ended up being the primary interface to them is simply an unfortunate accident of history.
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by jhgb 6mo ago
If you want to make ultra-complicated clients, I assume that's what WebAssembly is heading towards. And it doesn't limit you to a poorly evolved language that wasn't intended for ultra-complicated software in the first place,
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by jhgb 6mo ago
Jevons' paradox still exists. Making X cheaper (usually by needing fewer people to do one unit of X) can and often does lead to more people being needed for X.
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by jhgb 7mo ago
Merchant shipping contributes around 3% to CO₂ emissions. That is smaller than, e.g., electricity and heat generation, road transportation, manufacturing, construction, and agriculture.
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by jhgb 8mo ago
C is literally a high level language.
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by jhgb 9mo ago
Nobody decided that it's a crime, and it's unlikely to happen. Question is, what do you do with mandatory snooping of centralized proprietary services that renders them functionally useless aside from "just live with it"
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by jhgb 9mo ago
> Use Signal. Or Wire, or WhatsApp, or some other Signal-protocol-based secure messenger. That's a "great" idea considering the recent legal developments in the EU, which OpenPGP, as bad as it is, doesn't suffer from.
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by jhgb 9mo ago
> yeah it did not follow Algol syntax but Pascal's and Ada's Now quite sure what you mean by that; all of Lua, Pascal, and Ada follow Algol's syntax much more closely than C does.
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by jhgb 10mo ago
...and that costs you code modularity and separate compilation. Why lose them when you don't have to?
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by jhgb 10mo ago
Yes, except without all the known disadvantages of goto. That's the whole point.
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by jhgb 10mo ago
It gives you arbitrarily complex control flow even in presence of modularity. A tail call is a state transition. Without them, you'd have to resort to a big loop (which breaks modularity), or some sort of trampoline (which works but it
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by jhgb 10mo ago
Funny, because it's the exact opposite for me. You sure it's not just your news source preferences?
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by jhgb 10mo ago
There's one obvious potential application, which is caching of common requests. If something like segments of streams or any CDN contents is cached on the satellite, it reduces communication to a single hop for a large portion of traff
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by jhgb 10mo ago
You don't HAVE to boot RPi4+ from an SD card. RPi4 and RPi5 can boot from an external SSD just fine. I don't recall the last time I used an SD card in an RPi but it must have been years.
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by jhgb 10mo ago
Don't use an SD card, then. It's that simple.
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by jhgb 10mo ago
I too need to thank you for the very first C compiler I ever had access to in 1999, after 10 years of having a book on C in my possession that I couldn't use until then.
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by jhgb 10mo ago
Yes, but compile-time evaluation in Zig doesn't require the "comptime" keyword. Only specific cases such as compile-time type computation do (but these specific cases are not provided by compile-time function evaluation in D
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by jhgb 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure the "comptime" keyword only forces you to provide an argument constant at compile time for that particular parameter. It doesn't trigger the compile time evaluation.
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by jhgb 10mo ago
But Zig doesn't need a keyword to trigger it either? If it's possible at all, it will be done. The keyword should just prevent run-time evaluation. (Unless I grossly misunderstood something.)
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by jhgb 11mo ago
USAians are not exactly famous for commonly speaking most European languages at a level that would allow them to resettle to the respective European countries. This makes for a considerable barrier that essentially doesn't exist in the
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by jhgb 11mo ago
> He bought Tesla after it already put out its fan-favorite car If you mean Tesla Roadster, that came out in 2008, 4 years after Musk's involvement. Or were you trying to say something else?
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by jhgb 11mo ago
What do you mean by "without any permission"? Any sort of orbital launch in any country is subject to government permission.
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by jhgb 11mo ago
Funny thing is, even Starship's failure (to make a reusable upper stage) would be hailed as a spectacular success by any other company (since now that any other company would have at least a cheap, partially reusable superheavy launche

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