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I've lately been using LLMs to do a lot of testing and verification.

An LLM can go and pull files off NFS, and write and run verification scripts in less time than I can even think of a testing strategy or locate the files.

Sometimes they'll do it unprompted

For writing unit tests, which are often repetative and verbose, they are another godsend.

Overall they're freeing up a lot more time for nice things like thoughtful API design, refactoring, system architecture and design work etc.

For exploring massive codebases they are another godsend

In the US. The majority of the world doesn't have government subsidies on 30 year mortgages

There's a difference between can and must. A LOT of landlords don't maximally squeeze their tenants.

In fact, I'd argue the majority of landlords are shit investors sat on fairly low yields

A land tax would effect every single landlord though. Every single landlord would put up rent.

The market will bare it because people have no choice. The choice is homelessness or paying the higher rent.

It's principally the same when mortgage rates rise. Landlords with mortgages put up rent. Only it would be worse, since not all landlords have mortgages.

If I own £100K worth of land, and the government announces a 1% annual land tax, it's likely the value of my land will fall by about ~25-33% overnight.

If you think that's morally unobjectionable, fine, but I'd love to know what happens when all the landowners who own rural land that doesn't have a profitable development path attached to it can't pay their tax bills. Have the state seize it all?

Or do they just claim it's of negligible value and avoid the tax?

Am I missing something? Max boost went up by only 15% but the base frequency went up 38%

Better thermals maybe? Less throttling?

I mean, they're basically just client SSL certs, but used for auth instead of transport

It's entirely possible for server side app to tie a client certificate to a user account and offer one click login and it has been since the 90s.

I mean, if the session token basically never expires it's kind of fine?

If you're expecting heavy contention, and there's no risk of any of the threads being descheduled, then FIFO spinlocks are probably best.

In a FIFO threads register themselves into a linked list, and the thread calling unlock() directly wakes the next. It's possible to have e.g. 20 threads in this case all spinning on their own cache lines (their private node), rather than a shared one (the lock head).

This can be coherence protocol optimal.

A dumb test and set spinlock, or variant thereof, is going to degrade quickly as all the cores are spinning on the same cacheline causing a lot of coherence traffic between cores (transitions between shared, exclusive and modified states)

If you have an application where your threads are pinned to dedicated cores, and those cores are all isolated from general OS scheduling, then it's the lowest latency means to synchronize arbitrary things between threads

Entering the kernel with a futex wait or wake under contention costs a couple of microseconds, whereas a spinlock will cost you double digit to low triple digit nanos depending on cores/sockets etc

I used to work on market data feeds, which occasionally require a reference data file from an FTP to be delivered before market open before you can do anything useful with the feed.

Nothing like being on-call when the file doesn't get delivered, or fails to parse

Fortunately most feeds deliver reference data inband these days

A read() on /dev/urandom on every packet isn't economical, so there's going to be some user space element to RNGion

So true..had my parents over for Christmas one year and they stayed for 4 days. 3 would have been perfect.

As long as the debt is in its own currency printing to repay is always an option.

Fun fact:

Worms Armageddon saw patches for ~18 years after official updates stopped.

https://worms2d.info/Updates_(Worms_Armageddon)

Internet Connection Records is the key phrase to search for

These businesses chose lower staffing costs knowing full well the price would be higher theft.

Don't 99% of people just use face or fingerprint unlocking?

Crazy how different healthcare is in different countries.

In the UK once you've had your childhood vaccinations it's entirely possible you'd simply never see a doctor again in your life until you're ready for your prostate exam in older life.

There are no regular checkups or preventative care on the NHS for mid life adults unless you're proactive

Ah OK, this was in London

That's odd. I just looked at what I thought was a pretty standard piss and blood STI test results of my own, and it covered:

- Syphilis

- Hep B

- Hep C

- HIV 1 and 2 and P24

- Chlamydia

- Gonorrhoea

2 out of my last 3 jobs were the result of LinkedIn recruiter spam

Recursive descent isnt guaranteed linear time

In the face of backtracking the time depends on the complexity of the grammar, since it's basically a brute force search through all the rules.

It's "fine" is you ignore adversarial situations.

If someone is taking malicious stabs at your API then you have a problem

They can...swim away

The problem is a lot of people book Ryanair thinking they're going to save money and end up sucked in to these dark patterns.

I once flew from London Stansted (or maybe it was Luton?) to Dublin instead of from Heathrow with Aer Lingus to save a few bucks, and it never ended up saving me anything in the end.

With Aer Lingus the cheapest ticket includes 10kg of checked luggage, which is a nice middle ground between a tiny bag you can shove under your seat and a 23kg luggage

And Ryanair are not even cheaper most of the time unless you're prepared to fly at unsocialable times and forgo luggage.

Ryanair even seem to deliberately separate seats for adult passengers on the same booking so they can charge you extra to sit together...

Presumably that depends on the context in which your 'real life' friends see you

Unfortunately this means crypto will just take over completely.

0.03 seconds is an eternity in high frequency trading

You need to be 4 orders of magnitude faster at least

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