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When available I prefer installing applications via brew as casks, since at least this way if I decide to uninstall it later brew will take care of deleting all of these associated…

Compression algorithms like Brotli already do this: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7932#page-28

The Itanium ISA was an infamous failure, never seeing widespread usage, hence people often referring to it as “The Itanic” (i.e. the much-touted ship that immediately sunk). The fa…

As of when I left Meta nearly two years ago (although I would be absolutely shocked if this isn’t still the case) Jemalloc is the allocator, and is statically linked into every sin…

It’s just a huge pain to build and link against. Before the bazel 7.4.0 change your options were basically: 1. Use it as a dynamically linked library. This is not great because you…

I understand the decision to archive the upstream repo; as of when I left Meta, we (i.e. the Jemalloc team) weren’t really in a great place to respond to all the random GitHub issu…

At the risk of sounding overly harsh, I just don’t think this crate is a particularly good idea. I really do mean this as constructive criticism, so let me explain my reasoning. A …

This is likely to violate async-signal-safety [1] in any non-trivial program, unless used with extreme care. Running code in between a fork() and an exec() is fraught with peril; i…

I'm quoting from the article, and wanted to be charitable by not adding a "[sic]"

> I think the big asterick to all of this design is that my ideal framework would not look like standard C++ but like a slightly weirder Rust stdlib An interesting option in this s…

You can implement pipes via operator overloading in Python. Whether or not you should is a different question: class Pipe: __slots__ = ("value",) def __init__(self): self.value = N…

I have a genuine question, intended in good faith: why? Why spend 10 years working on this, only to give it way for free?

While I don’t use it anymore and have been out of the web dev space completely for a few years now, I personally feel I owe a lot to Django. It’s the framework behind the first sof…

This is unfortunate considering how far the language has come since then. Local variable type inference (i.e. the `var` keyword) is very difficult to give up once you’ve gotten use…

Turn off “Slide to Type” in the settings if you don’t use it. This appears to increase accuracy in my experience.

> This will lead to hard to read code I’m curious to hear why you think this. What is it about duplicating the variable name that you feel makes the code clearer?

These things are everywhere in Manhattan; a few weeks ago there were so many it took concerted effort not to step on one on the sidewalk. They don’t appear to be particularly intel…

The only place I ever encountered these was in the computer labs in Soda Hall at Berkeley. They’re a great fit for an environment like that so there’s one machine for each person w…