@whitequark I once spoke with a PL/1 programmer working at a large bank, who only ran “syntax check” once a day because of how slow it was. I didn’t ask about compiling.
@gsuberland@whitequark they also save a lot of energy by just never moving from the spot where they first started life, and that concept is technically open to all
I'm running a fairly small #Java service, and recently switch it over to Generational ZGC. Turns out ZGC scales down quite well. After the heuristics settled, max heap is now kept below 300 MiB, which is less than what we got with G1GC. Pause times are also much lower, with sum total pause per minute occasionally reaching 1 ms, but is usually sub-ms. I can see why they want to make this the default in Java 23.
If you like someone's open source project. If you use it, and it gives you value. Send them a thank-you note.
You never know what might mean to someone.
For instance, you never know if it 10 years down the line could help bolster their immigration case by showing they've made notable contributions to their field, and received recognition from their peers. You never know. 🙃
@whitequark I have no idea how hardware is put together, but isn’t it just like you throw a bunch of numbers into a spreadsheet and then feed it to an eldritch abomination until a netlist comes out?
@whitequark thinking about it, the closest I’ve ever gotten to hardware is probably that I’ve worked on the neo4j graph database, which IBM has used to do cycle timing verification of the Power9 chip (and maybe other stuff, I don’t know)
reminds me of that time i took a turbomolecular pump through an airport security checkpoint (not customs, security at entrance). it went like this
me: puts suitcase on the conveyor
employee, to herself: "what is this thing? it is full of blades???"
employee, to me: "what is it in your luggage?"
me, pointing at the screen of the xray machine: "oh, that? it's a pump"
employee: "a pump? does it have liquid inside?
me: "it's a vacuum pump. it does not pump liquids"
employee: "go ahead"
was watching videos about racecars and had concluded (i know very little about racecars) that a racecar is more or less an airplane that is optimized solely for landing, and must be landing as hard as it can at all times
