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But how do you deal with communicating that some library you maintain has a behavior change? People already need to know to look at your code in order to read your comments.

This is kind of a fundamental issue with release notes. They are broadcasting lots of information, and only a small amount of information is relevant to any particular user (at lea…

It dipped during the covid recession and then recovered to an all time high. Is this your first time looking at an economic chart? It doesn't need to increase every quarter for it …

No, the poor are also getting richer: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBLB50107 You're looking at what percent of the total wealth pie do the poor get. But the pie itself is g…

> They are illustrations of a general principle: the legal inheritance channel compounds while the biological one reverts. All this pseudo-math relies on the fact that family wealt…

Which are famously reliable and cheap to service...

Being able to avoid an extra copy is actually a huge performance gain when you can safely do it. You shouldn't discount how useful mmap is just because its not useful in every scen…

This reads like complete nonsense. If HTTP is involved, lets just give up and make the system as slow as possible? The HTTP request needs to actually be actioned by the server befo…

The differential on an EV is the same as on an ICE car. It does the same job either way, it doesn't care whether the power source is gas or electricity. But on an EV, that's basica…

What about Australia? I’m not sure there is one simple & correct definition of “the West”.

Yeah I totally get that it optimizes for different things. But the trade offs seem way too severe. Does saving one round trip on the handshake mean anything at all if you're only g…

> QUIC is meant to be fast, but the benchmark results included with the patch series do not show the proposed in-kernel implementation living up to that. A comparison of in-kernel …

Aeron is very popular in large financial trading systems. Maybe since multicast is already commonplace (that's how most exchanges distribute market data).

How does removing gifted and talented programs support "those from low-opportunity backgrounds"? "persecuting genius" is literally what is happening.

The key is that blibbe is talking about switches. Modern switches can process packets at line rate. If you're working in AWS, you almost certainly are hitting a router, which is co…

The important distinction is that it is possible, and should be the expectation, that you can study beetles and publish the results without any sort of political motivation or bias…

I just think we are talking about different things. I hear what you are saying, but I don't think that bakeries being tangentially related to politically charged topics make them a…

Okay. And your argument is that a large bakery is fundamentally related to government affairs? What about the nature of a large bakery is political?

Can you define "institution" and "political" for me, then? I would argue that there is nothing political about a local bakery, for example. Just a dude making some cakes. He may oc…

Scientific research is apolitical. Even the act of studying abortion or transgenderism is not inherently political. Just because scientists have to occasionally interact with polit…

I believe you're nit-picking instead of interacting with the content of my comment. OP did not literally say "Everything is political", they said "There are no apolitical instituti…

"Everything is political" is such a boring tautology. Everything exists within the political climate of modern society. Institutions are forced to navigate the political landscape …

Yeah, this is also a big concern of mine. Nuclear weapons haven’t been used since ww2, but there also hasn’t ever been total war between two nuclear powers. The current climate in …

> European and American calls cost the same on non-dividend paying stocks All else being equal, I would prefer to buy an option contract I can exercise at any time vs one I can onl…

I think being a good engineer requires some amount of "soft skills" like project planing, documentation, understanding user requirements. Its more than just being good at writing c…