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banachtarski

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About banachtarski

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.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #31012811

    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 s…

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    Comment #29755031

    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…

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    Comment #29067027

    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, feat…

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    Comment #29066668

    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 …

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    Comment #28267949

    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.

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    Comment #28176911

    And the title would clue you in that it’s a 4G virtual address reservation which isn’t the same thing

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    Comment #27676812

    UE5 does not use geometric textures, nor does rasterization have anything to do with the lighting system (irradiance caching)

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    Comment #27653089

    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.

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    Comment #27218201

    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

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    Comment #27162471

    In a text editor....

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    Comment #27080979

    > ... I don't know what is

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    Comment #26680222

    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…

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    Comment #26677663

    Yea, I do it all the time in Korean when joking about something with friends. 친구들이랑 그렇게 얘기해요

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    Comment #26668569

    소.데.스.네. ^^

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    Comment #26626053

    You can be 30+ and still be an insecure and oblivious fetus

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    Comment #26603814

    > due to cmake insisting on using absolute file paths ????

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    Comment #26603702

    Please substantiate the claim about how "cmake fights that at every possible step." There's so much hyperbole in your statement that it really does seem like you've spent "years of…

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    Comment #26603516

    You probably feel the way you do because: - you don’t target different platforms - you don’t target different compilers - you don’t cross compile and need to maintain multiple tool…

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    Comment #26600618

    > 1: At work a frequent issue in C++ is UAF a pointer to a stack variable which outlives the function, Zig don't help you here.. Sorry but if this sort of UAF is actually frequent,…

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    Comment #26569343

    As just one anecdote, the mere presence of a GC made me stop looking at D more or less immediately. In terms of positioning, I think D would be better served focusing on a vertical…

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    Comment #26463155

    It's approachable either way. The main reason I mentioned x86 familiarity is because you make references to your previous post as well. I'm already reasonably fluent in both x86 an…

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    Comment #26462978

    Also I thought the article is really useful given that it’s geared towards people already fluent in x86 assembly

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    Comment #26462971

    How does docker even help in this regard. If you run x86, you’d need qemu or some other emulation stack. If you run arm you just test natively

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    Comment #26422030

    This is a selfawarewolves comment if I’ve ever seen one (as someone who used to study physics but would consider myself a physics novice nowadays)