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Do you fundamentally disagree with the intent of the regulation, or are you just putting on your software engineer's hat and using your decades-long honed skill of trying to find e…

You are evaluating this as a tool that is intended to train people up to being professional software developers. It's not! It's instead intended to give every child in the world, r…

There seems to be a mistake in the animation. > On a cache miss, SIEVE checks the object pointed to by the hand. If the object has been visited, its visited bit is reset When the a…

Something very important not covered by the article: Is the tool going to help me detect when I accidentally bypass the declared dependencies? For example, in a basic monorepo it's…

Shouldn't sock.close() imply sock.shutdown() ? Isn't it pointless to call both?

The UI is not really explained. I hope this is not going to train more generations of Windows user to click "yes yes yes" in response to annoying dialogs.

But how would you go forward in the first place? Not with the "Forward" button, because you haven't visited the page yet. Instead, you press "Right" or "PgDn" or what have you. So …

For index-seeks, yes. For key-seeks, it's a normal tree walk to the leaf (unless an INSERT is found at a higher level, iirc) In practice, the blocks are so huge that any tree is go…

Funny: I implemented the exact same thing, with a focus on AWS and pagination (albeit less well-documented): https://github.com/rix0rrr/libbruce/blob/master/README.md

Saying "use immutable data structures" here assumes garbage collection though. If you didn't have garbage collection, when would you release the memory for these structures? That w…

Well, why would it be? That's internal. Hasn't been published as far as I can Google.

I hate that "Too Many Requests", or "Throttled", or what have you, is a 4xx status code. It renders simple middleware logic like "retry on a 5xx, don't retry on a 4xx" invalid. If …

Can someone "explain like I'm five" why calculating a hash and comparing those isn't good enough? Is it to protect against bruteforcing? What if the hash is made expensive to compu…

Given a consensus protocol, it should be easy to connect the servers in a mesh though, right, getting rid of the tree structure and the single links?

Counterpoint: I was with a bunch of friends when I was young, we wanted to play some music, and we had a computer with some MP3s on it, AND speakers, but we happened to not have a …

Well, yes and no. TCP has been designed in such a way that it interprets packet drops as a sign of "congestion" (which was typically true in ye olden days of purely wired networkin…

Out of curiosity, what kind of scanner do you have? I've been wanting to scan all my important mail and documents for a while, but I need the process to be as frictionless as possi…

I would have said "steen schaar papier" (rock scissors paper). I guess, taken all over the world, most permutations show up.

I've been thinking about this for a while: What a good unique selling point for an online IDE would be, is automated online testing--preferably with continuous integration. I've be…

It's not ENTIRELY obvious. For example, tup[0].extend([1]) would work fine, and the behaviour of __iadd__() seems like it should be the same as extend(). In fact, the reference[1] …

File system paths may belong in the shell, but what about paths with spaces? To be honest, I trust myself more manipulating paths in a language like Python than to put all quotes i…

The way I look at it, it's that the admonition, "don't be a cheater," is stated BEFOREHAND, before any cheating has taken place. The child then still has the opportunity to make be…

Is the entire premise of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) not that you can influence people's thought patterns by using language as code, as instructions?

To my mind, the cartoon is more of a depiction why you should avoid mutable state and non-local effects.