ternaryoperator

Really? I have quite the opposite impression. HN is one of the few places I can come to where intelligent conversations can be found. Sure, sometimes discussions run off the rails into the weeds, but snark is rare, and when conversations stay on track, they often add significantly to the post.

This is a copy/paste of an Nvidia press release

Thanks for the good wishes.

Indeed, it is super complex. It's been much harder than we initially expected. We'd thought maybe two years--it wouldn't be fast, but it would be complete. But things like invokedynamic instruction, annotations, etc. have added complexity far beyond what we originally expected. But it's been highly instructive. And it's great fun to see full Java programs execute and watch the instructions fly by as they execute. On average we're presently at about 1/3 the performance of the JDK with the -Xint (interpreter mode) flag set. (Some of that performance penalty is due to using go vs. HotSpot's use of C.) We hope in a year to be able to invite interested folks to try it out with their code.

A JVM written in go at https://www.jacobin.org

I don’t understand why Kelley wrote the post at all. Just thank Bun for their donations and wish them well.

> the way of myspcace and Oracle

Oracle had record revenue in its most recent fiscal year, with record user engagement. So whatever connection you're trying to establish between its fate and that of SO or myspace is off-target, both in terms of popularity and revenue.

They were laid odd, not fired. the title is OP’s reinvention of the headline

When Wikipedia first came out, there was a big debate about articles on people: should it be inclusive (anybody with minor accomplishments gets in) or should there be some threshold to be met? Ultimately, it was decided that if the perception was that the person involved was to become notable principally by having a WP page, then they did not qualify. WP did not want to be used as a means of getting attention/traction/credibility. I like that criterion and I think it’s reasonable to feel that Odin does not meet it…yet.

2/3 of policies sold in California are assigned to the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), which is a semi-private/semi-public corporation that carries the principal risk. It was formed in 1994, when many private insurers discontinued earthquake insurance after the Northridge quake.

Insurance agencies serve primarily as vendors, customer service, etc., but the risk is carried by the CEA. The remaining 1/3 of policies are carried by a few private insurers who still underwrite policies.

In theory, that system should prevent insolvency. Remember that California is a huge state and even a very strong earthquake would still have fairly localized damage. For example, the 1906 earthquake (Richter 8.0) that levelled San Francisco did comparatively little damage to Petaluma, a city 40 miles to the north.

Alas, not. Most policies in California have a 15% deductible. That’s 15% of the insured value of your home. So for nearly all houses, a $25K bill is not covered. California policies are and have always been to cover catastrophic damage.

Ah, thanks for the correction.

The publisher was generally familiar with Beethoven’s writing and conventions. He’d prepare galleys that Beethoven would proof (and frequently edit). A substantial part of Beethoven’s known correspondence concerns corrections to galleys (and managing payments).

Their line of POWER chips are used in their mainframes

What the Brexit vote demonstrated IMHO is that you should not make profound systemic changes based on 50% + 1 vote. You really need a super-majority, otherwise the country is at the mercy of any campaign or latest fashion. This vote is not like electing a new PM, as it caused changes that will ripple across generations and dozens of PMs. Such changes should require a true mandate--which Brexit's 51.9% was not.

Pshaw! Similar behavior by Oracle has not diminished its footprint nor its sales.

Everything the author complains about occurred in the dot-com bubble as well. His view that until 2007 founders were lovable nerds is completely off-base. In Silicon Valley, the same dynamics of start-ups chasing money, then getting it and proclaiming their genius, as they were “going to change the world” happened in 2000 as in similar ways today. The popping of the internet bubble brought back a lot of humility.

Jacobin, a JVM entirely written in go https://www.jacobin.org

Take this difficulty and make the desired sound piano and put the whole thing into 1960s technology and you can see why recording studios were never able to remove Glenn Gould's humming from his recordings.

So, it is an ad.

That readability is the upside of COBOL’s oft-assailed verbosity.

One additional benefit of Fastmail is fast, helpful tech support. The few times i’ve needed them, they’ve answered quickly and given me what i needed in the first response.

Battery life

Looking at the suggestions for self-hosting here and in other threads, I wonder why self-hosting Fossil is not more widely done. From the comments I’ve seen from its users, it seems to work quite well.

A JVM written exclusively in go. Now, 5000+ commits into the project.

http://jacobin.org

Yes, they’re allowed to make changes and you can either accept them (the matter being discussed here) or refuse them. But you do need to be given the option.

Not to mention the monetary costs of defense

Not sure I understand what you mean by "scientific." If you mean exactly reproducible, then almost nothing in athletics fits that definition. Every record in baseball, football, etc. would fail that definition.

And the only place this appears on ESPN is if you click on "Olympics," which has nothing to do with this race. Where coverage should be: on the home page.

The actual quote, both from the movie and IRL is: "The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only."

I have the hard copy of this edition and it does contain some curious things.

For example, if you look up "boiling." You might expect to read about what happens to a liquid when it's heated to a certain temperature, or perhaps a way of cooking foods, or sterilizing equipment. But the entry covers none of those. Instead, the only entry for boiling describes a punishment for persons convicting of poisoning who were, in England, dipped into a large cauldron of boiling water.

And, in the ways that violence and torture were wantonly reveled in centuries ago, they wouldn't just submerge the criminal and let him die there. Instead, they would lower him into the boiling water for a while and then pull him out. They'd repeat the process until eventually they finally killed him. That is the EB 11 ed entry for boiling. Yow!