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Yep realized this after that my second solution (push a 0 if n is incremented) has the same branch prediction problem. I think yours works. Alternatively in the loop: if out.len() …

I disagree in the sense that you can rewrite the code to use the trick and also not allocate in advance. Nothing about the trick requires you to allocate up front: before writing t…

Yes the night before you look at your calendar and figure out what time you need to be online at. In general if you want a no-internet 1 hour in the morning, organize yourself to w…

Consider turning off the internet before you go to bed and not turning it on for at least 1 hour after you wake up. I think I got this idea from Craig Mod (who I believe does no in…

Nice!

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Same with leap days though? The point is that it's weird that we handle a day every 4 years off in a different way to a couple of second being off.

As one HN comment said years ago: I feel leap seconds have always lived in the wrong abstraction layer. They should live in the same abstraction layer that does leap days and dayli…

Fair point. Mainly I agree with the sibling comment: the revealed preference of many people around the world, including many people from the richest countries in Europe, is to move…

But the success hasn't ended since the unused land became taken; in fact, the US became a superpower after the westward expansion era. My point is that looking at conditions today,…

Given the US is one of the most (the most?) successful countries in recent human history, shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't the 95% be looking at the US and seeing wh…

I've been building a bunch of UIs for my project Texcraft: https://hyphenate.dev and https://ligkern.dev . Texcraft is an attempt to re-implement TeX with a modular/LLVM software a…

Thank for the suggestion, implemented it! Now all suggestions have at least one hyphen and one position where the patterns disagree (one pattern says hyphenate, another to not hyph…

As part of the Texcraft project I've been re-implementing Donald Knuth's TeX in a modular way. One of the goals of Texcraft is to be able to use these modular pieces in different c…

This product is for Postgres deployments that are so large they need to be sharded. For these use cases, I think 20TB is about normal.

Recently the Supreme Court has curtailed these nationwide injuctions: https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/supreme-court-sides-with-...

Thanks for this great comment! The motivation behind METAFONT is amusing to me because it seems to have some of the same hubris of the most extreme AI proponents nowadays: we can r…

Your annoyance is understandable, but it's worth remembering: he is not your slave. He does not exist to do things for you. His providing you with something good for a time does no…

In my experience turning off my phone solves the temptation to check it. The friction of having to turn on my phone is small but apparently enough.

Or old code referencing the bucket _writes_ data to it, and the attacker can now read it.

No, Karen overstayed previously by 4 years when visiting Bill, that's why she had B-2.

These stories usually have some non-trivial factor that is missing in the article. In this case there's a small visible red flag: the two tourists are British but traveling on B vi…

Isn't it well known that the "protestors are foreign agents" line is just extremely transparent bs that governments use to silence dissent?

Yes: E-2 visa. Though I suspect the investment amount has to be much higher than the Dutch requirement of ~$5k.