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I value your time and mine. So, I intend my comments and posts to be helpful. If they're not, lemme know. We're all in the soup together.

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www.theguardian.com 1mo ago

Titan sub: design flaws and company groupthink central to catastrophe

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trainedobserver.substack.com 9mo ago

Observation and Trauma: How Professionals Handle Observing Trauma

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www.washingtonpost.com 1y ago

NIST sets its new atomic clock in motion

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archive.is 1y ago

The Unabomber's Brother Turned Him In. Then Spent 27 Years to Win Him Back

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www.washingtonpost.com 1y ago

Nima Momeni found guilty in the killing of Bob Lee

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wbond.net 1y ago

Building a high-performance text editor (2021)

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github.com 2y ago

Virgil: A Fast and Lightweight Systems Programming Language

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blogs.oracle.com 2y ago

Inside the JVM: Arrays and how they differ from other objects

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docs.modular.com 3y ago

Mojo: High-performance language for ML that is backwards compatible with Python

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www.invicti.com 3y ago

Closing security gaps in software development pipelines

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dagster.io 3y ago

Tracking the fake GitHub star market

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blogs.oracle.com 3y ago

Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code

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www.washingtonpost.com 3y ago

FAA: Contractors mistakenly deleted files, causing safety system outage

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www.cnet.com 3y ago

Apple Launches New M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips in the MacBook Pro and Mac Mini

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thedaily.case.edu 3y ago

Donald Knuth helped reverse a basketball team’s fortunes

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old.reddit.com 3y ago

My sharpest moon image ever–made by merging 133K images (147GB)

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www.washingtonpost.com 3y ago

Estimate of ant population: 20 quadrillion

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www.nytimes.com 3y ago

Bill Russell Has Died

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blogs.oracle.com 3y ago

Favor composition over inheritance (Joshua Bloch)

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blogs.oracle.com 4y ago

Understanding the constant pool in Java class files

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casdinteret.com 4y ago

Rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral

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bitfieldconsulting.com 4y ago

A Go Reading List

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binstock.blogspot.com 4y ago

How the Jacobin JVM loads methods

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www.washingtonpost.com 4y ago

He spent 50 years alone at 10k feet

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Oil ads that told us climate change was nothing

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www.pcgamer.com 5y ago

Intel erased all market share gains by AMD this year (in the gamer market)

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Harlan Ellison Has Died

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www.washingtonpost.com 5y ago

Feds recover some pipeline ransomware ransom

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www.washingtonpost.com 5y ago

US marks slowest population growth since the Depression

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

US population grew at the slowest rate since the 1930s

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Thanks for the good wishes.

Indeed, it is super complex. It's been much harder than we initially expected. We'd thought maybe two years--it wouldn't be fast, but it would be complete. But things like invokedynamic instruction, annotations, etc. have added complexity far beyond what we originally expected. But it's been highly instructive. And it's great fun to see full Java programs execute and watch the instructions fly by as they execute. On average we're presently at about 1/3 the performance of the JDK with the -Xint (interpreter mode) flag set. (Some of that performance penalty is due to using go vs. HotSpot's use of C.) We hope in a year to be able to invite interested folks to try it out with their code.

When Wikipedia first came out, there was a big debate about articles on people: should it be inclusive (anybody with minor accomplishments gets in) or should there be some threshold to be met? Ultimately, it was decided that if the perception was that the person involved was to become notable principally by having a WP page, then they did not qualify. WP did not want to be used as a means of getting attention/traction/credibility. I like that criterion and I think it’s reasonable to feel that Odin does not meet it…yet.

2/3 of policies sold in California are assigned to the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), which is a semi-private/semi-public corporation that carries the principal risk. It was formed in 1994, when many private insurers discontinued earthquake insurance after the Northridge quake.

Insurance agencies serve primarily as vendors, customer service, etc., but the risk is carried by the CEA. The remaining 1/3 of policies are carried by a few private insurers who still underwrite policies.

In theory, that system should prevent insolvency. Remember that California is a huge state and even a very strong earthquake would still have fairly localized damage. For example, the 1906 earthquake (Richter 8.0) that levelled San Francisco did comparatively little damage to Petaluma, a city 40 miles to the north.

What the Brexit vote demonstrated IMHO is that you should not make profound systemic changes based on 50% + 1 vote. You really need a super-majority, otherwise the country is at the mercy of any campaign or latest fashion. This vote is not like electing a new PM, as it caused changes that will ripple across generations and dozens of PMs. Such changes should require a true mandate--which Brexit's 51.9% was not.

Everything the author complains about occurred in the dot-com bubble as well. His view that until 2007 founders were lovable nerds is completely off-base. In Silicon Valley, the same dynamics of start-ups chasing money, then getting it and proclaiming their genius, as they were “going to change the world” happened in 2000 as in similar ways today. The popping of the internet bubble brought back a lot of humility.

One additional benefit of Fastmail is fast, helpful tech support. The few times i’ve needed them, they’ve answered quickly and given me what i needed in the first response.

GitHub is sinking 2 months ago

Looking at the suggestions for self-hosting here and in other threads, I wonder why self-hosting Fossil is not more widely done. From the comments I’ve seen from its users, it seems to work quite well.

The actual quote, both from the movie and IRL is: "The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only."

I have the hard copy of this edition and it does contain some curious things.

For example, if you look up "boiling." You might expect to read about what happens to a liquid when it's heated to a certain temperature, or perhaps a way of cooking foods, or sterilizing equipment. But the entry covers none of those. Instead, the only entry for boiling describes a punishment for persons convicting of poisoning who were, in England, dipped into a large cauldron of boiling water.

And, in the ways that violence and torture were wantonly reveled in centuries ago, they wouldn't just submerge the criminal and let him die there. Instead, they would lower him into the boiling water for a while and then pull him out. They'd repeat the process until eventually they finally killed him. That is the EB 11 ed entry for boiling. Yow!