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It’s all relative. It’s cheap if you think about spinning up new processes to run one off commands. It gets very expensive when you have to spawn it hundreds of times per second, a…

This resonated with me a lot, thank you. It more or less matches what I have experienced, and it’s good to see someone write this down in a fairly balanced point of view. My favour…

I read your issue, and it's not so different from `sudo rm -rf /` as opposed to an actual design flaw.

This is from more than 25 years ago, there has been big changes since then.

It sounds like Stockholm to me ;) I don't think you _need_ the index to make partial commit work. I've used Mercurial first so I know "hg commit -i" exists. Even if the staging con…

Disabling swap on windows means all of your applications virtual memory has to fit in your physical memory. In Windows any unused virtual memory still needs space in RAM or, it has…

This is the correct answer that needs to be at the top. No swap doesn't mean OOM killer magically kicks in earlier. It just means the anonymous memory has no where to go and your e…

I feel like the typical Google answer to this would just be to shut down your account D: fingers-crossed that it doesn't happen

Sony WF-1000XM3,4 had fairly easily replaceable batteries, but they regressed with the latest XM5. iFixedIt covered it here https://www.ifixit.com/News/79140/sony-just-nerfed-their…

Are there any open source printers? I know that 3d printers have many open source designs and they perform ok.

I don't have solid data but for "core" mature software written in c/c++ like browsers and Linux, I feel like I see far more high profile security bugs from the lack of memory safet…

SMS OTP sucks but this isn't it. Receiving text abroad is free with almost all carriers including Rogers.

It's an unreliable and jarring experience, I had to give up on it. The app gives no indication when the synchronization would happen, and doesn't explain why when it does not work.…

The vanilla interface often allows what's right depending on the context (e.g., if an unnamed return value is passed in, it can be move constructed, otherwise it can be copied). I …

It's still a valid point. Is it ok to take 15% more if you make more money? Does the marginal cost of supporting an app _increase_ as opposed to stay the same or decrease?

This is not an informed comment. New immunotherapies for cancers are real. It's just that they are very expensive. But it's not right to claim they are very far or imaginative.

I don't think so, but it's difficult to find an actual reference. For sure it does overcommit like crazy. Here's an output from my mac: % ps aux | sort -k5 -rh | head -1 xxxxxxxx 8…

I saw the same eclipse when I was on a plane from Rome to Seoul. I don't remember it too well anymore but really cool experience.

This is the first time I hear Linux has better fractional scaling than Windows. Is this because of Wayland or something? Windows always had reasonably good fractional scaling story…

It's called "device encryption" which seems to do the same thing and they allow it for Windows 10 home. It's confusing.

Axillary in English also means "of armpit"

Strictly speaking that's not true and, it's not fair to call it a dumb article. Corporations are supposed to what's best for the shareholders. Milton Friedman equated it to maximiz…

I am referring to not being logged into Apple ID.

You get a badge for the "System Settings" app for both on macOS & iOS. It's very distracting because there is no way to dismiss it, I had to unpin them from the dock.