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It was a sincere question and I found your comment quite off-putting. You're talking to someone who spent a month in college installing every free OS I could get my hands on (inclu…

I often wonder what the current status is of the BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD). Who uses them, who works on them, what is their motivation for doing so? How do they compare to Li…

> rather than hoping LLVM will have your back My thought here is to proactively verify that LLVM elided the automatic bounds checks in places where you believe that your explicit c…

I see two solid points here: 1. It's not reasonable to expect the application layer to carefully partition its work into "I/O heavy" and "CPU heavy" parts. 2. It's not reasonable t…

> There's a dichotomy being presented here where you have to either choose a "style guide" or a programming language feature in order to avoid bugs. The sleight of hand misdirects …

I’ve always found it especially confusing that energy has this quadratic relationship with speed, whereas momentum is linear in the speed.

The French, who have "égalité" in their national motto, prohibit the kind of demographic tracking and reporting that US Progressives consider core to their project. Do you think th…

It happened directly at least once: https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-college-first-de... It happens indirectly all the time. As of 2025, despite all the funding cuts, th…

I think you can easily turn this around: scientists who are only willing to do science if it involves preferential treatment, DEI statements, and other practices that half of the c…

If this works I wonder why GOG doesn’t do it automatically.

I am not convinced that separating students by ability harms anybody's academic performance. I think it's a false premise that a parent who wants their kid in advanced classes (or …

I'm inclined to think that this will actually decrease the power of echo chambers. Echo chambers become that way by policing dissent, either through moderation or through aggressiv…

I 100% agree with this. I am certain that I cannot foresee how this would play out in reality.

That is unironically exactly what I want from social media. I want the option to engage with the substance of new developments in the world, technology, etc. without the drama. I d…

This API seems perfect for an idea I've had for a while: a de-snarkifier for social media. Social media can be intellectually stimulating and educational, but it's also easy to get…

It's an interesting essay, and the TLC case does sound pretty egregious. But the premise is undermined by the fact that Love is worth an estimated $100M today, largely thanks to ow…

The artists were certainly making more money from the studios and record labels than they got from the authors of DeCSS, Napster, BitTorrent, The Pirate Bay, etc. When Gillian Welc…

You can certainly argue second-order effects (ie. we have to restrict information to save information), but the movie studios were making that same argument at the time: > If copyr…

I'm old enough to remember a time when the primary hacker cause was DRM, the DMCA, patent trolls, export controls for PGP, etc. All things that made it difficult to use information…

Wait, didn't Clinton actually balance the budget? That gets props from me; no government since then has actually given Americans an honest picture of what it actually takes to run …

I would be open to paying higher taxes if I believed it would help address the deficit and debt (instead of just enabling more spending) and if I believed that the money was being …

> Obama's FAA disincentivised its traditional "feeder" colleges that do ATC courses to "promote diversity", net outcome was fewer applicants It was much worse than that. Students w…

> Thankfully, there is the esm-integration proposal, which is already implemented in bundlers today and which we are actively implementing in Firefox. From the code sample, it look…

> Not everyone in history thought that 12-TET was an acceptable compromise. Johann Sebastian Bach thought we should use other tuning systems This is presented as fact, but as I und…

TL;DR: when a user writes to /proc/self/mem, the kernel bypasses the MMU and hardware address translation, opting to emulate it in software (including emulated page faults!), which…