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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, but it’s a prefix and can’t be used as a word on its own.

I am a native English speaker and I know it. It’s rare though.

Same meaning as in German and apparently we borrowed it from German.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It’s a risk management strategy where you only do checks afterwards.

“Trust” means that you don’t make processes wait on passing checks before proceeding, because that would be expensive and/or slow.

“Verify” means that you have a separate process that comes through and runs checks afterwards, maybe on only some of the things you trusted, to catch issues.

It’s ideal when you have high-volume and/or low-latency processes where failures are low stakes but you still want to catch systemic issues eventually.

It’s related to the idea that “the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero”.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

If you’re going to store it for a few days, then it is best to use a recipe that makes concentrate, which you then dilute before drinking. It tends to hold up better.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

For the first part, I was like, yeah, that’s pretty much how all C++ GUIs work: a markup file describes the structure, a source file controls the behavior, and a special compiler generates more C++ code based on the markup file to act as glue.

That’s all pretty standard, and it’s annoying, but I didn’t really get why they were making such a big deal out of it.

Missing documentation is also annoying but not uncommon for internal widgets.

What really elevates this from simply annoying to transcendentally bad, is the lack of error messages, the undocumented requirements that resource IDs be sequential, and the mandatory IDE plugin. That’s all unforgivable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

What you are looking for is some way to shortcut the process of learning to write an operating system by re-using your existing knowledge of Python.

(I'm not judging that; I understand why you want to do it)

The simple truth is that there is no way to do that. Any solution that involves using Python in a kernel would cost you more in terms of complexity and time than learning C would.

It is rarely worth it to use a language outside of the domains that it is normally used for.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I assume that they mean that OpenCL, which is a traditional GPGPU language, is a very restrictive subset of either C or C++ (both are options) plus some annotations.

In fact, OpenCL toolchains already use the Clang frontend and the LLVM backend, so the experience of using and compiling them is very close to C++.

The talk mentions all of this; it says that a benefit of using full C++ on the GPU over using OpenCL is that you don’t have to deal with all the annoying restrictions and annotations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I received an actual email requesting a donation from the “Harris Victory Fund” two hours ago.

Here’s the fine print from the email on where the money would go:

The first $41,300/$15,000 from a person/multicandidate committee (“PAC”) will be allocated to the DNC. The next $3,300/$5,000 from a person/PAC will be allocated to Harris for President’s Recount Account. The next $510,000/$255,000 from a person/PAC will be split equally among the Democratic state parties from these states: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY. Any additional funds will be allocated to the DNC, subject to applicable contribution limits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I tend to be warm when running. Around 40 F I’ll put on gloves, and around 32 F I’ll put on a light wool jacket and a beanie. I don’t run outside if it’s colder than that. I never wear long pants; my legs are always warm from the exercise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I appreciate this. It’s a good overview of what it means to be a productive part of a larger context.

I prefer the terms “throughput” for “worker productivity” and “latency” for “work-unit productivity” but I can see why they chose to use their terms.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago

Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who is primarily responsible for the present situation, used to be my local state senator.

I specifically kept my voter registration in Texas during my college years so that I could continue to cast my vote against him. There is nothing good to say about that evil man.

I like Texas, and I hope that at some point we figure out how to govern it in a sane way, because I unfortunately cannot recommend living there right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Twitter’s a bit of a bad example. Musk may be using it that way now in order to make the best of a bad situation, but it’s pretty clear that he didn’t actually intend to buy it in the first place.

Even someone like Musk doesn’t ever intend to go out and lose tens of billions of dollars on a single purchase.

 
 

The rise in support for same-sex marriage over the past decade is among the largest changes in opinion on any policy issue over this time period. A new national survey finds that much of the shift is attributable to the arrival of a large cohort of young adults – the Millennial generation – who are far more open to gay rights than previous generations. Equally important, however, is that 14% of all Americans – and 28% of gay marriage supporters – say they have changed their minds on this issue in favor of gay marriage.

 

Inspired by me seeing a tall bike in NYC and wondering WTF it was.

 

I found this channel when looking up how to play FlameCraft. Now I always check to see if he has a video when looking up how to play a new game. He has a great sense of humor and explains the games well!

 

A detailed experiment investigating how long to steep immersion cold brew, with both numerical and qualitative results.

 

I know that it’s the middle of summer (northern hemisphere). I know that even the thought of adding fruit juice and mulling spices to coffee is probably horrifying. I do not expect it to taste good. And yet, I had a thought about it and found that it seems to be a thing and so… has anyone tried it?

A few additional sources, but there are a lot more: https://wearelittles.com/blogs/stories/mulled-coffee-recipe https://malucoffee.com/blogs/news/mulled-coffee-recipe

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