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Even if we accept this metaphor of English as a programming language, it’s used in a highly unusual way. With regular programming, you have a full specification of the program (the…

> A simple example where 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 is ℤ₂, the group of integers modulo 2 under addition. That’s a good example of an algebra where 1 + 1 + 1 = 1, but the article is specificall…

What sort of an interleaving would produce 1? Seems provably impossible to me, assuming atomic assignments.

Ah, I missed that you were talking about the code in the appendix, not the top examples. Yeah, you’re right on every count then, aplologies.

Huh, you're right about this, thanks. On the other hand, I maintain that this is an incidental rather than essential reason for the program finishing quickly. In that benchmark cod…

> because `tokio::time::sleep()` keeps track of when the future was created, (ie when `sleep()` was called) instead of when the future is first `.await`ed I’m not a Rust programmer…

Even if CockroachDB uses Postgres wire protocol, it doesn’t mean you can easily migrate all workloads supported by CockroachDB to Postgres. The scaling properties are different.

This is true but you’ll have these risks with any paid service/dependency that has non-zero migration cost. Startups still use such products all the time, assuming that a huge pric…

Yes, and this is probably a common issue with these “pricing on request” schemes. Unpleasant, yes, but this unpleasantness can still be worth it if you’re running a big business an…

There’s one problem with this model. Let’s say I’m running a pre-revenue startup and I want to use the self-hosted version of CockroachDB. The license allows me to do it for free u…

I got a subscription and the problem is gone. There are still other issues though, for example, the instant reminder feature doesn’t seem to work, the partner doesn’t get a notific…

I might find this app useful. However, for some reason it heats up my iPhone SE (2nd gen) and everything grinds to a halt after a few seconds of using it.

Would you expand on the Python issue? I find recent Python additions either useful or non-intrusive, I wonder which ones you think are born out of FOMO.

Curious that there’s no talk about nogil. Or did I just miss it?

You are invoking an argument that's called "group selection" [1], it's the idea that genes propagate based on whether they benefit the species as a whole. This argument has been he…

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What texts by Jorge Luis Borges are you thinking of? Wikipedia quotes him calling himself a conservative, and none of the short stories I’ve read strike me as revolutionary. Perhap…

This Django example is more of a "[one or zero] to [one or zero]" relationship, that's likely what the grandparent post means. I doubt any of the mainstream relational databases ha…

I was curious what 6th leading cause of death means in terms of percentages. From the annual report on MAID (medical assistance in dying) in Canada: > In 2021, there were 10,064 MA…

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