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I'm working on a video / post on how to solve the 1 billion row challenge ( https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc ) and get a competitively fast result while keeping the code reada…

Counterthoughts: a) These skills fit on a double sided sheet of paper (e.g. the claude code best practices doc) and b) what these skills are has been changing so rapidly that even …

In some contexts, dictionary encoding (which is what you're suggesting, approximately) can actually work great. For example common values or null values (which is a common type of …

This is my time to shine - I know the cause of this mistake. Like the article mentions, international trade is specified using the HS (Harmonized System) encoding mechanism. Now, p…

God I loved that lobby and the art deco + mexican combination art style. I found a high res version of that mural as a wallpaper at some point but am coming up short for the link r…

> almost 25 billion kilometers Had to reread that a few times to make sure

It's more that the "negative nancies" became necessary nancies. Back when Amazon sold books, they became a considerable player but otherwise big whoop. Now they threaten to dominat…

You might enjoy the excellent Articles of Interest podcast, an episode of which covers this exact phenomenon, but there are many other great episodes about similar subjects in clot…

It's not apples to apples of course but that's well within the ballpark of what spacex spends mostly just shooting stuff into orbit in a year: https://spacenews.com/spacex-and-the-…

> I mostly stayed hands-off and let him explore where he would. I think this is the way. Also quite similarly soon after VB, learned C# so I could make mods for RunUO, which was a …

When .NET finally came out and I started learning about it (I had signed up for a course at this point) I remember it feeling much more complicated - I didn't understand why I need…

This kind of post is what brings me back to this website :-) I'm the guy with the enthusiastic thread earlier on in this post. I'd love to sit down and chat with you for an hour on…

_why the lucky stiff (also known for https://poignant.guide/ and a bunch of other things) had written something called "hackety hack" for kind of these purposes I think, but it may…

I remember Delphi being the one that people lamented the loss of when VB was gaining in popularity. And ShellNotifyIcon - how could I forget? :D

Look! https://ia902300.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/4/...

Oh my GOD I have to comment. This is how I learned to program as a kid. I found a copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" (1983 - Usborne: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo…

> The sense of sneaking into an adult world, even a fantasy one, might be what made the game feel so special to me Brilliant observation that never occurred to me. Around that age …

Here's the thing - I remember playing it as a kid and so many things, arguably most of it, went way over my head: the whole travel agent thing and getting ahead in the office, dia …

If you like this, you might enjoy: "Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?" > The elevator pitch behind this performance difference is > straightforward: colu…

> budala :-)

The thing about Turkish is that the grammar is very forgiving to mistakes while preserving meaning: word order can be leveraged for subtle emphasis but pretty much doesn't matter f…

Oh that does sound like a fun project!

What's upvar? :-)

Lovely analysis, some new music for me, and love to see work from former colleagues get recognition - hi Michele!