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That extrapolates to $87B per year for just the top spot on HN, more than all of Instagram's ad revenue, or about 40x Twitter's. Or $240M per day, about 1/3 of the ad spend on Supe…

A literal toddler is one who can read. I'm reminded of a Simpson's episode where Arnold Shwarzenegger is elected as President, given 5 stacks of papers with briefs of options, and …

patchelf works on binaries. It's also possible to run a binary in a filesystem namespace with the dynamic libraries mapped.

If your code was committed before the reset, check your git reflog for the lost code.

If you're price conscious, buy the self-assembled framework kit. It's fun and takes half an hour to assemble. I got a framework 16 with a handful of upgrades for $1400. I added 96G…

Compress then encrypt is not an option because your encryption is broken if it can be compressed at all. Mathematically it's a near certainty that the compression would increase th…

That strategy may be cathartic, but it will have the opposite of the desired effect. If there's any hope of changing someone's mind, it has to start by respecting their opinion no …

You're going to look silly in 8000 years!

Practically speaking, it's impossible to roll 6 one hundred times in a row on fair dice. Not technically impossible, but we each get to calibrate our skepticism based on how far ou…

You can have this today or 15+ years ago using the excellent gevent library for Python. Python 3 should have just endorsed gevent as the blessed solution instead of adding function…

The best kind of documentation is the kind you can trust is accurate. Type defs wouldn't be close to as useful if you didn't really trust them. Similarly, doctests are some of the …

https://histre.com does full text search on browser history

The best way is to open a capsule for each batch you receive to test it by taste, then store in the fridge.

> Second: there is no CEO in tech taking a smaller salary than their employees. That's not just false but very often false.

It's the exceptional codebase that's nice to work with when it gets large and has many contributors. Most won't succeed no matter the language. Language is a factor, but I believe …

They aren't talking about C and its descendants in particular, but more generally. For example in Haskell and Scheme there is only an if function and no if statement. And you're we…

Fair enough. I'm sensitive about the em dash being used as a tell, which I've seen mentioned once or twice, because I don't want people to dumb down punctuation to avoid being conf…

The em dash was in popular use long before chatgpt. It's a useful grammatical symbol and a short dash is not a good substitute. Consider whether you'd use it if it was a dedicated …

The reason someone changes a dependency at all is because they expect a difference in behavior. No one would feel the motivation to go update a dependency if they aren't getting so…

Like other products in this category, this is for private networks, internal to your company or self. I don't think it's an intended use case to connect to computers not in your co…

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At risk of the obvious, because it saves $39 and reduces landfill waste.

The operating system provides abstractions for blocking and asynchronous IO, which are the higher abstraction version of the same concept.

Can you see how this comes off as a pedantic difference? If I ran a program 10 years ago and it worked, then run it today and it doesn't work, we say the program is broken and need…

I've seen benchmarks that estimate the regression at 20-30%, though I expect there's large variance depending on what a program's bottleneck is.