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Not just inefficient, it was a large scale industrial accident. A canal wall was breached and not repaired for two years and the runoff all collected in this low lying area. It’s a…

I have never heard of “material footprint” and from the definition it seems entirely worthless. The article doesn’t start with any reason why anyone would be interested in this mea…

This post’s conclusions are odd. It has a bunch of extensive benchmarks showing that zstd is by far the worst performing across every metric except a slight increase in compression…

Its entire purpose is an optimization. You have an expensive operation. A bloom filter can tell you that you definitely don’t need to do that operation. So rather than wasting a lo…

That is the standard acronym for the course in American universities and has been for many decades.

The main issue with a premix is like the article. It’s fit for a single purpose. I only make pancakes from scratch, admittedly I use baking powder and regular whole milk instead of…

This is such a weird example. Doctors are a professions with artificial limits specifically to raise the income of doctors in the profession. There are no starving doctors because …

A big part of that is “I will save you X” is a non-starter. That is not making the business more money. If you have something that will actually make the business more money then t…

The first sentence of the article explains that this is about management and strategic consulting.

I think the false advertising does great disservice to Clair Obscur. It turns off people who don’t like turn-based combat and ends up disappointing people who do like turn based co…

Yes. Very funny for the author to spend a lot of time talking about null hypothesis testing, but not actually running a control experiment to test the null hypothesis that his dice…

Theranos wasn’t a great idea or even a good idea. The “idea” was 1. Get a drop of blood 2. … 3. Cure all diseases That’s not even an idea. It’s just magical thinking.

Undefined behavior to access the uninitialized memory. A sanitizer would have flagged that.

This is about go not Java. Go makes different tradeoffs and does not have moving multigenerational GC.

Alexander Hamilton oversaw an explicit program to steal technology from England. https://apnews.com/general-news-b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88... I believe that is what is being ref…

It’s the basic math of the funding bill. The amount required to continue operating does not equal the amount allocated for social security, Medicare or Medicaid. So no matter what …

Brave New World.

It’s not about “giving secret information to a foundry”. It’s entirely the field programmable (FP) feature. It’s also not really programmable in the sense that you would be sending…

This has been covered before but saying that Mars would be a “humanity guarantee” is actually extremely illogical, not the most logical. Short of the Earth getting blasted to tiny …

I actually much prefer go ‘s runtime tooling. Pprof has everything I need built in; heap, cpu, blocking, mutex contention. And don’t need additional tools to visualize the collecte…

Yes. This is exactly the sort of information you’ll find in Bill Cleveland’s books.l (referenced at the start of the article then somewhat dismissed later). Bill Cleveland did all …

Waffle means something very different though in the U.S., to “flip-flop” on a position. Not hold it for any fundamental reasons. But I don’t think you can say that an LLM holds a p…

Branching is different instruction paths, so it requires reading the instructions from different memory that causes a delay jumping to those new instructions rather than plowing ah…

Parent is referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_access_control As opposed to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_access_control

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