Lambda the Ultimate used to be a great resource. Now it's kind of dead.

Last I checked static inline was merely a hint that compilers need not take. They all do, but by definition it's not a zero cost abstraction.

`inline` is a hint, but he declares `static_inline` in the preprocessor to include `__attribute__((__always_inline__))`, which is more than just a hint. However, even `always_inline` may be troublesome over translation units, though we can still inline things in different translation units if using `-flto`, I believe there are occasional bugs. For libraries we'd also want to use `-ffat-lto-objects`.

Specialization takes away a lot of the competitive pressure.

What do you mean by this?

s/man/robot

Can you in plain English explain exactly what unifies these discoveries? I have a hard time seeing what unifies traffic congestion with eigenvalue analysis of ESNs. While many systems contain thresholds, a traffic jam is not chaotic in the same way that an epileptic seizure is.

In the early days of Wikipedia many articles were taken directly from the CIA Factbook since it was public domain. Numerous Wikipedians have fond memories of it and remembers it as something the US did that was actually good and not evil shit. That and America's Army. Cheap ways to gain goodwill. Maybe in the grand scheme of things it didn't matter.

America’s Army didn’t strike me as cheap at the time - but definitely was in the context of the budget of the US military.

One of the technical marvels of the day were mail and usenet clients that could properly render quoted text from infinite, never ending flame wars!

This, of course, is a tongue in cheek.

The first version of UNIX was released in 1971 and the first version of Windows NT in 1993. So UNIX is only about 60% older than NT. Both OSes have "stood the test of time", though one passed it with a dominant market share, whereas the other didn't. And systemd is heavily inspired by NT.

Time flies fast, faster than recycled arguments. :)

I'm confused as to which OS is the one that passed the other with dominant market share. Last I checked, Linux is everywhere, and Windows just keeps getting worse with every iteration.

I'm not sure I'd be smugly pronouncing anything about the superiority of Windows if I were a Microsoft guy today.

It's not surprising that systemd was heavily inspired by NT. That's exactly what Poettering was paid to create, by his employer Microsoft. (Oh, sorry--RedHat, and then "later" Microsoft.)

Linux is "everywhere" only if you count Android, which is not very Unix-like.

In the group I administer posts of many members always get stuck in the spam filter queue so I have to check it manually every day to let their posts through. It's painful. But it is the only thing that works for non-techie people. People 70+ just won't get used to slack or any other less dumb alternative.