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Arrow is a cross-language standard. Polars is written in Rust but DuckDB is written in C++. So it's not that simple unfortunately.

Every type in Go has a zero value. The zero value for pointers is nil. So you can't do it with regular pointers, because users can always create an instance of the zero value.

> If the factory is completely inactive, how soon can it produce a single science pack? That time is the latency. That is what I am trying to explain, now for the second time. Let'…

> This isn't latency in the same sense I was using the word. But it is. If you add more factories for producing advanced chips, you can produce a chemical science pack from start t…

Think of it this way, instead. Building a multi-belt system is a pain in the ass that complicates the design of your factory. Conveyor belt highways, multiplexers, tunnels, and a b…

The ability to “share memory faster” is a bigger distinction than you make it out to be. Distributed applications look quite different from merely multithreaded or multiprocess sha…

I think we all know what someone means when they say “matrix multiplication”. Asserting that * could mean, say, the Hadamard product or the tensor product is a reach. In practice I…

I understand Fourier transforms fairly well but his video blew my mind. He has a totally original way of distilling mathematical concepts intuitively.

I don't think you can have data races (but certainly you can have race conditions) in python because of the GIL. I imagine Ruby is similar. Otherwise, no, the other languages you l…

DOOM 2016 got by on its freshness and its tone. The combat mechanics in DOOM Eternal, while having some divisive elements, really pushed the envelope for the series and for FPS gam…

I don't know how it works in other languages, but accessing a partially overwritten slice in Go (as will happen in the presence of data races) can cause your code to access out-of-…

Indeed, this person showed that you can read/write to arbitrary memory addresses inside of a Go program: https://blog.stalkr.net/2022/01/universal-go-exploit-using-d... Although, i…

I have no idea what you mean here. Data races are next to impossible in safe Rust.

This is assuming you already have a pointer of the element you're removing, or a neighbor thereof. Otherwise, you'd have to traverse a portion of the linked list, which has a signi…

> It's cute for trivial cases like algebra libraries I don't understand this wording. Algebra libraries are nontrivial to implement, as the algorithms that operate on such structur…

The few times I've dealt with code that does some (even just very basic) algebraic manipulation, I found the lack of operator overloading to be _really_ awkward (look no further th…

The infinite sum involving powers of two is actually true in the 2-adic integers.

I don’t really understand what the borrow checker has to do with the automatic/manual memory management dichotomy.

How is memory management with Vec and Box in Rust any different from std::vector and std::unique_ptr in C++?

> It has shown that GC vs manual memory management has a third option. C++ had shown this long before Rust.

Just return an io.Reader that wraps the DB cursor and outputs CSV data... I fail to see what makes this so difficult. If the "mutable" approach involves passing down a mutable *htt…

You don't return anything in Gin.

OP is just holding a reference to a single entry in the vector. You could write whatever you want to that entry, but it's not going to change the length of the vector. In some sens…

I meant that we did optimizations in Go, on top of using a Kafka client written in C. When language constructs like channels degrade performance, and when goroutine scheduling take…

Again, scaling out to 30 nodes was not an option for us. It had to run on a single machine, unlike the rest of our data pipeline. While 200MB/s is nowhere near the theoretical limi…