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> "While technically true... I don't see how it contributes anything useful to the conversation, so I downvoted it." If you don't see how it contributes to the conversation - why n…

Your explanation doesn't make sense to me. > "you commit the result if no other thread has stomped on your data" What does "committing" mean here? If it means performing an atomic …

I wonder why every single comment I leave in this thread is getting down-voted. This community has truly deteriorated over the years.

Yes, that aligns more closely with my mental model of a "lock-free algorithm", but what I see in practicality is people avoiding (or re-inventing) synchronization primitives, think…

> "the lock duration is strictly bounded; it is determined by the application or the thread-scheduler" Practically speaking - wouldn't the exact duration be heavily influenced by t…

> "lock-free" I never liked that term. Lock-free algorithms will usually boil down to some combination of polling, waiting (sleep(), futex-style), or use what are essentially more …

> "6% get 1.3% => 5x too little. I think we can cry a little." Surely there's more to it than just percentages and genders? First, how many companies are we actually talking about …

> "In reality very very few ISPs are giving one IPv6 address per customer" In actual reality, global IPv6 adoption is at ~33% [0, 1], so I'd say this is, at best, a premature and n…

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I think it's yet another confirmation that this place has gone full Reddit.

> " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G6oRuu9tLg " Content aside - I feel like this video is terribly edited, scripted and produced. It's impossible to follow - thanks to all the sh…

There's a thread right now on the front-page, titled "Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245817). Many on this thread are advocating…

To people using custom domains (for email, etc): what is your plan in-case you end up losing the domain name (either temporarily, or otherwise)? How do you prepare for this, reduce…

> "What I see here is a senior manager type, maybe a VP or a bit below it, who needs numbers that go dramatically up and to the right in the short term and is thinking about their …

I think some of the artifacts on the video at 0:12 (handbag thing) are very noticeable. Same thing at 0:19 (cat)and at 0:28 (cat again). Otherwise, looks nice :)

> "In my coffee analogy, the promotion of the fair-trade alternative would be based on the fair-trade mechanism for ensuring the lower levels of the production chain receive a fair…

> "I gave you an example by quoting how expensive it is to run a "free" jitsi service." That's an entirely meaningless argument. Here's what you're doing: > "I run a large-ish jits…

> "You seem to fail to grasp the difference between "free as in beer" (gratis) and "free as in freedom" (libre)." Why are we going back-and-forth about this again? I previously ask…

This isn't an accurate analogy, is it? We're discussing an educational institution with power and authority (MIT), which promotes drinking "free coffee", whilst simultaneously port…

> "Sussman means free as in freedom, not free as in beer :) (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software)" Sure, but conveniently enough, the software listed in the parent art…

What's wrong with having to pay for software? Or learning to accept that some software is proprietary? Or even with learning to use the right tool for the job, even if that "right …

I think it's because the generated text will generally follow a reasonable "structure", it's "framed" relatively well and you (as a person) will recognize those patterns quickly. T…

The "Chief Purpose Officer" at Ethos is working hard these days to keep us all well informed - http://www.circleid.com/pp/dot-org-sale

> "I would recommend musl, although the style is a bit idiosyncratic in places: https://www.musl-libc.org" Opened a random part of musl out of sheer boredom. Here's what I see: htt…