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MacOS also employs memory compression, so it's not necessarily swapping to disk.

My experience is, for businesses who pay attention to open-source licenses, they will avoid GPL libraries like the plague (GPL applications are usually fine, though there's sometim…

Nor any other non-FAANG company I've ever worked for. In my experience, 401k matches are immediate.

If you just need "switch using keyboard", not necessarily "switch using shell", some KVM switches allow input switching using keypresses. For mine, it's , though I think that can b…

I dunno, even in C codebases, it's not uncommon to have data structures containing function pointers. Polymorphism isn't inherently bad and trying to achieve it using, say, enums a…

It depends on who is buying the Steam Deck. If it's people who don't already have a PC, then sure, Valve is broadening their market. But if it's people who already have a gaming PC…

The Atari 2600 had a digital joystick. The Atari 5200 was completely analog. If you tear the controller down, there's a complex mechanism that links the stick to two rotational pot…

Yes, I should have been clearer. I meant that their Linux investment started out as a hedge, but over time they were able to pivot it to something else. I'm not sure what the impet…

I might have overstated that. Looking at eBay "sold" prices, they seem to go for anywhere from 30 USD (controller only, no accessories) to over 100 USD (used, but in box with acces…

And Atari released theirs back in 1982.

It's unclear whether Valve is playing the long game or simply hedging their bets. My recollection is that their investment in Linux was expressly stated to be a hedge against a fut…

I can't speak about Haskell, but Clojure's lazy sequences also generate a lot of intermediate allocs. For example, here's Clojure's implementation of `map`[1]. It internally uses `…

> God forbid you try to change the audio device from speakers to headphones in the middle of a call. I've been using it for a couple of years, and I have never had this issue. I ca…

The EULA is giving you permission to e.g. copy and modify the font with certain restrictions (e.g. include the license text if you distribute it). In that regard, it's not terribly…

It's probably not as impressive as Miniaturwunderland, but if you're in the US, and specifically near northern New Jersey, there's a neat place called Northlandz [1]. It's much old…

Are you not doing the same thing that the author is doing? The author has a bias against blockchain, sees blockchain proponents making a poor argument, and that reinforces their bi…

The Raspberry Pi foundation recently (about a 18 months ago) released their own dual-core ARM chip - the RP2040 - and a corresponding dev board - the Pi Pico. The Pico dev board ru…

In the worst case, you would get 2 leap seconds per year. So in the worst case, 1800 years. However, in the past 50 years, we've only had 27. So at the current rate, probably more …

The RP2040 has a programmable IO subsystem. This lets you define a simple state machine that manages the IO pins and can transfer data to/from memory. Here's what the project's REA…

North America got both variants. This iteration is the model 2, but the model 1 was also sold here.

Münecat made a pretty good video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGfW5U7d8sc

One strategy is to go to community college for your gen ed requirements, transfer those credits to a more prestigious university, then finish your degree there. The piece of paper …

They did disclose it; it was in the press release: In the case of Tether, the company represented that each of its stablecoins were backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in reserve. Ho…

The NY Attorney General successfully prosecuted the parent company of Tether and Bitfinex. They found that the two were sharing funds, transferring them back and forth to make it a…

I think it's fair to assume, in the discussion of an article, that all the discussion is related to said article.