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There's some really good analysis (both business and tech) from the Asianometry youtube channel (ignore the name of the channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmgkV83OhHA&list=P…

They don't pay much. $5k-$6k/mo for half time.

Speaking of databases, has anyone run Bloomberg's db ( https://github.com/bloomberg/comdb2 ) recently?

They go into detail on their technical decision making, very cool: Choosing Clojure6 and Datalog7 was a calculated risk–but one which paid off. The Datalog model offered the simple…

can't wait for the https://jepsen.io/ report!

Had a similar problem with Aetna in NJ. I thought my situation was unique

I believe the term for this is "partial escape analysis" (PEA). GraalVM is the SOTA in the JVM world for this. Here's an oldish blog on this: https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/se…

Looks like a few folks are confused. 1. One of the underlying cryptographic principles is multi-party / secure-party communication ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-part…

agreed! great blog

It wasn't even 5-4, it was 6-3. The basic idea, AFAICT, is that _federal_ law should not punish _state_ crimes under this specific section of the law (§666). As noted elsewhere, th…

Also worth pointing out that the original Nissan Leaf is now at least 13 years old, a lifetime ago in lithium battery tech, and intentionally used very cheap cells to keep the cost…

Very misleading statement. First, NY Post is kind of a tabloid. You gotta dig deeper. Here's the actual study: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1... I rec…

Don't quite understand the hate. This is very reasonable behavior for a compiler in 2024. I would even go so far as to say that a compiler should never execute any user code by def…

Lombok is not affected by this, as it is not an annotation processor. The most popular annotation processor that I've seen "in the wild" is the Hibernate Metamodel Generator ( http…

I would give the jextract tool a try. I believe it uses LLVM to parse the header files, so the generated bindings might actually be pretty good.

Java's FFI is currently a very low-level. As the article points you, you don't actually have to do this: the jextract tool will generate the bindings for you from header files. I'm…

What a crappy article. One can't complain NYT is too pro-EV. This problem is a combination of growing pains, uneducated EV drivers, old EVs with crappy batteries, some bad infrastr…

"MY" == "Model Y"?

This. We would all benefit from more cause and effect analysis in our media. - Let's say we increase prices that we pay cocoa farmers, even double the price - Is this extra enough …

> Knocking on a friend's door (though he knows a same-age kid two doors away) would be considered out of bounds nowadays. Yeah, the social dynamics of this kind of thing baffles me…

Oh, benchmarking. Great work, but maybe I'm missing something: I'm more interested in "performance per MB", i.e., per dollar USD, versus "how much memory does it use?" I feel like …

I thought I just wasn't using it correctly. This explains a lot, thank you.

There's a lot of Protege tutorials out there, but here's what an ontology (in the OWL sense of the word, let's you do). The "pizza ontology" is the Hello World of the ontology worl…

It's usually not referring to as a plugin, but as a standalone utility, i.e., `docker-compose` not `docker compose`. If you put the binary in that magic Docker plugins directory, i…

Clojure does pretty well. See https://github.com/nubank/morse , https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/other-tools/REBL.html , and https://vlaaad.github.io/reveal/ . It's one of the areas …