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> TCO makes a lot of sense for interpreters and state machines. The reason that performant implementations prefer TCO is because the only reliable knob that clang and gcc provide t…

> I would highlight that there are many cases where you CAN move an object safely until a certain operation requires the object to "stay put" in place. You could model this with a …

If you control both the client and server, then yeah, you can use whatever protocol you want. Doesn't even need to be TLS, you could roll your own thing. But if you only control on…

> I have lost entire enclosures to lightning strikes on more than one occasion. Everyone thinks their IT skills are hot shit until they wake up to a closet full of burned hardware …

It's not cheap to them. You have to adjust for purchasing power - the US dollar goes a lot farther in most African countries than it does in the US. That Land Rover, if sold on the…

The troubles of handling call stack recursion is downstream of the lack of strong tooling for static analysis of stack usage. Of the few tools available for generating a build-time…

Could be base 2. ~1.3M RPS is a lot higher than most will ever require, but still within the realm of possibility.

Pooling means you're sending multiple queries (from different HTTP requests) over the same DB connection. A well-designed DB wire protocol will allow for pipelining those queries: …

Every RDBMS out there has an option to configure a DB-enforced transaction timeout. But that configuration is tied to a connection, not to a transaction. So using that configuratio…

Shouldn't the training data be preprocessed to transform time values to a relative coordinate system? I would expect a time-series training pipeline to contain something like: 1. D…

> A few years ago, I began to see the "labor supply" issues of slavery, and how the South was basically an economic powerhouse fueled chiefly by the labor of its enslaved people--s…

> I know it's not the same but if you give a sculpture a piece of clay they do not need 10000 options to mold it. Even a carpenter or wood smith don't need that many options. The d…

A lot of those options are necessary complexity, not incidental. 3D modeling and animation are just very complex series of tasks, you can't condense the options much without sacrif…

If that ends up happening, then the next step would be for the platform to derank listings that contain AI-enhanced photos, to set the proper incentive. That would be up to the pla…

The ID (and therefore the age) is checked when one goes to pick up their firearm at the local FFL dealer, so an age check on the site doesn't add anything useful.

Isn't this exactly the kind of problem that tariffs are meant to address?

I got curious what the wealth distribution looks like when normalized to account for retirement account growth. The historical average of the S&P 500's inflation-adjusted rate of r…

May I ask where this was? This seems like the kind of thing that would be highly dependent on the wording of the laws of your municipality or state.

> The UNIX pipe has the (for many systems) undesirable negative property of losing data in the pipe when the receiving process terminates: Anything in the kernel buffer of the pipe…

It all comes down to cost. At scale, testing hardware is appreciably more expensive than testing software. The former requires specialized machinery that costs the soul of your fir…

While this is true, the unspoken factor here is compatibility. Fixing the design and operational model of Linux (or any Unix derivative) to a sensible default-nothing architecture …

I'd be interested to see a Linux distribution whose entire shtick is to run well-behaved under a kernel with overcommit disabled. But it would be a huge undertaking. Besides the ob…