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All the little tricks that the CPU has to speed things up, like branch prediction, out of order execution, parallel branch execution, etc, are mostly more expensive than just not having to rely on them in the first place. Branch prediction in particular is not something that should be relied on too heavily either, since it is actually quite a fragile optimization that can cause relatively large performance swings with seemingly meaningless changes to the code.

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I got ad-free Twitch years ago with Twitch Prime. And then they added ads back in for Prime users. How long will it be until they start adding ads back in for Turbo users?

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I think the original intent was referring to the fact that given the same operand, the order of multiplication and division shouldn't matter, e.g. A * X / X should give the same result as A / X * X, but in reality they can give different results when done by a computer due to precision limits, overflow, etc.

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This is why I think that the trade school model of teaching software development should really be developed further. Having been in charge of hiring software developers a number of times in the past, I have found that a Bachelors in Computer Whatever barely tells me anything about whether you can actually program. The most it tells me on paper is that you have seen some amount of code at some point in your life and know a few buzzwords.

This isn't to say that a College degree is worthless, but it is not a job training tool, and the sooner that people realize that the better. I would love to see a world where software development is treated more like some of the trades. Rather than insisting that all applicants have a BS in Computer Science or equivalent, we should hire promising kids fresh out of High School (Or college) and fund their 1 year education in programming + apprenticeship. I feel like that would lead to a healthier industry as a whole, and bring a lot more highly talented individuals into the world of programming.

And no, web dev bootcamps are not what I'm talking about. They are closer to my ideal than a college, but they have a lot of other problems that keep them from being useful in general.

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It's one of those things where if it works in your area, it works great. I've been on MVNOs for a decade now and the worst I've ever experienced was sometimes my data rate would drop to a couple mbps in crowded areas, but that's never been a material problem for me. I happily spend the $10-15/mo and get service that exceeds my needs. Sure it won't work for everyone in all cases, but you shouldn't discount MVNOs out of hand just because they are second class networks.

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This was pretty much my thoughts too. This use case is quite a bit outside of the realm of what Wordpress is intended to be used for. Local deployments are only really intended to be for people who are serious about administrating their own web server or developing plugins for Wordpress, so it's assumed that you already have the knowledge to set up a web server with PHP and MySQL.

The people who want a "writing first" experience _with Wordpress specifically_ have many paid hosting providers to choose from, but that would defeat the purpose of the article.

Making a one-click installation process would also take a significant amount of dev resources to handle all the different platforms and require expertise that isn't required for the main product, given that it is a PHP project which is almost entirely cross platform by default.

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