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Fidget spinners are genuinely useful though---arguably even more useful than the other items on the list, for their ADHD/anxiety-reducing properties plus portability. The only way …

With depreciation and older m5 models, you could definitely fit the initial and maintenance costs of a m5 into a middle class budget.

The name is quite misleading for those not familiar with previous work. How's this different from TCP Vegas and FAST TCP which also use delay to infer the bottleneck bandwidth?

Even 'catharsis' as a Western idea isn't actually that helpful in practice. For example, taking out your anger and feeling 'cathartic' is known to make your emotional problems wors…

I'm all for this. Especially in Bay Area traffic. It looks like about 95% of the time I get some tailgater because I leave enough room in front of my car to brake. If I dont' want …

Yeah back when I made 3D models of star trek spaceships (trekkie in your name significant?) that was one of the go-to methods for making the shuttles, smaller craft, borg (obviousl…

I think I know what you're talking about when you mention Authoritarian Followers---something like abused kids who only know how to deal with situations in which they are abused, e…

Yep. And, philosophy's pretty much the playground for having cross-disciplinary insights. It's sad to see that the conventional wisdom is to deemphasize these fields, as if humans …

Yeah that comment jumped out at me as sketchy the second I saw that... "15 years" in operations and isn't even aware of this basic fact.

The idea of looking up particular sequences of documents to demonstrate actual behaviors is very compelling. Too often, documentation follows a precise but necessarily boring and u…

Would this include stuff like printing to stderr being slower on Windows? If they get to write kernel drivers, there could be a chance that they could replicate the file handling b…

I guess the line is a bit blurry, especially when you factor in fast virtualization techniques that involve running emulated instructions directly :)

Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation! Which would you say was harder, Wine or this? It seems like Wine should have been harder since the NT kernel was designed with multiple userspac…

Great article! I'm not too familiar with OS as a subject, but is the separation between user and kernel mode similar to high-level language versus assembly; i.e., the approach they…

That's an excellent point. I had heard of the Ben Franklin effect, but not this. Yeah when I try to give my help to most people, they get resentful. Am I special/broken in that if …

Yeah pretty much this. Even though it seems OK from an "objective" standpoint to lend your aid when it seems obvious that you can do it and it is not too much cost to you, this doe…

I would not be surprised if most friendships resulted from pressure to fit in. It's healthy to let those types of people go.

That may be true, but I've found that I grew up making mostly the wrong friends, each of whom was more irritating, status obsessed, narcissitic, etc as life went on. Only like 2 pe…

Obviously you're expectd to be a hardcore motorsport enthusiast who has a honed instinct for the current kph :p

Bravo. Saving this comment. For substance: Consider how this is all part of the effort by management to make programmers feel as interchangeable and insignificant as possible. And …

I'm not even poor, and I still do my research on a workstation from 2009. It's fast enough for what I'm doing, and why waste new hardware on bloated software?

How is this different from defunctionalizing and converting to smt backend or prolog engine without higher-order capabilities?

they are also often bullshit deadlines that users dont care about but gets a few brownie points for management.

Pretty much this.