Wow, this is so neat. I spent some time thinking about this problem years ago, and never thought of such an elegant solution.
Readit Newsjeffrallen commented on Go Proposal: Secret Mode antonz.org/accepted/runti... · Posted by u/enz
jeffrallen commented on How can I read the standard output of an already-running process? devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/ibobev
strace (8).
jeffrallen commented on Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries sethmlarson.dev/deprecati... · Posted by u/scolby33
I prefer Go's solution to this problem. Just don't deprecate stuff. And to make that possible, slow down and design stuff you will be willing to support forever.
jeffrallen commented on Golang's big miss on memory arenas avittig.medium.com/golang... · Posted by u/andr3wV
My guess is that when you measure, an arena is not worth the trouble when you run a generational GC, which essentially uses an arena for the eden space already. And if you have an arena, it's probably very short lived and would otherwise live entirely in eden.
Go's GC is not generational.
jeffrallen commented on Golang's big miss on memory arenas avittig.medium.com/golang... · Posted by u/andr3wV
The author is confused about how performance tuning works. Step one, get it right. Step two, see if it's fast enough for the problem at hand.
There is almost never a step three.
But if there is, it's this: Step three: measure.
Now enter a loop of "try something, measure, go to step 2".
Of the things you can try, optimizing GC overhead is but one of many options. Arenas are but one of many options for how to do that.
And the thing about performance optimizations are that they can be intensely local. If you can remove 100% of the allocations on just the happy path inside of one hot loop in your code, then when you loop back to step two, you might find you are done. That does not require an arena allocator with global applicability.
Go gives realistic programmers the right tools to succeed.
And Go's limitations give people like the author plenty of ammunition to fight straw men that don't exist. Tant pis.
jeffrallen commented on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Want to do something that protects a significant percentage of children? Ban social media for children.
Work out a zero knowledge way to verify age, and implement it. It won't be easy, but it also won't require breaking the rules of mathematics as per most of the governmental requests to 'safely' backdoor encryption.
And shockingly enough, the EU has been investing in this technology for a while. Check out OIDC4VCI, and the selective disclosure protocols that go with it.
The Swiss citizens just approved a system like this.
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jeffrallen commented on Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/defrost
Now you just need a couple of droids and you could go into the moisture farming business
Nah, those are not the droids he's looking for.
Actually you make a good point here. Women have better reaction times then men, so female drone operators, all else being equal, may be better at the job.
In my village's shooting club the women shoot just as well at the men, and quite a bit more consistently as well.