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Right. Everyone agrees that real ECC is more robust, and production servers of course run it. But it seems to me that if most RAM bitflips are in the module itself (rather than in …

The problem I have with ECC discussions is that it’s always anecdotal. There is one Google study finding memory flips with some probability in their datacenters, but it was awhile …

You make some good points, but here are some counterpoints: There is an existing infrastructure for ticketing by license plate, payment processing, collection, etc. You’re describi…

The answer to all of these should be moving a stick over the equality sign to change it to an inequality sign.

According to Google Translate: “A man who loves text files and wears a peculiar hat announces a plan to have sex with the weather.” Hope this helps.

Forgive the naivety, but what graphical Linux apps are people trying to run that don’t have native MacOS builds? In my experience, Linux GUIs are generally written in Qt or GTK, bo…

Yes, that is why I said “local database (sqlite, or a traditional database over a unix socket on the same machine).” This isn’t an sqlite-specific point, although sqlite often runs…

There is some risk that, if you design your website to use a local database (sqlite, or a traditional database over a unix socket on the same machine), then switching later to a ne…

I view stuff like this kind of like code that fits into a bootloader or whatever. It’s really more of the technical challenge than to actually solve a problem. The result is much b…

> water rights per acre Is that actually taken into account in a taking? I haven’t thought about this stuff in decades, and I know there is some weirdness with regulatory takings. …

There is a network effect with programming languages. Once you get popular, more people write libraries and guides for that language, which in turn makes it even more popular. If y…

Reminds me of that Wu-Tang album [1] that only sold one copy (to Martin Shkreli). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin

Monetary damages generally accumulate during the pendency of litigation. Also, it seems unlikely that this would take 5 years to resolve—Apple would presumably just reactivate the …

I am having trouble understanding the distinction you’re trying to make here. The computer has the same pixel information that humans do and can spend its time analyzing it in any …

> I've never experienced a slow down You didn’t experience a slowdown at the height of the recession circa 2008?

I love all the unexpected twists in this. And it’s very beautifully written and sobering. > the most important thing was to find xin fu in life, not to live your life in accordance…

If we want to make the math analogy, C++ seems more like the language of math (basic algebra, the notion of proofs, etc.) that everyone uses, and the compartmentalization comes whe…

Took me a sec to understand you meant comma as “decimal point” :)

Right, but you aren’t limited to one DNS call. You could have the javascript resolve multiple text records, then combine them together. You could even do this over UDP if you reall…

The cap for record size is 64KB, but you can have an arbitrary number of records, so larger images should be possible by combining multiple TXT record responses into one.

> once you have children, owning your home is a very welcome level of stability I think this is the biggest factor if it applies. If we want to be utilitarian about it, the benefit…

Fairly sure it requires you to have your own copy of Windows; it doesn’t provide one for you. Otherwise it would be a massive licensing violation / piracy. If you look at similar p…

It always feels weird when Linux distro articles brag about new releases that are mostly just updated versions of third-party software. The stuff in the article (GNOME 48, KDE Plas…