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I'm just guessing but observability is often looking at small slices of hot data and then there's a vast set of cold data that is occasionally needed. Sounds like NVMe is for the h…

Yes, agree. These are very sane defaults and match what I use..

Interesting idea - I like seeing a list of pet-peeves followed by a proposal for a straightforward way to have a set of 'alternative defaults' that remains backwards compatible. If…

I don't think it's a knock on the original prediction to say it didn't turn out to be true. In fact, at the time it probably felt like a pretty conservative prediction. That being …

So true. Where do people think agents learned to write slop?!

it said recognizable, and I recognize this :)

Right - but the big difference is that the received wisdom for healthcare is that the higher cost in the US is an unfathomable mystery and/or due to "waste". If you said "writing s…

I'm actually making a very simple point. You said most of Jeff Bezos wealth is imaginary / not real. But he's proven that he can turn it into cash at a rate of at least $1B per yea…

Without making any value judgement, there’s a very clear distinction between earning wages as compensation for labor (even very high wages) and increasing your net worth through ow…

You're not even staying consistent in your own replies in this one comment. Let me boil it down: are the 11,000 people who earn their salary at Blue Origin getting real money or no…

By legislation and policymaking - just like any other numbers we as a society end up picking (like the age to get a drivers license or buy alcohol or the income tax brackets). Just…

Dollars are the way we denominate wealth - no one who understands this thinks that these numbers represent cash that they hold. But that's a far cry from it being imaginary. This s…

Thread was a poor choice of word. Outside the control of the program is a better way to put it. Like memory mapped io.

I wonder if it’s just the colorful metaphors and an opportunity to bring out examples of surprising behavior. Plus it’s a topic that can always stir up debates.

Yes, there is a data race there. The value of a volatile can be changed by something outside the current thread. That’s what volatile means and why it exists. Edit: thread=thread o…

The Hard Problem strikes me as a "why" question and humans have a poor track record of ever answering a "why" for a foundational question (at least in a way that we can demonstrate…

Right - I mean, what you're describing makes sense, but it doesn't sound like what they're describing. Their benchmarks are running on an EC2 instance and the post's author is here…

This seems sketchy. O_DIRECT skips the operating system's page cache, it does not guarantee that the SSD driver sent the data to the SSD or issued a flush to the drive itself. The …

It's fascinating to read the perspective of someone seeing X-files as a show from before their time. The clunky phones in the show, for example, were actually advanced technology t…

Not sure that disproves the point :) Most people have never been anywhere close to competing with the top 6 athletes at a high school with ~2k students.

More power to them for re-visiting this, but agree with you: > The old model assumed one person, one branch, one terminal, one linear flow. That sounds exactly like the pre-git mod…

It's kind of an aside in the post, but connecting LLMs and Searle's Chinese Room argument is a brilliant observation. Although there are people who believe LLMs are really thinking…

I don't doubt that number, but it's always a bit baffling to look at the median income in expensive cities. New York city's median household income is $87k, which means that the ma…

Of course they’re paraphrases. And since when does 37 warrant constantly mentioning how old you are?

I apologize for not quoting you directly “Then go get some!”. That’s what you said in response to there being no evidence. Would you like a link to your comment?