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> The worst part about uninitialized variables is that they frequently are zero and things seem to work until you change something else that previously happened to use the same mem…

I agree that zero-initializing doesn't really help avoid incorrect values (which is what the author focuses on) but at least you don't have UB. This is the main selling point IMO.

You can do lot's of the same things in C too, as the author mentions, without too much pain. See for example [1] and [2] on arena allocators (which can be used exactly as the tempo…

Web rot is a well-known problem and I frequently come across old blogs with lots of broken links. I want to prevent this from happening to my blog so I'm considering different opti…

The text column is very thin on pages like the IPv6 address generator. The spacing between the lines also seems too high (reminds me of school essays where for some reason you alwa…

I don't get why people want the AI right in their editor. In another windows inside the editor, fine, but not inline with code I'm writing. It's super distracting to have AI auto c…

I love MBR hacking, it's so fun to see. Cf. sector lisp [1] and OSle [2]. [1]: https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866585

This is a great series of posts which have inspired me to write a debugger when they were posted here before. Very fun! This is another insightful series of the topic: https://eli.…

Yes, there are really cool packing techniques. See this talk for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk I don't include the null-terminator because I use this type in…

Read his other stuff, it’s rather well thought out. The assumption is you don’t use libc or at least you use different interfaces to it.

I’d really like to see a full C implementation of this interface. Remove all the C++ complexity in the back end

I don’t get why people use (or used) CGI programs for web servers. This seems crazy inefficient and prone to break

Yes, you can do that too

I got the error as well on the first load. Reload fixed it.

There's a great talk by Evan Czaplicki [0] that outlines the financial significance of browsers. It helps make sense of why Microsoft (and Apple) act(s) in this way. [0]: https://w…

Location: Northern Germany Remote: Possibly; I'd prefer to work in person Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, Rust, (some) Haskell, UNIX Shell Résumé/CV: https://drive.proton…

Daniel Lemire has an interesting talk on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvKAT7SZIQ . They key takeaway is that the disk is rarely the bottleneck.

Thanks for your kind words, and also thanks for the link : D

Scheme doesn't work well for very low-level code, and C doesn't handle processing source code very well. For that I'd rather use a functional language. Also, I like using different…

Yes. Anyone who is interested in this topic should read it.

There are definitely many people who almost exclusively spend their time consuming stuff at a young age. I cannot tell however, if that has ever been different, or if it's just per…

Yeah, I don't think so. It's x86_64 only, and C only too. Some points from your list make sense now, but most of it is simply not part of Spray's scope, and never has been ...