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Decades of speculative science fiction, thought experiments, and discourse led to this. It’s gratifying to see that we’ve garnered enough concern, a major AI lab risking this to re…

Is there a point at which library maintainer feedback would meaningfully influence a by-default JVM change? I keep a large production Java codebase and its deployments up-to-date. …

> Why on earth would you bet your money on some random tool you don't even understand? ... I built a tool for people who knew what harmonic patterns were. The tool is for drawing "…

Agreed- I come from a Java/C++ shop where we tried to tackle this dichotomy with interop but it ended up causing more problems than it solved. A lot of the work that Java has done …

I mostly agree with this, but I've been a big fan of having primitive types in config. Most of the time if I have something I want to configure, it's either one of the following (o…

Yup. We've clearly benefitted- G1 and generational ZGC have large advantages over CMS- but it's a lot of experimentation and trial-and-error to get there, whereas other deprecation…

Nullable is a huge issue in Java, but annotation-based nullability frameworks are both effective and pervasive in the ecosystem (and almost mandatory, IMO). I'm really excited abou…

Depends- one of the hardest parts of the 11-20 upgrade for us was that cms gc was removed. If you run a bunch of different microservices with distinct allocation profiles, all with…

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There might be a potential market in HFT/trading firms (market makers). They're struggling to recruit right now (industry is doing very well, so high headcount growth) and they're …

Is this a theoretical difference, or a difference in terms of an actual implementation? I have no knowledge of linear systems algorithms, but as far as I was aware, many w.h.p algo…

“Of the 18 crossovers I talked to, 16 said yes.“ I’m just as surprised to see the number be this high. I can’t help but wonder if this might be due to survivorship bias: crossovers…

How do you achieve people like this? From my limited experience (college senior joining a hft firm shortly, so I've recently been in several quant finance SWE interview loops), fir…

Fantastic book, and one that's much needed in the landscape of compiler learning today. Many modern compiler books (such as Torczon & Cooper's "Engineering a Compiler") take the ap…

The way I've seen it calculated is this: For regular classes, A: 4.0, B: 3.0, C: 2.0, D: 1.0 (with some variance depending on + or - grades offered). For Honors/AP classes, every g…

For probabilistic algorithms, we can look at the worst-case-w.h.p runtime: that is, a randomized quicksort, although technically still having an "absolute" worst case of O(n^2), ac…

On a local level, the FCC paved the way for chain-based ownership of local stations in 2003, despite research suggesting it was a bad idea[1]. That being said, the US media is diff…

The CD standard as the "Joe Average" is quickly changing. Anecdotally, as a younger person (recent college grad), people my age don't buy CDs out of necessity nearly as much anymor…

I think the idea is supposed to be that you have some agency when you share your data with a friend. You can choose whether you want to entrust your data to this friend or not, and…

I would help my neighbor move some furniture for free, and I'd still do it if he offered to pay me $5. I wouldn't accept the money (because it's socially unacceptable to do so), bu…