The most use I've gotten out of it was when I had it on my bookshelf in my Zoom background while TAing a class I think. One of the head TAs recognized it and asked if I had actually read it, and I told him I managed to read through volume 1 once and not solve many of the problems, which took about 3 months reading ~10 pgs/day. He was still impressed, and I think it helped me get the head TA role after he graduated, as he nominated me for it.

In terms of actual programming use, not much, but I still haven't read the other volumes yet.

Shouldn't TA jobs be handed out based on you knowledge and teaching and management ability, not fashion prejudice?

Yeah stuff like that is handed out on competence, when it came to situation, there were a few other equally qualified candidates who had been TAing that class. It worked out so we all held head TA at one point. TAOCP in the background probably played a tiny role if anything, but it's the one distinguishing event I remember, which is strange and funny to think about.

For alcohol at least, I don't think that's actually too unpopular an opinion. Drinking is a fairly universal social activity, and it's allowed me to meet and befriend a lot of people I probably wouldn't have otherwise.

Certainly interesting seeing the swings of upvotes and downvotes, though, hah. (That's neither a complaint nor unexpected.)

I learned about breakpoint() while prepping for an internship interview. I ended up not getting that internship, but it ended up massively improving my workflow. Now I annoy all my friends into using it whenever we run into bugs while working on Python together.

I think the statement says that there are no legitimate N95s specifically labeled for kids, so any "N95" that has that labeling is suspect and may not live up to performance. But yeah, I can't imagine N95 designers were anticipating kids to ever need them.

It’s easy to get caught in compliance paralysis.

Generally speaking, masks will be designed or optimized for heads in different sizes. Until you get to really young kids where they don’t fit, there’s no magical reason that they won’t work.

The last company mentioned does mentions clean energy, but yeah, there is a lot of blockchain here.

What's the process like for approving and implementing a series of patches this huge in quantity? Seems like it would almost require stalling on other pending issues for a significant amount of time while this is worked in.

It can probably be merged piece by piece, so it won't be a problem.

The reason he wrote the full patch series out like this, is because he wanted to measure the speed gains. Without significant speed gains it would be difficult to convince the kernel developers to make a big uncomfortable change like this.

> The reason he wrote the full patch series out like this, is because he wanted to measure the speed gains.

More importantly, because a lot of the patches involve moving code between files, or making batch changes to a large number of files at once. Evaluating these sorts of changes for correctness is a lot easier when the changes are isolated.

If it does as advertised, probably should not affect too much. Specifically, moving implicit dependencies to explicit should not impact anyone using the dependency. Might trip up code that is adding a new implicit?

Making implicit deps explicit is only one part of the patchset.

Moving all that header code around between files will conflict with all other code merges that touch those same lines.

Fair. I'm assuming the patches to update includes covers a wider set than changing the headers themselves.

Though, really, I was just saying why it may not be as bad as it sounds. Can still be bad, of course.

FTA:

> - As to maintenance overhead: it was surprisingly low overhead to keep dependencies at a minimum across upstream kernel releases - there were tyically just around ~5 dependency additions that need to be addressed. This makes me hopeful that an optimal 'fast' state of header dependencies can be maintained going forward - once the initial set of fixes are in of course.

The runaway convention is a real problem, but what would be odds of each outcome? I can't imagine the Constitution would be replaced in its entirety, that would be difficult to implement. I also can't imagine contentious issues going strongly either way, that would probably also be difficult to pull off politically.

That's an interesting way to resolve an exploit like that, what would have necessitated disabling DirectX 12 in its entirety as opposed to other methods?

Most likely, a security vulnerability in the GPU's MMU that fundamentally cannot be patched on DX12 due to the increase in programmer flexibility that DX12 offers. Could be a race condition somewhere, for example.

I don't think this is very surprising as someone just below this age band. At my college, I've noticed a significant gap and some associated resentment exists as well, even though the gender ratio is near even and has the student population of a private R1. Some friends of mine cycle through dozens of potential partners easily and never appear to end up in a relationship in spite of wanting one. The issues of marriage are not a contributing factor either, since that is too far in the future to be relevant.

Online, you can easily find communities of men and women who lament not being able to find a partner, demanding that the opposite gender change their behavior. Such behavior is unproductive and toxic, but reflects a an unfortunate reality that there is a deadweight loss among people who are unpartnered.

It's sad overall that such a gap exists. A significant subset of the population is simply unable to meet the needs/get their own needs met of people they are interested in. I wonder what the long term outcome of this will be, but at minimum recognizing such a problem exists and attempting to do what we can for ourselves and others to be a good partner is probably the best we can do.

This is really cool, what future plans do you have with this?