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What problems is WASI 0.2 and the Component Model solving? I've read the project goals but I still don't quite understand. I mean, I guess having some defined interface between lan…

Very cool! It seems to dead-end unexpectedly on some topics. For example, I delved "path tracing" -> "importance sampling" and it output a section on probability distribution funct…

> 1999, or any other year is arbitrary, and you probably can pick dates to make any investment strategy look good I agree, that was partly my point!

If you bought gold in 1999 and kept it until today you would have 8x'd your money.

> in regard to the NATO-Ukraine question Putin had by that time already achieved a successful, non-violent containment strategy. But ultimately he opted for the full-scale invasion…

That's some hallucinated nonsense. Putin gave an "explicit warning that Russia perceived NATO's eastward expansion as a threat to its national security" as early as 2007 in his Mun…

"Through the Treasury, the US Government actually booked $15.3 billion in profit, as it earned $441.7 billion on the $426.4 billion invested." So over the 5 years of holding those …

> Where people live, the infrastructure exists. Have you tried using non-Tesla charging stations? It's a disaster! Those charging terminals are hastily thrown together pieces of ju…

One thing the article didn't mention is that a gaussian blur can be approximated with multiple passes of a box blur. Not sure how that would relate performance-wise to the discusse…

Rich families already do this by sending their kids to private schools. Have you seen how expensive and competitive these schools are, even starting as early as Kindergarten?

> But if your assertion checks don't run in release mode, and due to some bug, those invariants don't hold, well, your program is already going to exhibit undefined behaviour. Why …

Mike Acton presented a great visualization of this in his 2014 DOD talk -- here's a link to just that clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc&t=1831s

Try out Doom! You don't have to use evil-mode either if that's not your thing (I don't use it), just disable :editor evil in your init.el. Personally I kind of view it like having …

> But it is not 'a memory usage pattern not supported by the borrow checker'. You can absolutely write a crate with an API identical to slotmap without using unsafe. I think that m…

It's essentially a "user-space" memory allocator with it's own use-after-free and double-free checks, apparently because the language implementation isn't adequate. If anything it …

> In fact the pattern described in the article is a common pattern in Rust and I make use of it all the time; the library for making use of it is `slotmap`. Slotmap uses unsafe eve…

How do you measure cache line utilization with a flame graph? I'm not sure it's as simple as you're describing. Poor memory access patterns from heap allocations can kill performan…

> My opinion doesn't lead to harm to other people, so you'll understand why I don't respect yours. Your right to swing your infected spittle ends where other people's mouths and no…