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With HN recently devolving into a propaganda site for the lab leak conspiracy theory, recent UFO mania, and now long-debunked miracle cure truthers making a comeback, I guess this …

Thanks for submitting this interesting issue. Out of interest, what system are you on, and did jq come from a package manager? If you build it from source, it should work: https://…

For whatever it's worth, on a somewhat-current Linux Mint, with the test from https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1387 : System jq: $ jq --version jq-1.6 $ echo '{"number":288230…

> I’ve long thought that a sensible constitutional guarantee would be the right to leave the country at any time. In totalitarian regimes, constitutions aren't worth the pixels the…

Since jq does something completely different from a browser, it would be reasonable for it to try harder in some respects. A tool that is supposed to pass certain data through unch…

Every enterprise timesheet and expense system I've ever used was a slow, barely usable, confusing disaster. But I don't think that was because the VM failed to pre-allocate memory …

> I believe, computer science is a branch of mathematics that deals with large but finite structures (so they need an algorithmic description). This is a strange claim since the en…

> Turing machines are arbitrary and rather unmathematical. Thus proving the point that a field that studies them cannot be considered a branch of mathematics.

> If I'm reading conference papers, why would I worry about whether one of them is the product of review collusion? Because the one you are reading may have crowded out a better on…

"Diet = dental health" is bullshit. My partner was raised sugar-free and has horrible teeth with many cavities. So does their entire family. I was raised on a diet which included m…

I hate to link to the Daily Mail, but this article actually has plan sketches for the movements that are accommodated in the plan: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8945619/…

Thanks, I also found https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/28/worlds-first-floating-sky-po... . So, unlike what some of the renderings suggest it's not an "infinity pool" but rather has hig…

https://www.embassygardens.com/sky-pool/ says this is "coming soon". It will be interesting to see how the actual thing will differ from the architects' renderings.

> I'm not certain whether they intend to allow users to upload their own content, or if UGC actually just means "build structures in game out of built-in assets". I suspect it's ac…

Newspapers have always had opinion sections.

> The key is to require some defined overlap of working hours. Sure, that's not what I'm disputing. > When someone has to wait until the next day to get a response to any blocking …

> Superstar engineer only works a couple hours per day? Replace the superstar with someone working "normal" hours but in a time zone offset by >= 5 hours to your own. You seem to b…

Thinking about this more, we know that the author saw a hot "write" method in the profile for the fast run and doesn't have a profile for the slow run. The slow versions could be s…

By "the entire thing", do you mean an entire file, without knowing if all functions in it will be used? I'm just baffled because there are several posts here from V8 developers, an…

If it's going to be a hodgepodge anyway due to user-generated content, wouldn't that be another argument for not trying too hard to develop their own integrated visual theme? (Not …

> Here's the summary: [...] But running multi-process is heavy on the JVM as it has to load the virtual machine and JIT for every process start, special when the processes are shor…

We don't know that it's really I/O, as in "pushing some bytes to the system". All we know is that the author saw a hot method called "write" and stopped the analysis there. It migh…

> default unreal 4 templates, art from asset packs I don't understand this criticism. Using existing asset packs seems sensible to me. It's a tiny team that seems to have more soft…

> With a compiler (not jit), the whole bytecode would be further fully compiled to some C apis before being executed, making it effectively an "ahead of time" compilation. This hin…

Statements of the form "there is X on the Internet" are typically more convincing when accompanied by links.