cautionarytale

Cool idea. But also, apparently this is a website for submitting and rating ideas themselves?

Polanski raped a child. That's a whole different level of awful than everything else being discussed here.

There was, and like so many other things these days, it's pointless listening to partisan summaries. If you want to know, dig and read the source material.

Awful headline. They're supposed to provide infinite product for a fixed price because the author wants it?

Dupe. Quite a hateful screed, but it's somewhat heartening to see the virtually complete lack of support for it on Twitter.

Even if true, that's more of a description than a solution. Generating new f*s to give is a hard problem.

Fork/exec time for extra processes is usually unimportant. If data transfer is truly a bottleneck, shared memory is as fast as threading.

These costs, though, are generally trivial compared to the lifecycle costs of dealing with multithreaded code. Isolation in processes greatly enhances debuggability, and it's almost impossible to produce a truly bug-free threaded program. Even a heavily tested threaded program will often break mysteriously when compiled with a different compiler/libraries, or even when seemingly irrelevant code changes are made. It's a tar pit.

It is, and I go there only as needed.

Put the computationally expensive task in its own process, and have the UI monitor it as needed as part of its event loop.

(That won't work in every case, but it should be thoroughly considered first.)

A serious practical problem with threads mirrors the same problem with C++, which is that many programmers reach for it first when they should be reaching for it last. Both of these technologies are like swallowing glass, and the wise programmer will avoid them if at all possible.

If a Canadian state decided to rename itself Maine, pretty sure Americans would have zero f*s to give about it. To quote Peter Griffin, "Who cares?!!".

Remember, power corrupts. If you're not worried about Google's power, you're probably not paying attention.

Currently having a mild panic attack trying figure out how I could possibly fit all of that into my weekly schedule.

(Props for #10 especially, though. I've recently sworn off the news, which was a toxic force in my life.)

Quillette is absolute gold. One of the few outlets left doing journalism and rational commentary.

Maybe Twitter should be shut down, to atone?

*misandry

The question is rhetorical--it's quite clear that she already does hate us, and enjoys it.

(Next up, "Why Can't We Hate X?", for other values of X.)

Their explanation does not agree with the (clickbait) headline. Rather, they say that VCs better evaluate pitches made by women, apparently by letting through fewer risks. Presumably the fix here is to vet proposals more diligently, in a gender-blind manner.

The homeless and drug addicts operate outside the law--hence the difference.

Personally, I'd be fine with scooters if they were never used or stored on sidewalks. Which will happen right after bicyclists start obeying traffic laws...

Like many others, I've lived this. The worst is over, and currently I'm merely deep in debt, without material possessions, and signing over my entire paycheck as alimony (yes, all of it). Although my life is currently worth living, knowing what I now know, it would have been better to have simply opted out, rather than go through the years of hell. And that's an awful thing to be able to say.

Each situation is its own, but in general, in the USA marriage is a poor choice for men. If your ex turns evil or crazy, there will be no warning and no mercy.