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I was never a huge fan of exceptions and their "come from" / "spooky behaviour at a distance" semantics, and now I see a group of other language features I never thought highly of …

And `/dev/shm/` (which postgres uses by default on most Unix platforms)

Sure, but what if that "known good customer" proxied access to someone else?

"means your benchmark is inaccurate by my book.", and like The Dude says "Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man." Create your own benchmark, and you can say …

Sure, but then it comes down to your opinion vs the S&P board's opinion. I suspect (given that there's only been a few days of this getting into the public eye) that more people su…

"The inclusion criteria prioritizes companies that extract their cashflow into profit", in almost all cases, yes. But if you want to buy into these newer stocks there are various h…

"The S&P rules exist so the index can accurately reflect the market", the rules exist to reflect a subset of the market, and the committee chooses that subset. It's their subset so…

"Because the index needs accuracy.", and I would argue that include price accuracy not just inclusion accuracy. The S&P is a benchmark that is designed to reflect a subset of the m…

Brings back memories of desk checking

From my perspective it is a synthesis of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." and "but npm is the source o…

TENEX and TOPS-20 would be nice

"Vibe coding a slop website drastically increases your bounce rate and reduces trust in your project."; but only for a subset of the potential audience. This is something I learnt …

They will just fine them into oblivion; they are known to fine companies AUD10M to AUD50M for this sort of thing, and from 1st April this year they can now fine up to AUD100M. Will…

The rumour mill says that parts of Canonical's infrastructure are being DDoSed. That being said Canonical did maintenance on their PPA infrastructure 2 days ago according to their …

This sounds more like a belief, based on little more than "correlation is causation", than analysis that controls for macro-trends backed by evidence.

As long as this tool doesn't break "fast forward merge" and proper linear history and allows you do delete PRs unlike its GitHub progenitor then I'm happy. I have found that a numb…

I'm so surprised that so few people have heard of Portmaster, it's been around for years and runs on Linux (and Windows if you must). And if you don't need traffic history it's fre…

I use Portmaster (on Linux) and I have never seen ads (either in the app or apps that get their DNS from Portmaster) on it. About the only thing I saw different between the free ve…

it's great, i really like it! i've been working on something similar for CPUs but not getting into the EE weeds (like i don't get into DRAM at all, no voltages, no slew rates, etc,…

actually i just checked, yeah, ubuntu would have to add none back to the kernel and `CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y` the config so that it can be selected at boot.

Not necessarily; ``` $ grep PREEMPT_DYNAMIC /boot/config-$(uname -r) CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y CONFIG_HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y CONFIG_HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL=y ``` if your kernel ha…

LLMs can't be held legally liable, only the people who use them.

Firefox uses randomised IDs for installed extensions, so the method highlighted won't work on Firefox. That's not to say they aren't trying other methods on Firefox.