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Or in the middle of a song -- lots of songs modulate between different keys.

A great book that has perfume as a major plot point is "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins.

Having good results w/Azul so far

On another note, Jellyfin can look inside .iso files, which afaict Plex is not able to. Very handy with my collection of ripped dvd's.

wonder what diagnosis Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn would have got

Michael Porter's books on marketing (esp. "Competitive Strategy") are well-regarded.

" I also managed to make contended nsync mutexes go 30% faster than nsync upstream on AARCH64, by porting it to use C11 atomics." Curious about this -- so what does C11 atomics use…

Briefly mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but C++11 had a similar issue around the transition from a copy-on-write (COW) to a small-string-optimization (SSO) implementation for …

If you're using dynamic linking, the following two tools will come in very handy: - pldd ( https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/pldd.1.html ) shows the actual dynamic libs linked …

You might want to take a look at https://github.com/nyfix/memleaktest We've open-sourced the tools we use to run valgrind (and ASAN) on large mixed C++/Java code bases. The JVM in …

I thought it was a brilliant design, but it was dog-slow on hardware at the time. I keep hoping someone would revive the design for current silicon, would be a good impedance match…

So it seems that TB prioritizes throughput over latency, similar to VoltDB for instance -- is that correct?

At my day job we run > 50 million messages per day through ZeroMQ, and have been quite pleased with its performance and stability ( https://github.com/nyfix/OZ/tree/master#who-uses…

Well, the original non-thread-safe sockets (e.g., ZMQ_SUB, etc.) were that way because they support multi-part messages. And yes, the fact that they are not thread-safe is a bit of…

Unlikely, but they seem to be different things altogether. BlazingMQ appears to be a traditional message queue (think ActiveMQ), with message peristence. ZeroMQ is more of a networ…

Sounds like a scam to me

King Crimson has several songs where different players are playing different time signatures -- check out https://youtu.be/GDFHtlbhqzA

Maybe, but the actual "bank" in this arrangement is Goldman Sachs, and they are one of the more established players in finance.

You might want to give Rick Beato a try: https://rickbeato.com/ He does interesting YouTube videos on music topics, but also sells theory and ear-training courses online.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Well, you do that to make sure it works. At one of my previous jobs, we'd switch the primary and secondary datacenters every six months just to make sure we could.

There's not much that Staten Island has to brag about, but pizza is one of those things, and SI is very much under-represented here.

See also "Zero History" by William Gibson (2010) (although the "invisible t-shirt" idea apparently came from Bruce Sterling).

It's been a while, but IIRC ASAN catches most/all of the memory-related errors that Purify did. Purify did have a debugger-like GUI that would break on errors, which could be handy…