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For all practical matters it is xterm that has become the standard. Like with web browsers, it is irrelevant what the standard states. The only thing that matters is that it displa…

Web pages are increasingly bulky. A 3 MB page will take 1 second to load at 25 Mbps, so latency is often not the primary bottleneck. Part of the problem may be that companies who o…

Even if it's a thing, the idea that a teacher should take on the role of psychologists and figure out a child's optimal learning style should be preposterous to anyone with common …

I think you pointed out the problem. I suspect it has the same problem as ncurses: Not easy to learn, get proficient with, or rapidly produce something decent with. I've been worki…

Seems like speculation on top of speculation on top of speculation. I wonder what the archeological data looks like, 6 burned down houses and a very active imagination?

Isn't the problem the absence of random DNA? I wouldn't call random data 'complex', but it is easy to sequence when assembling short reads.

My main take away from the article was that we, apparently, need a time traveler to confirm/disprove Einstein's theory.

There's likely a market for office workers since there's a significant reduction of stress on the eyes. You'd save about 0.5 kwh a day in electricity, more if the AC is running. So…

MUDs are easily hosted abroad. Problem solved. This reminds me of UK's 90% tax rate, which caused many multi-millionaires to leave the country.

I get the current time in microseconds, and increment by one nanosecond for each call between updates. Problem solved for the next 200 years.

> the coulombic efficiency of SSAB-PDBM was 84% at 4 C rate, which gradually decreased to 66% at 101 C rate. Lithium batteries are over 95% efficient, so a long way indeed. Since t…

quadsort/fluxsort/crumsort author here. For me there's a strong visual component, perhaps most obvious for my work on array rotation algorithms. https://github.com/scandum/rotate T…

https://github.com/scandum/quadsort/blob/f171a0b26cf6bd6f6dc... As you can see, quadsort 1.1.4.1 used 2 instead of 4 writes in the bi-directional parity merges. This was in June 20…

"pick a few fixed sizes and handle the rest by rounding down then a few steps of insertion sorting." I'm late to the party, but this sounds a lot like quadsort's small array handli…

The gif is indeed a bit rushed, I'll see if I can get it looking a bit better soon-ish. The video is up on YouTube where it can be paused. Edit: Just now seeing you asked about upd…

There's a list of online MUDs that are still in active development here: https://mudhalla.net/mudlist/ Especially on Windows you'd be better off using PuTTY or TinTin++ to connect,…

It is said that getting ripped off is the highest form of flattery. The FOSDEM talk indeed addressed my worries. I actually don't see the ping-pong merge as a personal accomplishme…

I've been most impressed with ChatGPT's ability to analyze source code. It may be able to tell you what a compiled binary does, find flaws in source code, etc. Of course it would b…

As I wrote previously, thank you for fully addressing all my concerns in your recent FOSDEM presentation. While it would have been outside the scope of the presentation, and time b…

I've just watched your FOSDEM presentation and to put it simply, thank you for addressing all the issues I had. I felt pretty uneasy about what I perceived as a situation where you…

That code was indeed a bit unorganized, I updated bench.c in wolfsort's github, hopefully that'll fix it. Would you mind giving your 2 cents on this topic? https://news.ycombinator…

This is what quadsort's README stated in early 2021: "Since the parity merge can be unrolled it's very suitable for branchless optimizations to speed up the sorting of random data.…