The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
The late bird gets the second mouse.
Readit Newsthrowaway889900 commented on A squeaky nail, or the wheel that sticks out prashanth.world/squeaky-n... · Posted by u/mangoman
throwaway889900 commented on Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) hwisnu.bearblog.dev/givin... · Posted by u/mithcs
That's what std::string_view and std::span are, though. They're views / borrows over the underlying data, minus the kind of protections something like Rust has about lifetimes of the underlying data vs the borrow.
The benefit of these types is that they're a pair of pointer+size, instead of just a bare pointer without a known size.
True, I guess I was expecting if you were reimplementing these with additional protections, why not add the protection using the custom pointer reimplementations to ensure no use after frees. Seems like a missed opportunity.
throwaway889900 commented on Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) hwisnu.bearblog.dev/givin... · Posted by u/mithcs
Does the StringView/Span implementation here seem lacking? If the underlying data goes away, wouldn't the pointer now point to an invalid freed location, because it doesn't track the underlying data in any way?
throwaway889900 commented on Grok: Thousands LOC a day in C is a big deal even if the "coder" uses LLM? · Posted by u/adinhitlore
SLOC as a metric of productivity was always useless. AI only proves this more.
throwaway889900 commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn
> To make their product, the food company’s scientists collect living cells from Pacific salmon and grow them in cell cultivators that mimic the inside of a wild fish—controlling factors like temperature, pH and nutrients, per their website. After harvesting them, the team incorporates plant-based ingredients to make the hunk of cells taste, feel and look like salmon fillets.
So... Like a wild fish, but with NO IMMUNE SYSTEM WHATSOEVER, which requires your sterilization protocols to be effectively perfect.
NASA has tried and failed to get their sterilization protocols to perfection levels for Mars landers, and consistently failed despite using basically zero organic materials.
We're going to cook this stuff, yes, sure (aren't we?)... but the squick is rational. And the problem gets inherently worse at larger scale production.
Their advertising of it being like a sushi cut then makes this possibly dangerous marketing then, no?
throwaway889900 commented on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? · Posted by u/paulwilsonn
were you working on an emulator perchance?
Nope.
throwaway889900 commented on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? · Posted by u/paulwilsonn
Got death threats because I wasn't prioritizing stuff people were requesting, said nah I'm done
throwaway889900 commented on Show HN: A GitHub Action that quizzes you on a pull request github.com/dkamm/pr-quiz... · Posted by u/dkamm
Just submit a PR that removes the action so it doesn't run on the branch before the merge! If devs aren't reviewing the code anyways, will they even catch that kind of change?
throwaway889900 commented on Peacock feathers can be lasers science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/ohjeez
Yesterday was Pigeons As Hard Drives, today is Peacocks As Lasers.
I look forward to what tomorrow brings.
Combine them with a phalarope to make a fully functioning CD player?
throwaway889900 commented on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage starlink.com/us... · Posted by u/throwmeaway222
I've heard of IP over pigeons, but using starlings is innovative.
Sometimes you have to keep repeating a packet, they're very good at it.