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I've always wanted it to work this way. However it'd only work if you had a case with the magnetic cover to turn on the device. Otherwise someone would pick up their un-cased kindl…

I used the term "early access" when I should've used "private beta". The sign up is just for me to have an email addresses to send the private beta when the next update goes out, a…

Good suggestion. Updated.

Thanks CyberDildoNics!

I use whatever the equivalent is on that OS.

I'll be sending out the a macOS version to another wave of beta users after I fix an outstanding issue, if you sign up (at bottom of article) and mention this comment I can make su…

Thank you! Yeah it can be used for any type of program, but I haven't been able to think of anything besides compilation that creates enough processes to be interesting. I'm open t…

OP Here. Thats an interesting idea. What The Fork knows all the commands run, and every path they read/write, so I should be able to make it estimate build time just by looking at …

(OP here) Thanks! My call with the Mozilla engineer was cut short, so we didn't have time to go into detail about what he found, I want to look into it myself.

1. The image at the top of the article makes it clear the segments aren't contiguous 2. iterating a 4 billion item segmented array would have 26 cache misses. Not a big deal.

feel free to call it a "levelwise-allocated pile"

Not sure what you mean by that, but if you're trying to imply that C is not relevant: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ Plus an article about C was at the top of hacker news all d…

The assignment is intentional. The union changed to a struct

Thanks, this post is about C. On some projects you must use C.

msvc 19.39 is the first to support it, which I mention in the article. You can confirm it didn't work up through 19.38 in godbolt [1]. I don't use Visual Studio, so I don't know wh…

This is addressed in the footnotes. casting is not the core of the type safety. Read the whole article.

Author here. It's worth noting that no work is being done in the macros of my article, they compile down to a normal c function call which you can step through in a debugger. There…