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krut-patel

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About krut-patel

I love all things systems/compilers/databases.

Site: https://iamkroot.github.io Github: https://github.com/iamkroot LinkedIn: krutpatel99

Currently at Microsoft Research India.

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    > TigerBeetle writes to disk for long-term storage But how does it determine when it should write to disk? Does every write to a potentially OOM operation get preceeded by a check?…

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    Comment #35221246

    And I am not the only one :) https://old.reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/11vbiv1/the_curious_ca...

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    Comment #35217335

    Thanks for the pointers! > use a GeneralPurposeAllocator and setting "enable_memory_limit" and "requested_memory_limit" Interesting! I hadn't looked at GeneralPurposeAllocator too …

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    Comment #35216988

    Will do, I have just been procrastinating too much!

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    Comment #35216986

    In case you were referring to the footnote, it suggests "freeing the input would not lower the printed memory usage". Let me know if you need a full explanation as to why.

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    Comment #29054840

    > Github Dark is now a site native Personally, I still prefer the user style over Github's solution. I find the official black theme has too much contrast (it was probably made for…

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    Comment #28371652

    > (I work at Microsoft). Just in case you didn't know, since the SolarWinds debacle from last year, Microsoft has completely blocked authorisation for corpnet and other tools on an…

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    Comment #26971912

    > the problem I have is that sometimes the devices lose sync with each other if they've been off for any length of time. Opening the KDE Connect settings typically fixes this, but …

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    Comment #26971861

    They have come up with a workaround for this. Instead of actively monitoring your clipboard in the background, there now exists a "Send Clipboard" button/intent that shares the cur…

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    Comment #26655983

    I'm someone who always tries to use the "right tool for the job", CLion for C/C++ (large projects), VSC for Rust (the inline type hints from Rust Analyzer are to die for), and ST f…

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    Comment #26029148

    "Open image in a new tab" to the rescue! The extension I use (Dark Reader) didn't force dark mode for images, which means I can see the labels just fine in these cases.

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    Comment #23473630

    I was looking for something similar (client side text search) and landed upon MiniSearch[0]. While it doesn't support some of the advanced features of lunr (like wildcard search), …

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    Comment #22970676

    There's also confuse[0], used by beets. I've found it to be a good way to handle configuration when the end-user is not a programmer. [0] - https://github.com/beetbox/confuse

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    Comment #22813338

    I could swear I've seen challenges with night scenes (low light conditions) in the wild. Those were definitely not present earlier.

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    Comment #21879288

    > I can envision tools that allow a sign in a store front to change from "Coke" to "Pepsi" automatically. This was literally the project I worked on this summer, as an application …