> The costs just get bigger.

By a constant factor no less (until we get into theoretical physics)

I spent years not upgrading because when I'm in my car asking my phone to navigate somewhere, Gemini likes to say "As a large language model I can't navigate anywhere. Try using a map application on your mobile device."

It still does it, but these days you can reply: "yes you %@#$ing can, use a tool call!!" and it will

Matching decomp would require the same compiler and flags as the original game, right? How is that determined?

Experimentally, I think. There's only a few dozen options, and you can winnow it down to just a few pretty quickly.

> OpenBSD devs making huge progress unlocking the kernel for SMP

Isn't this anachronistic for 2026? Am I misunderstand what this means?

I will try to remember him for his far too relatable Dilbert comics about corporate office life, and not his, uhm, later work.

One of my favorite strips was Dilbert in the 90s only being given a 286 PC for 3D rendering work, with the boss saying "besides, how often will you do 3D rendering in your career?"

Dilbert replies "Once, if I hurry"

I once saw a high resolution CPU graph of a video playing in Safari. It was completely dead except for a blip every 1/30th of a second.

Incredible discipline. The Chrome graph in comparison was a mess.

Safari team explicitly targets perf as a target. I just wish they weren't so bad about extensions and adblock and I'd use it as my daily driver. But those paper cuts make me go back to chromium browsers all the time.

I find Orion has similar power efficiency but avoids those papercuts: https://kagi.com/orion/

> The intention was to prevent tooth decay by regulating candy intake.

Yes, but crucially not by reducing candy intake.

The result of the study was that the amount of sugar didn't particularly matter, but frequency of intake and stickiness did.

I'm Norwegian and concluded that she meant when ordering, such as for a choice of potatoes or pasta.

This makes sense since the context is translation for tourism.

Otherwise, the normal, casual way would be "kan du sende potetene?" i.e. "could you pass the potatoes?", lit. "can you send the potatoes?"

(This assumes it wasn't physically possible to simply reach across people to grab it yourself with what's known as "the Norwegian arm")

> Meta went from 2K to 10K+ from 2018 to 2025

Facebook rebranded to Meta in October 2021

Good call. O(N^2) is the worst time complexity because it's fast enough to be instantaneous in all your testing, but slow enough to explode in prod.

I've seen it several times before, and it's exactly what happened here.

We just had this exact problem. Tests ran great, production slowed to a crawl.

I was just helping out with the network at an event. Worked great in testing, but it failed in production due to unicast flooding the network core. Turns out that some of the PoE Ethernet switches had an insufficiently sized CAM for the deployment combined with STP topology changes reducing the effective size of the CAM by a factor of 10 on the larger switches. Gotta love when packet forwarding goes from O(1) to O(n) and O(n^2)! Debugging that in production is non-trivial as the needle is in such a large haystack of packets so as to be nearly impossible to find in the output of tcpdump and wireshark. The horror... The horror...

First big project I worked on a couple of us sped up the db initialization scripts so we could use a less trivial set of test data to stop this sort of shenanigans.

Things like inserting the test data first and turning on constraints and possibly indexes afterward.