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Your argument was initially stated as "XML compresses really well", not "there is little benefit to a more concise format". However, on your latter point, I am in full agreement.

If it were a more compact format, it is likely both the uncompressed AND compressed sizes would be smaller. By your logic, if you 10x'd the length of the XML tags in XMPP then it would be even be…

Because it contains a ton of redundancy

Often programs like this are subsidized based on income such that if they can afford it, it is subsidized less, or you do not qualify past a certain income. That is one method of managing the program…

In some places (esp those with low access to birth control and sub-par sexual health education), there are too many unplanned children being born to people who do not have the means to comfortably rai…

panics are safe, what are you talking about? It is nothing like a null pointer.

Germans sure love their Lüften

What do you mean by a non-internet search engine, and what might be one that is bigger than Google/Bing?

I agree wholeheartedly, and this is the core problem - many of the people evangelizing LLMs for a particular task (especially investors and AI gold rush "entrepreneurs") do not have enough e…

And believe it or not, a good proportion of us are not happy about that either.

Can you elaborate a little more on what structures and patterns those are? I have built some database like things in rust (lots of zero copy and slice shenanigans, and heavily multi-threaded) and whi…

I am the last person to ever promote perforce, but as of last yearish it has the option for binary delta transfer using fastCDC. Even without that, it is a just straight up a lot faster than git lfs. …

Doesn't bitcoin use merkle-trees internally to create its blockchain?

Given today is Diwali, perhaps the reason everything went down is because the best and brightest from India were all on vacation and weren't there to babysit/roll back the deployment that br…

What does AI have to do with anything here?

I worked on the front end of Bing (then Live Search) back in 2007, and even within Microsoft, IE6 was hated and rallied against, at least by any team doing web development. I remember that the former …

This is very cool, thank you. Spinning up a dedicated VM for this seems very heavyweight though, especially on client machines.

I am very impressed with Slint, especially once you jump through the hoops to enable the skia rendering backend.

I must be missing the point here, because this feels like bad advice. Calls like `panic` and `expect` and `assert` are there to uphold invariants, i.e. to deal with things that should never happen unl…

You are describing a fuel cell battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell Well established and even commercialized (Toyota sells fuel cell cars today IIRC), just not as cost…

More people need to know how this, it is absolutely bonkers how much perf you lose for each file open operation to defender and its kin. Even excluding directories (like D:\MyProject) from defender is…

Your phrasing is a little confusing to me, but just to be clear for anyone else reading, VMs and containers are different things.

Slack's user experience for chat is leagues better than Teams, they're honestly not even close. I say this as someone who worked at a company that was heavily invested in Slack, and was the…

Genuinely curious, why does profanity put you off a product?

From TFA > Materializing just two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Stark Industries Solutions became a frequent source of massive DDoS attacks, Russian-language proxy and VPN services, …

I'm curious if anyone is tracking transactions against the wallet addresses in the malicious code - I assume that is essentially the attackers' return on investment here.

I would call it a meme

But did you think about using a perfect hash function and table? Based on my prior research, it seems like they are almost universally faster on small strings than trees and tries due to lower cache …