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Since the cpu always accesses a full cache line (64 bytes) at a time, you might as well search the entire cache line (it’s practically free once the data is on-cpu). So I’d like to…

In Denmark there are no payphones. Like none. The copper network is being decommissioned.

Way cool! When can I buy one?

I’m surprised how many places in the world measure rain in percentage chance. Must be a metropolitan concept. Here in Denmark, weather reports estimate mm/hr - the amount of rain. …

“Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.” – Virding’s first ru…

Interesting. When you give a third-party access to your GitHub repositories, you also have to trust that the third-party implements all of GitHub’s security policies. This must be …

Unfortunately that’s the case because large US-based companies can leverage their existing global sales / marketing / governance setup to rationalize very high exit valuations. In …

Copenhagen’s sewage system was built in the 1850s and it was indeed considered to build a two-pronged solution. There was much resistance against this because it would eliminate a …

Coroutines are great in a single threaded environment. But if you mix them with threads - even behind the scenes - there will be dragons. Erlang solves that problem with proper lig…

Yep

Thanks for all the talks Martin https://youtu.be/qI_g07C_Q5I

Further context: Joe Armstrong and Alan Kay interview. https://youtu.be/fhOHn9TClXY

In a modern JIT with dynamic decompilation you can do these things in place, because the compiler essentially has global knowledge. The only real issue is to define the semantics (…

It’s easier when you write your application in Elixir or Erlang. Those are practically DSLs for state machines that also double as general purpose programming languages.

Even in Denmark where the political system is much more cooperative than in the US, politics is still a “dirty job” full of spin and personal sacrifice, exposure etc. As a result m…

Looks like Garmin also payed https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/confirmed-gar...

Netflix only uses amazon for the “control plane” - ie the “web app” you’re navigating when using the Netflix app. The actual delivery of media happens via their own CDN (of bare-me…

How is elastic (the company) going to make a business going forward? I would expect that selling these enterprise add-ons (or similar ones) is a significant part of their revenue.

Reminds me of this classic https://youtu.be/pQHX-SjgQvQ

There is also a lot of good stuff here: https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences

GDPR applies to anyone processing personal data about a subject who is in the EU. His or her citizenship does not matter. So you can just go to Europe and make your claim from ther…

LLVM IR is a generalized assembly language whereas JVM byte code is quite specific to the Java language, i.e., it deals with objects and classes. This causes all kinds of troubles …