CurtHagenlocher

AoT is still a thing. Presumably a lot of the JIT improvements would also improve the generation of AoT-compiled code.

How reasonably can German cuisine be described as a single unified thing? My mother was from East Prussia and my father from Swabia and their "home" cuisines were pretty dissimilar -- if for no other reason than climate.

GenX here, and yep: this is what we were promised.

Today I learned that "senior director" is apparently L67. (I guess it's not a title you typically see on product teams.)

Nothing brings home the Orwellian nature of USA 2026 more for me than the word "warfighter".

Isn't that "88" a little too on-point?

Watching the CNC lathe cut threads in the toolpost lever was a thing of beauty.

It's clearly a typo for "inevitability".

One thing I always notice after trips abroad is the extent to which American newscasters are practically yelling at their audience. This is a stark contrast to many European countries, where the tone is calmer and more measured.

Anything that prevents Peter Thiel from doing what he wants must be evil.

Even if true, it would only be for one of the narrowest possible definitions of "crime". What can Flock do about mail fraud? About domestic violence? About wage theft? About falsified studies that lead to substances being misclassified as harmless? About price fixing? Does the majority of criminal activity even take place in "public" spaces?

In 2009 I made a note that Excel's main date parsing function was over 1000 lines of code -- not including helpers.

Similarly, buildings 40 and 41 were (at least pre-remodel) roughly mirror images of each other. Roughly a week after moving from 41 to 40 -- long enough to start navigating based on "caveman memory" but not long enough to override a year's worth of previous memories -- I accidentally went into the women's restroom instead of the men's because they too were mirrored.

These were taken between 2014 and 2018, because I seem to recall that the "accent walls" were painted in fall of 2014 and the buildings were emptied for demolition in 2018.

Why look, if I take my five data points and fit them to an exponential curve, it shows there will be exponential growth in the future.

> The net worth of the mean American household is $1.06m, according to

Shame on any publication which uses mean instead of median to talk about wealth.

In the United States, anti-nuclear activism predates both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamshell_Alliance and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abalone_Alliance for two examples.

The first comment asks the important question: Why, "despite all of this prosperity, do so many Americans still feel angry, disillusioned and frankly, even cheated"?

One thing which can't be captured by these numbers (no matter how accurate) is when people end up settling for something perceived to be of lower value. So for instance, it might be that my income has gone up faster than the cost of the things I'm buying, but I'd rather buy a house (out of reach) than buy rent.

The blog specifically says that they're getting the SQL AST so presumably they would not execute something like a DELETE.

Ever heard of a guy named "Samuel Slater"?

I predict they'll argue that because he lived in Mexico from ages 1 to 16 that he effectively relinquished citizenship. Which is BS, of course, but I'm reminded of the Sartre quote "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert."

Control-F Privacy. Hmm.

That's nice. Now when's the next Chtorr book coming out? (Rothfuss and Martin have nothing on Gerrold... .)

FWIW, the approach described here is what services like Databricks, Snowflake and BigQuery are already doing. It's also an implicit reminder that while PostgreSQL is both great and ubiquitous, its single-stream TCP wire protocol is a bit of a relic from the previous century.

This shouldn't really surprise anyone. A lot of universities are basically optimized around seeking money from donors.

"A new innovation model emerges where political connections matter more than business fundamentals."

There's nothing new about this business model. It's just shocking that anyone thinks this will produce better results.

My heart is breaking for Ukraine.

Jamie Dimon earned $39 million in 2024.

Rules vary from state to state. But at least in Washington state, if you have "layoffs" then there are certain legal requirements that don't exist for "firings". One of them is that you can't hire someone for a substantially similar position for some period of time after the layoff. Facebook has specifically said that they want to replace the fired employees with new "higher quality" employees.

I do not understand why we have not long ago adopted a national ID. This could be used for voting, for validating work eligibility, for potentially reducing whatever Medicare/Social Security fraud might actually exist, etc. Concerns for elderly, poor and otherwise disadvantaged people could be addressed by a relatively small amount of money to help those people acquire an ID. We would be lightyears better off than the current patchwork system of insecure social security cards, state driver's licenses, birth certificates and passports.

I can only conclude that there are too many people benefitting from the current stupid situation.