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> As for writes, a new key could go anywhere in the index This forces index tree rebalancing to occur on many (even most) writes, which is hugely detrimental to performance.

This technique is unreliable in practice, and the author's discussion is confused. First, their explanation doesn't make sense. They're supposing that there's some determinacy in t…

The phrase to google is "elective amputation".

It's not physics woo; the way the OP's using "duality" is common among mathematicians and physicists. The different types of duality listed in the physics and math sections of the …

> This is the trade off we pay for lower taxes. Why would mandating that companies provide meaningful maternity or paternity leave require higher taxes? This topic doesn't have muc…

Whether a system is tightly coupled is independent of whether it's implemented as a single process. Objections to systemd as monolithic, as constituting a single point of failure, …

"most open source tools and frameworks were developed for OSX, then ported to Windows or Linux" gcc?

The $1.5 billion figure given in the article is already in today's dollars.

The current policy (as enunciated by Stefan Monnier, who took over as maintainer from RMS a few years ago) is for new packages to be added to the package archive unless there's a v…