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Well, did they hire you? Don’t leave us hanging!

Here are some that come to mind right now: https://research.swtch.com/ https://danluu.com/ https://apenwarr.ca/log/

My first thought as well. Debugging is actually a decent use case of AI.

These days I am of the opinion that we don’t need a real IDL. Instead one should choose a “primary language” and define the schema in that language. All other language bindings are…

Honest question - why isn’t the following document [1] a standard? Is it too loosely specified? [1] https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/encoding/

Research done by SonarSource, a company that sells static analysis products. This explains the focus on static analysis, among other things.

Love to see someone implementing pathlib in c++. It is what stdfs could have been.

Those three things you mentioned kind of live in the same niche - offline data storage and querying. In that world yes everything has become columnar since it’s just better. Row-or…

The last time I tried JJ it plainly refused to work with git LFS, which is kind of what OOP here is about (large files). Has that improved?

If you don’t like what Anthropic is doing, stop paying them money. There’s plenty of competition to go around. They can’t keep this up for long if users flock elsewhere.

One could argue the reinterpret_cast makes the intent more explicit which is a good thing. That said I don’t have much against the use of void* or even char* here. If it works in C…

I think there are situations where AI is good for quick advice, provided you _also_ have a professional to talk to if needed. I sometimes seek advice about dealing with difficult c…

I am not very well versed here but I think due to the requirement for assembly and single-instruction commit, practical uses of rseq is generally very simple. It is nowhere near th…

IIUC rseq is similar to thread-local data with the additional benefit that it scales with number of CPU cores, not threads. However if you are an application developer and is able …

This is the kind of comment I come to HN for. Thanks for teaching me something.

I’d guess that is what you get for training them on source code. Also the I vs E axis feels meaningless in this case.

The point about feedback is spot on. However the generalization to system software seems a little sloppy. Something being system software doesn’t inherently make it more testable. …

Uhm what? All of those things are totally ordinary.

It’s shocking to me that you of all people should have financial issues. You are a legend in the community! By all means, take things closed source if it even just helps a little b…

Both Facebook and Google internally use a custom version of mercurial, so I wouldn’t count it out just yet.

I feel like parent was referring to a culture of shipping small changes frequently, which tends to result in stacked PRs.

Stacked PRs is mostly a way to avoid thousand- or tens-of-thousands- LOC branches, which makes each PR meaningfully reviewable. You need a good code review process for it to become…

Corporate reasons. AWS hasn't opened codex models to everyone yet.

Something that amazed me around the time Cider V was first introduced is that some folks have been at Google for so long, they have never used VSCode, and didn’t recognize the UI a…

What do you find appealing about GCP? I occasionally hear positive sentiment like this but don’t entirely understand the reason, mostly because I haven’t used non-GCP clouds profes…