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> One-Way-Door and Two-Way-Door Decisions See also the "Linux kernel management style" document that's been in the kernel since forever: https://docs.kernel.org/6.1/process/managem…

But BCD is not floating point (generally shorthand for the IEEE 754 Floating Point standard, which nearly every CPU and GPU have hardware support for). And I don't know much about …

All models are wrong. Some (wrong) models are useful. Computers can't represent 0.1 (in floating point), yet that hasn't stopped anyone from doing finances on their computer. I don…

> If it worked from the start, it wouldn't need to be fixed later. True. But you ignore the fact that NO SOFTWARE IS EVER DONE. Software always has bugs, and even if it didn't, it …

> Does the Wikipedia logo really need to be secured with https? Yes, otherwise your ISP will use it to serve ads.

> polls showed that people were opposed to breaking up Microsoft 54-35. Sure. But that is entirely based on their perception. If you asked "Should Microsoft be allowed to charge De…

> which gives its guarantees per node There is no such thing, because Nodes (and even entire datacenters) can fail. In other words, node failure is an infrastructure problem that i…

If you want to be online only part of the time, look into IPFS. Even if you go offline, your popular pages will likely be cached for a while, and can be cached forever if someone t…

> The results may be good enough for plenty of folks, but I highly doubt they will ever be better than the big budget search engines. On the other hand, that is not the criteria fo…

It does have one security implication: Wireguard never responds to an attacker. Your tunnel is responding to attackers, so now they know your box exists and can probe it for proble…

> Is it generally reliable asking Amazon support what capacity you need for a particular use case Everyone's use case is different, they are not experts at your application, you ar…

> Definitely doesn't feel like my wealth is growing in index funds fast enough to retire within this life time. Ha ha, I feel the same. But don't discount the fact that small perce…

Sure, they share a lot, like: - Billing: One bills you before shipping, the other bills at the end of the month. - Cart: One lets you add items to a cart, the other lets you use pr…

Don't forget, you should be interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. If you choose to pursue a company with clearly distopian hiring procedures, you are part of the …

> You just need to see what the car sensed I don't think all self-driving cars have the same sensors. If you have LIDAR model X, and they were using LIDAR model Y, will your system…

Let's say Amazon is about to make $1B in profits. Instead, they go on a hiring spree, and quickly pay out $1B in salary. Ha ha, they say, we have a profit of $0, so we don't get ta…

The point of patents is to entice innovators to PUBLISH their inventions. A patent should be about some process that is so complex that nobody else has figured how to do it before …

> how do we allocate rewards to innovators The goal of the patent system is not to "pay innovators" - they already get paid by putting good products on the market. The goal of the …

Yes, FastCGI would work, as long as you don't mind wasting money. But what happens when you have billions of scripts, each executed infrequently? You need some way of fetching the …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

> If something happens that's egregiously morally out of bounds, then people will find or create ways to enforce against it. I think you left out "and a lot of money is involved". …

Like dumping a toilet in a driveway because some database pointed you there? https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turn...

> That's why Comcast is having such a hard time? That is a terrible example. Comcast would be out of business if their customers had something to switch to. But they are a monopoly…

> my calendar every year to retrieve all my keys from cold storage and do a meaningless transaction No, you don't need to retrieve your keys each year. Before storage, create N tra…

Huge difference. It's not the kernel size, it's the interface (ABI). In a unikernel, the kernel is part of the application (like a library). Instead of a complex/slow transition fr…