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In some sense companies that don't protect your data make money off the back of your data being leaked (in the sense that they saved money by not spending it on security)

I'm becoming a big fan of Zig every since learning about `zig cc` as a way of dipping my toes in it. I was already impressed by the build caching so I'm keen to play with this

I came across this via patio11's podcast [0] and really enjoyed it. I'd also recommend listening to their podcast or reading the transcript [0] https://www.complexsystemspodcast.co…

I appreciate this opinion, it's very generous

I like ast-grep and I think the changes are interesting, but it isn't fun reading an ai-generated article. It seems like a lot of the speedup comes from using an arena, using reall…

I wasn't sure if I would be able to listen again - it's so hard to hear.

> probably the biggest drawback of nuclear pulse propulsion is the thousands of nuclear bombs The more you know

Oooh I'd forgotten about that! I'm keen on the real (non-rowid) primary keys and covering indexes. I'm not sure about defaulting to decimal math, but I suppose the reasoning makes …

I mean.... it does sound like a fun project

There is a way to do this with sqlite in readonly mode using the append vfs [0] which allows you to put your DB appended to the end of the executable, and then the executable can r…

Huh TIL! I've spent a lot of the last few weeks reading sqlite docs and somehow either never saw that or forgot it

There's a really good list of lessons in the second half of this page which I think are really interesting (in general, but also in specific for this project). I don't have a Lobst…

I mis-read the title and thought someone was going to pay 65k to work at Anthropic. And ... That's a strange thing to do, but financially would probably pay off in the end

I've been building some sqlite plugins for playing with ngrams for text search. I'm not sure why, but I've learned a lot about the internal sqlite apis and it brings me a lot of jo…

I noticed that it wasn't the best comment, I was only concerned with the tone, and I feel like dang has enough going on that we also need to help elevate the conversation. I admit …

Your reply would have been much better without the first line [0] > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can b…

Very cool story. I'm interested to do a similar transition, though I was thinking it would be mecessary to go back and do a masters. It's interesting that that might not be require…

This was equal parts interesting and terrifying (both from a ecosystem and from a 'will I have a job next year' perspective)

I do the same. But the benefit to me is that by the time I've written out the message and checked my work I've usually solved the problem. So it's like rubber-ducking but with soci…

The latest post from the very interesting exe.dev project (previously of 'I am building a cloud' [0]). They have a lot of interesting work that goes in to making SSH work with thei…

Always a good day when I get to look at the McMaster catalogue

The article mentions that you typically have to longjmp within the same function as setjump (or a descendant function) otherwise your stack gets cleared and you longjmp to a garbag…

How interesting! I thought that setjmp and longjmp were probably incompatible with Fil-C. And I'd somehow never heard of ucontext at all. I suppose managing the stack is still mana…

> writing well is really hard I think because good writing is easier to read and understand than bad writing, there's almost an inverse relationship between how easy writing seems …