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Practice helps! What also helped me is being so knowledgeable about the topic that I didn't need to prepare the presentation much (except for the slides and the general plan). When…

Curious, Windows is not supported by this.

Ultrawide curved are amazing. Put your main activity in the middle since there's no screen bezel and enjoy your neck-pain-free work hours. 2 monitors force you to usually have one …

Why not just embrace Content Based Addressing and the Bazel action cache? Not necessarily adopt the RBE protos, but you could have on-disk cache that are similar or even identical.…

This is not purely a CMake problem, this is a maintainer problem. It's absolutely possible to not define the man page targets if the related tools are not found, or to add a variab…

Xerces is an old library, probably ported from autotools and will do a lot of autotools like checks which for CMake means: creating a CMake project with the probe, generating the b…

> I want the build stages to communicate in one direction for sanity That's easy to do if you control the whole pipeline and can integrate all the features together, not so much wi…

Simple CMake projects using the Ninja generator are very efficient, unless you create generated files. And if they are in their own targets, they are not really an issue (they woul…

Last time I checked (a while ago), it wasn't. You needed to compile musl and exclude a few files from the archive to then provide your own allocator. Depending on the toolchain, I'…

That's to be properly measured. Assuming that the allocator will not cause issues there is to be proven. The application I recently improved by changing the allocator had a similar…

ripgrep is there to be FAST. Trading any speed to improve memory efficiency over a longer period of time for a process with a short life-time doesn't make sense in this case. It's …

That's good! But I wonder why it wasn't then enabled for that configuration or why the override wasn't "global" enough and the default allocator was still partly used.

Sure, but the problem isn't that the bug exists, is that it has surfaced in a performance application using musl and exerting code paths in a slow allocator. mallocng should not be…

I get why people don't bother replacing the default allocator from musl all the time (it's there, convenient). But in an application whose purpose is to be FAST, I find it weird th…

Chrome uses those already, and a few other pointer types that are fit for purpose. For example, lot of C++ objects are tied to a garbage collected object in JS, so you need somethi…

They did roll this policy for Chromium changes a few years ago too. And it wasn't just 2 humans but 2 Googlers. One Googler author and one Googler reviewer works. But an external a…

Old bugs at the bottom of the prioritization list deserve to be fixed. Some were probably just theoretical "if we have over 2B of this item, it'll crash because X/Y/Z and that can …

It really depends on the context. On a pure computational code, it can work really well. I recently optimized some code asking Claude to "make it faster" 2 different programs. For …

I have seen some code where either Ghidra or IDA is producing the better output. It's not cut and dry, but in general, I do prefer Ghidra.

Sure. But in the end, it's just a tool that is used to assign blame when there are issues, and humans are more comfortable when another human is to blame rather than a machine as i…

Plan-B hasn't been relevant in a very long time and Unified Plan has been in a good working shape (and used by Google Meet) for many years. Firefox has lacked many critical APIs fr…

A lot of websites will "work" because they added Firefox workarounds. But to a Chromium or Safari user, it might as well be called a "degraded" mode. A lot of video-conferencing we…

It's not a single source problem anyway. There are many contributing factors, some are probably more important than others. The most important thing is knowing what can be done in …

At the same time, how can a human know if they accidentally rewrote exactly some code they read in the past from a codebase with an incompatible license? Accidental copies happen a…

> I can’t help but wonder whether constant use of “agent” harnesses will lead to an atrophy of the software engineering (or really any field) muscles. Compiler evolutions really ha…