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?? Of course there's a CEO of YouTube.

Yeah performance counters

I like the coins idea. I don't subscribe because I know I'll forget about it and it will turn into a recurring charge on my credit card. But I would buy $10 of coins, knowing the p…

$13/month is less than many of those sites cost individually, but I get them all for that price?

A lot of it went into V8 too.

I'm actually pretty surprised if the JVM uses malloc to allocate the heap. V8 uses mmap, never malloc.

Larry should be remembered for the development of "patch" more than perl. Without the concept of fuzzily applying patches to modified source files you can't have "git rebase" or "g…

The syntax problems are just surface. There are some real problems underneath: Poor performance of the single implementation. A single implementation. Leaky ref counted GC, but 'lu…

Nice! Why malloc? Surely this is an on-heap object, not malloc allocated?

Yeah if you ever wondered why the fields in a lot of Posix APIs have names with prefixes like tm_sec and tm_usec it's because of this misfeature of early C.

You could always manually build the same thing as lambda with a class and you had the same problem.

The C++ GC is not for V8 code, it's for the users of the V8 API eg. Chrome (Blink). It's not being used for big internal systems like the compilers or GC. V8 has its first module i…

That sounds like a lot: To help prevent vitamin D toxicity, don't take more than 4,000 international units (IU) a day of vitamin D unless your healthcare professional tells you to.…

Most vitamins are a waste of time and money, some are even harmful[1], but there are a lot of people with D deficiency, especially in winter[2]. 1 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17…

IME ducks don't go into the coop at dusk so they will get trapped on the wrong side.

Is that why it doesn't work?

[Citation needed] for a pesticide connection. Unless you are an insect, most pesticides are harmless for you. And for those that are not, nobody has proved a connection to allergie…

Miasma is a very bad idea because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647737

Eating peanuts reduces allergies, but getting peanuts on your skin increases allergies. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009167491... Or maybe in your lungs. http…

Classic Azimov plot line

Forgotten? No mention of why we should think they are forgotten outside the headline.

That's coming in 2026: https://san.com/cc/us-money-cant-feature-living-people-why-t...

I guess I'm using 'Nimby' in the wider sense to include all the red tape that slows down or blocks every building project in the UK. A project doesn't have to be individually targe…

If EGL2 took 9 years to get approval, that's the fault of the Nimbies, right?