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I think the reason JSON caught on outside of the javascript community is because it provided a succinct way to represent tree structures of common types (numbers, strings, dictiona…

I wonder if the tax could be reduced with huge pages. Much of the cost of COW is the large number of page faults, but with huge pages you could reduce the number of faults to 1.

I was surprised to learn that this isn't how linkers work. Apparently one of the reasons c++ template code is so slow to link is long symbol names.

It would likely get shortened to emu, and then we would all be wondering if it's an emulator or a large bird.

How interesting. Doesn't the fungus get its name from the oxidized metal though and not the other way around? Mold the form and mold the fungus seem etymologically unrelated, howev…

The Perseverance team is also hosting an AMA today ( https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lpzbzo/were_scientist... ). We live in exciting times.

Please do not misconstrue what I have said. The term "oreo" has a long history of being used as a racist epithet. There is nothing wrong with using it as an analogy, but in a discu…

> I think this is only because it was contained in China before it reached the world Is this true? According to the CDC, there were SARS cases reported in Europe and the Americas p…

What makes a toolkit accessibility-aware? Is it not enough to support native widgets?

It absolutely can be a legal requirement, though I am not arguing that it should be one. I was specifically addressing the comment "I don't think people who need a screen reader ar…

I would think the same thing, but playing video games blindfolded is a thing. Look up ponktus Super Metroid 100% blindfolded and zallard1/sinister1 2p1c blindfolded Punchout for ex…

The oreo itself may not be racist, but it most definitely is associated with racism because of its colors. So I would caution you in using it as an analogy; it may be why your post…

> Either they automate removing content and end up removing some of the good with the mountains of bad, or they do it manually which costs a fortune and is too slow. I think this i…

Black holes are how I remember which one is which. But I would rather not have to think about it.

Yes, master could mean master copy, but that analogy falls apart quickly. Obviously it's not master/slave (I don't even know what a slave branch would mean). But that doesn't mean …

Of those, I've heard of white hats, but I've not heard of white markets or white sites. If it had been black list and green list, I'm not sure anyone would have made a racial conne…

Blocklist to me means a list of blocks, like blocks on a disk. I am not a fan of using it as a replacement for blacklist. I am in favor of denylist, though. I have never liked blac…

Wonderful use of the word venerable.

Christians like to think of ourselves as less degraded than our neighbors, rather than less evolved. It amounts to the same thing in the end - a false superiority.

I get the same feeling. Is there any way we can isolate the underlying cause? Maybe then it would be possible to change things for the better.

I avoid both NYT and Fox, because it's too much effort to fact check every detail of every article I read. Both have too high an error-to-fact ratio IMO. That sort of thing has a w…

(To clarify, I'm not suggesting Wikipedia is a good source of medical information -- it's not. Often I find articles say one thing and the citation says the opposite. But in spite …

I don't have any specifics handy, but over the years I've found a lot of information on webmd that is plainly false. Maybe it's better now, but I have been ignoring it for years an…

The main reason IME for a header-only C++ library is that when it is template-heavy (as a lot of C++ code is these days), a lot of it ends up in headers anyway, so it's not a big l…

I've done that and the only general news source I have left is NPR. I think I'm foolish to have all my eggs in one basket, but I can't find any other baskets that aren't broken.