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These little guys often do get a hammering on fridays...

Both numbers are big, no? Especially given the complete dominance of linux in many other settings.

Oh come on. :-) Linux is not userspace. Linux is a kernel, and android is a parallel fork of the kernel. So android is a version of linux but is not GNU/Linux. Android/Linux, if yo…

For me it is surprisngly natural to include the original thing into "a set of thing-likes". Why does it feel wrong (or meaningless) to you?

Self improvement books! All of them! "Make good habits, not bad habits because this is what Lincoln did..."

"Kernel anti-cheat" and "spyware" is exactly what i mean. Thry do have millions of players. But that's like 20-30 games out of 1000s that run just fine.

"Far ahead"? DRM'ed spyware, yes. Everything else? Not so much, thanks to the monumental effort of Wine and Proton projects.

Well, operational dbs in practical circumstances are used for queries that take predictable time to complete. "Get a row" "Get ten rows" Etc, etc. All constant, all predictable, al…

Yes! Distributed systems introduce severe restrictions on what can be reasonably done at scale. Having a single connection string is one thing, being able to do a massive JOIN is a…

Of course 768 servers NEVER behave as 1. This is physically impossible. Global services using relational dbs typically severely restrict queries that run against the cluster. So no…

True! the borrow checker is a special thing. This is what i mean when i say "explicit data flow analysis". In a way this is compiler internals exposed to a programmer.

I think the REALLY cool thing about apple's shared memory implementation is the ultra-wide memory bus. Otherwise, AMD is quite close to what Apple has, and Strix Halo is honestly i…

It is interesting how apple claimed that "unified memory" is something special, and ppl believed them. Intel and AMD had been doing this for years already, and had linux support fo…

Yes. The biggest innovation of Rust is bringing some of the good ideas from functional programming to low level programming. I'd also say that partially exposing data flow analysis…

Heh, i want to both disagree and agree. I started with pascal and then C++. And then discovered Emacs and Lisp. Boy, that was a revelation! Never ever in my life shipped a line of …

I am not a huge Rust fan but the language did bring a few practical and useful innovations, while also keeping a focus on practice. And no, C++ just doesn't make the same things ea…

As a lisper, i like PLAI and all the other books from the same school: Lisp in small pieces and many others. But they also felt kind of detached from realities of industrial langua…

Dragon book is a weird one. While a classic, it only decently covers basics of the theory of computation, while only doing a brief run through the rest of compilers. None of modern…

This looks like an undergrad-level walkthrough through key topics of how a language works. Say, python or ruby, or simpler pascal compilers. Both compilers and language design are …

FSF is working on such a policy. Many other projects are announcing/discussing these. Legal problems with LLM-written code are well-known. And copyright law is the cornerstone of o…

It is not "after the fact". This is a big discussion in open source over all, and checking contribution policies "before the fact" would prevent this waste of time immediately. Hel…

One more factor: Similar to how this works in semiconductors, some things are just too expensive to build without having an economy of scale.

Yes! But the point here is that producing apple products in the US would probably turn that 1000 dollar toy into 3000 dollar toy, which would in turn result in the sales going down…

I saw it in literature on cpu pipelines in quotes, never without.

I grew up in the east of lithuania, mostly hearing polish and russian in my early years, and then also lithuanian to a smaller degree. I eventually managed to separate the language…