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Table--Maker's dilemma [0] says that we probably can't get correct rounding for some functions. That said, you can still calculate every function within 1 ULP by using extended pre…

True! Older numerical libraries such as cephes had to work with heterogeneous non-IEEE floating point implementations: you can still see remnants of VAX tests in the docs, for exam…

Yeah, those operations (+fma) are the only ones for which IEEE 754 mandates correct rounding. Calculating correct rounding for other functions without hardware support is both chal…

StageX does reproducible builds, so they are signed independently and can also be verified locally. I don't think it applies to Astral, but it's useful for packages with a single m…

The first programming language I learned was Java. And for us non-native speakers who didn't know English very well at that point public static void did indeed sound like a magic s…

Totally. A good chuck of the formats are just TSV files with some metadata in header. Setting aside the drawbacks, this approach is both straightforward and flexible. I think we're…

One of the problems is that a lot of bioinformatics formats nowadays have to hold so much data that most text editors stop working properly. For example, FASTA splits DNA data into…

Yeah, I found `anyhow`'s `Contex` to be a great way of annotating bubbled up errors. The only problem is that using the lazy `with_context` can get somewhat unwieldy. For all the g…

Yeah, I presume so. At least that's what Swiss Tables do. The paper is focused more on the asymptotics rather than the real-world hardware performance, so I can see why they chose …

The dereference table allows allocations to fail: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02305#:~:text=If%20both%20buckets... (the text fragment doesn't seem to work in a PDF, it's the 12th pa…

Ah, I see. Best of luck with that! There are a few projects where I'd love to see a modern spreadsheet implementation. CryptPad comes to mind. They use OnlyOffice, which is quite f…

Yep, I've misunderstood, realized it after seeing mdaniel's comment. Thanks for making this in the first place! I saw IronCalc in the list of projects supported by NLnet and it gra…

Right, I've made a mistake! I keep getting surprised by the fact it's possible to simply compile a Rust crate with a WASM target and run it in the browser.

A spreadsheet engine. It's a React app with a Rust backend, but it impressed me how snappy it was[0]. Of course, it's not nearly as feature rich as Google Sheets, not to mention Ex…

Contrary to the name, I don't think that it's very good. The whole thing is a canvas via WASM, so scrolling isn't smooth, selection doesn't work, and accessibility is seemingly non…

I haven't self-hosted any, but I enjoy using Flarum [0] forums. They load faster than Discourse ones and feel snappy. [0]: https://flarum.org/