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Interesting. I'll have to give it a try. If I understand your suggestion, you're saying that rather than doing 2 lookups for logs, then an addition, and then another lookup to exp …

Oh! Gotcha! I put a table in the README that lays it all out https://github.com/brian-armstrong/fec#performance tldr: My library matches or beats libfec's SSE2 assembly for convolu…

I used the benchmarking binaries that ship with libfec. My own crate has a libfec-compatible C shim, so I can link the benchmark against the Rust crate. The benchmark itself report…

You could certainly call this crate through a shim in goestools but you'd have to add a Rust dependency. But you could also rewrite goestools in Rust, though it wouldn't be a small…

I wrote libcorrect in C in 2016 and wanted to revisit it in Rust. Instead of doing just a direct conversion, I went down the rabbit hole of making Rust's std::simd work for me. I e…

The models would have to get significantly better for this to help, though. Unedited LLM dialog is quite bad. Though, I wouldn't put it past AAAs to try anyway.

I read these stories and I can never figure out how people are managing to use these $200 plans. If I really go full bore, I can sometimes max out the $20 plan. Even then, it alrea…

Absolutely. Let them fend for themselves in the streets.

Yikes. That's a car that looks like it gets its lunch money taken by the other cars.

It's good, but you still have to pay monthly for it. Feels like it kind of defeats the point of having a local collection.

What? Most (all?) platforms let you opt out of this, and you receive payment when your shares are borrowed. And shares are fungible, how would it matter if one share is borrowed by…

Not comparable at all. Xbox would be mostly transient traffic. It's probably not much more than packet forwarding for a lot of traffic. Github is a giant complicated stateful mess …

Why would you ever accept a mismatched certificate? Even assuming that you think your ISP has no nefarious plans, are you going to be able to rigorously confirm it's their certific…

Or the Cinco Encyclopedia of Numbers https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3QxgjLGbQ Thanks, Cinco

It'd be nice if AI-written articles had an [AI] after the headline

What kind of self-disrespecting dev is using MacOS in TYOOL 2026?

It seems unlikely that "is user adult" is not already easily modeled by any of these companies to within a very high degree of confidence. Even 15 or 20 years ago Google search cou…

Location: SF / Remote Remote: Mostly (Open to 0 - 3 days/wk in office) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Elixir, Typescript, Python Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/…

You don't really need Windows for gaming anymore unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat. Proton is extremely good on Linux these days.

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Location: SF / Remote Remote: Mostly (Open to 0 - 3 days/wk in office) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Elixir, Typescript, Python Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/…

I'm curious, how did you make it this far in life without realizing that paint is delicate and scratches easily? Do you have untreated brick walls in your house or something?

It would surely depend on the SSD and the firmware it's running. I don't think you can entirely count on it. Even if it were working perfectly, and your strategy was to power the S…

It's quite possible. Some SSDs are worse offenders for this than others. I have some Samsung 870 EVOs that lost data the way you described. Samsung knew about the issue and quietly…

Powering the SSD on isn't enough. You need to read every bit occasionally in order to recharge the cell. If you have them in a NAS, then using a monthly full volume check is probab…