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Relatively rarely, but in some performance sensitive use cases. Mine happens to be fuzzers, where a very cheap fork-like primitive would be a really big win.

There are a lot of slightly different fork-exec-like things in the concept space and it's hard to imagine one approach satisfying them all. IMO it would be interesting to take an approach analogous-ish to sched_ext_ops where you built the rough flow chart of a combined fork-exec, but with hooks built to enable ebpf to change behavior or skip the bits these sophisticated users don't want/need.

how did you compute that?

I'm curious if you tried different madvise strategies and if any of them worked better than others?

So you work in one of these fields, right? Hydroponics, homebuilding, theatre construction, pothole repair?

Do funny jokes about potatoes or great poetry about lemons exist? If not, can they exist? How do you know?

The author should write a followup article about how theory of computation has failed because nobody makes a Turing machine with enough tape.

You can do this with some forms of trip insurance. I stared hard at arbitrage there a few years ago but it was too hard to get your money out if you were right.

What's unfair about office hours? At least at my school they were posted in advance and available to any student at no charge.

I'm encouraging my folks to try it pretty hard because A) I've personally seen the productivity gains and B) using it is at first deeply weird/uncomfortable. Sometimes you've got to convince people to push through that kind of thing.

For me the "can run" filter says "S/A/B" but lists S, A, B, and C and the "tight fit" filter says "C/D" but lists F.

Just FYI.

I'm curious about the Iran match.

The one in Las Vegas.

As someone who has tried to make several businesses around art, people generally like art but not enough to pay "at scale" money for it.

I hear about meow wolf all the time and I seem to be the only person in the world who thought it was an underwhelming cash grab that is beaten by a half dozen events a year in nearly every major city in the US. Am I just missing some huge piece of it?

Not meaning to derail an interesting conversation, but I'm curious about your description of your work as "applied probability". Can you say any more about what that involves?

...then it is clearly AI?

It isn't impossible that it's AI, but assuming writing and publishing happen at the same time would also lead you to conclude that Anne Frank wrote from the afterlife.

Imagine if Siri could genuinely file your taxes

If you trust openclaw to file your taxes we are just on radically different levels of risk tolerance.

Every time I see one of these stories I wonder how many tools I would have to remove from my garage to make it impossible to build a primitive gun in there. With enough ingenuity I'm really not sure there would be anything left.

There is some evidence to suggest that spacex knows how to reenter an object without burning it up.

Possibly, although that article seems quite confused as well (of course they need custom silicon, and of course that doesn't mean anything about what COTS parts they do or don't use). It would be nice if SpaceX would publish more about its compute architecture.

SpaceX supposedly mostly runs non-rad-hard parts, the ostensible reason being because its more cost effective to double or triple up than buy specialty equipment. Do you have a source for this?

How is this different from slushomatics? Sounds exactly like old school fluid couplings.

Anecdotally, a lot more people in the US tow. And pickup trucks are the indisputable king of towing.

There's also the fact that it's a lot harder to take the top off a van than it is to add a top to the bed of a pickup. If I sometimes moved manure and had a van... I'd probably rent a trailer.

The biggest thing I learned from PE was that neither elegant theory nor brute force had a monopoly on successful optimization strategies. It's been something I've carried with me ever since and has over and over again proven its value.

A real gem of a resource.

My politics and his don't line up but I'm not against this. It would be pretty interesting to see the impact on cash usage, and faces on money are pretty archeologically useful-- at least on coins.

Isn't this basically just putting the kid in a tumble drier whenever you hit turbulence? Did they pad the roof and door as well?

I think there's something to what the author says about the shift from mission-driven startups to naked greed, but I don't think I would have put it that way.

Over the last two decades the startup scene has gone from trying to improve nearly everybody's lives at very low cost to consumers (ad-supported services like maps and email) to trying to improve the lives of the upper middle class with debatable impacts on everyone else (gig economy stuff) to something whose most obvious application is destroying jobs (ai).

That's a pretty quick shift from utopian to dystopian rhetoric, and people who bought the line are right to find that jarring.

Democrats stuffing government bureaucracies with do-nothing jobs for their buddies

Ignoring the partisanship this argument doesn't make sense on its face: government jobs pay extremely poorly. You might say "well what if you hold more than one of them?", but you can't do that: a federal employee can be employed in two different roles, but their pay is capped at 40 hours a week across the federal government.

Anyone keen on that level of grift has vastly better options in the private sector.

if the shares are truly worth X dollars they should buy them back from me

I always offer companies pushing equity hard to trade for cash at 10% of the highest number they try to get me to value it at. Nobody has ever taken me up on it, even when they really should have.