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by hinkley 11mo ago
CPU Caches are powers of two because retrieval involves a logarithmic number of gates have to fire in a clock cycle. There is a saddle point where more cache starts to make the instructions per second start to go back down again, and that n
842.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I think unfortunately we sometimes ascribe to powers of two supernatural powers that are really about caches being built in powers of two. Intel is still 64 byte cache lines as they have been for quite a long time but they also do some shen
843.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Hmm, and yet they were still pushing the digital library subscription as recently as two months ago.
844.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I just tried it? And it did something that seemed weird but reasonable.
845.
by hinkley 11mo ago
CSS outline would be a good visual indicator here as it won’t modify the page layout.
846.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I wonder if a stack metaphor would work for that. So that N items are no bigger than 2 items.
847.
by hinkley 11mo ago
These feel like fixable things.
848.
by hinkley 11mo ago
It’s been a long time since I’ve said “woah” out loud to something that wasn’t a science video. This is much better on mobile and I suspect for accessibility.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
One of the very first SVG documents I encountered was a port of the PS Tiger to SVG. It loaded a lot faster than the PostScript Tiger.
850.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Is this going to include all of their back catalog? I’ve had a lot of free time lately and decided I’ve been missing the SIGPLAN proceedings and have b been procrastinating on reactivating my old membership to get them. I stopped when the p
851.
by hinkley 11mo ago
There’s a PR on a project I contribute to that is as bad/big as some PRs by problematic coworkers. I’m not saying it’s AI work, but I’m wondering.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
It’s clear to me now that I need to set up my home machine the way I set up BYOD when I was contracting last. I need a separate account for all of my development. I have a friend who at one point had five monitors and 2 computers (actually
853.
by hinkley 11mo ago
At least with external entities you could deny the parser an internet connection and force it to only load external documents from a cache you prepopulated and vetted. Turing completeness is a bullshit idea in document formats.
854.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I use them minimally and haven't stared at enough failures yet to see the patterns. Generally speaking my MO is to remove at least half of the moving parts of any CI/CD system I encounter and I've gone a multiple of that seve
855.
by hinkley 11mo ago
The only company I’ve held a grudge against longer than MS is McDonalds and they are sort of cut from the same cloth. I’m also someone who paid for JetBrains when everyone still thought it wasn’t worth money to pay for a code editor. Though
856.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Am I right in assuming it’s not the amount of payment but the transition from $0 to paying a bill at all? I’m definitely sure it’s saving me more than $140 a month to have CI/CD running and I’m also sure I’d never break even on the opp
857.
by hinkley 11mo ago
io_uring is a tool for maximizing throughput not minimizing latency. So the correct measure is transactions per millisecond not milliseconds per transaction. Little’s Law applies when the task monopolizes the time of the worker. When it is
858.
by hinkley 11mo ago
A contract that needs to be maintained at some level of quality even when you're deploying or overloaded. Load shedding is a pretty advanced topic and it's the one I can think of off the top of my head when considering how Chester
859.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Advertisements and recruiter emails are pretty much the only thing in my inbox for the last, I'd say almost ten years. You'll forgive me if I miss one. Recruiting is turning into the business that still needs a paper check from yo
860.
by hinkley 11mo ago
In an 'economic downturn' where the rich keep getting richer, at least. This is a very weird downturn.
861.
by hinkley 11mo ago
> the "current store" now points to a random location somewhere in a different state I thought that was just me. It gets the first, maybe the second digit of the zip code right and that's about it.
862.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Is it weird that I kinda want to work there?
863.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I literally cannot type "its" without iPhone putting an apostrophe into it every goddamned time, even when it's obvious from the beginning of the sentence that the next word must be a verb not a possessive pronoun. If I ever
864.
by hinkley 11mo ago
> In the end, good leadership is never proven by what you say about yourself. It’s proven by what people say when you’re not in the room. > And trust me, they’re talking. Some of the people I’ve had to railroad into things say stuff l
865.
by hinkley 11mo ago
If you consider that an American maintainer was cheesed off enough to move an entire project off GitHub two days before Thanksgiving then the tone of the original post was completely in line with the energy involved. Anger is a communicatio
866.
by hinkley 11mo ago
The first really stupid customer I encountered had a bunch of beanie babies in his office. I used to mutter about him being that race in Star Trek TNG that kidnaps people to make their ships “go”. But then one day I had an epiphany. I reali
867.
by hinkley 11mo ago
FOSS is a bit like blogging in that a lot of it seems to be motivated by a desire to win an argument you lost once already. I’m a maintainer on one library in small part because of an argument I had with a maintainer of a similar library ye
868.
by hinkley 11mo ago
There are only so many stories and we are all telling variations on them. How much of Hollywood is bad copies of Shakespeare?
869.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Right. I am a TSMC shareholder. I know this story.
870.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Already ahead of you there sport. November 2016.

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