nicbn

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by nicbn 8mo ago
Wikipedia has a table for how many papers each project produced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_f... According to this, Rosetta@home (which is like Folding@home that runs on BOINC) produced
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by nicbn 2y ago
Does that in multiple places. Maybe they wanted a way to quickly revert it? Or enable on countries where they think they can get away with it?
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by nicbn 2y ago
iirc pthread uses the same ABI under the hood, only its compiled into the libc
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by nicbn 2y ago
100% period.
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by nicbn 2y ago
Would it be possible for someone within a compatible jurisdiction to mirror SQLite3 and provide it under some license such that it could be used by anyone?
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by nicbn 2y ago
It's common among Rust projects (the standard library also uses it). Apache 2 has a patent grant so it's preferred by companies, but is not compatible with GPLv2, and MIT is compatible with GPLv2. Source: https://prev.
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by nicbn 3y ago
Check out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQeDnFUNW-Q And gate starts at 4:49. Or gate starts at 6:27. The trick is to make some gears not stationary, moving along as other gears push them.
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by nicbn 3y ago
https://caniuse.com/webp Any updated (modern) browser should be able to see webp just fine, I'd rather just serve it without a backup plan if I'm planning to have webp in my website.
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by nicbn 3y ago
But to know via scientific method requires proof (or disproof) by experimentation
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by nicbn 3y ago
Fair enough. But it is needed to point out that there's a catch in that in order to use dynamic dispatch (subclasses, interfaces, ...) you'd still need to use pointers in C++. Deep down the problem could be rephrased as "ther
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by nicbn 3y ago
If you aren't using OOP features (such as inheritance), you're not really doing OOP, despite using C++. In the case of C++ I'd put something like: you can use free or costly abstractions, and OOP in general has a preference
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by nicbn 3y ago
(As with OO) depends heavily on implementation, but my 2 cents is that functional doesn't apply as much constraints to optimization. If a compiler is sophisticated enough a functional program should perform as well as a procedural one