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cplusplusfellow··on LMAX Disruptor – High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging Library
Do you think it’s possible to obtain this performance with Rust?

I’ve been down the path you’re on a few times and I love the pursuit. Have built my own over the years about 4 times.

Hardware was much slower in those days so my lower barrier was 650ns. Things got worse appreciably as a function of the number of producers I found.

Some of my most sleepless nights. The funnest nights.

cplusplusfellow··on The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud
I would certainly want to spread my risk around to several other large companies.
cplusplusfellow··on Amazon to staff: Come into the office or your promotion is at risk
Honestly haven’t heard many good stories about Amazon work environment and culture. I’ve worked with a lot of former Amazon ppl though.
cplusplusfellow··on What if we replace guns and bullets with bows and arrows? (2022)
A much simpler solution is to just ensure that politicians' children (and politicians themselves on rotation, perhaps) are the very first to the front lines in any given war they choose to conduct.
cplusplusfellow··on Omegle 2009-2023
I was growing up when the first people got BBS' and CompuServe. I don't miss the days of dial-up.

I miss the days just as you learned Google could answer questions you asked in free-form, without the censorship and advertisement preferences they give today. Those were better days on gonewild also.

cplusplusfellow··on Has the U.S. economy reached a turning point?
I’ve been masculine for 4 decades and have never considered myself “in crisis” because of it.
cplusplusfellow··on Apple Spent $1B on the M3 Tape-Out, Says Analyst
Off topic / this is the kind of website I immediately could not care less about the content. They immediately inundate with ads while hiding information behind 2000 words of fluff. The internet is ruined.
cplusplusfellow··on Wage suppression – not stagnation – is costing workers $10 an hour (2021)
Should we accept your word for it or should we receive some evidence?
cplusplusfellow··on Wage suppression – not stagnation – is costing workers $10 an hour (2021)
It's a strong argument for keeping the Federal rate low, since it needs to effectively peg the lowest COL area (which may not be able to support higher wages).
cplusplusfellow··on Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
Would be amazing for advertisers but no users would visit the site.
cplusplusfellow··on A Salute to the Wheel (2009)
Beat me to it. If Slovenia is Eurasia, wouldn’t Greece also be?
cplusplusfellow··on The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (1997)
This network may have been created on a government grant but one need only review the broadband tax placed upon us 30 years ago versus broadband paid for by the tax to understand what is happening.
cplusplusfellow··on OpenAI just replaced its core values with completely different ones
How do you guys manage proper ad blocking on mobile? I haven’t gotten anything to work successfully (iOS).
cplusplusfellow··on Texas man sent to death row over junk science denied US Supreme Court appeal
Don’t forget they have essentially unlimited budget and you’re spending personal resources. Which they can of course confiscate and imprison you for a year before trial unless you’re wealthy and can afford bail.
cplusplusfellow··on Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Seems like we could also just add it to the other places where water is flowing into the ocean. Do we not disrupt the ocean ecosystem with our fresh water runoff?
cplusplusfellow··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
It's beyond wishful thinking to assume that 46% increase will not motivate Ford to seek cost savings by moving factories offshore. The motivation:action tuple in this regard has been established for decades.
cplusplusfellow··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Are you aware of the cost implications that may exist by them keeping the plants here?

Maybe that article linked would help you understand the structural cost implications that are proposed.

cplusplusfellow··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Whereabouts should we purchase land in Mexico? Needs to be near the new factories that'll go in next year.
cplusplusfellow··on Grindr employees have 2 weeks: agree to move across the country+RTO or lose jobs
IANAL, but this seems like a material change of employment arrangement.
cplusplusfellow··on Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2030s
Wasn’t this supposed to happen in 2012?
cplusplusfellow··on I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach
Do our “right to try” laws mean: only after you’ve gone through our $5m treatment plans?
cplusplusfellow··on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
There are entire sites that I won’t visit on mobile - since in 2023 I can’t install a working ad blocker (despite there being a few on the App Store).

Mobile experience with ads is the most user hostile experience in tech.

cplusplusfellow··on People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)
I can hear the police response now. “Why are you so angry about me accusing you of committing such a heinous crime that may even bear the death penalty if you didn’t do it?”
cplusplusfellow··on John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)
It’s anecdotal but I was pretty shocked by the fact that NBA players have significant and serious issues with their feet.
cplusplusfellow··on Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets
Until the last already-drilled oil well runs dry.
cplusplusfellow··on The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives
Your end-of-stream index would remain in place with a backup number / id.

Your entire index would be the logical sum of all such indices. Think of the end of stream index as a write ahead log of the index.

cplusplusfellow··on Crypto Mining Electricity Excise Tax Should Target AI Instead
I dislike crypto but proof of stake completely eliminates this argument. I also realize we can’t expect politicians to be making laws that are relevant on a 10 year timeframe so I understand their actions.
cplusplusfellow··on FDIC to hit biggest US banks with $16B bill for SVB clean-up
Can I get one of the free houses also? Happy to stop paying $4600 a month in rent.
cplusplusfellow··on Gas-powered leaf blowers: The end is nigh (2021)
Well said. I get so tired of these also.
cplusplusfellow··on Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform needs big revamp
So you dislike when people with whom you may not entirely agree have a voice, yeah?

That’s cute.

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