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Comment · 4 years ago
Are old applications going to run on new kernels? If so, backwards compatibility is a primary goal of an IPC dialog.
Comment · 4 years ago
To get promoted, of course. Perf is just around the corner.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Even Golang de facto suffers from this. I don't think I can name a time I saw someone check the return value of fmt.Print or log.Print. Not checking the return value still seems the the "right" thing to do.
Comment · 4 years ago
Someone more capable than I should make the final form of this: No green or yellow feedback is provided, but only the timing information used to calculate it. If cryptographers are serious about side-channel attacks, why not show off the danger using no-information Wordle?

(edit: Absurdle was taken)

Comment · 4 years ago
Are you referring to SO_REUSEADDR?
Comment · 5 years ago
The best piece of advice I heard for reading financial reports: start at the bottom, read your way up. All the juicy stuff is hidden in the bottom (like losses), while the pretty, extrapolated ARR graphs are up at the top.
Comment · 5 years ago
gRPC Java wins in part due to not allocating memory when reading and writing buffers. It uses Java-based implementation of jemalloc (via Netty) to manage its own memory. No/low allocations means the GC doesn't need to wake up so much.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Lebanon defaulted on its debt in March 2020, followed by the Beirut explosion later that year.
Comment · 5 years ago
For those of you here that have hit your FIRE number: have you ever brought this up with your manager or potential new company? I'm in this position myself where I don't have to work any more, and mainly just want a fun job. I don't want to be underpaid for the value I'm providing, but I also don't want to be jerked around.
Comment · 5 years ago
"Rich Dad Poor Dad" also made a similar point: you should look at what your advisor is doing, rather than taking their advice. If your financial advisor suggests a mutual fund, ask them if they themselves invest in it.
Comment · 5 years ago
Considering the majority of CEO pay is in company equity, they are working for themselves.
Comment · 5 years ago
A different way of thinking about it would be considering each Olympic trial as a voter and use gold/silver/bronze as 1st/2nd/3rd in a ranked-choice vote. Each "contest" effectively votes on a country.
Comment · 5 years ago
> I'm totally fine with paying more for bacon if it means that pigs will be treated more humanely.

The problem is that these price increases are regressive, and disproportionately affect the poor.

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