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I think this study https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/ASPLOS2012.pdf (full disclosure: authors were my labmates) supports your observations, and supports the notion that cos…

Could you use a term like "conspiracy theorist" instead of "schizo" here? There are probably plenty of people who have schizophrenia and don't subscribe to conspiracy theories.

"Crash-consistent applications", not "Crashing applications". This is a great paper which illustrates how a developer's mental model of what a file system does may differ from the …

Yeah, the time and place for "are you single" is when the conversation has already moved to more personal matters - or like you say, related to the "soft ask" about dinner/drinks/c…

She messaged him on Facebook after finding him through a Facebook group dedicated to entrepreneurship. If we grant that facebook is a more casual environment, for the sake of argum…

I think part of the "tough problem" is that some people don't feel that being unprofessional in this particular manner isn't at least slightly morally wrong. She asked for advice, …

You mean resistant to glyphosate? Is there any GM crop that actually produces glyphosate?

The paper is much more conservative than the article about it. They're saying that the close relationship between the signal and the human-made second, plus the fact that most of t…

This is not (specifically) for the OS. This is for non-volatile memory that is directly attached to the memory bus. The OS can then directly map NVRAM into the address space of a u…

One of the big problems right now is that they have a very long oil pipeline, and people keep blowing it up. It's hard to get political stability when the resources are so constrai…

I was in Sana'a around this time last year, the article paints a strikingly accurate picture of the experience. Yemenis as a whole are the friendliest group of people I've had the …