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This is an advertisement, but it's one of the few I actually enjoy watching, and it suggests a track is "2500 times smaller than a human hair" which puts an upper bound on the size…

How would you do it, then? Sandboxing a project's build.zig via Wasm (and the various dependencies's build.zig files) seems like a great improvement to me and is how I would person…

A PhD is a Doctor of Philosophy, so unless that PhD has been invalidated he is in fact a doctor. I don't know his personal preferences so perhaps he doesn't like to be referred to …

He earned a PhD…

x265 is an encoder, not a decoder. Also, being open source doesn't matter here: an open source library, even with a patent grant, doesn't give you a license to someone else's paten…

Some programmers will write more efficient code. At my $dayjob (one of the big tech companies) we're already planning a major goal next year of optimizing server code to reduce RAM…

> Reducing radiation from CT scans is a noble cause on its own Is it? Linear No Threshold has largely been rejected at this point. https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/early/2024/06…

> like landmines Boy do I have news for you about the use of landmines in the Ukraine war…

The most difficult part is acquiring the necessary domain specific knowledge, including what your AHJ changed from the national codes. But yes, once you know everything it’s all pr…

No, you also need to calculate the voltage drop over your distance to show to minimum wire sizing, and the voltage and power levels at the ASHRAE minimum temperature, the current l…

No, I’m saying that it’s how I like to tinker. Others have their own ways of tinkering that are just as valid! I personally think the optimization challenge is fun. I like digging …

When I want to tinker it’s usually because I want to make something faster than anyone else has done. Does that help illustrate why some might prefer to tinker in Zig, and why your…

It allows you to fill in padding in a buffer. For example, all data in a buffer will be interpreted by a downstream system, and someone pre-calculated the size of that buffer. Rath…

SQLite is arguably the most widely deployed database in the world. It also has its roots in government/defense contracting so it was built with navigating that kind of red tape in …

PGBackRest was sponsored by some specific organizations, but not owned by them, and PGBackRest was not their product. SQLite is in a whole different league when it comes to funding…

SQLite doesn’t depend on donations. They have a consortium, sell licenses (it is open source but some companies like the explicit CYA), sell support contracts, sell an aviation-gra…

I’ve done it multiple times without much effort. Or skill. Really it was a skill issue and I tried things that I thought would work but apparently don’t. I screwed up jj a few time…

If you're already super comfortable in git, it's not. I'm saying this as someone who recently converted from git to jj and never wants to go back. You also don't have to follow wha…

Given the pause in hostilities announced today it certainly looks like insider knowledge: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1162782323629...

Anecdote time! I had Codex GPT 5.4 xhigh generate a Rust proc macro. It's pretty straightforward: use sqlparser to parse a SQL statement and extract the column names of any row-pro…

I think your average person knows what sequential means but might not remember what series means. Personally I always remember the meaning of series in “parallel vs series” because…

> Metric prefixes are always lower case, so GB isn't valid metric. Ummm, what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

> That doesn't conform to SI. It should be written as kB mB gB Little m is milli, big M is mega. Little g doesn’t exist, only big G.

I implemented a rational number library for media timestamps (think CMTime, AVRational, etc.) that uses 64-bit numerators and denominators. It uses 128-bit integers for intermediat…

> Would you pay for source-available products? GPL and paid license? I'm not GP but I would at least consider it. I say that as someone who refuses to build on closed-source toolin…