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dpratt commented on Nissan eyes shifting Rogue production to U.S. due to tariffs   asia.nikkei.com/Business/... · Posted by u/geox
ArtTimeInvestor · 5 months ago
When everything is produced on US soil, what stops the US from proclaiming that "What stands on US soil is owned by the US" and all the investments foreigners did were for nothing?
dpratt · 5 months ago
In the same range of the probability of it happening anywhere else, but (if you’re honest with yourself) a bit lower. Seizure of property and/or nationalization of whole industries is not a novel concept.
dpratt commented on Java 24   jdk.java.net/24/... · Posted by u/ludovicianul
dpratt · 6 months ago
JEP 484: Classfile API is going to be huge. It will take a while for full adoption, but finally being able abstract the backend of ByteBuddy/ASM/etc will be a gigantic boon. Being able to read/write classifies is one of the biggest hurdles at upgrade time.
dpratt commented on Chicory: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime   chicory.dev/... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
dpratt · 6 months ago
This looks very cool - I'm going to read into the implementation, there's something about producing JVM bytecode from WASM instructions and then having the JVM JIT compile it into native instructions that amuses me.
dpratt commented on Monocle: Optics Library for Scala   optics.dev/Monocle/... · Posted by u/curling_grad
itronitron · 9 months ago
This has nothing to do with optics, which is a branch of physics that studies the behavior and properties of light.
dpratt · 9 months ago
Imagine my disappointment when I spent the time to set up a Cassandra instance and it did not immediately materialize a demigod woman who knew the answers to everything but was cursed to have no one believe her.
dpratt commented on Riot Games: Peeking into Valorant's Netcode (2020)   technology.riotgames.com/... · Posted by u/jakey_bakey
dpratt · 10 months ago
Any discussion of the game’s requirement to install kernel-level anticheat hooks that inspect the memory of every process running on the system?
dpratt commented on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public   blog.cloudflare.com/paten... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
dpratt · a year ago
Well, it's nice to know that Sable's entire portfolio is going into the public domain, it's a shame that the likely 50-100 other shell companies owned by this troll still have an arsenal of useless, but incredibly complicated, patents to use to extort money.

A just world would involve piercing the corporate veil and imposing personal consequences on the owner of this company.

dpratt commented on Watching "Grizzly Man" with a bear biologist   backpacker.com/survival/w... · Posted by u/cainxinth
timonoko · a year ago
Erh What. There is only one foodstore on Kodiak. I had what I could carry in one dry-pack. I sometimes made bear-proof stashes, because coast guard nannies so suggested, but it did not seem to matter. Only foxes were real nuisance, they chewed my wetsuit for example.
dpratt · a year ago
How much do you weigh?
dpratt commented on ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack   blog.chromium.org/2024/06... · Posted by u/feross
chem83 · a year ago
IMO Android architecture does offer an advantage relative to vanilla Linux in the way that it creates a well-defined separation between kernel (+ drivers) and user space development, somewhat fixing the OS fragmentation. It helps prevent users getting locked out of the latest version of the OS just because the device manufacturer didn't update their BSP. It's the reason why Samsung offers 5 years of device updates and Pixel offers 7 now.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel/gen...

dpratt · a year ago
I will start to believe the "7 years of updates" promise for Pixel phones when the first model that was released with this promise is approximately 7.5 years old. At that point, I may begin to reconsider my opinion. I fell prey to Google marketing when they released the very first Pixel model - I spent an exorbitant amount of money on it, only to have it utterly abandoned and deprecated, with support and updates dropped just over a year later.

As in all things relating to anything stated by Google with respect to the privacy, availability or expected lifetime of a consumer product, the maxim is not even "trust but verify", it should be "distrust, watch carefully, and assume the worst".

dpratt commented on Power over fiber   chaos.social/@f4grx/11169... · Posted by u/rwmj
ExoticPearTree · 2 years ago
You know, in some places there are warning signs that read: Do not look into laser with remaining eye (https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1482f39eeb7fe2a2abc36...).

Anyway, common sense says you don't look with your unprotected eye through a fiber endpoint.

dpratt · 2 years ago
"Danger: Not Only Will This Kill You, It Will Hurt The Whole Time You're Dying"
dpratt commented on Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34   jepsen.io/analyses/mysql-... · Posted by u/aphyr
Topgamer7 · 2 years ago
MySQL has some aggregation performance over postgres. Having done a recent migration of an application two things that come to mind are:

- its case insensitive by default, which can make filtering simpler, without having to deal with a duplicate column where all values are lower/upper cased. - MySQL implements loose index scan and index skip scan, which improves performance of a number of join aggregation operations (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Loose_indexscan)

dpratt · 2 years ago
| its case insensitive by default

This is obviously up for debate, but subjectively I find this to be an absolutely terrible design decision.

u/dpratt

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