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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Maybe I’m missing something, but shouldn’t the benchmark be a good approximation to the real workload? I don’t see how the measurements reflect the performance difference in real life usages.

    Why would I need 100MiB/s processing as opposed to 20MiB/s processing, when I can only read maybe several lines per second?









  • If you execute a binary without specifying the path to it, it will be searched from the $PATH environment variable, which is a list of places to look for the binary. From left to right, the first found one is returned.

    You can use which cat to see what it resolves to and whereis cat to get all possible results.

    If you intentionally wants to use a different binary with the same name, you can either directly use its path, or prepend its path to $PATH.



  • There’s indeed a cake called Napoleon, which is not invented by Napoleon. I know at least in Russia and China, this cake is known by the name of Napoleon cake.

    Legend has it that the name originates from the Napoleonic war with Russia and since people have to throw the cake to the ground (table?) to break the sugar layer on top of it and thus the Russian people call it Napoleon so that they are breaking Napoleon.

    I see no mention of this etymology elsewhere, so take this with a grain of salt.