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Linux, FreeBSD seem to have memfd_create(). Mac OS seem to have shm_open() instead. Actually, the first two have that one as well. Interesting. The technique itself is indeed very …

size_t is 64 bits on 64-bit CPUs

I remember that some Garmin employees gave talks on CRDTs at some event. That was 2015 or 2016, so I can not recall any details.

My bet is on a BGP glitch at the moment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42362781 Nope, observed in different places. Was fixed in an hour or so, but it was something big.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic Cloudflare radar shows 50% global traffic drop. Like, instantly, about UTC 02:00 8 Dec. Apparently, all continents affected. Downdetector.com h…

https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/ This one shows a global event as well.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ A good "Internet dashboard" from Cloudflare. Something happened indeed, globally. China looks unaffected.

Agree. So far "the progress" implied understanding (discovering) previously unknown things. AI is exactly the opposite: "I don't understand how, but it sorta works!"

The safest path is to consider it a blob. There is some library that can render it magically and that's the only wise thing you can do. The internal structure is hard to understand…

I wonder why Mediterranean nations switched from ideograms to alphabet as soon as one was invented. Probably they did not have enough surplus grain to feed something like the Unico…