Readit NewsThese kind of insider perspectives, even if they come with their own biases, are very interesting nevertheless.
I wish I would see these types of articles more often.
For instance, a bunch of clients all make a request to a server at the same time, briefly saturating the server. If all the clients have the same timeout without jitter, they will all try again together at the same time once the timeout expires, saturating the server again and again. Jitter helps by « spreading » those clients in time, thus « diluting » the server load. The server can then process these requests without saturating.
> Alas, it cannot; the list of stuff to build is passed from the meta build system to the build system, usually by fiat.
It can, actually. At least for make. Just use a wildcard in uour rules: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Wildcards
I highly recommend going through the make documentation at least once in your career. Per the lindy effect, as it has been around for 40 years, it has a decent chance of sticking around for another 40.
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AI doesn’t help because if you can articulate your genuine motivation as a prompt for an AI, you should just use the prompt as the cover letter which will be a lot more effective than using the AI-generated letter, as the AI will muddy your authentic motivation and diminish its impact.
Being a dancer (lindy hop) with a large number of dancers in my social circle, dancing is actually a frequent source of tension among many couples around me.
Couples splitting up because one is heavily more invested in dancing than the other is a common occurence.
And don’t get me started on lindy hop vs west coast swing.
Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with internet, it
will be copied, and those copies never leave. Even a dog knows you can’t
erase something once it’s flowed on the internet.
Windows?
And then, once you got your PhD, only then you would be expected to publish new, original research.