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Why? Lots of sentient animals kill sentient animals of a different species. Why should humans be different?

One reason carjacking is rare is because people don't foolishly stop for obvious carjackings. If an autonomous car has trouble telling the difference between a carjacker and a cons…

I think it’s more like removing captain from a giant ocean going freighter. Everything will be fine till one day it runs aground or hits an iceberg.

My personal experience is that I was paid by my university to get my master's degree in the late 90's. Since I was a teaching assistant for an entry level programming class (in Jav…

I’m guessing you are thinking of cache lines where CPUs will read/write data in 64 byte chunks from memory to/from cache. As you said, being aware of this lets you optimize away ca…

It is not true that Apple will know what web sites were visited. The article states “the device manufacturer or attester only knows the minimum amount of device data required for a…

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Also, choking people get bruises to the abdomen when someone performs the Heimlich maneuver on them, and people with cancer get pumped full of chemicals which just about kill them.…

So your solution is what? Don't donate blood or plasma? Have only humans who aren't exposed to PFAS done blood or plasma (which don't exist anyway)?

High salaries for tech workers are not a new phenomenon. So if programming were truly a skill a large number of people could just “pick up”, it would have happened already.

We use Ephemeral Inline Volumes backed by LVMs on a local ssd. TopoLVM can make this trick possible.

> I'm talking about the proliferation of DSLs like Awk in the world of Unix I get that there is a learning curve for Unix. However, a complaint about a "proliferation" in the conte…

Imagine the other extreme where every single executable on the system statically linked libc. Assuming libc calls are pretty common(which I think is safe) I would expect the cache …

Saving disk space isn’t nearly as exciting as saving CPU cache space which is much more precious. That means that something like libc will almost always be in cache from something …

All the implements which farmers use, planters cultivators, etc have gotten larger over the years as the scale of farms have grown. A 40 year old tractor likely isn’t going to have…

There are a few news stories out there indicating that because Omicron grows better in the throat that also swabbing the throat helps reduce false negatives. Though the official wo…

Case International Harvester https://www.caseih.com is also a big player.

Not a farmer but worked on one growing up and my in-laws farm several thousand acres. The existence of a competitor to JD is one thing, the distance from farm to dealer is another.…

I’m still rocking my aluminum hardtail Trek I bought in college 25 years ago with the (gasp) three front derailleurs and the Rockshox Judy front fork. I had no idea that the tech h…

This is saying that someone is hacking if they read text in a pdf which was “redacted” by changing the style of the text to be black text on a black background.

One point which I think bears mentioning with respect to performance is that even with O(1) access, the performance in the real world of a list implemented by a list of pointers vs…

Mosaic release date maybe? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

Another interesting rabbit hole to explore is the compiler. Back in the day I wrote a toy compiler for a college course and used this text book: "Compilers: Principles, Techniques,…

This. If I’m not helping junior devs get their work done, I am failing as a PE.

So don’t let yourself get removed completely from the deliverables. Keep in there. Take some tickets off the queue and work them so your skills stay sharp. If you are worth your sa…