restes's comments

>People are having beachballs on machines with 32GB and more.

Well, sure, because the beachball means the main thread is hung, and that can happen for many reasons unrelated to memory pressure.

restes | 4 months ago | on: DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts

I don’t understand. Are you claiming the actual results of Musk’s work here were good?

restes | 2 years ago | on: Bring code from other platforms into the browser

I assume they meant that the site is terrible in Firefox, not that Firefox is terrible.

restes | 2 years ago | on: Leaked Google pay data shows how much employees report making

Fair, but also where != what

restes | 2 years ago | on: Apple Pay Later: What Are the Crazy Ones Up To?

> You essentially can make money buying something.

Well, only if you can earn more over 12 months than the asset you bought depreciated. I think a better way to look at it is that you can earn a small discount.

restes | 2 years ago | on: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

>formerly TextEdit IIRC

TextWrangler. TextEdit is the editor built in to macOS.

restes | 3 years ago | on: Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230

Since the mods’ handles are known, isn’t this pseudonymous rather than anonymous?

restes | 3 years ago | on: A $3B Silk Road seizure will erase Ross Ulbricht’s debt

This and the parent's argument are just whataboutism.

restes | 4 years ago | on: Chris Lattner left Swift core team

Compilers are free to assume x is non-null at the time it’s dereferenced, so isn’t it true by definition? Do you have an example that doesn’t rely on undefined behavior?

restes | 4 years ago | on: Chris Lattner left Swift core team

The GP was referring to C++

>I would almost never write C++ …

Edit: nevermind, I missed the point! GP is saying he wouldn’t write C++ if C supported these features.

restes | 4 years ago | on: Chris Lattner left Swift core team

>why can't I specify, and have the compiler yell at me if I don't properly handle, "this pointer may never be null"

You can do so easily. A reference is a pointer that is never null.

restes | 4 years ago | on: Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs

>California allows “rolling stops”

No, they certainly do not. I live in California and I've gotten a ticket for doing this.

restes | 4 years ago | on: S.F. Mayor Breed declares state of emergency in the Tenderloin

> legislator

legislature

restes | 4 years ago | on: Id Software Is Trying to Stop a Man Who Wants to Name His Band 'Doomscroll'

Why is Id’s behavior bad (edit: need excusing, that is)? What’s wrong with enforcing your trademark?