Ah shoot, you're right this wouldn't be what I'm thinking. I was thinking of "GC Nepotism" [1]. That's the case where an object in old gen pointing to an object in new gen will automatically promote that new gen object…
Not really heap compression or special, it's just reusing a reference to an object already allocated on the heap. Right now, if I do this LocalDate a = LocalDate.of(2020, 1, 1); LocalDate b = LocalDate.of(2020, 1, 1); A…
> is there like a list of things that government is responsible for Why yes, there is. Here's an example of that list for the federal government [1]. States and cities also have similar lists though they may not be as…
Great, and through your effort you can raise a total of 100, maybe even 1000 dollars. Meanwhile while you are willing to give $15 for good data, Koch is willing to spend $15 million for a guy with a degree in fine arts…
> how can we trust either its legislative or executive branch to ensure that their creations are effective or efficient? Glad you asked. That's actually the job of the Inspectors General. One of the first groups of…
One of my least proud (most proud?) hacks when working with very large data sets is something like this Map<Integer, Integer> intCache = new HashMap<>(); while (loading) { Integer feild1 =…
Cheap, not free, and even pretty simple to accidentally fool the GC on the lifetime of these objects. Consider, for example, if you have a log message like this logger.info("Hello {}", myOldObject); if "myOldObject" is…
The most surprising allocation pressure I constantly run into is primitive boxing. The JVM does heroics to try and avoid it as much as possible, but when you end up with some primitive boxing in a hotspot the amount of…
Yeah, I don't love this part of the work. Especially since it's completely exploded out the text of basically everything. I'm also suspicious that the person that generated that text didn't read any of it.
> Much more likely that the legend evolved over many generations and became a mishmash of fact and fiction over hundreds of years before someone actually wrote it down. I don't really dispute that this is the likely…
> Yes, Joseph Smith played a similar role to Romulus in the founding of Rome: the leader and lawgiver No he didn't. You obviously no nothing about what his role was. > It also seems highly unlikely that Smith simply…
Valhalla can't come soon enough. I've definitely had to change things into SOA in order to eke out performance. My coworkers aren't thrilled seeing `double[] x; double[] y;` but that really is about the only way to get…
Totally agree, but I'm in Java land and cursed to have about the worst case scenario for those things :D
Because you might want to put a breakpoint on that line of code and debug the variables going in and coming out. But further, optimizing in the compiler can preclude future optimizations by the JIT. Giving the JIT more…
While the article is interesting, it's the case of a missed optimization by the compiler and (possibly) something that a future version of the compiler will catch. This sort of optimization is one that'd I'd not spend…
It's a good rule of thumb that can be quite useful without additional analysis. It's not always the right way to do performance tuning, but I can't count the number of times I've changed an O(n^3) to an O(n) and seen…
Ktesias wrote of the battle using Persian sources. Though he's considered pretty unreliable. While the sources are all from greek authors, we have 6 different sources about the battle with Herodotos, Diodoros, and…
> The conversion of the Romans to Christianity happened because of real events Yeah, and in the process of converting to Christianity, Romans began rewriting their history and erasing their past. Which is exactly what…
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It ultimately depends on if there is overriding state or federal law. But yeah, it's something a city can enforce. A small town in Wyoming could do the same and could sue (and probably win) against businesses that do…
> The idea that some random historian or politician simply convinced everyone his fiction story was true and central to their identity - and it worked time after time AND everyone else bought into it - is clearly…
> It also conveniently explains why there is an ancient temple under the Forum with an empty sarcophagus dated to the 500s BC that appears to be dedicated to Romulus. Bad article. Here's a better one [1]. What the…
> This is a totally unfruitful line of inquiry It's really not. This is the line of inquiry that leads you to understand the founding myth of Rome and what the motivations might have been to create such a myth. It also…
Important to note, Canaanites have semitic names. So, someone with a semitic name isn't even an indicator that they were a Hebrew, only that they were possibly Hebrew. Which is unlikely. The evidence we have is that…
Likely? That's wild. What's the corroborating evidence from ~750BC documenting their existence? Heck, where's that evidence from 650BC?
Ah shoot, you're right this wouldn't be what I'm thinking. I was thinking of "GC Nepotism" [1]. That's the case where an object in old gen pointing to an object in new gen will automatically promote that new gen object…
Not really heap compression or special, it's just reusing a reference to an object already allocated on the heap. Right now, if I do this LocalDate a = LocalDate.of(2020, 1, 1); LocalDate b = LocalDate.of(2020, 1, 1); A…
> is there like a list of things that government is responsible for Why yes, there is. Here's an example of that list for the federal government [1]. States and cities also have similar lists though they may not be as…
Great, and through your effort you can raise a total of 100, maybe even 1000 dollars. Meanwhile while you are willing to give $15 for good data, Koch is willing to spend $15 million for a guy with a degree in fine arts…
> how can we trust either its legislative or executive branch to ensure that their creations are effective or efficient? Glad you asked. That's actually the job of the Inspectors General. One of the first groups of…
One of my least proud (most proud?) hacks when working with very large data sets is something like this Map<Integer, Integer> intCache = new HashMap<>(); while (loading) { Integer feild1 =…
Cheap, not free, and even pretty simple to accidentally fool the GC on the lifetime of these objects. Consider, for example, if you have a log message like this logger.info("Hello {}", myOldObject); if "myOldObject" is…
The most surprising allocation pressure I constantly run into is primitive boxing. The JVM does heroics to try and avoid it as much as possible, but when you end up with some primitive boxing in a hotspot the amount of…
Yeah, I don't love this part of the work. Especially since it's completely exploded out the text of basically everything. I'm also suspicious that the person that generated that text didn't read any of it.
> Much more likely that the legend evolved over many generations and became a mishmash of fact and fiction over hundreds of years before someone actually wrote it down. I don't really dispute that this is the likely…
> Yes, Joseph Smith played a similar role to Romulus in the founding of Rome: the leader and lawgiver No he didn't. You obviously no nothing about what his role was. > It also seems highly unlikely that Smith simply…
Valhalla can't come soon enough. I've definitely had to change things into SOA in order to eke out performance. My coworkers aren't thrilled seeing `double[] x; double[] y;` but that really is about the only way to get…
Totally agree, but I'm in Java land and cursed to have about the worst case scenario for those things :D
Because you might want to put a breakpoint on that line of code and debug the variables going in and coming out. But further, optimizing in the compiler can preclude future optimizations by the JIT. Giving the JIT more…
While the article is interesting, it's the case of a missed optimization by the compiler and (possibly) something that a future version of the compiler will catch. This sort of optimization is one that'd I'd not spend…
It's a good rule of thumb that can be quite useful without additional analysis. It's not always the right way to do performance tuning, but I can't count the number of times I've changed an O(n^3) to an O(n) and seen…
Ktesias wrote of the battle using Persian sources. Though he's considered pretty unreliable. While the sources are all from greek authors, we have 6 different sources about the battle with Herodotos, Diodoros, and…
> The conversion of the Romans to Christianity happened because of real events Yeah, and in the process of converting to Christianity, Romans began rewriting their history and erasing their past. Which is exactly what…
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It ultimately depends on if there is overriding state or federal law. But yeah, it's something a city can enforce. A small town in Wyoming could do the same and could sue (and probably win) against businesses that do…
> The idea that some random historian or politician simply convinced everyone his fiction story was true and central to their identity - and it worked time after time AND everyone else bought into it - is clearly…
> It also conveniently explains why there is an ancient temple under the Forum with an empty sarcophagus dated to the 500s BC that appears to be dedicated to Romulus. Bad article. Here's a better one [1]. What the…
> This is a totally unfruitful line of inquiry It's really not. This is the line of inquiry that leads you to understand the founding myth of Rome and what the motivations might have been to create such a myth. It also…
Important to note, Canaanites have semitic names. So, someone with a semitic name isn't even an indicator that they were a Hebrew, only that they were possibly Hebrew. Which is unlikely. The evidence we have is that…
Likely? That's wild. What's the corroborating evidence from ~750BC documenting their existence? Heck, where's that evidence from 650BC?