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> Enabling allocation sampling profiling with a sampling period of 4 MB leads to a maximum time overhead of 25% in our benchmarks, over un-profiled regular execution 25% is not low…

> He went to the Museum of Natural History to study sharks, and he had a model pose across a couple of stools for reference of what someone looks like swimming. That explains why t…

"trivial ... serious efforts" which is it? you contradict yourself in a single sentence.

It's also unclear how the first graph, whose y-axis is labelled "req/s", is showing a latency spike. Latency is not visible on that graph, AFAICT, only throughput.

exactly. that one clause casts doubt on all the other reasoning; randomization controls for patient selection bias but not diurnal clinic performance

My family calls that game "pink mink"!

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What's funny is that checklists in hospitals have been shown, empirically, to be massive life-saving devices. cyber perhaps not so much...

s/show/department/

ah, yes, the "memory is no object" way of obtaining a weighted distribution. If you need that sweet sweet O(1) selection time, maybe check out the Alias Method :)

(not a worthy comment, but) I really like the free lunch / free launch pun here, intentional or not.

"fantasizing about a collab" sounds like the world of sneakers, not software. What does that even mean in the world of software?

With this comment showing that search was inconsistent and gave incorrect results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43335277 why the repost?

That room must have smelled amazing. I want to go hang out there.

Is it common to abbreviate Wittgenstein to "Witt"? Don't recall seeing/hearing that before, but it's been awhile since undergrad.

Do you have any examples of defamation lawsuits? I've sold two companies, and have plenty of rich and upper-level exec friends, and I have never heard of a defamation lawsuit among…

Of course, we already live in this reality - just substitute "Corporation" for "AI".

> I'm increasingly convinced this is a generational thing You are taking about gas cars, though. Nobody, of any generation, has "range anxiety" in a gas car. People might be afraid…

> Dismissing all LLM assistance because of some purity dance you want to enact is silly That's not what I was saying. I was expressing surprise at the lack of spell- or grammar-che…

> To be clear, I fault no one for augmenting their writing with LLMs. I do it. A lot now. It’s a great breaker of writers block. But I really do judge those who copy/paste directly…

The energy densities listed are flagged as approximate, so grains of salt etc, but the numbers on the page aren't entirely consistent. The stated energy density is "> 500 watthours…

> Fireproofing isnt mandatory, so people dont do it 100% > and they hate spending even one dollar extra on roofing when they know a taxpayer-backed insurance policy will cover thei…

The sample flat program in the post is exactly RPN, no?

Wow - i even saw the words "default browser app" and did not even realize it was a setting choice. That works - thank you! wrt reason : I think that the webview has cookie isolatio…

Doesn't this complaint assume a strict stack-ranking of contributors, where the "top" person has no reason to stay and thus leaves, and then the new top does the same, etc? Which i…