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Comment · 1 day ago
That's a superficial reading.

Said women repeatedly calls out that behavior. The pointlessness and harm caused by macho culture is a theme throughout the movie.

Comment · 6 days ago
That's also my assumption. Place and route has to work out an NP hard problem on billions of wires.
Comment · 26 days ago
Thanks for the clarification, learning everyday.

I haven't had to analyze the performance of no-swap processes before. My assumption is that code is hot enough to avoid eviction and that evicted code pages are rather the exception. To strong-man the argument, I can imagine long running complex (bloated) services could have parts that are not touched unless a specific request comes in.

Comment · 26 days ago
Disabling swap disables loading a process' binary to memory? Or do you mean that evicted code pages will need to get loaded from disk every time.
Comment · 1 month ago
But only in 2028 because all the wafers rotting away in the warehouses are HBM which are too expensive to package or integrate into consumer electronics with tighter margins. Looking forward to having enthousiast-grade GPUs with HBM again though.
Comment · 1 month ago
Meritocracy, in its originally intended pejorative meaning.
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Comment · 1 month ago
Many earth rotations ago, I was IMing through an mIRC bot because I refused to install MSN. This kind of reminds me of that too.
Comment · 1 month ago
> They probably don’t realize that the marginal rate of energy cost is fast approaching zero. That technological innovation is exponential and carbon capture can likely be made economical relatively soon.

By adding that, he is implying "Don't need to act, keep burning fossils, tech will fix it". That is in itself asserting a simplified model assumption about a (human) world that is much more complex; something he was railing against in the previous parts of his text. Either it's a cheeky joke, he himself is an intellectual or both.

Comment · 1 month ago
I found it an apt demonstration of his own thesis.
Comment · 1 month ago
They weren't. A lot of abstraction concepts like ADT, modularization, structured programming had to be developed over the following decades.
Comment · 1 month ago
I really like languages that embrace the duality of "closures are a poor man's object, objects are a poor man's closure".
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Comment · 2 months ago
Iceland already is Schengen
Comment · 2 months ago
Caches are important for cpu core performance even when the the working set doesn't fit.

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