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Recursive descent isnt guaranteed linear time In the face of backtracking the time depends on the complexity of the grammar, since it's basically a brute force search through all t…

It's "fine" is you ignore adversarial situations. If someone is taking malicious stabs at your API then you have a problem

They can...swim away

The problem is a lot of people book Ryanair thinking they're going to save money and end up sucked in to these dark patterns. I once flew from London Stansted (or maybe it was Luto…

Presumably that depends on the context in which your 'real life' friends see you

Unfortunately this means crypto will just take over completely.

0.03 seconds is an eternity in high frequency trading You need to be 4 orders of magnitude faster at least

Opus says Ann is 18

cmpxchg can fail spuriously on some platforms

Once you get to using custom lock free queues you should be picking something that matches your workload/broader design anyway.

Once you use atomic cmpxchg you've lost a great deal of scalability because it implies a retry loop (internal or by the user) The last thing you want is all of the threads failing …

WhatsApp is primarily 1 to 1 messaging. Why would this be hard to scale? Scaling horizontally, sharding, and message routing is all it takes, surely?

In the UK deeds no longer really exist and do not take precedence over the land registry. Property that isn't registered can remain unregistered but must be registered before it is…

Some cemeteries in London reuse graves after just 75 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Cemetery_and_Cr... I have very vivid memories as a child of walking through …

Primairly because old houses are on bigger plots and allow for extensions and conversions.

For now. They'll reneg down the line

And lost value semantics and any hope of type safety.

That's the thing though isn't it. C++ didn't add type erasure to the language, it added compile time reflection and said have at it.

IDEs like CLion now have compile time visual debuggers.

You can...move books.

I live in a London terrace, originally built circa 1900. There's plenty of evidence the rear gardens were used for growing food and drying laundry back then Children would also pla…

What was the one time when you need something wait free? I'm assuming interacting with hardware?

What's important is you know the trade-offs you are making. You can't have a bounded queue that is always non-blocking because slow consumers can block producers. You can't have a …