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Yep, once people discover the multitude of JVM flags the cargo culting begins... It really applies to anything with a huge number of options, I remember similar things from back wh…

Lack of empathy tends to trickle down, alas.

It's definitely less likely with that technique (in practice!), but still very possible, via e.g. ODR violation or even the classic SIOF. So, ideally you'd want each separate test …

Because this is garbage PR. That's it. Every property-based testing system (invented ca. 1980) will explore boundary values. The semantics (or lack thereof) of C and C++ can make t…

Ask for more regulation.

*Brits EDIT: Don't get me wrong, my European nation did a lot of bad shit, but don't put the idea of an "expat" on us.

AFAIK, the only correlation with LoC that's got solid evidence is this: the number of bugs correlates with LoC.

Must have 120 fps for answers arriving in [buffering] 30 seconds.

Indeed... why is Anthropic even employing people at all if this AI magic story is true?

You misunderstood their example, I think. If doesn't matter what 'p' is in their example. The point is: if 'f' is undefined behavior (rather than just impl-defined), then the optim…

It was released at "end of life" for Larian patches for BG3, so I can imagine they didn't want to support any old Linux distro. I believe it is technically possible to run it on di…

Yeah, I've been playing BG3 on Linux[0] for about 2 years at this point (using a Lutris "recipe" or whatever they call it). Ironically, the biggest issues have been with some of th…

The overhead isn't zero , but with SSDs (and filesystem caches in the gigabytes these days) it's damn near insignificant in pure terms of opening files and such.

Generated tests... I mean... listen to yourself. I can generate a lot of tests amounting to assert(true). Yeah, LLM generated tests aren't quite that simplistic, but are you checki…

> However, the best engineers I know are usually among the quickest to open an editor or debugger and use it fluently to try something out. That's not my experience... mostly it's …

Wikipedia says it was created in 1974, so something's definitely off with the time line here.

Try writing an exhaustive spec for anything non-trivial and you might see the problem.

Analysis Paralysis?

I think wmf's comment in this thread was absolutely correct and succinct, so I won't repeat, but I think it's worth noting that many (all?) of the Wayland devs were actually Xorg d…

Ministry of Truth & Love.

SQLite is public domain while the code released by id/Carmack is GPL. The latter technically doesn't prevent anyone making money off it, but in practice it does (other than nominal…

Java's Virtual Threads (JVM 21) + the Structured Concurrency primitives (not sure exactly what's available in Java 21+) do this natively. Also, a sibling poster mentioned ZIO/Scala…

sqrt(2)