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> Doubling the input roughly doubles the time, the signature of an n log n algorithm. Excuse me? This entire paragraph reads like the author has made the assumptions about the time…

I personally didn't notice any strong LLM tells in the writing. In fact, I enjoyed the writing style quite a bit. Especially the following sentence near the beginning of the articl…

Ive actually toyed with the idea of having @ as a pointer dereference. It seems to make sense: you want to know what is at the address stored in p.

I thought C++ was designed to fit all sorts of applications. There is many GUI libraries for C++ for example, and the language has all the capabilities to add abstractions for maki…

> The concise help text should only include: > - A description of what your program does. > - One or two example invocations. > - Descriptions of flags, unless there are lots of th…

What is the `tlul` part? Just a typo? I don't see it in your expansions.

But the goal isn't to catalogue all human knowledge. Having an article for every living person would be "cataloguing all human knowledge" but it would also be a meaningless endeavo…

Right before the statement in Wikipedia being an ideological playground: > Our best hypothesis is quite simple: some of the mods just don't like Odin as a language and don't want i…

> But the tech giant says it kept operational carbon emissions down by continuing to purchase massive amounts of clean energy. I never got this line of reasoning. If you are using …

They have hardware decoders for JPEG? I have never heard of this and it seems overkill considering how simple it is to decode.

By cheating you gain a certificate that says you can do things which you cannot. The difference between cheating in university and forging a degree is the time it takes. When going…

Except that brotli uses Huffman coding. It's main claim to fame is using higher order statistics to select a Huffman table and its built-in dictionary. This class of compression pr…

Which slice? The large text compression benchmark uses enwik8 for a "smaller" input that is easily reproducible. The predictability of enwik9 can vary significantly depending on wh…

It depends on the format. Brotli switches the Huffman codes used based on the previously decoded bytes, but gzip and bzip2 for example use the same Huffman codes for a bigger block…

I imagine you would want to test "idiomatic" code for these comparisons. It doesn't make much sense to compile with C++ and write everything in C.

Another interesting one is the ZPAQ compression program[1]. It is one of the top performers on the large text compression benchmark[2] and uses the bytecode to specify how to model…

I hope the brakes in my car don't need developers

Does HN randomly charge you money for using these phrases?

I made a program with some inline assembly and tried O3 with clang once. Because the assembly was in a loop, the compiler probably didn't have enough information on the actual code…

> I don't know about survival bias. LLMs are well suited to this task of taking in this cloud of soft data like a description of symptoms and spitting out a potential diagnosis. An…

A lot of them are better in many areas. JPEG is just good enough (tm)

I read a while back that bzip2 is named that way because the original bzip used arithmetic coding. The person who made bzip then made bzip2 to use Huffman coding due to patent prob…

bzip3 is very different from bzip2. It is not even made by the same person and is not nearly as ubiquitous.

> I know this position is wrong, but it feels hard to spend my time on something that someone else might not have spent the time to create I don't think that position is wrong. I f…

ISO C99 actually defines multiple types of deviating behaviour. What you're describing is closer to implementation-defined behaviour than anything else. The three behaviours releva…