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Redis is the kind of process where this matters a lot, and while fork() doesn't copy the memory, it still needs to copy the page table. For a process holding tens of GBs of RAM, fo…

Searching for David Attenborough on Google also shows a tribute, with drawings of animals and a "Thank You Sir David". https://www.google.com/search?q=david+attenborough

> it invalidates so much work that comes after it. No, not necessarily. I work on a large repo and new features often involve changes to 3 different services: 2 from the backend, a…

You don't need to full screen anything to use macOS spaces for O(1) app-switching, instead of O(N) by pressing Cmd+Tab repeatedly to linearly scan your list of applications. The ru…

This was followed the next day by a partial retraction: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/04/2026-04-0... The original applied to "8.1K" repositories, and now the par…

There is not a lot to learn to understand the basics, but maybe one step that's not necessarily documented is the overall workflow and why it's arranged this way. You mentioned the…

I had tried `delta` a few years ago but eventually went with `diff-so-fancy`[1] The two are kind of similar if I remember correctly, and both offer a lot of config options to chang…

Yes, the blue and orange dots are from the water and parks Nodes and Ways in the OSM data. It doesn't look like the orange and blue colors are part of the theme definitions, so the…

The March 2025 blog post by Anthropic titled "Tracing the thoughts of a large language model"[1] is a great introduction to this research, showing how their language model activate…

> Is there a specific reason, you prefer stio servers over http servers? Yes: the main reason is that I control which applications are configured with the command/args/environment …

Is this only about remote MCP servers? The instructions all seem to contain a URL, but personally almost all the MCP servers I'm running locally are stdio based and not networked. …

This is what it looks like, the switch is for "Offers & Promotions": https://i.imgur.com/wodOoBo.jpeg From the Wallet app, tap on "…" at the top right, then "notifications".

They're not just from AI-generated text. Some of us humans use en dashes and em dashes in the right context, since they're easy to type on macOS: alt+hyphen and alt+shift+hyphen re…

Does Dia support configuring voices now? I looked at it when it was first released, and you could only specify [S1] [S2] for the speakers, but not how they would sound. There was a…

The following CSS equivalent worked for me, using the "Custom CSS by Denis" Chrome extension[1]: ytd-rich-grid-renderer div#contents { /* number of video thumbnails per row */ --yt…

The main alternative to LVGL seems to be TouchGFX[1], at least that's the one I've seen mentioned the most in conversations around UI libraries for microcontrollers. As you wrote t…

This is for screens usually controlled by microcontrollers, nothing running close to an operating system like Linux and rarely coming with a GPU. See for examples ILI9341 or SSD130…

It's probably not slower than words, the rate for English pronunciation is something like 150-200 words per minute only. That said, the "gibberlink" demo is definitely much slower …

The kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit Time is in seconds, length in meters, temperature in kel…

> We change the product constantly — we’re talking over 1,700 updates per year! Good job, the new red is a huge improvement. Meanwhile the YouTube comment sections are still gettin…

It took a few tries, but I got Wolfram Alpha to compute its velocity compared to the speed of light[1]. I started with: sqrt(1-((1/(1+120 PeV / (neutrino mass * c^2)))^2)) but it s…

It's not just by region, but at the city level too. There are often significant differences between salaries in capital cities vs others, as one would expect. The cost of living is…

For what it's worth, I've used Botan in a personal project where I needed a few hashing algorithms to verify file integrity (SHA-1, SHA-256, even MD5), and also used Botan's base 6…