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It's for building extremely backend-brained frontend stuff, like a sort of anti-NextJS. Also like NextJS, this sort of domain-bending has some unfortunate operational consequences.…

That being said, x86_64 has supported 128-bit atomic writes via cmpxchg16b for over a decade. Modern 64-bit ARM has several ways to do them as well. Probably still not widespread e…

Yeah, all the common lispers I know are all about interacting with "live" programs as opposed to "dead", compiled ones. Nix takes the last live, mutable, reflectable part of the wo…

Yes. Once you're in such a comfortable position that you'll keep making lots of cash regardless of whether you do well or not, there is little incentive to make good decisions, let…

As a Rust fanboy, I have to concede that Rust also doesn't have pure compile-time memory safety. Some checks are runtime there as well, in particular most of bounds safety.

In many deployments, Wordpress started out as just a blog that is easy to edit right from the web browser, but then grew into way more. Most commonly, people end up retrofitting al…

That's a completely different person, they (ludic and smileplease) just both happen to be publishing on mataroa.blog. This is a blogging website anybody can sign up for, basically …

I've definitely realized this in a couple of markets: Buy cheap, get trash. Buy expensive, get expensive trash with better marketing. Working with power tools from various brands h…

Oh they exist all over the place. Pix is just unique in its success. It has only been around for ~5 years and it's completely taken over the country.

Interesting that you'd mention Brazil. I consider it one of the very few examples of countries successfully replacing PayPal with a publicly owned service. Pix is ubiquitous in Bra…

Is it an error though? The general public has noticed, everyone hates their guts but investment is still flowing.

Why? Because their messaging is not addressing the general public, but their investors. And they've realized that their investors are really receptive to panic-baiting (we'll get r…

There is deliberate randomness in stockfish. The easiest way to see this is from the fact that, when playing the white pieces, it won't play the same opening move every time. Often…

Ah yes, the thing wrong with AI is how it won't help you kill your wife. I didn't check the author first so I was about to go "why the hell is this on the front page?" but oh well.…

Already a thing between UTC and TAI.

The concept of waste-heat-to-power (WHP) exists, but its efficiency is limited by thermodynamics. Basically, heat energy is not equal to usable energy. All energy ultimately wants …

And to Moby music! What's not to love?

No, a classic GR black hole does not have its own magnetic field. It can have electric charge, along with mass and spin, but that's it. There is a somewhat fringe alternative idea …

Yes, exactly. Black hole mergers are the one thing exempt from the Eddington Limit, because there is no friction there.

We are no longer in the era of FOSS where contributions are purely motivated by either scratching your own itch, altruism or curiosity. Haven't been for over a decade, since that's…

FWIW, debian did the gentoo approach for years. I used to run debian with OpenRC during a time when systemd was already the default. It and other init systems remained fully suppor…

The line would look the exact same if you switched it to price per PB. Only the labels on the y-axis would change.

Besides Romanians, there are several more eastern european romance-language-speaking peoples ("Vlachs") like Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians. I think they might a…

We are saying the same things, just expressing them in different terms. Yes, only idempotent methods and "safe" POST requests don't need preflight. And I'm saying you need to make …

Even TFA seemingly doesn't understand CORS. Or at least misreprents it grossly: > The webserver listening in on localhost:19421 should implement a REST API and set a Access-Control…