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careful what you wish for, x87's extended precision is what wrote the original bug: 80 bits in registers,64 on a spill, so the value depended on register pressure ARM and WASM drop…

his predicates paper opens with "Computational geometers despise floating-point arithmetic" same trick as the CG title: write the sentence a frustrated reader would write, then are…

Redis sorted sets are probably the most widely deployed example. Redis uses a skiplist for range queries and ordered iteration paired with a hash table for O(1) lookups. Together t…

Barely anyone mentioned the "AI agent angle", I mean the situation when an AI agent runs "cat readme.txt" a file with embedded instructions becomes a prompt injection attack. It is…

The real risk is not that "LLM SQL" is wrong, it is in fact that a man who asked for it can't recognize when it is wrong. Writing a query and knowing when JSON silently doubled you…

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The numbered forms are most useful as a teaching device, not an engineering specification. Once you have internalized 2NF and 3NF violations through a few painful bugs, you start s…

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