Viewing profile — jhgb

People of different ethnicities can differ by something as minor as just language and language-related culture, such as for example Czechs vs. Germans. So surely ethnicity is not t…

I see. I guess that makes sense, popularity-wise. I imagine the results were in the vicinity of PostgreSQL anyway, considering the similarity of approaches.

I'm surprised that Interbase/Firebird seems to be entirely omitted from this despite pioneering the MVCC approach.

> As for the bytecode, as far as I recall CMU CL did not have bytecode compiler at all The byte code compilation option is described in CMUCL documentation, section 5.9 Byte Coded …

I simply assumed the tables in question were log tables. (No, not that kind of log.)

I found very quickly an NYT article from 1993 that listed his date of birth as "April 5, 1952". I don't know if that's the source for the Wikipedia article but that info has been a…

You can simply check Wiktionary, like you can with most words.

No, database servers solve that problem. That the unnecessarily COBOL-like SQL ended up being the primary interface to them is simply an unfortunate accident of history.

If you want to make ultra-complicated clients, I assume that's what WebAssembly is heading towards. And it doesn't limit you to a poorly evolved language that wasn't intended for u…

Jevons' paradox still exists. Making X cheaper (usually by needing fewer people to do one unit of X) can and often does lead to more people being needed for X.

Merchant shipping contributes around 3% to CO₂ emissions. That is smaller than, e.g., electricity and heat generation, road transportation, manufacturing, construction, and agricul…

C is literally a high level language.

Nobody decided that it's a crime, and it's unlikely to happen. Question is, what do you do with mandatory snooping of centralized proprietary services that renders them functionall…

> Use Signal. Or Wire, or WhatsApp, or some other Signal-protocol-based secure messenger. That's a "great" idea considering the recent legal developments in the EU, which OpenPGP, …

> yeah it did not follow Algol syntax but Pascal's and Ada's Now quite sure what you mean by that; all of Lua, Pascal, and Ada follow Algol's syntax much more closely than C does.

...and that costs you code modularity and separate compilation. Why lose them when you don't have to?

Yes, except without all the known disadvantages of goto. That's the whole point.

It gives you arbitrarily complex control flow even in presence of modularity. A tail call is a state transition. Without them, you'd have to resort to a big loop (which breaks modu…

Funny, because it's the exact opposite for me. You sure it's not just your news source preferences?

There's one obvious potential application, which is caching of common requests. If something like segments of streams or any CDN contents is cached on the satellite, it reduces com…

You don't HAVE to boot RPi4+ from an SD card. RPi4 and RPi5 can boot from an external SSD just fine. I don't recall the last time I used an SD card in an RPi but it must have been …

Don't use an SD card, then. It's that simple.

I too need to thank you for the very first C compiler I ever had access to in 1999, after 10 years of having a book on C in my possession that I couldn't use until then.

Yes, but compile-time evaluation in Zig doesn't require the "comptime" keyword. Only specific cases such as compile-time type computation do (but these specific cases are not provi…

I'm pretty sure the "comptime" keyword only forces you to provide an argument constant at compile time for that particular parameter. It doesn't trigger the compile time evaluation…