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markrwilliams

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    Comment #45253131

    I'm an AI skeptic but the chatbot sounds interesting. What kind of context do you provide it?

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    Comment #45109521

    Nope! There are evented eBPF map types that userspace processes can watch with epoll(2), e.g. https://docs.ebpf.io/linux/map-type/BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF/#ep...

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    Comment #16872578

    PEP 412 makes __dict__s more memory efficient than they were before, but not more efficient than no __dict__, which is the point of __slots__. The following program demonstrates th…

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    Comment #9567703

    If you get a file descriptor that refers to a child process upon its creation, then that file descriptor should behave like other file descriptors. That means you ought to be able …

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    Comment #9567491

    > The "self-pipe trick" is ugly, involves a lot of unnecessary overhead, and runs the risk of deadlocking if you receive enough signals to fill the pipe buffer before you read them…

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    Comment #9222331

    It's tendentious to describe gevent as deprecated. Like Twisted, there are many projects that continue to choose to use gevent, and consequently (for either of those libraries) Pyt…

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    Comment #8731690

    You're underestimating the amount of effort put into simplifying and clarifying implementations, APIs, and documentation. This doesn't imply that preceding implementers are unskill…

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    Comment #8731659

    Disclaimer: I work with Mahmoud. Presumably "ASF" doesn't mean anything to you. That's because this isn't an image macro, but rather a slide from an internal presentation that comp…

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    Comment #8634935

    Pitch-perfect satire. The slow build to heavy-handed propaganda is especially great.