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iamvik··on A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
I don't understand why they felt necessary to rewrite a core component in another language. If you have a garbage collection problem my first intuition would be to produce less garbage!

For example better using the stack, or pulling out the big gun of manual memory management.

I'm sure they had reasons to choose Go when they first designed this project but they don't go into them at all.

Feels like they just wanted to play with a new toy.

iamvik··on We're working on a new RuneScape MMO
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iamvik··on Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
very meta
iamvik··on Recursive Mono and Sans, a free variable type family
When in monospace the 0 gets a line through it. I tried in in ff and the site worked perfectly.
iamvik··on Text Rendering Hates You
geminated not germinated haha it's not a seed :p
iamvik··on The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
no.. half of people are below the median.. I know it's a bit pedantic but in a thread making fun of stupid people lol
iamvik··on Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf]
looks fun, but man, do you really need to make subsubsubsubsubsections?
iamvik··on Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
Largely agree, but it's hardly OP's fault. In my opinion this is one of the things we get by using 30 year old Operating System and there having been almost no innovation in that field for so long.
iamvik··on Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers
However it was done, we have much higher productivity requirements nowadays.
iamvik··on Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016)
we don't grow "for the sake of growing", there's plenty of poor people in the world that need that growth. Whether that growth reaches them is another story..
iamvik··on English speakers should learn math instead of a second language
I like learning languages because I like learning. There doesn't need to be a reason. This is a very engineery perspective, I don't like it.
iamvik··on Linux distros without systemd
It's a stupid position to take - watch luke smith's video on it for a neutral point of view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ljfOCiP0XM