If you look at someone like Amazon, their peak usage is orders of magnitude higher than their regular idle usage. For example, just the selling side of Amazon, late November, December, the one month before Christmas, they do as much business as they do the rest of the year.
Overheard[3]
“Bitcoin ETF” is an anagram of “Fiction Bet”
(twitter, via Hacker News)
"Not necessarily that simple"
The key to improving lock-freedom throughout the system is to use less locks.
Android Studio
The lag that exists right now is just an unfortunate consequence of coordinating the releases for Google I/O. In the future, we expect Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA to always be in sync.
cygcheck
Typically when someone installs Cygwin, they also install a base set of packages that includes things like
curl.
"Involve designers from the beginning"
Asking a designer to polish something after you finish it is like asking a chef to clean the kitchen after you cook a meal.