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Weird take. The author corresponded with Dunning and reproduced the classic graph using random data.

Railway has an overwhelming incentive to pin the blame on Google. This report doesn't answer why Google suspended Railway's account. I'd wait for more details before adjudicating.

Presumably, OP refers to the generated rust types which depend on the specific protobuf framework. I had the same issue when looking to adopt ConnectRPC for Go, which uses a custom…

It might interest you to know JS has real private fields, formally introduced in ES2022. [1] [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

A new Go protobuf parser [1] made the rounds here eight months ago [2] with a specialized VM that outperforms the default generated protobuf code by 3x. [1]: https://mcyoung.xyz/20…

About 15 years ago, our brigade conducted a training exercise to test overall readiness. The opposing force (OPFOR) figured out how to triangulate the brigade headquarters' positio…

govulncheck analyzes symbol usage and only warns if your code reaches the affected symbol(s). I’m not sure about cargo audit specifically, but most other security advisories are pa…

The problem is that pre-commit hooks are much slower with a much higher false-positive rate than type checking. Pre-commit checks should be opt-in with CI as the gate. It's useful …

Wouldn’t a mono space font provide more information since you can extrapolate the exact number of characters?

I’ve been very happy with Pganalyze.

Advisory locks aren’t all sunshine and rainbows. They can only be unlocked by the Postgres connection that acquired the lock. That means you need to track the connection, typically…

That's quite a strong claim. I disagree. Military leadership, like business leadership, is imperfect. Both vary based on individuals, the operating environment, and culture.

Depends on the state and child age. California is on the stricter end of legally mandated ratios: 0-18 months: 1:3 18 months to 3 years: 1:4 3-5 years: 1:5

Trickle-down titles? I’m familiar with operator to refer to tier-1 special operations personnel like Seal Team 6 and Delta Force.

Sold if you provide a rock or something.

Weight loss in Ranger School is additionally “aided” by limiting students to 2 MREs per patrol day (2400 calories) to increase stress. Anecdotally, I lost 26 lbs in Ranger School.

Why not use the standard-library adjacent semaphore package? One problem with using a channel as a semaphore is you need to track if you've closed the channel when "releasing". htt…

None of those situations imply the business was poorly run.

> Think about it, if a business is fairly priced and well run, PE firms have no incentive to buy it because where do they generate returns? PE has access to business models unavail…

Go is certainly capable of async programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchrony_(computer_programmi... > The goroutines run in parallel. Also, don't use complicated words wh…

The arena experiment is on indefinite hold: > Note, 2023-01-17. This proposal is on hold indefinitely due to serious API concerns. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51317 Potenti…

> Page Object Models trade off clarity for encapsulation [and] obscure what's actually happening. This argument also applies to using a function for abstraction. I've just written …

Isn't gettimeofday implemented with vDSO to avoid kernel context switching (and therefore, most of the overhead)? My understanding is that using tsc directly is tricky. The rate mi…

> Veterans is just another word for retired military personnel. A sergeant who leaves after a three-year enlistment is a veteran, but not a retiree. The distinction matters because…

> US veterans have to seek permission Retired military personnel, not all veterans.