banachtarski

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programming for ~20 years and counting. math background. generalist with some emphasis on machine learning, graphics, physics simulation, compilers, and server technology. I dabble in electronics and FPGAs.
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Comment · 4 years ago
This is a hilariously misinformed take, indicative of reading news in a bubble. The cryptosphere benefits when folks like you don your tin foil hats.

You do realize the amount of scrutiny is far greater, affects all individuals above a certain pay grade at publicly traded companies, and that regulation continuously evolves? Protections against wash and insider trades are an important consumer protection but crypto advocates would rather you believe the current system doesn’t offer those affordances than admit deficiencies in their blockchain based ecosystems

Comment · 4 years ago
I couldn’t disagree more with your opinion. Symbol servers and pdbs are a tremendous advantage to C and C++ development on Windows. Are you sure you have equivalent experience with both Windows and non-MSVC toolchains?
Comment · 5 years ago
There are tons of facilities in the language intended for library authors and abstractions that are absolutely intended to be used out of the box. This is just how things are, features are provided at various levels of abstractions. I know HN loves to collectively hate on C++ but “caste system?” Lol
Comment · 5 years ago
Coroutines let you control where allocations go though? Just override operator new/delete on your promise types. Honestly the feature has been amazing and has cleaned up my code a ton. It’s not for average users. It’s for library writers who then build abstractions on it to make async code easier to write for others. Exposing the coroutine frame as a non opaque structure is simply not practical. Not a super well-informed article IMO.
Comment · 5 years ago
How can floats be totally ordered. This isn’t even a matter of NaNs or not. A set of floats where two or more floats compare equal does not permit a total ordering.
Comment · 5 years ago
And the title would clue you in that it’s a 4G virtual address reservation which isn’t the same thing
Comment · 5 years ago
UE5 does not use geometric textures, nor does rasterization have anything to do with the lighting system (irradiance caching)
Comment · 5 years ago
Says the guy who didn’t read the article where the author actually identifies and tries a 10min caramelization tech she finds and discovers it too doesn’t work.
Comment · 5 years ago
What a weird article to post. Why not std::barrier, or std::binary_semaphore, or std::counting_semaphore which is also new as of C++20
Comment · 5 years ago
In a text editor....
Comment · 5 years ago
> ... I don't know what is
Comment · 5 years ago
ML requires a useful corpus of data to train on. I don’t see how the energy abuse of crypto mining is remotely replicable with ML. For me, this has nothing to do with having a “neo-Luddite stance”
Comment · 5 years ago
Yea, I do it all the time in Korean when joking about something with friends. 친구들이랑 그렇게 얘기해요
Comment · 5 years ago
소.데.스.네. ^^

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