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Psychosomatic illnesses are in fact quite serious, but they require psychological treatment, not lockdowns of society.

God, do I love working in the finance industry some times.

Interestingly, Matt has invented a variant on the retpoline [1] which _intentionally_ missteers the branch predictor to prevent various speculative attacks. (Invented by my former …

> Do they have special interview channels for 'regular devs' and another for people who can write dynamo ? Not special interviews, but certainly different pieces of headcount. Ther…

The supersonic speed was the question, not the contrarotation.

What about the Tu-95? It's famously loud due to (says Wikipedia) supersonic propeller tips. Do you know why they're still effective?

It's the transition that kills you. Are you doing this full time?

I don't know anyone whose house has burned down. Should I cancel my home insurance?

> As far as fining motorists for horn usage, if it works like everywhere else in the US there is no way they could ever actually make good on the fines. Confiscate their cars, prob…

> In 2021, New Yorkers filed the most complaints about engine idling since 2018: 13,489 complaints. The police issued 75 summons in response to complaints, data shows. > Specifical…

https://research.google/pubs/pub50370/ gives more up to date information, as does the slide deck here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1taP_gqeRE1XGB2td7f32... (We get down …

You are welcome to advocate for pleasant, humane prisons. Run whatever antirecidivism campaigns you wish there. If they work, that's great. In either case: send people who commit c…

No, the issue is that we don't have the political will to arrest, prosecute, and imprison criminals, until our societies consist of people who don't commit crime.

I think you're misinterpreting GP: even though it is true that possession-like crimes are badly handled by the US, you can erase them entirely and the US _still_ has a larger priso…

That's nice. Feel free to fix the prison system at any time; if the people who come out don't commit more crimes, I'll be happy. In the meantime, imprison the people who do commit …

If they spend time in jail after the first time, maybe they won't become a habitual thief.

Because it's fun, easy, and beats working. Unless we arrest, prosecute, and imprison them. Or punish them other ways; how about flogging? It's arguably both a better deterrent and …

If only 1/5th of those prisoners are there for drug-crime (and I assume you believe as I do that much drug-related crime isn't worth the arrest?) then isn't that in fact evidence t…

Yeah, but you know what also works? Running perf and running that through normal pprof...

The causation is backwards! I'm not an alcoholic but I am an anxious wreck. Single best way to make me stop freaking out at a party? Two old fashioneds. I'd prefer to be gregarious…

I can confirm we came up with this optimization inside tcmalloc, and our compiler experts nacked it as unsafe, even only calling tightly controlled code. A pity, as it is really be…

For string interpolation, check out: https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_string I was just remarking to a coworker Friday how happy this made me; you get to write nice, obvious, read…

I'm rather proud of Abseil's implementation: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/887d0eee6bab358472... As I recall another colleague wrote the original version (I do not reme…

Mostly market driven (I expect there are some regulatory concerns too but I don't know any offhand.) What this means is that there are very few holders of TSLA stock who are willin…