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I wonder too what happens when all the human workers are out of the job and out of practice, and every company is dependent on a handful of dominant AI companies for their workforc…

There isn't a language that achieves C's performance, access to hardware and portability while also having superior syntax. The reason C is hard is because it makes sacrifices to e…

This is interesting. I wonder who the "other allocator" was. I think this would benefit from direct comparison with jemalloc, glibc and others. It would also be interesting to obse…

The developers of each have engaged in a few flamewars and the commenter I replied to was critical of GrapheneOS using similar language, so I made a (tongue in cheek comment) imply…

Is the CalyxOS Vs GrapheneOS shitflinging about to start up again?

The EU's proposed system uses ZK proof. You get a PGP signed message from "someone" who knows your identity (government or private agency) then store it on your phone to pass to we…

Fair point that binary search causes a lot of branch mispredictions. Did you ever measure whether the unrolled linear search with 8 elements outperforms a "rolled" one? Because wit…

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I actually assumed ?: desugared to an if-else and never checked. I was a bit confused by the if-else chains you have e.g. on line 111 where it look…

How did you do it? Hopefully you generated thousands of such arrays and measured the cost of searching all of them as a single iteration? Because depending on what you use to measu…

I'm guessing you don't really do this for users since the response for all of them should be 401 on any user that you aren't logged in as? I would argue even for IDs that don't exi…

What does it do for you that, say, konsole, gnome-terminal or even xterm wouldn't?

Why are people using "learnings" as a word, when "lessons" already fits all its use cases? It's quite jarring.

Considering they knew these failure modes in advance, would it not have been prudent to put some sort of self-righting mechanism on the lander? Something like the mechanical arms y…

Well, almost. I use a lot of assertions to check the obvious (value out of range, null pointer, etc.) and test the happy path(s) to prove the code at least works in the cases I can…

What is your opinion of code coverage requirements now? I have been in a "phase" of seeing them as "code quality theatre". Considering that a function which takes a single 8-bit in…

I think the best way to achieve this is by providing an OS API that results in the files always being created in the same place. Applications/libraries could still choose their own…

At 29, I don't feel like I was "basically finished" until 25 or so, and feel significantly more mature than I was even a year ago. I'm very interested to know why you think 13 year…

I was talking about the posts/linked articles rather than the comments. I counted six in the first 20 posts, and the titles are mostly quite ad-like. While I was initially interest…

Wonder how much Apple paid for all these ads.

Meta seem to have gone quiet on it publicly but they are still doing research in VR/AR, and now Apple are entering the industry. What do you think the future holds for VR and metav…

Why was Bitcoin an option?

No! Since I made a new email account with email aliases allowing me to give a unique address to every company I haven't received a single spam email (apart from advertising from sa…

I didn't have a case on my Pixel 6 for almost a year. Now it has a cracked back. And a case. This phone seems engineered to be dropped. When I had an iPhone Mini, I didn't have a c…