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All the little tricks that the CPU has to speed things up, like branch prediction, out of order execution, parallel branch execution, etc, are mostly more expensive than just not h…

I got ad-free Twitch years ago with Twitch Prime. And then they added ads back in for Prime users. How long will it be until they start adding ads back in for Turbo users?

I think the original intent was referring to the fact that given the same operand, the order of multiplication and division shouldn't matter, e.g. A * X / X should give the same re…

This is why I think that the trade school model of teaching software development should really be developed further. Having been in charge of hiring software developers a number of…

It's one of those things where if it works in your area, it works great. I've been on MVNOs for a decade now and the worst I've ever experienced was sometimes my data rate would dr…

Yes and no. Real wages in US manufacturing have been on a steady decline for a long time now, and the cost of manufacturing goods overseas has been steadily increasing. After facto…

Every time I click a link in email, IRC, Slack, Discord... At least 100+ times a day, easily.

100k probably just isn't as dense as you'd intuitively expect. As a sense of scale, 100,000 pixels is just shy of 5% of the pixels on a typical 1080p screen, so even with a radius …

I think a "web app" should definitely be able to have some sort of more properly integrated filesystem API, but a "web page" has no business having access to such a thing. There ju…

While this isn't directly Google's doing, they do enable it for other services too: when I was on a road trip, I realized that I was going to need one additional hotel stay before …

It's important to honor the GPL here because these are the terms that the code was licensed to TikTok under. By violating the terms of the license, TikTok forfeits their right to u…

The GPL requires that any derivative work of GPL licensed code must also be licensed under the same (or compatible) license as the original GPL'd code. This is the "viral" aspect o…

In the US, 95% ABV Everclear is readily available in most states. 75.5% ABV Everclear is available in even more. It's the easiest way to get near azeotropic food safe ethanol for m…

Yeah I definitely missed it and it caught me by total surprise today. I imagine many are in the same boat. This also comes after they've adjusted their policy so that they keep all…

Ah, thank you for the links. I searched prior to posting but the title on [2] is very non-descript. I was expecting a lot more outrage considering the size of this hike is pretty m…

I have seen absolutely zero coverage about this change so I wanted to make sure people knew about it. The change seems to have happened on August 2nd according to archive.org [1]. …

I depend on a mountain of C and C++ code to not only not crash, but to also not have any subtle memory errors which might allow a packet from the internet to run arbitrary code on …

My personal take is that this type of telemetry is fine. I just don't want to give potentially unbounded, hard-to-audit access to my telemetry data over to the likes of Google. If …

Hm, yeah I hadn't considered the possibility of the machine itself having aliased instructions. That's some interesting info, thank you.

I think I'd want to extend your definition a bit. I do think that it's reasonable to target a virtual machine with a so-called assembly language, however an assembly language must …

Hmm, I was under the impression that Windows would also overcommit but it seems you're right. I've been in Linux land for too long I guess. If Windows doesn't have a physical place…

Except on non-embedded platforms, oftentimes large blocks of allocated memory aren't occupying physical memory until you write to them. There's not much reason to avoid using expon…