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It’s a big universe and there are a lot of years, so chemical evolution seems like a decent tool for God to use. Much like General Relativity is a more efficient way to rule the wo…

Honestly just more “biology has enormous areas without enough data that need filling in” causing previous generalizations (e.g. the central dogma of information flow being replaced…

They aren’t saying two totally different independent life creating event, they are saying that the earliest life depending on some external chemicals for parts of what is now cover…

I thought work was finished to allow Hurd to use Linux device driver code as is?

Firefox isn’t io bound it is spending a ton of CPU parsing network buffers and rendering UI. Nginx is IO bound in general - for my headless go stateful server, i could get syscall6…

Not true in a data center - 20% less work for same CPU is like 25% more cores needed for any applications where the scaling is driven by CPU utilization. That is $ - and people hav…

NetBSD or one of that ilk.

yeah, vendor in is the only way to stay sane over time, if you understand the cost of dependencies (and have a reasonable security model). And forking some Python or Go dep on Gith…

Yeah, due to the friction of maintaining a private fork, I always upstream bug fixes I find where the fix is simpler than a work around. It's just neighborly. I don't it very often…

There is no universe where it is economically visble to replace a mathematician with a ChatGPT subscription, because no one else understands math. It makes no sense. The data are s…

Consider the difference between “reasonable” and “rational”

Already have

I believe you are underestimating the value of GCC and LLVM having won the compiler wars and being extremely high quality, and of Linux having won the OS wars, being extremely high…

Without code copyright we are inherently free to modify, improve and share code we have access to. FSF used copyleft as a legal hack to maintain that right in an environment where …

Question was why ask an agent to make some cool PRs to a famous open source project. I have no clue.

That’s a cool view. I personally am fighting people whose entire latency analysis begins and ends with median (I think I won on averages!) and pictures are compelling even to the n…

I don’t use it myself but a friend of mine uses it at a startup selling a cheap snowflake proxy and yeah, especially with new releases.

This sounds like given a coherent structure to “I want the prod code here to change the retry policy so pending retries are held in memory in this edge layer instead of the DB writ…

DuckDB is modern but written in C++ and crashes in production more than SQLite, which is old and it doesn’t really crash. you have to build in resilience to use DuckDb.

https://paulgraham.com/avg.html

The old ones are so ingrained it seems hard to imagine they were new at one point. But generally, assembly, top down programming (structured functions, modular hierarchies, no goto…

My son works in a place where this happens pretty regularly, and it actually increases his job security to clean it up.

I rewrote a very slow backup lambda from Python, which I know well, to Scala, which I have done like three sections of the intro to scala exercises, in about 4 hours, totally vibe …

To be happy as you age, you have to embrace being a clueless newbie. Some people seem very pessimistic that there is a method of creating networked software systems in a high quali…