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Inline reduces round trips.

This analogy is quite misleading, because, in addition to California, there is also Wyoming, with a population of less than <600k.

Lots of experiments show that babies develop import capabilities at roughly the same times. That speaks to inherited abilities.

Except that the plural of anecdotes is definitely not data, because without controlling for confounding variables and sampling biases, you will get garbage.

Also see wok done on topological optimization. Mechanical designs no human would design, but AI not required either, just numerical optimization.

Sorry, but a VAT is paid for by the final consumer. US suppliers paying taxes would be a manufacturer's sales tax (MST), but they went out of style decades ago. If any states are d…

Except that all the people using left-pad weren't paying for left-pad, and didn't have a contractual relationship with the author. IANAL, but I'm doubtful the courts would find the…

You shouldn't compare the unemployment rates between countries. There are different criteria for "unemployed", so measures in different countries don't measure the same thing. Labo…

There is nothing wrong with some income inequality. Too much inequality is known to be destabilizing (sorry, don't have a reference on hand).

Actually, lots of circuits can be built with components specified to within 20%, perhaps with some key components specified more tightly. Good designs are robust against component …

If rule #1 is don't break userspace, we might need a rule #0, which would be don't support insecure behaviour. In the end, people might need to balance competing concerns...

Go is surprisingly good in this role. Super easy cross compilation, good platform support, and easy distribution means that it's very easy to get the tool where you need it. For a …

That fact is certainly a stain on history, but sidesteps the observation that European powers were able to militarily overpower so many other regions because they were already rich…

Backwards compatibility is holding the evolution of C and C++ back. Design improvements can't get approved if they affect ABI. Many of those improvements affect performance. The ec…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

I don't mind if it inconvenience the government, but they have severely impacted residential neighbourhoods as well. Others in the movement have blocked commercial traffic across t…

Controlling access to "opportunity for authors to get their work in front of a fairly dedicated audience" sounds awfully like gatekeeping.

Yes, clearly, because Covid hasn't disrupted anything else. /s I suspect that the causes are more complicated.

I agree that this approach is much better for stability. The trade off is that a lot of systems will end up missing their needed security updates. Very few people are consciously b…

I don't understand this type of response. "I know my reasoning is faulty, but I believe it anyway..."

I've been biking in -20oC, and it wasn't a big deal. You need the right clothing, but otherwise it's fine. Part of the issue is that people who drive never buy decent winter clothi…

True, but isn't that the while point of the supply-demand curve? Not enough drivers to cover the work means that prices should go up, and some marginal customers will go away, unti…