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mem::forget isn’t the only way you can safely leak a value, you can do it with reference cycles too, right? And there is no way for the compiler to detect that? Isn’t that why mem:…

I think you're underestimating the speed of modern computers and hard-drives, fzf can search through 100k entries easily without any delay. Try it with `cat /usr/share/dict/words |…

Does this trick work with foreign keys? Like, if you have an ON CASCADE DELETE, does it delete a bunch of rows in other tables when converting the table to strict?

One useful thing to do sometimes when looking at whether or not a user is interested in participating in Wikipedia or just participating in arguing about things is to look at their…

They can certainly be part of the standard library, it's just that you have to make the programmer be specific: it's a bad idea `new Random(seed)`, because you can then never updat…

I've always thought that random number generators are one of the best examples of Hyrum's law ("all observable behaviours are part of your API"): once you release a random number g…

Everyone knows about bit-fiddling functions, what the poster was referring to is using this trick to not have to store the capacity for a dynamic vector. Which is genuinely very cl…

It doesn’t really work though for generic vectors. If you support not just vec_push but vec_pop as well, then you really do need to store capacity separately or else call realloc w…

As a non-web dev, I have a question about this part: > There was a sad coda; as is the way of contract work, I moved on. I explained what I had built to my replacement, that it alw…

Not even young people: I have a very expensive MacBook Pro M5 i got from work, but my personal laptop is old and needs replacing. I’m a well-paid senior software developer and coul…

Sure! The main formats are VST3 (from Steinberg, the most popular format), AU (from Apple, supported by most macOS hosts, and Logic only uses AU), AAX (for Avid Pro Tools) and CLAP…

That’s a really great explanation, I think I more or less followed all of it. Thanks for taking the time to write it out!

The UI for audio plugins generally work in an event driven manner: you get events like mouseMove, keyDown, repaint, etc. from your host. In response to those events, you run your s…

So you can't execute a Janet script on a different thread than it was created on? Still not good: if you're making audio plugins, you don't control the threads which your program r…

My first question too, and I checked out the linked book [1], and sure seems like it! There's global functions like `janet_init()` and `janet_loop()` all over the place. A language…

> and with short selling in public markets being possible, an accurate price will be established very quickly. I know very little about markets, but: aren't the short-sellers just …

I would guess that the 1998 era Microsoft compiler didn't have nearly as many warnings as modern compilers do.

That is how I (a non-lawyer) understand it as well, but I wonder if it's so simple when you combine it with the GPLness of it all. Like, releasing something under the (A)GPL is a l…

Certainly that’s part of it, but also just NIMBYism. Los Angeles were able to defeat the Owen’s Valley farmers back then, I don’t think they would be now.

Yeah, the "two-bit saturating counter" thing is pretty much exactly how I thought it worked (which would be terrible for the example in the article), but I had no idea about the fa…

Hmm, that's interesting. The code as written only has one branch, the if statement (well, two, the while loop exit clause as well). My mental model of the branch predictor was that…

> Two boxes is the only choice that makes sense. It is always better than one box. Congratulations on your $1,000. I'll use some of my $1,000,000 I got by nonsensically picking one…

Conceptually it's quite similar to how C++ templates work (not including C++20 concepts, which is the kind of constraining you're talking about). I quite like it when writing C++ c…

It was an essentially pointless platitude about the GIL from a very new account not really related to the article, and all comments from this account are the same: top level commen…

Yep. Real "dead internet theory" vibes, really sad to see.