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It's right there under "Stats": > 11 days (May 3 → merged May 14) · 6,778 commits > Pre-merge, this took 5.9 billion uncached input tokens, 690 million output tokens, and 72 billio…

Building it out and maintaining it isn't free. And per a friend who's been selling consumer solar installations for years in the North East and gotten disillusioned: the equipment …

I do type Z with little finger, etc, because that's how the typing software I used long, long time ago taught it. But I don't accommodate by messing up my wrists, which are still i…

I was confused by this at first since `&T` clearly allows aliasing (which is what C's `restrict` is about). But I realize that Steve meant just the optimization opportunity: you ca…

So, I'm not pretending that certain kinds of jobs aren't going to be obsoleted. Lots of responsibilities went by the wayside as a lot of things were automated with technology and a…

I think it makes some sense to allow leeway for intelligent "signal processing" using AI (separating out individual tracks, clean-up, etc) vs generating new content with AI. Simila…

Can people register a subdomain of fl.us willy-nilly though? Isn't the root domain owned by the state?

If the past is any indication, it's more likely that it'd get reset to "Office One".

Agreed about POP Shop being slow. I recently learned that they were working on its replacement: "COSMIC store" (written in Rust + Iced), and it's super-fast. You can try it with `s…

When you have a strong pointer, you already have a positive ref count. Only once the strong pointer is destructed, is the reference count decremented.

Reference counted pointers can deference an object (via a strong pointer) without checking the reference count. The reference count is accessed only on operations like clone, destr…

And also the issue with checked exceptions is that one can't be generic over the checked exception, at least in Java. So it's impossible to write out a universally useful function …

There are further bugs: `for path in paths` should be `for (const path of paths)` JS will immediately error on the lack of parens, but the `in` vs `of` iterates over indexes, not v…

I've found this to be a common Americanism, but it's still incorrect, I believe. When I moved to the US in my teens, I was surprised at the sheer disregard of English grammar rules…

Major subsidiaries within a large company can and do have separate CEOs. For example, YouTube also has a separate CEO (previously Susan Wojcicki, and now Neal Mohan) under Sundar P…

To make sure I understand correctly: did you want to read a `String` and have lots of references to slices within the same string without having to deal with lifetimes? If so, woul…

To add to it, I crossed the border into the US via train recently, and for the first time (I've done this trip many, many times) they took my photo on their cell phone after scanni…

A less unflattering interpretation might be that once they saw the level of skill required to contribute to a field, they switched to a field that they could more meaningfully cont…

So, fun fact from calculus (though you can easily prove this with basic algebra as I do below): - You want to compare two products: in this case 6x9 and 7x8. - And in each product,…

I immediately see the logic in this API. When slicing, I look at indexes as being between elements or at the start (0) or end (length). This gives an in-bounds starting index betwe…

How would you impose these limits on wealth? Where would the extra money go? To the government? If so, would you be okay with the government saying that _all_ future earnings if yo…

Reminds me of Max Shulman's advice to aspiring authors: "Marry money"

TBH, I think Valve is doing pretty well with both. Steam has now long resulted in a renaissance for indie game marketing and access, and the Steam Deck is incredibly well designed …