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Not sure I buy that explanation. Looking through this repo, the kernel, drivers, and many core libraries seem to be written from scratch with no dependencies. There are some deps f…

> I did fairly deep research on this beforehand, looking into actual pharmacological aspect of interactions with things like dopamine, etc While you can read about mechanisms and i…

That is not how safety margins work. Safety margins are meant to give a buffer for unforeseen circumstances, they are not a ticket to just cheat. With this logic... why stop at a 2…

> XQuartz if you want it There are X server implementations for Windows, Android, AmigaOS, Windows CE!!, etc... I don't think this is relevant. > macOS has a POSIX layer. So do man…

Anybody long enough to remember Unix from the beginning or even just the last 25 years... which is a tiny percentage of this site... should know that a unifying Unix or Unix "tradi…

> you're doing it wrong. What else do you suggest that is liquid and essentially risk free? There is a purpose for this type of product. If not a high yield savings account, what i…

For one, having known many posters on wsb personally, the number of people actually trading large positions vs the number participating in that forum is not the same. Finally, peop…

They have had these for years in OR suites to dispense surgical scrub soap. They use an air bulb and tubing rather than mechanical link since that is much more durable and cheaper …

> In reality you'd be one of thousands of people holding HTZ calls or TSLA puts in your Robinhood account. You could make a huge payday and be indistinguishable from the crowd. Thi…

In the context of language design, the arguments for 0-based indexing rise above bikeshedding. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E... Sure it may not be th…

Frankly, garbage. Serious bakers are capable of a lot more consistency than you realize. > It turns out that not all eggs are the same. You can weigh eggs, or more often it's actua…

There's a relatively old FOSS "band-in-a-box" program: https://www.mellowood.ca/mma/

The scheduler overhead and the cost of context-switches are vastly overstated compared to alternatives. The per thread stack space in effect has virtually no run-time cost, and sta…

401k backed loans are nothing new. The incentive is the avoidance of tax penalties (or less obtusely that's the disincentive at the federal level to just withdrawing). It's not to …

Unsurprisingly it is Williamsburg, Brooklyn or close to it.

> You can even at any point in time stop execution in the debugger, rewrite part of the world and just press continue as if that was how the code was originally written to start wi…

> 100% of Python users find it to be fast enough for their use case. This is unlikely and an odd thing to say especially in the context of a thread about people rewriting their sof…

> "Make Python faster" is just a losing game imo. It is fundamentally never going to be as fast as other languages, it's far too dynamic (and that's a huge appeal of the language).…

> Pointers are an exposure of the underlying computer architecture. Whereas references are more of a property of common language design. Sorry, I just don't follow. How are the poi…

If you're using KDE, Qt is "native native". You're fundamentally mistaken about where Qt sits in the stack - it effectively sits in the same place as USER32/WinForms in Windows or …