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I think determinism is the word you're looking for.
Re:Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:58PM (#33363166)
Way too many of you idolize Feynman and it shows. Could he be a good role model? Sure!

However, I'd caution you against rosey-eyed or overgeneralized interpretations, and against adopting wholesome whatever works for someone else!

Re:Go 1.19 Released on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:54PM (#32325875)
Java's value types will be ready soon enough: https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla
Runs flawlessly on my Pixel 4 XL
Re:NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs on Saturday May 07, 2022 @06:17AM (#31293403)
I prefer lazyatime.
Re:Use fast data algorithms (2021) on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:39AM (#31292188)
Why not try a self-extracting archive?

see https://makeself.io

It certainly does make wonder what would happen if they did inject an mRNA vaccine, though.
Re:GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:05PM (#29336748)
Project Panama should greatly improve the FFI & game dev situation greatly.
Re:Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack on Saturday November 13, 2021 @05:10PM (#29213619)
Thanks. Just clarifying for some of us (including myself) who tend to jump to the most exciting possible conclusion.
Re:Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack on Saturday November 13, 2021 @03:15PM (#29212807)
If I'm understanding this correctly, then what Cloudflare is doing is hosting websites of DDoS services rather than hosting DDoS attacks themselves.
Re:Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:43PM (#29203695)
Would it be fair to say you don't want to write this?

  z = ->(x) { x + 1 }

  z.call(y)
Re:Gitlab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:59PM (#29114307)
How much longer did said dev continue working there?
Looks promising. I wonder if this could be used to load arbitrary VST and LV2 plugins into EasyEffects.
I wonder what specifically the GPU missing that OpenGL needs.
Re:End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @09:59PM (#29021455)
> For those of you who down vote this post, I'm guessing you support criminals?

You have a good comment here, but this line really hurts its credibility IMO.

I'm no expert, but isn't turn-based multiplayer a completely different animal?
Re:Offline-First Database Comparison on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:08AM (#28996629)
See also Google's Lovefield SQL browser database:

https://google.github.io/lovefield

Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:15PM (#28952424)
I'd like to visit that part of the world some day.
Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:41AM (#28929112)
I mean who is saying this?
Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:40AM (#28928700)
Name five.
I'm glad you asked! I've invoked it as a rhetorical device to highlight how different each opiate is from the next.

I'd like to less misery caused by heavy-handed drug policy — and it seems to me that decriminalization (and perhaps even legalization) is the way forward.

Alright, go ahead and get on a regular IV fentanyl regime and let me know how that goes for you.
> Why is it that instead of acknowledging the rather uncomfortable root cause of those deaths, we just default to the so much simpler scapegoat, pills (the active ingredient in which has been with us in one form or another since 5000 BC), and pretend everything else is just rainbows and unicorns?

Okay, I'll take mushrooms, which have actually been with us since then, and you take synthetic intravenous opioids and we'll see who fares better.

Re:Amazon Corretto JDK on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:34PM (#28910445)
As to the reason why, apparently Oracle revoked their TCK[0] license[1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Compatibility_Kit

1. https://twitter.com/volker_simonis/status/105261065466907443...

See this Reddit thread for more background:

https://old.reddit.com/r/java/comments/l5m3p6/eclipse_to_hos...

IBM offers OpenJ9 binaries under the Semaru name here: https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes

Re:Amazon Corretto JDK on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:08PM (#28901263)
Correct, they've dropped OpenJ9 support during the rebranding.
Re:Amazon Corretto JDK on Saturday October 16, 2021 @08:55PM (#28893023)
From the Adoptium FAQ:

> This is the project and brand name for the binaries that the Eclipse Foundation produces. You can think of these as the successor binaries to AdoptOpenJDK.

The current LTS versions are 8, 11 and 17. Supported platforms include arm32 (Linux), aarch64 (Linux & macOS), x64 (Windows, Alpine & Linux w/ glibc) and x86 (Linux).

See also the Boehm GC, a garbage collector for C and C++.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector

First of all, Common Lisp is a language with several implementations, some of which offer AOT compilation. Secondly, a garbage-collection (aka automatic memory management) does not exclude AOT.
How about the freedom to use your property, electronic or otherwise, as you see fit?

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