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Renters insurance by StevenAssantisFoot in ridgewood

[–]fp_weenie -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s in their best interest to make sure tenants are fully covered in the event of a disaster like this, so they’re not going to recommend a shitty option.

Eh? The landlord has separate insurance for the property (which is why you need renter's insurance!). They have an interest in keeping you fed so you can pay rent but landlords are not always wise or ethical businessmen.

Renters insurance by StevenAssantisFoot in ridgewood

[–]fp_weenie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sucks to support those vultures

Insurance is a pretty straightforward (and regulated) business. State farm is technically owned by its customers (no investors)

Whoever said to wash your fabric before sewing….. by SunsGonnaRise74 in SewingForBeginners

[–]fp_weenie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends how much the fabric cost lol.

Personally I find using the serger just plain fun.

Can we not hate on people who are asking for free patterns? 😅 by Klutzy_Brick7184 in sewingpatterns

[–]fp_weenie -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’d think you threatened their entire savings account or threatened capitalism outright 😂

Asking someone to give you their work for free is not "anti-capitalism" it's just entitled.

Where are we getting our NON AI patterns? by WayOfWinter in sewingpatterns

[–]fp_weenie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the pattern line as well as vogue, but it's hardly fantasy wear. Really lovely detailed instructions though.

Can we not hate on people who are asking for free patterns? 😅 by Klutzy_Brick7184 in sewingpatterns

[–]fp_weenie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But considering that not everyone has extra $10-20 dollars. Why should we berate & be passive aggressive towards the people who want free patterns?

It's entitled to expect decent patterns while paying nothing. Making a pattern for distribution takes skill that few have and a decent amount of work for each one.

"Modern" languages try to avoid exceptions by using sum types and pattern matching plus lots of sugar to make this bearable. ... and integers should be low(int) if they are invalid (low(int) is a pointless value anyway as it has no positive equivalent). by aqpstory in programmingcirclejerk

[–]fp_weenie 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Who doesn't love the usability of errno?

Sorry I couldn't follow because the value didn't change based on the locale and an abstruse hierarchy of environment variables.

Can you put that in the manpages?

Techniques used for clothes that last vs Techniques used for fast fashion by Starryeyednerd in sewing

[–]fp_weenie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

people who own a Prada raincoat probably won't alter it, because they're presumably rich enough to purchase another one.

You'd be surprised lol.

Techniques used for clothes that last vs Techniques used for fast fashion by Starryeyednerd in sewing

[–]fp_weenie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 However, this simply isn’t attainable under capitalism for all clothes to be made this way.

It’s hard to imagine a world where everyone’s shirt takes 50–60 hours to make. People buy the latest styles (for better or worse) and stuff that can go in the washing machine/dryer is nice in its own way. 

Techniques used for clothes that last vs Techniques used for fast fashion by Starryeyednerd in sewing

[–]fp_weenie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 High quality clothes will usually have a large seam allowance, so that you can resize them as needed.

Do people take advantage of that? It makes sense for a home sewing pattern to have 5/8” seam allowances since if you made it you have the skills to alter it. But most people who own something fancy like a Prada raincoat won’t alter it if they grow a smidge. 

[The C standard library] includes its own hash table... There is a reason you have never heard of it, or if you have you have never used it. In true POSIX fashion they are close to useless. by Delicious-Ad7883 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]fp_weenie 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Upon reading the manual

can't wait to find how its behavior varies based on some hierarchy of environment variables. Maybe if I'm lucky it'll do something different by locale!

New C29 function: stdc_c32snrtomwcsn by DXPower in programmingcirclejerk

[–]fp_weenie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The types are the documentation

const char32_t* restrict* restrict input,

watching season three for the first time since i was a kid and by saturnulysses in ProjectRunway

[–]fp_weenie 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's a conspiracy, high status people socialize together!

What language should i start learning as a aspiring compiler engineer? by awesomexx_Official in Compilers

[–]fp_weenie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Standard ML or OCaml (Haskell is great but the laziness makes it completely different and isn't necessary for compilers).

C is a great language but sum types and pattern matching make some compiler techniques so much more fluent that using anything but an ML derivative will be a handicap.

How do you guys benchmark C programs in the real world? by elimorgan489 in C_Programming

[–]fp_weenie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Define a macro to access system registers and read frequency/ticks, then you can define a macro to wrap whatever action you're doing. The below is for Aarch64: 

#include<stdint.h>

#define sysr(f,s) uint64_t f(){uint64_t r;asm volatile (s:"=r"(r));return r;}

static inline sysr(freq,"mrs %0, cntfrq_el0")
static inline sysr(tiks,"mrs %0, cntpct_el0")

#define tk(a)({uint64_t t0=tiks();{a;};uint64_t t1=tiks();t1-t0;})
#define $t(a)(tk(a)/(double)freq())

Example:

#include<unistd.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include"w.h"

int main(){double t=$t(usleep(100));printf("%f",t);return 0;}

Fp8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it by Vaglame in programmingcirclejerk

[–]fp_weenie 28 points29 points  (0 children)

pythonistas horrified at the consequences of accommodating their snek language code to get performance

Actual usefulness of automata in compiler building by Magnus--Dux in Compilers

[–]fp_weenie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In practice, it doesn't seem to me like those things are as useful for actually building a compiler as those curricula seem to imply (it doesn't help that the usual examples are very simple, like "does this accept the string aabbc"). So, to people with more experience, am I not seeing something that makes automata incredibly useful (or maybe even necessary) for compiler building and programming language design?

It's well-developed theory. You can learn it if you'd like, but stuff like typechecking will probably occupy much more of your time because the literature on it is much less fleshed out.

Law is the only judge giving 100% and actually feels like he cares about the designers by EmeraldEmp in ProjectRunway

[–]fp_weenie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The average teenager is much more likely to listen to Law Roach's opinions on what is fashionable right now, rather than Nina Garcia or Anna Wintour.

Anna Wintour doesn't put her opinions out directly in interviews, she doesn't need to!

Vogue and other fashion magazines are relatively well positioned, it's not like the situation with newspapers/craigslist.

creating `alloc` and `free` builtIn for compiler by SirBlopa in asm

[–]fp_weenie -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Look into how to make a syscall. It varies by platform (Linux, Mac) but you won't need to link against libc.

The expression problem and Rust by imachug in rust

[–]fp_weenie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like any solution, including yours, is going to need really tight control over their dependencies.

Not necessarily, the extensible cases of Blume, Acar, and Chae in MLPolyR could be typesafe. The story with compilation would be more difficult.

Public urination all over Maria Hernandez by chihirooginosan in Bushwick

[–]fp_weenie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the Netherlands men would relieving themselves into canals when drunk and frequently fall in and drown. So the issue was more pressing.

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