I say this with all appropriate irony: as the guy that deployed it at for Wikipedia, yes.

I don’t think you have to change. But if you want a new hobby, try Arch. I got it just the way I like it years ago and haven’t had to change anything. I picked Arch because I always ended up on their wiki anyway.

There is still fun to be had! Just… Different fun!

In database land lookup tables are pretty common. Prefix tries and the like are super common in search land. I’ve seen GCD, offset, delta-of-delta, and some funky bitwise floating point compression used. Sometimes just to save dist space. But usually to save working set space or IO or S3 cache space.

And squeezing the most out of modern CPUs is its own art. Compilers are glorious. And modern CPUs are magic lightning rocks. But you can learn to sing to them just right to make them all happy.

I’ve been in the industry since 2001 and think maybe once I had a one-meeting cycle.

Inaccurate garbage.

I use Arch because I’m old and set it up just the way I want it years ago and never have to change or reinstall. How dare you accuse me of, what was it, being a cranky asshole?! Wait.

/s

It’s cute. Thanks for posting.

I use Arch and i3. It’s old but it’s set up the way I like it. I’ve spent maybe an hour in the past year poking at os stuff. Seems plenty stable to me.