dahfizz

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by dahfizz 6mo ago
But how do you deal with communicating that some library you maintain has a behavior change? People already need to know to look at your code in order to read your comments.
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by dahfizz 6mo ago
This is kind of a fundamental issue with release notes. They are broadcasting lots of information, and only a small amount of information is relevant to any particular user (at least in my experience). If I had a technically capable human a
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by dahfizz 6mo ago
It dipped during the covid recession and then recovered to an all time high. Is this your first time looking at an economic chart? It doesn't need to increase every quarter for it to have a very strongly increasing trend.
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by dahfizz 6mo ago
No, the poor are also getting richer: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBLB50107 You're looking at what percent of the total wealth pie do the poor get. But the pie itself is growing, and so is _everyones_ sli
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by dahfizz 6mo ago
> They are illustrations of a general principle: the legal inheritance channel compounds while the biological one reverts. All this pseudo-math relies on the fact that family wealth strictly compounds and does not decrease or revert to t
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by dahfizz 8mo ago
Which are famously reliable and cheap to service...
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by dahfizz 11mo ago
Being able to avoid an extra copy is actually a huge performance gain when you can safely do it. You shouldn't discount how useful mmap is just because its not useful in every scenario. You shouldn't replace every single file acce
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by dahfizz 11mo ago
This reads like complete nonsense. If HTTP is involved, lets just give up and make the system as slow as possible? The HTTP request needs to actually be actioned by the server before it can respond. Reducing the time it takes for the server
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by dahfizz 11mo ago
The differential on an EV is the same as on an ICE car. It does the same job either way, it doesn't care whether the power source is gas or electricity. But on an EV, that's basically the only thing that needs somewhat regular &qu
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by dahfizz 1y ago
What about Australia? I’m not sure there is one simple & correct definition of “the West”.
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by dahfizz 1y ago
Yeah I totally get that it optimizes for different things. But the trade offs seem way too severe. Does saving one round trip on the handshake mean anything at all if you're only getting one fourth of the throughput?
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by dahfizz 1y ago
> QUIC is meant to be fast, but the benchmark results included with the patch series do not show the proposed in-kernel implementation living up to that. A comparison of in-kernel QUIC with in-kernel TLS shows the latter achieving nearly
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by dahfizz 1y ago
Aeron is very popular in large financial trading systems. Maybe since multicast is already commonplace (that's how most exchanges distribute market data).
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by dahfizz 2y ago
How does removing gifted and talented programs support "those from low-opportunity backgrounds"? "persecuting genius" is literally what is happening.
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by dahfizz 2y ago
The key is that blibbe is talking about switches. Modern switches can process packets at line rate. If you're working in AWS, you almost certainly are hitting a router, which is comparably slower. Not to mention you are dealing with vi
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by dahfizz 2y ago
The important distinction is that it is possible, and should be the expectation, that you can study beetles and publish the results without any sort of political motivation or bias. In that sense, it is perfectly possible and reasonable to
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by dahfizz 2y ago
I just think we are talking about different things. I hear what you are saying, but I don't think that bakeries being tangentially related to politically charged topics make them a political institution. Bakeries also handle and stor
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by dahfizz 2y ago
Okay. And your argument is that a large bakery is fundamentally related to government affairs? What about the nature of a large bakery is political?
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by dahfizz 2y ago
Can you define "institution" and "political" for me, then? I would argue that there is nothing political about a local bakery, for example. Just a dude making some cakes. He may occasionally be forced to interact with th
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by dahfizz 2y ago
Scientific research is apolitical. Even the act of studying abortion or transgenderism is not inherently political. Just because scientists have to occasionally interact with political institutions does not make Science itself a political i
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by dahfizz 2y ago
I believe you're nit-picking instead of interacting with the content of my comment. OP did not literally say "Everything is political", they said "There are no apolitical institutions". Which is functionally the sam
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by dahfizz 2y ago
"Everything is political" is such a boring tautology. Everything exists within the political climate of modern society. Institutions are forced to navigate the political landscape in which they exist. But that does not make the in
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by dahfizz 2y ago
Yeah, this is also a big concern of mine. Nuclear weapons haven’t been used since ww2, but there also hasn’t ever been total war between two nuclear powers. The current climate in Russia and the Middle East may change that.
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by dahfizz 2y ago
> European and American calls cost the same on non-dividend paying stocks All else being equal, I would prefer to buy an option contract I can exercise at any time vs one I can only exercise on a certain date. It doesn’t make intuitive s
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by dahfizz 2y ago
I think being a good engineer requires some amount of "soft skills" like project planing, documentation, understanding user requirements. Its more than just being good at writing code (but that's most of it).
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by dahfizz 2y ago
Are you willing to consider that filtering out the people who are extremely sensitive about having their feelings hurt and being as inclusive as possible is actually a good thing? Linux is a roaring success, after all. Maybe focusing on the
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by dahfizz 2y ago
The linked wiki article says around 50% of geothermal heat is from radioactive decay
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by dahfizz 2y ago
Interesting, thanks! I did not know the eath's core is still generating heat.
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by dahfizz 2y ago
Genuine question: does "cooling" the center of the Earth via geothermal power plants have any sort of ramifications? If we converted to using 100% geothermal power, what kinds of effects would that have on the Earth's core?
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by dahfizz 2y ago
Yes. That’s a huge stretch.

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