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by Rendello 3mo ago
Just don't do it like Rust inlining annotations: <No annotation> – Gently suggests inlining #[inline] - Really suggests inlining #[inline(always)] – Really Really suggests inlining (still not guaranteed!) https:/&#x2F
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I was wondering if the hash might be unique, then a commenter would say "it's now `kill.<hash xyz>.js`, and the webmaster would be able to connect <hash XYZ> to a user agent and IP. It wouldn't accomplish anything
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by Rendello 3mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by Rendello 3mo ago
For me it still happens, the file has just been renamed to /js/kill.<giant hash>.js
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I'd never heard of ParaSail, so I found this high-level overview [1]: > All of the objects declared in a given scope are associated with a storage region, essentially a local heap. As an object grows, all new storage for it is alloc
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by Rendello 3mo ago
And for an Struct-of-Arrays approach, DuckDB and other columnar databases can have nice advantages (I mentioned this in another comment [1]), including optimizations you wouldn't see in typical code (SoA or otherwise) like column-level
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by Rendello 3mo ago
In Rust at least, most things have a with_capacity( n ) constructor to ensure there's space for n elements (or n bytes, in the case of strings). I suppose there's no getting around the fact that if your collection has no known
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by Rendello 3mo ago
If you click to another tab, the site changes its title and favicon to a random webpage like: - Pick up lines suggestions – ChatGPT - Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up - Youtube - Amazon.com: waifu pillow When you go back to it there&#x
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by Rendello 3mo ago
There's been some good implicit/explicit discussion about SoA on this post [1]. For anyone curious, there are a few different terms that refer to basically the same thing: - Struct of Arrays (SoA) vs Array of Structs (AoS); - Row-
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I studied "The Cremation of Sam McGee" in elementary school and it was a favourite of my grandmother. It's well-known in Canada, as far as poetry goes, though the poem most Canadians know by heart (at least partially) is &quo
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by Rendello 3mo ago
It's been floating around the Internet since at least 2019. It's classic, soulful bad editing.
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I'm abhorrent at arithmetic and I think it affects me greatly. I know quite a few people who are barely literate and manage to get by in life, but it obviously makes things hard for them and strips them of opportunities (and they foreg
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Transcoding Billions of Unicode Characters per Second with SIMD (2022)(arxiv.org)
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by Rendello 3mo ago
One of my favourite articles is "SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching" by Wojciech Muła [2]. If you were unfamiliar with SIMD and just jumped into the code, it'd be incomprehensible due to the intrinsics, but the
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by Rendello 3mo ago
> Vectors (in C++) at least aren't necessarily the best fit either I'm not sure if you use a different allocation strategy or if you're advocating allocating as much as possible up-front, but I'm curious if you have a
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by Rendello 3mo ago
A good introduction to SoA (for anyone curious) are the two most famous Data-Oriented Design talks by Mike Acton (game engine dev) [1] and Andrew Kelley (Zig lead dev) [2] respectively. I read a book book about DoD [3] really which confused
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I like SIMD, but before super-optimizing your code with SIMD and the like, really consider your data structures and access patterns. I've been singing Data-Oriented Design's praises, so I'll just collect all my comments here
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I remember when I was learning CSS back in 2012, the guides said to never center-justify text as browsers did a terrible job. Since then, CSS has become way nicer, and yet justified text still looks awful. Great (or even good) typography al
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by Rendello 3mo ago
> offers a more overwhelming MC Escher-like experience That reminds me of one of my favourite games of all time, Knossu [1]. It's a short game from the peak of the indie era, written by Jonathan Whiting (whose post "Why I write
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I thought the horror game "Exit 8" was going to be like that when I bought it: having to navigate through a labyrinthine nightmare version of Shinjuku or Shibuya station, trying to remember the passageways and —hey wait... was th
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I've been interested in ancient Roman and Greek texts of late, and although I can't imagine dedicating myself to learning an ancient language when there are so many living languages to learn, I do find them very cool. Just yesterd
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by Rendello 3mo ago
There's been some interesting threads about stylometry over the years [1]. The top link was quite decent at unmasking HN alt accounts with basic ngram analysis whipped up in one day [2]. 1. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sty
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by Rendello 3mo ago
A lot of this discussion mirrors the SQLite forum's discussion on the never-implemented "PRAGMA strict": https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/1b9d073a37ca5998 I personally find this idea interesting a
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by Rendello 3mo ago
> SQLite is slightly different from Rust in that it is a data container. I think this is the key. From sqlite.org [1]: > [Since 2004], the file format has been fully backwards compatible. > By "backwards compatible" we me
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by Rendello 3mo ago
It might be worth bringing this up on the forum [1]. The developers are quite active there, and it's possible they've never considered this option, or they have considered it and have reasons to not go for it. The original design
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I should've been clear that I was responding more to the comment than the article or N+1 . I skimmed it and agreed with the root comment "[I've] heard nothing about anything this article references".
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by Rendello 3mo ago
> today's high culture all seems to be predicated upon feigning enlightenment That must be the marker of "high" culture throughout history generally, right? I like this quote from a funny video on ancient Greek philosophy
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I've read that Japan had some crazy pollution and littering until regulations and campaigns in the 70s. Alright, I'll admit, I saw it on a Youtube short [1]. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information on the change on the
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by Rendello 3mo ago
The SQLite docs have a great "quirks" page [1], which contains this telling quote: > The original implementation of SQLite sought to follow Postel's Law which states in part "Be liberal in what you accept". This
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by Rendello 3mo ago
Abraham Lincoln used to write angry letters and stow them away, unsigned and unsent [1]. The book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" claims he stopped harshly criticizing people publicly after being challenged to a duel [2]

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