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zstd had a data corruption bug until quite recently. Eventually it may supplant gzip as the de facto standard, but it's too soon to declare it better in every objective way. Give i…

Cleaning and organizing the house. Decluttering, identifying the right place for all our stuff, keeping it here. Scrubbing, wiping surfaces. Washing, folding, putting away laundry.…

The article poses the question but doesn't try to answer it. There are some plausible sounding answers here in the comments. Mostly that it is cheaper to do it that way. But wouldn…

How is it possible for the tax liability to exceed the profit? The article mentions wash sales, but it doesn't explain what sequence of such trades can cause this situation.

The parent mentioned "This data is being collected anyway via endpoint technologies like Samsung's Automated Content Recognition (ACR)". If that's true then the encryption isn't re…

Yes this is how I use it and I love it. I think some IDEs havee similar capability but for vim users cscope is an great way to understand large code bases by quickly jumping throug…

I like this one http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/

This article isn't about Amdahl's law, it's about queueing theory. Little's law would be more applicable.

The name is a little close to this existing LevelDB fork, maybe consider a different name? https://github.com/utsaslab/pebblesdb

Link to the book itself seems to be missing.

As I recall the solution then was "buy Spinnaker". :) . Join us at HPE storage, we'll do it right this time!

I also did not follow what is special about 2^n/phi. I found this more concise justification: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=431065 "Knuth's finding was that the di…

Godforsaken Sea - Lundy

ITT people who don't think those tools are obscure