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>Samsung isn't large enough to be considered a gatekeeper under the DMA I don't think it's about Samsung not being "large enough"; Samsung has basically the same market share as Ap…

Bret Devereaux has an interesting writeup on "The Problem with Sci Fi Body Armor" and discusses the Dune movie in detail. https://acoup.blog/2024/11/29/collections-the-problem-with…

I saw Jef Raskin demo the Canon Cat in the 1980s when I was working at Stanford. One of the more interesting concepts behind the interface was, everything was stored in one "circul…

The current top comment on the article explains the situation, and ATC are "not being assholes here": >NorCal had a new interpretation of ILS approaches come down several months ag…

No you did it the right way. I lived in Canada for 10 years, my partner is Canadian, and we debated what to do when we moved down from Canada to the US. We got an attorney to help …

I can easily see the status of my garage door (open or closed) from anywhere. Solves the problem of "Did I forget to close the garage door?" (and the number of times the answer to …

Matt Levine's take on _Going Infinite_: "Many of the reviews that I have read of the book complain that Lewis does not sufficiently explain that Bankman-Fried is Guilty and Bad, Ac…

Hover's parent company is Tucows, listed in the parent article as being the third largest "domain holder". I started using Hover/Tucows back when they were Domain Direct, as I like…

No, you can redistribute it. RedHat can't stop you. But you might only be able to do this once. Because what RedHat can do is cancel your contract, and stop you from using RedHat s…

I had read and enjoyed Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum", and as I read Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" I found I kept contrasting Brown's work to Eco's. In the end, I didn't even fi…

Videos and slides from the LLVM developer's meetings get posted onto the event site, though not immediately afterwards (as they have to get all the videos processed). If you're wil…

>When using an AOT language, how does one take full advantage of all cpu features at runtime? This seems like a place JIT would really outpace AOT. One model is to not try and take…

That's not true, the ads shown are related to your online activity and not the content of your mail messages. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en "We will not sca…

LLVM libc's decimal float conversion is based on Ulf Adams' Ryu Printf algorithm (one of the algorithms mentioned in the article). If you're interested in this area, you can look a…

If anyone is curious or otherwise interested, the version of memcpy() used for Google production is basically what is in LLVM's libc, https://libc.llvm.org

>Why would governments push back, when this hole which has already been used will _always_ be available? I'm not aware of a time when Apple pushed a software update (silently or ot…

So many great suggestions. I'll add Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. It documents the filming of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. The film's footage was shot by …

Honest question -- why are you trying to get her to move away from Windows? What benefits for her do you see in doing that? Perhaps she would be more amenable to a Chromebook? (Dep…

Changing perf/promo processes can be challenging. You can't always roll out minor changes (because the problems may be systematic), nor do them quickly; at Google's scale you need …

Very long time Engineering Manager here. Engineering Management is not bullshit, though there are many bad Engineering Managers out there, even at companies (like Google, where I'v…

Oh, I think you may be right. Thanks!

Mr. Rogers didn't start his children's programming work in Canada. That started when he worked on Josie Carey's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josie_Carey ) show The Children's Co…

Linkers can also do something called "Identical code folding", or ICF, whereby the linker notices that two pieces of code are exactly the same and can merge them. lld's sources inc…