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It's total births, not birth rate. 125 years ago, the population was smaller, but the birth rate higher.

You're missing the point - your claim of "hypothesis has to be testable otherwise can be dismissed" is itself philosophical (philosophy of science). You're claiming that your claim…

I think Intel is a different kind of acquisition for Broadcom than VMWare. VMWare had/has a strong moat which can be exploited by jacking up prices. Intel doesn't have that.

Stories like this hit me harder after having children, too. But they also provoke thankfulness for all I have. For a little while after I read such tragic stories, I try to enjoy t…

That reminds me the story of Mozart's parents. Their first 3 children died less than 1 year old. I can't imagine the despair. Out of 7 children, only 2 survived infancy.

Or like MicroSoft - Microcomputer Software.

It's generic only if the context isn't implied. In e.g. NBA, NHL etc. "national" means "American".

A lot of it is simply AMD getting on newer TSMC nodes. Most of the Apple's efficiency head start is better process (they got exclusive access to 5nm at first).

Measuring your blood pressure is an example of proactive screening. I assume we will start screening for things like cancer when the test will be as simple / cheap as measuring you…

> enabling consumers to run big-LLM inference locally A non-technical reason is that the market of people wanting to run their personal LLMs at home is very small.

> I for one don't like it when people online, with every statement, signal their personal ethics. It gets to be very tiresome and degrades my HN experience. Ironically, buying a Te…

I think that even (most) conservatives don't want their car to be a political statement.

I would not be surprised at all if they broke up within a couple of months.

China ATM seems to be a smaller threat to Europe than US. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some level of EU-China rapprochement as a result.

I guess this is a point where terminology matters. If you work with SQL database in an OOP language, you pretty much always do some object-relational mapping, no matter if you have…

Integrating cache into connection pools brings little added value since connection pools don't have enough context/information to manage the cache intelligently. You'd have to do a…

Well, usually you want to handle it at some level - e.g. a common REST exception handler returning a standard 500 response with some details about what went wrong. Or retry the pro…

That (or rather checked exceptions in general) doesn't play well with lambdas / streams.

JPA implementations have "managed entities", sometimes called session or 1st level cache which is making sure that every entity is loaded at max. one time within a transaction. Lik…

I've made an opposite progression from the op. I was a strong believer of upfront design, but now value iterative approach as you do. For the first try, hack together something wor…

Starting with raw SQL is fun. But at some point you find out you need some caching here, then there, then you have a bunch of custom disconnected caches having bugs with invalidati…

> They just needed some syntactic sugar to help redirect certain developers into less self-destructive ways of procrastinating on proper error handling. Syntactic sugar it needs is…

Everyone dislikes bikeshedding. But people disagree on which questions are bikeshedding and which aren't.

IMF is the lender of last resort, their loans pretty much always come with strings attached which provide some assurance that the loan will be repaid.

I guess my problem is that I had no idea that he changed his visual appearance so these references just confused me. I'm not really following his personal life.