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The details in this blog post give pretty good reasons why you shouldn't write production code in python https://mastodon.social/@jmc@unix.house/113857053433007481
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@dvvrt It was your boost that showed up in my timeline. Do you know this Ashley person?
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I'm a little confused here. Why is this woman claiming to be a student in need named Ashley Treharne https://mastodon.social/@ashporter93/113847063768084129 the same name as a GoFundMe person who already graduated last month? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-msw-student-internship-rent
cc: @datatitian
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You can compile a 32bit version on a 64bit machine, but that's only useful if everything else you're building is 32bit.
You can also compile a 32bit version that specifically supports 64bit DBs. It is not the default build since 64bit support on a 32bit machine is complicated and necessarily slower than native 32bit support. Neither of these two options are what the video claims to show you.
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Just saw this new youtube video pop up in my google alerts. "How to Create a 32-Bit Database with 64-Bit LMDB: A Step-by-Step Guide"
I won't link it because it's just wrong and doesn't deserve any views. It's clearly AI-generated garbage. (You cannot create a 32 bit DB with a 64-bit #LMDB library. Period, end of story.) It lists a couple stackoverflow links as sources and of course, stackoverflow is garbage too.
Avoid.
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A reminder: when you think you've found a bug in #LMDB, more likely you've found a bug in your OS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42704635
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PS: on the topic of "stories you will never see" - you will never see a story about a project improving its efficiency by adopting RocksDB.
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How Pinterest reduced memory usage by 4.5% by adopting #LMDB https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/how-optimizing-memory-management-with-lmdb-boosted-performance-on-our-api-service-f85fa7d1626d
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New for OpenLDAP 3.0 - forget about bothersome index configuration. Just feed your entire DB into chatGPT. Search queries will be answered immediately by #AI, without maintaining any indices.
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Hot take: using politically correct language just accelerates us further into dystopia. Replacing legitimate words with watered down euphemisms doesn't just constrain speech, it constrains thought. It's the exact exercise that the Newspeak editors were engaged in in 1984. Don't do it, call a spade a spade.
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Out of curiosity, was the source code for NeWS and DisplayPostScript ever published?
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This is a real person saying and "thinking" such things.
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Quality time with Simon #CatsOfMastodon
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Other major problem with OOP - programmers aren't taught that creating/destroying objects is expensive. They construct and destruct them willy-nilly, and waste huge amounts of runtime in memory (de)allocation. And they write a whole slew of trivial classes where the overhead far outweighs the actual class content. Codebases like Mozilla's are hopelessly bad because of this.
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On FB I routinely block any profile that puts an ad in my timeline. It's an endless chore, but for a short while the noise drops.
Recently the majority of ads have been for AI tools - photo editors, video creators, etc. I've no interest.
But now, I'm wondering - I'd kinda like to have a tool that lets you feed in an existing movie, and rewrite the ending. Just for fun. Anyone done that yet?
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One of my gripes with OOP is the attempt to hide internal state from callers. Public, private, protected, friend classes ... it's all nonsense that just slows you down. Invariably you find that you need more access because your original API wasn't quite right, and then you're stuck refactoring a ton of unrelated places just to make one more field accessible.
Good abstractions are easy to update, and easy to pierce when necessary.
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Keep in mind, we were given full docs on the instruction set, including the binary encodings for each instruction. What was the point of having that knowledge, if not to use it? And there was no other opportunity to use it since we were writing asm mnemonics, not plain byte streams.
(Most of my 6502 machine language programming was writing sequences of bytes in hex. Assemblers were something I didn't discover till college.)
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For me, I was writing games, game helper tools (how many of us wrote D&D character generators as teenagers?), game cheat tools, etc. I had personal motivation for learning, and applied the knowledge to my pet projects. Without that motivation I can imagine most of the lessons wouldn't have stuck.
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On a related note - sure, I took all the formal coursework too, for my Computer Engineering degree. But I was already an experienced programmer before I got to college, while the majority of my classmates were learning to program for the first time. I think a lot of them struggled because they never spent a lot of time with it before. Class assignments were pretty meaningless; you needed real use cases to have real motivation and gain understanding.
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