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>What would be the syntax for promise pipelining, if you aren't using promises to start with? Oh, great point! That does seem really hard, maybe even intractable. That's definitely…

I totally agree with your framing of the value of async/await, but could you elaborate more on why you think that this behavior (which I would call "cooperative concurrency") is im…

Rationalists and EAs spend far more time praising the Catholic Church and other religious groups than criticizing them - since they spend essentially no time criticizing them, and …

>If you take enough steps back and really think about it, the only synchronization primitive that exists is a futex (and maybe atomics). Everything else is an abstraction of some k…

Emacs 30 has a native graphical port to Android, maybe you can just use that on any Android device.

Well, that's not fundamental. There are plenty of projects that support generating typed bindings for libraries in one language for use by programs in another language. You could d…

Is stackfulness required for what the grandparent describes? It seems possible to do this stacklessly: all functions implicitly compile down to a state machine, but futures are nev…

What do you suggest as an alternative way to express these concepts? Colloquially, "library" and "service" have 95% of the correct connotations.

Ultimately, it can't. Proprietary software has fundamental limitations that force proprietary software developers to choose technically inferior designs. It's why in the long run p…

Do you have better suggestions for what words/phrases to use to refer to these two categories?

If you predictably do that then the pilots won't speak truthfully in therapy in the first place. The only way to get the lesser benefit of therapy is to precommit to not report sui…

I think you may have misunderstood the problem that this article is solving. You've implemented something which kills all your child processes when you exit cleanly, but which leak…

It is unfortunate that there are poorly-managed projects with poorly-managed mailing lists (just like there are poorly-managed projects on Github), but sourcehut at least requires …

You don't have to subscribe to send a patch to a mailing list.

That specific workflow precludes reviewing the patch via quoting and making inline comments, which is the normal way to review patches when sending them via email.

When a process does, its children are reparented to init, not to its parent. So the grandparent can do nothing.

It requires a bit of annoying machinery since you have to dedicate a process to being a subreaper. Still it's probably the best option, I made https://github.com/catern/supervise w…

An important thing omitted in this post, which makes work-stealing less attractive, is that one core being idle can actually improve performance of other cores. Today's CPUs basica…

The problem is setuid. Just get rid of that and this becomes irrelevant.

That's actually a git issue - git is notoriously slow on OS X, and magit uses git heavily in a way that is correspondingly slow.

I didn't know 9p had promise pipelining! Or more specifically, it seems to have client-chosen file descriptors, so the client can open a file, then immediately send a read on that …

I respect the attempt to shift perspective very much, but you only engaged at a surface level with the reasons I listed. >The first is that it's not easy; but `docker run` or `podm…

People worry about Net Neutrality because it was a fantastically successful astroturfing campaign by internet media companies. No similar campaign against FOSTA-SESTA succeeded.