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An employee wants more than money. If I have the feeling that I grow, I stay longer. If I get the feeling that they want to keep me down, I leave sooner. Simple as that. If you inc…

Forgetting about the enormous heat sink is a typical rookie mistake. Those things produce lots of heat when you try to cool something. They are much better suited for heating somet…

One advantage that they have is that they can pump the heat in both directions and change direction very quickly. This means that you can keep temperature very precisely with a clo…

Would he use C++ or Rust?

Providing base technology doesn't seem to lead to financial success. You have to provide more concrete solutions for companies and people instead of the abstract infrastructure. I …

It could easily be replaced by an electron app running a QEMU in JavaScript emulating an virtual machine running Windows 3.11 on an Rasperry PI terminal connected to a cloud server…

One of the reasons why the prohibition of alcohol failed but cannabis is illegal has to do with the DIY-supply. Everyone could brew some alcohol at home. Growing a hemp field is no…

> I don't think it changes until the next generation comes. The next generation of professors.

GNU/Octave has a great strength and weakness that it uses the Matlab language. This is great for many who are educated with Matlab but don't know much else. After some time I found…

Yes, the fish we catch will die out. Bad for us because we don't have any good fish left over. What I'm also saying is that I think that other fish (or lifeforms in general) will t…

I agree that taking one specific animal out of a complex system that had a long time to adjust will produce big changes. Killing the wolves allowed the deer to thrive. We wanted lo…

Doesn't the extraction of fish have a positive impact on the O2 balance? I thought that overfishing the kinds of big fish we like to eat will just lead to a growing population of s…

> MacBooks are worse now than they were since 2015. I won't upgrade until they get rid of the TouchBar. I would rather go back to Windows than use that stupid TouchBar. For me, the…

They are probably the fastest dicts and lists we can imagine today. If you really need lists and dicts for your data, you need them and won't gain much. But if you don't need them …

Right now you have one mutex for everything (the GIL itself) and everything else doesn't need locking. In order to achieve similar convenience without the GIL you would have to tra…

> CPython is really quite slow by design. The data structures are slow by design. The way we use these data structures is quite inefficient. Having a fast interpreter only about do…

The GIL comes with great convenience as you don't have to worry about a whole host of data races. It's no silver bullet but it's mighty convenient if you only do some multi-threadi…

Do we have any reliable information if this is just Apple or if Chinese consumption is down across the board?

That [1] was what I remembered. They were preparing for C++. But obviously it didn't get as far as actually including C++ code in the mainline kernel. Maybe it was a preparation in…

I could swear that I read that they start allowing some C++ contributions. But with a search in the kernel source I could not come up with any evidence. If there is any C++ code in…

I think none of your points are really set in stone. * The kernel already contains some C++ which (if you ask C programmers) is not C. And many C programmers are more likely to acc…

Both sides have convincing arguments and research to back it up. They have good answers to the seemingly contradictory research that the other side uses. They both provide a consis…

I have used Matlab and GNU/Octave in parallel for some years half a decade ago. Octave can do most things that I needed but was slower to run for many things. With Octave you didn'…

It lacks blockchain technology. Given the development cycles in play for such consumer products the blockchain support will probably come two weeks after bitcoin disintegrated.