enticingturtle

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   by enticingturtle 4y ago

   A good take from the time https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/05/11/Sell-Babel-8
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   by enticingturtle 4y ago

   Are you actually seeing degraded performance, or do you just have an aesthetic dislike of swapping?
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   by enticingturtle 4y ago

   It holds a Chrome runtime, no? Features like the fastest JIT in the world and a universal DOM aren’t waste. Not to mention, Chrome can run on much less ram if that’s all there is. It only has a high memory footprint when the OS allocates it
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   by enticingturtle 4y ago

   Unused ram is wasted ram. Swap speeds and intelligent swap logic are fantastic these days (especially on macOS). It’s a good thing to see programs using more ram. Better caching is a feature, not a bug.
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   by enticingturtle 4y ago

   The upside of a larger cache is that everything is more responsive and old threads load faster. What’s the downside?
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   by enticingturtle 4y ago

   Java does this with checked exceptions and it’s a huge hassle to work with.
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   by enticingturtle 4y ago

   This is wrong. Trading is positive sum. When companies trade with employees to buy labor or trade with consumers to sell goods, all parties are better off from the interaction — otherwise they would not trade.
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   by enticingturtle 4y ago

   Because the derivative of a quadratic is linear, meaning meaning you spend votes proportionally to the strength of your preference (indifference at the margin).
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   by enticingturtle 4y ago

   Short answer: your best employees will leave