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- it's easy to prompt an LLM to do it for you, especially if you're targeting a pre-existing runtime like CLR or transpiling to another language. previously you'd have to grind out…

BitTorrent's bencoding format, used in .torrent files, effectively uses netstrings-- but without the trailing commas, so it uses "5:hello" to represent filenames and similar.

It's not really a big problem. You should be storing arbitrary binary strings as blobs (and length() works properly with them), but the underlying encoding is nearly identical: htt…

if you happen to regenerate your protos 5 times in an hour you'll get ratelimited it's a very frustrating system. you should spend a modicum of effort figuring out how to generate …

The absolutely easiest way to write a JIT is to use Javascript and eval() (or "new Function()", which is just eval in a Java-shaped tuxedo). You can quite easily speed up little ma…

Cloudflare's Deepseek V4 Pro prices are 4x more than Deepseek's for input and output tokens, and 100x more for cached input tokens, which is crucial for the tool uses of agents whi…

Something like https://www.kythe.io/ ?

It's rgb with 3.3 bits per channel, basically 10 bit per pixel color (256 colors is 8bpp).

Sqlite can quite easily do 5000+ insert+commits per second on typical NVMe drives. Speed is rarely the constraint that makes it unsuitable for an application.

The main thing holding most people back from web-based IDEs is restricted filesystem and tools integrations, but cloud office suites are extremely popular. Google has excellent inf…

I see you have ALP, but have you tried Chimp128 or Arrow's byte stream split?

Apple could easily support eGPUs if they wanted to, but they choose to have vertical integration over fragmentation or usefulness. It's the same as them not supporting OpenGL or Vu…

Pangram rates it as 100% AI generated. Heartwarming: even if you die and nobody cares, an AI can write your eulogy!

It's not that it's reserving power, but rather that you hit some bottleneck on a 3070 Ti before running into thermal limits-- it's likely limited by either tensor core saturation o…

They are bullshit machines because they do not have an internal mental model of truth like a human does. The flagship models bullshit less, but their fundamental architectures prev…

I'm glad there's many teams with automated scans of pypi and npm running. It elevates the challenge of making a backdoor that can survive for any length of time.

That's a narrow fair use exception. Many of these open game engines are effectively 1:1 decompilations of the original games, and it would be shocking if they were not effectively …

Microsoft released a video that covers effectively all of the Xbox One security system, and it's referred to extensively in the talk. The specific methods of glitching don't requir…

You're reading more dismissal than I wrote. Most businesses can and many businesses do run efficiently out of shared spreadsheets. Choosing the processes well is the hard part, but…

Many engineers get paid a lot of money to write low-complexity code gluing things together and tweaking features according to customer requirements. When the difficulty of a task i…

JPEG XL also incorporates Chroma from Luma. It's a standard coding tool in modern codecs.

Hardware video decoding APIs often have significantly more latency than software decoders, to the point that it's a noticeable several hundred milliseconds of delay. If they have t…

You have that backwards. GFS was replaced by Colossus ca. 2010, and largely functions as blob storage with append-only semantics for modification. BigTable is a KV store, and the r…

Most companies doing CGI work, both in games and movies, are quite open about their technical details. The whole industry relies on pooled research and development. While the actua…