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-vettool allows using different analyzers built with the analysis framework: https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/go#:~:text=The%20%2Dvettool%3Dprog%20...

“His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not g…

We changed the way we track Go threads in syscalls/cgo calls, which allowed us to remove one atomic store and one atomic compare-and-swap from the cgo call path. https://go.dev/cl/…

How does this work when using a US credit card in the EU? I assume the merchant still pays the lower interchange fee, so are the banks just betting that customers won’t do a large …

I do get through lots of books this way!

> 2. Cell service has, at the same time, become ubiquitous in subway tunnels. Not in New York, unfortunately. All of the stations have cell service, and one tunnel (14th Street L t…

I can’t quite tell if this is satire! You may be familiar with a small startup ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix ) in the business of buying a million DVDs and continuously…

In addition to the DoS aspect mentioned in a sibling comment, the primary reason you would do this is to avoid constraining the implementation. If you want to change the design to …

It is just a TLD. https://get.new/

I think the closest analog to this is digital services getting worse rather than more expensive. For example, recently rather than increasing the price of Amazon Prime Video, the p…

Q1 earnings ( https://s25.q4cdn.com/442043304/files/doc_financials/2023/q1... ) says 383M daily active users and $1.3B in costs (including sales, administrative, etc), for ~$3.50/u…

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34097179 . A comm is limited to 64 bytes, so I don't think it is possible to fit a long enough comm to match the full regexp.

Neat! Your parser [1] almost has a similar issue because a comm could contain parenthesis, e.g., `foo) R 123 456`. But since a comm is limited to 64 bytes, I don't think it is poss…

Gerrit is pretty strongly opinionated, but it is not mailing-list based. Review notifications are sent via email, but otherwise everything needs to be done via the web UI (or other…

I’m not familiar with Upsource, but what you describe sounds somewhat like the Gerrit review process. Each commit is reviewed individually, but sending multiple dependent commits f…

NYC still does nighttime spraying: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/west-nile...

Google Cloud Run also scales to zero by default, but you can configure the minimum number of instances: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/min-instances

The benefits come primarily from avoiding extra work spilling arguments to/from the stack on function calls. If you are making lots and lots of function calls, particularly to smal…

ReadyReturn was a pilot program in California that provided pre-filled tax forms. Unfortunately, lobbying by Intuit helped kill it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyReturn

Even the first-generation runtimes no longer use this mechanism. Note https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/migrat... : "All standard Java classes are now available…

It's here: https://github.com/tailscale/depaware See also: https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1303776199907311617?s=19

This is awesome! In the post you mention "For a couple hundred lines of code (not counting the entire user-mode Linux you’ll be pulling in from gVisor, HEY! Dependencies! What are …

While CPUID itself is far from elegant, I don't think ARM is fundamentally different. e.g., the ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1 register (ARM wins no naming awards here) indicates the presence of…