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> proved Electron-apps could have near native performance I don't think that's true at all. Try running Zed or Sublime.

That's not the reason why I publish OSS. I also publish that software under specific licenses that impose specific obligations (e.g., making the source available to users and attri…

My worst close-calls were a result of ABS engaging at very low speed. In all cases, I reduced the speed to 2-3 MPH approaching a snowy intersection, but the car refused to let the …

In my experience, having to explain a software's design in plain English often reveals that some aspects were poorly thought-out in the first place.

To provide some context for this release announcement, the LTTng documentation has a nice intro to tracing and an explanation of how LTTng relates to other Linux tracers. https://l…

That's not true. For example, the microphone of the X1 Carbon 7th generation still doesn't work out of the box. You need to blacklist a handful of kernel modules and edit your Puls…

I would guess memory map the whole file, then do the equivalent of: memmove(beginning_of_file, beginning_of_file + 300_m_line_offset, file_size - 300_m_line_offset);

We have very different experiences; I hear baladodiffusion (or balado) very often in Montreal.

I'm from Montreal. It's not "chambre-a-montrer", it's "salle de montre". Also "coussin-a-gonfler" is "coussin glonflable". As for computer-science related words, I think the OQLF (…

It's very ugly, but at least it doesn't seem to limit you to 15 characters like on Linux (prctl/pthread_set_name_np). That limit makes it pretty hard to provide meaningful identifi…

Yes, and they will also move the goal posts when you explain why their solution doesn't work. I feel there is something missing in this whole discussion and that's the question of …

k8s feels much more like an effort to commoditize this space through standardization. It's a pretty common business strategy [1]. [1] https://www.gwern.net/Complement

Full disclosure, I work on LTTng and a 20% improvement is a huge deal to our users, so I'm certainly biased here. As far as I know, the thread-local write only occurs if a rseq reg…

Not necessarily. Applications may choose to retry a certain number of times and fallback to another mechanism if the critical section can't complete. A problematic case that was br…

Mathieu's (patch author) main motivation was removing atomic operation from the LTTng userspace tracer's hot path. In that case, the per-cpu data is the 'reserve' and 'commit' coun…

Then why not ban friendships in the workplace? Surely they could result in the same kind of perceived biases (e.g. cliques).

I would guess cable video is multicasted once to many customers while online streaming has to be served one-to-one. From the viewer's standpoint, the bandwidth usage is roughly the…

Even the kernel occasionally breaks interfaces. Case in point, FUTEX_FD was introduced in 2.6.0 and retired in 2.6.26 [1]. I don't think anyone working on glibc is intent on breaki…

Pure speculation on my part, but could this be a way for Apple to segregate Chinese account data from the rest of their customers' data? That would seem to limit the scope of what …

Are there good DOM "bindings" available for other languages compiled to wasm?

IMO, it really depends on the context. If you are working with people who share your assessment of the current situation (both business and technical folks) and want to improve it,…