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I think what's really special about the main thread is that Rust (and I believe in some cases the OS) forces the process to exit if the main thread completes. I think the differenc…

This article falls into the trap of conflating the Wirecutter's misapplication of filtration standards with irrelevant minutiae about which terms and diameters they cite for the fi…

I think the OP is confusing the runtime and image format a bit here. At runtime OverlayFS can use metadata-only copy up to describe changed files, but the container image is still …

This is an excellent writeup, but I'm curious about how dependent the microbenchmark is on the scripting engine doing no real work. My off-the-cuff guess is that the unshared versi…

I mean, there's ample evidence on this thread to suggest we're not going to reach a productive conclusion here but I guess I'll keep biting. It's not clear to me if you are suggest…

I don't think this analogy quite holds together. A router doing lookups from a table is implementing a static routing strategy from a control plane perspective; it's using statical…

You might need something beyond mouse=a to get Putty to report the mouse through to vim—maybe this option? https://superuser.com/questions/513014/moving-cursor-in-putt...

What I had meant was that when using vim configured with mouse=a, selecting with the mouse while holding down the Alt key would disable the terminal emulator's mouse reporting and …

To add what was an essential follow-up for me when I discovered this: Once you’ve enabled mouse=a, use the alt key to select text in vim for your system clipboard, rather than vim’…

Did XHTML ever allow styling with XPath, or is it just used for jQuery-style element selection? My uneducated impression was that for performance reasons browser devs were rejectin…