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It's not obvious to me that comparing GDP per capita is a fair comparison when talking about one country with immigration vs one without. A lot of the immigration I believe to be n…

Ah of course! It's improving the branch target predictor. Makes sense, thanks!

I'm struggling to confirm that my intuition of why the compiler optimisation is faster than the naive switch expansion. Is it about the layout of where the assembly instructions en…

There are reasons for not wanting to sell their brainchild to Musk (of all people) that don't involve money.

Timeline, maybe.

Could you give an example or two of languages/frameworks that have demonstrated abstracting the transaction blocks away? I'm not sure I'm following so I think this will help.

C.f. 'git', which you probably do use and etymologically is obviously a bit rude and humorous too.

Could you link to the particular case you're referring to?

An error in the article.

Agreed!

Hard-coded in what? Every DoH client?

Interesting ideas and vulnerability! With a nice and concise summary. Thanks for sharing

As always, it depends what properties you're relying on MD5 for. Just because something uses MS5 doesn't mean it's broken, because its preimage resistance (i.e. 'invert this hash')…

The overlap with VS Code is very helpful for Neovim too though, as Neovim integrates well with technologies and plugins intended for VS Code. My C++/Rust debugger setup comes from …

Or at least which country?

Why should one be bothered by it?

Presumably that the opportunity cost can be rather high.

+1 to BetterTouchTool! I'm mostly a keyboard person (typical 'vim' user etc.) but being able to switch tabs using a two-finger tap left and right on the touchpad is so pleasant tha…

Is the scripting language based on bash (etc.)? One thing I enjoy about fish is that it's not just a shell, but also a modern scripting language alternative to sh/bash. Seems like …

I personally have run into breaking changes in Python's regex module, which is pretty fundamental to such uses as mentioned above. If I recall correctly, they changed how `re.escap…

Where are you running into problems which require these mathematical techniques? I don't ever recall wishing I'd memorised any of these. For context, I did a Maths degree, so I'm f…

I don't think this is a completely accurate comparison, as TypeScript is transpiled to JavaScript and this provides restrictions to the expressibility and usability of types at run…

How so? I believe I understand Windows' thread scheduler and this conclusion isn't obvious to me at all; from my understanding it seemed perfectly reasonable.

I think that, strictly speaking, this cannot be entirely true, as VS Code gets language support from the same place that Neovim does - namely from LSP servers. VS Code simply packa…

OP didn't reply, but here's my set of dot-files in case you still wanted to have a gander at someone's. You can find the Neovim configuration in the neovim directory. https://githu…