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The trade off is discussed here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/70835

Your code is an example of a "pull iterator", and it's not as much of a concern. The harder case to deal with is a "push iterator", which are often much simpler to implement, but l…

There are some folks working on porting SwissTable to Go: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54766 What’s holding it back currently is coming up with a way to do incremental rehas…

Here’s a description of the new map implementation and why it’s more efficient: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2015/01/faster-more-memory-effici...

Russ Cox has a few good explainer blog posts: https://research.swtch.com/mm

I believe they made a mistake with that example. It doesn't look unsafe to me because the myResults sliced passed to the goroutine is not used. Or perhaps the racy part was left ou…

go1.18 is coming out soon with generics. The first release candidate came out 2 weeks ago. You can track the open issues here: https://github.com/golang/go/milestone/201

I believe the GP's point is that even with a 10,000x increase in data center energy consumption, the effect on ocean temperature is tiny.

Even more exciting, this is already present in go1.13. I believe the author of these slides made a mistake. Here it is mentioned in go1.13 release notes: https://golang.org/doc/go1…

TCL is pronounced "tickle." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl

Amazon's pricing is yearly.

This suggests that Google/Facebook/Twitter will still be able to track you, assuming you use their websites regularly, but advertising companies that don't have pages frequented by…

Cool Earth [1] is a highly rated [2] charity fighting climate change. [1] https://www.coolearth.org/ [2] https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/charity/cool-earth/

When it comes to accessing shared data it's often much simpler and more efficient to use a lock to protect that data. Channels are good in other scenarios.

The Chrome team has been working on power efficiency improvements [1], some of them have gone into the already released Chrome 44. [1] https://plus.google.com/+PeterKasting/posts/G…

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Facebook's Wedge 1U switch is what this builds on. https://code.facebook.com/posts/681382905244727/introducing-...

This article from 2013 makes the argument that lead in the environment is responsible for violent crime. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...

The problem with soft-links is that if the underlying file/directory is deleted, you are screwed. For example if you have 100 full-machine backups and want to free some space so yo…