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Volt··on React 19 almost made the internet slower
Yeah, imagine if it was about some toy operating system.
Volt··on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
The audience here already knows what "on-demand provisioning" means.
Volt··on System D
That's obviously why it was posted.
Volt··on Switching from C++ to Rust
GCD is open source and runs on FreeBSD and Linux.
Volt··on Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon? (2020)
Neat. Now where's the Glamorous toolkit?
Volt··on Build your own fast, persistent KV store
Intended to be like "tree", usually pronounced "try".
Volt··on Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from C++ to Rust (2022)
Use your OS's package manager.
Volt··on Supporting the use of Rust in the Chromium project
Are you saying Safari had the right idea?

Because I agree.

Volt··on Adding design-by-contract conditions to C++ via a GCC plugin
> Just ensure the invariant function is called at every method

You make this sound way easier than I would expect it to be in the general case.

Volt··on Map, Filter, Reduce in Fortran (2019)
You should literally continue reading the rest of the sentence.
Volt··on Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
Adding that to the README would be a good idea.
Volt··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
We already know what's happening at his other companies. You're very optimistic if you think this isn't a continuation of that.
Volt··on The latest OpenSSL vulns were added fairly recently
https://nitter.fdn.fr/hanno/status/1587776226516557824#m

Isn't this a time claim?

Volt··on Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
Quite a lot of pearl clutching going on in this comment.

Here's the quote about the street names:

> Second, I am struck by the design of the interface itself: the sci-fi overlay of street names, borders, parcel numbers, target distances, and so on.

Struck. Doesn't sound like a value judgement to me. The only thing the author has an explicit problem with is the level of detail the camera captures. I see two sentences in reference to this. I wonder why you thought the first sentence was necessary (I'll leave the arguments that don't actually address anything in the article alone).

Volt··on Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real life
There's no "T" in "AWK".
Volt··on Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system
You gave it away by saying "dynamic loading" instead of "dynamic linking". They're okay with one, but not the other.
Volt··on John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
Seems more to me like saying "someone should make an rsync that's more like Dropbox".
Volt··on John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
Since I just re-watched it: he ran it on a P4 from 2003.
Volt··on I still love PHP and JavaScript
Probably meant JSON instead of JavaScript

https://evrone.com/douglas-crockford-interview

Volt··on Inferior Is Better
>(well, I don't know if it happened or not)

It did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig

Volt··on Guile Steel: a proposal for a systems Lisp
Perhaps that's intended.
Volt··on Why Lisp?
Compiling can certainly still break the flow depending on the language and size of the project. Just ask Google.
Volt··on I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos
Escape the quote. Or just put the path in double quotes.
Volt··on Haiku Beta 3
There's a native icon editor.
Volt··on Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure
Is Cloudflare a "pipe"? I don't think so.
Volt··on Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy
What trackers? Apps are sandboxed, so they shouldn't be able to track you.
Volt··on Speed of Rust vs. C
"Data structure" here probably means something like a linked list, binary tree, or hash table.
Volt··on OMU – “One Man Unix”
>they did not have "a very small performance penalty"

Can you clarify what kind of penalty it had then?

Volt··on A Week with Plan 9
"It's just their humour"
Volt··on Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700
And yet you should wonder if the fact that we all think regularly of going back might suggest something.
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