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If you look closely at how that data was collected, what it's actually measuring is whether a binary links against the ObjC runtime library, which will be the case if a binary tran…

If you just bought a new Intel MBP then you got a horrible deal by comparison. I also didn't say the review was nonfactual, just that it contains within it an inaccurate framing an…

Yes, and if you wrote such a review, and many have I'm sure, you wouldn't say that the electric drivetrain itself "has warts".

It's easy to rewrite that sentence to make that separation clear, and he doesn't. Gruber goes into detail about the author's history of being wrong and misleading in the past regar…

> Morehead's allegiances and work are relevant biases, as are Gruber's. But Morehead's review wasn't of the M1 processor or architecture as a technology. It was a review of the 13"…

C, C++, Java, and Rust all have shift as lower precedence than addition/subtraction. Edit: and Javascript, Python.

If you'd carefully reread the post you'll see that your first assertion is false. It contains this sentence: "But it is a meaningfully distinct kind of type safety from the one I h…

Again, you are conflating newtypes per se with approaches using newtype as part of an overall abstraction and interface design including constructor hiding. The post makes this qui…

I think the request is rather justified given your response, which is engaging with a strawman version of the thesis presented in the post. What you wrote about the virtues of newt…

If Timescale were AGPL Amazon would be free to just run it as a service for profit and all they need to do is publish their modifications to it, if they make any. Amazon has no pro…

How so? Corporations can use and sell software and run services for money that use copyleft software if they want to if they abide by the terms of the license, and some do, whereas…

The type of a string literal is array of char, and like other arrays, they decay to pointers to the first element when used in expression context, with three exceptions: sizeof, ta…

Because a macro in C/C++ is just text expansion, the given implementation will evaluate its arguments more than once, which will not be obvious at the "call" site and could have un…

This is entertaining. I've used Xilinx's tools for a while, almost exclusively on Linux (CentOS usually). I thought that renaming/symlinking libraries to get things to work was som…

See my other response, but I don't think you're giving the question enough credit. The other responses don't mention the fact that the line would likely be different if we swapped …

The line of best fit changes depending on the choice of independent variable, even for the same data. The quantity being minimized is different for the two cases. (sum of squares o…

When you specify the types of the numbers used, so that you are testing the transitivity of a single instance of Eq, you will find that transitivity does hold in this case. a :: Do…

This example is misleading, and I don't think the article addresses the subtleties. Basically, the third line is not like the other two. Because none of the numbers involved in #3 …

Linearity of expectation applies to any two random variables, not just ones that are independent. The issue is that these games are not random variables, they are random processes …