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Comment Can be avoided with config (Score 1) 28

The problem doesn't occur if you have huge pages enabled, which is a good idea for a database machine anyway, as running without huge pages has almost as much of an impact on Postgres performance as this regression does. So no need to way for postfix to ship the spinlock bug fix.

Comment Re:Go went from #7 to just above Rust (Score 1) 159

Go always seemed like something of a niche language to me. Some DevOps folks, and especially people working on cloud-native infrastructure like Docker and Kubernetes, and the tools designed to run on top of them, seemed to love it. I never really heard of it catching on outside that niche, though (except within Google).

Comment Re:Search engine ranking (Score 1) 159

It's a search engine ranking, you know, the thing people use when they have a problem.

Correct. The TIOBE index is currently compiled from results from 25 search engines. You see this in the way the rankings bounce around each time they report them, seemingly with no meaningful explanation. That's why TIOBE always has been and always will be a crappy indicator of which languages are the most used ... especially now that more people are using AIs instead of standard search engines to ask their questions.

However, the index looks like statistics, which makes it attractive to journalists who cover tech. That means it's useful for getting TIOBE's name in the press. (TIOBE is a software quality measuring company),

Comment Re:Just my opinion (Score 1) 146

Young people don't want everything to be YA, they want to be taken seriously and be served serious entertainment fare as well.

I agree. Sure, there was no shortage of YA material when I was a kid ... the Hardy Boys, John Christopher's Tripods books, the Chronicles of Narnia, and even The Hobbit come to mind. But I also liked The Lord of the Rings, Asimov, and plenty of other adult fiction besides. I didn't need Luke Skywalker to be a six-year-old to relate to him when I was six myself.

But the thing is, I bet it's just more "audiencing" by the studio execs. They want all movies to appeal to the broadest possible audience. And what do all potential audience members have in common, whether they be make, female, LGBTQ, Asian, European, Black, etc.? They were all young once.

Comment Build a house, go to jail (Score 1) 265

Housing prices are relatively higher, but not that much, not if you buy the size of house that people bought 50 years ago.

Changes to building and zoning codes over the past half century have made building "the size of house that people bought 50 years ago" illegal in many cases. You can't buy such a house if such a house isn't on the market, and you may not build a new one under current law.

See also "Why minimum lot size reform should be on every city’s housing agenda" by Patrick Tuohey.

Comment Torvalds was naturalized in 2010 (Score 1) 121

Linus Torvalds is a dual citizen. He was born a citizen of Finland and became a citizen of the United States in 2010. (Source: "Linus Torvalds, already an Oregonian, now a U.S. citizen" by Mike Rogoway, citing a post to LKML by Torvalds)

It'd be more interesting to count commits by nationality. I'm pretty sure Torvalds no longer has the lion's share of commits.

Comment Control of Secure Boot via the Windows copyright (Score 1) 102

Microsoft has no control over secure boot. You can even load your own custom keys for the Windows boot process

Microsoft has control over distribution of the copyrighted Windows operating system. It has used this control to dictate whether or not makers of devices that include Windows are allowed to let users load their own custom keys. For example, Microsoft required makers of devices that come with Windows RT (the port of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 to ARM architecture) to block end users from turning off Secure Boot and block end users from loading their own custom keys, as conditions for a license under copyright to distribute Windows RT on those devices.

Comment Regulated gambling now possibly illegal (Score 1) 83

One very interesting point by the dissenting judge is that if you accept the majority's broad interpretation of swaps, then not only are prediction markets swaps, but normal gambling is as well. Therefore all currently legal and regulated gambling is actually illegal because the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction, not the states, and none of these gambling operations are following CFTC rules.

Comment Tap or click to view article (Score 1) 43

No video (or animated image) should ever load/autoplay unless the user interacts with that element, indicating he/she wants to play it.

How granular would the permission be? If web browsers start blocking all animation and post-load layout shifting by default, including CSS transitions and animations, this would encourage website operators to structure the page to coerce permission to animate in each document. For example, a website operator could make each page load blank other than a notice to the effect "Tap or click to view 'Title of Article' on Name of Site."

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