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I regularly spawn several thousands of threads in the C++ servers I write, and they perform well. At least 40% of FAANG companies just reduce the size of their per-thread stacks. "…

> OS threads are expensive: an operating system thread typically reserves a megabyte of stack space and takes roughly a millisecond to create. It's typically less than a hundred ki…

Is this the return of Advogato?

My biggest problem with less(1) is that the regex engine is unreasonably slow. When processing large files, I frequently need to search with grep (or more recently, rip-grep) with …

This sounds remarkably similar to the (western) Catholic theological concept of "mental reservation" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_reservation ).

It is most definitely not an overstatement. I have over 425 hours in Hollow Knight. I stopped playing Silksong in 8 because it felt like unfun masochism.

This contradicts the most common view of Christians throughout history, especially since the simplest reading of Romans 1 expresses exactly the opposite view: "Ever since the creat…

> Many times I've asked that I'm told "he was 100% human and also 100% God." Does this surprise you? The council of Nicea where this was defined as the orthodox claim happened in A…

grte is probably "google runtime environment", I would imagine.

My experience has been the opposite. The number of customer service representatives I speak with that simply can't comprehend the NATO phonetic alphabet never ceases to surprise me…

"Synoptic" is simply the adjectival form of "synopsis": Matthew, Mark, and Luke all strive to give a synopsis of Jesus' life, organized primarily around a chronological retelling o…

What don't they like about it?

But how much would you bet?

It's impossible for your fact and the fact you're replying to both be true. Water is denser than butter, and the nearest star to the sun is about 4.3ly away; if your fact were true…

I've written a lot of high performance/scale C++ code using a lot of data structures over the years, and ordered iteration has been very rarely needed; unordered data structures st…

This really doesn't seem to be comparing to comparable data structures. For int map specializations like this, the optimized alternatives are things like Judy (which is looking qui…

Why do you call it a "national security asset"?

> Now we can make an assumption that the int it's a finite number say u32, this means we can construct a binary tree with a depth of 32 with access time of O(32) therefore O(1) tim…

For what it's worth, the only state in the United States which agrees with your philosophy is Texas. Every other state requires an imminent threat of death or grave bodily harm to …

> I prefer to talk them through the problem together, like we were actual teammates working on a problem together. If a colleague came to me to discuss a question this basic, I'd w…

It's probably a violation of the First Sale Doctrine, which is well established in US law.

"Taking full control of your I/O and buffer management is great if (a) your developers are all smart and experienced enough to be kernel programmers" is already an appeal to author…

You're issuing a correction for your original post, then? Haskell can circumvent the type system with unsafeCoerce and cast anything into anything else, therefore it (by your defin…

Calling C/C++ "weakly typed" is just functional/academic language snobbery. They have some automatic type conversions (more than some languages, less than others) and they have cas…

Directed graphs can be cyclic.