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Is it though? I click a lot of clickbait because I am human. I don't think I give a lot of direct money to clickbaiters. It is a hell of a mountain to climb before I feel compelled to go grab the…

Yup, it's all about incentives alignment. If you get promoted for shipping a feature but you don't get promoted for saving 40 minutes of everybody's time every day you will get a lot of…

Well, as someone that has been lightly interested in Julia lately this sort of content is something I am interested in. It feels like there are many of us. My own impression of the Julia community has…

Chile hasn't been ruled by Pinochet since 1990, when it scored a 0.7 in the Human Development Index, about the same score as Bolivia today.

For perspective: Angela Merkel has been in power for longer than Evo Moralez was.

Your point [1] on the capabilities of some languages is generally discredited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity …

Basically any language has that many dialects - or many more. English has a ton of unintelligible dialects but you won't hear them on CNN/Hollywood and speakers of those dialects will adjust…

The same thinking applies to PCs and supercomputers, but sometimes we trade efficiency for convenience. That's happening in the "microcontroller" space too (which are surprisingly power…

Mandatory response to this mandatory comment to every discussion on this topic: https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-02 …

I was a dedicated Netscape user so it pains me to say it, but MSIE 6 was great when it launched, and Netscape was bloating up, unstable, and had its own range of proprietary extensions (anyone remembe…

I negotiated for a friend in a small ransomware case. They paid $2k. Yes, reputation is important, I did some research to check whether others had successfully negotiated. If you get a reputation for …

The "jack of all trades" in many companies may go by the name "System Engineer". If you are a jack of all trades that wants to be involved in management, the job title to pursue is…

Pro-tip: if you work for one of the Big Tech companies there may be a spreadsheet somewhere where you add your email and get LWN access, which I assume also increases the amount of money they get paid…

Microsoft has a tradition with these confusing backwards names. They used to have a product called Windows Services for UNIX [1] which was, you guessed it, UNIX Services for Windows: NFS, Telnet, cron…

Rollbacks are easy and simple to do and "solve" a large number of problems and go a long way bisecting the problem. They are not expected to solve every problem.

There's this older Sparkfun story. They had their multimeters seized for being yellow: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1428 …

No you can't. You can only see the domain during initial protocol setup.

Isn't the sandboxing a good idea though? It feels that Linux got caught in the past and is actually one of the least secure OSes out there, and what keeps it safe is just its small desktop market…

"I" don't put them anywhere, these categories are pre-existent. The WTO puts Burundi in a different list, of least developed countries.

The World Trade Organization allows for asymmetrical relations like that for developing countries. Same reason why we don't demand a level playing field between sheep and wolves... China is a poo…

Historically programs are "rewritten" (really, adapted) all the time to support changes to the underlying system. E.g., read-ahead, mmap() support, fadvise() support, file locking, different…

> robust, clear, well-tested, and easy to maintain systems I wonder if that's how the implementors of software that actually lasted for decades would describe their work or motivation. Does th…

That button to the right of the P that contains four different forms of dashes is... interesting. Even more if you consider that the minus sign there is not the character - that is used by every progr…

Brazilians are Latin and definitely not Hispanic. Latin is not a racial term (and that's why Brazilians tend to find the racialized term "Latino" as used in the US repellent), and has n…

I bet that more accounts and data have been lost to 2FA than have ever been saved by 2FA.