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Indeed. I guess this is why [[gnu::musttail]] and [[clang::musttail]] exist. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-15.1.0/gcc/Statement-Attr...

Interesting article about a worthy topic, even though I disagree with some it. Side note: I expected to see mention of design by contract and function preconditions/invariants/post…

Is it patchable? Are there any known-working fixes that can be broadly applied?

One thing that wasn't tried is that the ASCII path could build a block-wise bitmap of non-ASCII blocks. Then the unicode pass need only process the contiguous ranges within the bit…

If you can kill-off the extra buffer allocation code path that's got to be a win.

+1 great idea. I get the impression that some of my sibling comments thought that you meant fold all code points in the opposite direction, but it it's clear you mean change the fo…

We've had mechanical/automated/algorithmic transformation of copyrighted works for over 100 years now. There are plenty of non-AI systems for translating code from one language to …

It has to be the right information, filtered and presented in such a way that supports the task. Any kind of human in the loop UI has to manage user cognitive loading. Task saturat…

Agree. Security fixes are the killer app for automatic updates. I would argue there are other kinds of fixes that should make the cut: crash bugs, data loss bugs. Maybe even broken…

Very cool, thanks. But this requires the iPhone/computer to have an internet connection. I'm thinking about alternatives to GPS for non-network continuous time synchronisation.

Agreed. Your self-managed vendoring example is quite near one end of the continuum. I'm suggesting that there might be space for better tooling from there all the way to the NPM en…

IANAL and I don't think you are either. Be careful making simplistic inferences about a complicated system. Human "translation" is one thing, algorithmic "translation" has seen sep…

I'm curious: how large is it really? As I understand it, Kakehashi is targeting command line programs, especially Xcode-tools. How much non-POSIX/Mach/BSD interface do Mac command …

> to be in control of the dependencies Maybe I'm out of touch, but I think control over dependencies is underrated. It's not just about freezing and pinning. There should be better…

"For 95% of all code that is correct. std::make_* is easy to use and prevents a lot of mistakes, while having no loss of performance." For 95% of code std::unique_ptr has no loss o…

Agreed. But you make it sound like the worst case is necessarily fatal. It depends on the use-case. The workable cmpxchg algorithms will make progress on at least one core each rou…

In many application code bases no doubt. But how do you think make_unique and make_shared are implemented?

> Rather than all that to turn an e-reader into a tablet All what? Most Boox products are Android tablets with e-ink screens and pen support. Few are marketed as, or realistically …

Australia here, no radio time as far as I know. Lately I've been wondering whether accurate time could be derived from terrestrial digital TV signals.

> Why has it taken this long to catch on? Intel didn't put SIMD in their chips speculatively; there was a lucrative market. HPC presumably. Maybe SIGINT. There have always been SIM…

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQNqo2xtq6U

> be more implicit The other day I began by asking Claude: "What's the deal with ${current_practice_in_complex_technical_concept}?" and was talked down to like I was an idiot. Late…

Indeed. I primarily used PIMPL when I want to avoid polluting public header files with implementation detail #includes in cases where forward declarations are impossible or unwield…

Thanks for sharing. Hadn't seen that particular presentation of binary splits before.

> You have to be confident by default or you'll never get anything done. Crippling doubt can happen. Blind confidence has its own hazards. You only need to be confident that you ca…