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by anitil 3mo ago
I like ast-grep and I think the changes are interesting, but it isn't fun reading an ai-generated article. It seems like a lot of the speedup comes from using an arena, using realloc with offsets rather than raw pointers and some chang
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by anitil 3mo ago
I wasn't sure if I would be able to listen again - it's so hard to hear.
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by anitil 3mo ago
> probably the biggest drawback of nuclear pulse propulsion is the thousands of nuclear bombs The more you know
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by anitil 3mo ago
Oooh I'd forgotten about that! I'm keen on the real (non-rowid) primary keys and covering indexes. I'm not sure about defaulting to decimal math, but I suppose the reasoning makes sense
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by anitil 3mo ago
I mean.... it does sound like a fun project
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by anitil 3mo ago
There is a way to do this with sqlite in readonly mode using the append vfs [0] which allows you to put your DB appended to the end of the executable, and then the executable can read it (like a zip file the header is then at the end of the
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by anitil 3mo ago
Huh TIL! I've spent a lot of the last few weeks reading sqlite docs and somehow either never saw that or forgot it
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by anitil 3mo ago
There's a really good list of lessons in the second half of this page which I think are really interesting (in general, but also in specific for this project). I don't have a Lobste.rs account but I have some comments about some o
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by anitil 3mo ago
I mis-read the title and thought someone was going to pay 65k to work at Anthropic. And ... That's a strange thing to do, but financially would probably pay off in the end
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by anitil 3mo ago
I've been building some sqlite plugins for playing with ngrams for text search. I'm not sure why, but I've learned a lot about the internal sqlite apis and it brings me a lot of joy. I would like to start a blog detailing som
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by anitil 3mo ago
I noticed that it wasn't the best comment, I was only concerned with the tone, and I feel like dang has enough going on that we also need to help elevate the conversation. I admit there's some delicious irony in the accuser commit
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by anitil 3mo ago
Your reply would have been much better without the first line [0] > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions
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by anitil 3mo ago
Very cool story. I'm interested to do a similar transition, though I was thinking it would be mecessary to go back and do a masters. It's interesting that that might not be required
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by anitil 3mo ago
This was equal parts interesting and terrifying (both from a ecosystem and from a 'will I have a job next year' perspective)
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by anitil 3mo ago
I do the same. But the benefit to me is that by the time I've written out the message and checked my work I've usually solved the problem. So it's like rubber-ducking but with social consequences attached which makes my brain
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by anitil 3mo ago
The latest post from the very interesting exe.dev project (previously of 'I am building a cloud' [0]). They have a lot of interesting work that goes in to making SSH work with their system (eg previously [1]), and this is a contin
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Adding Features Without Interrupting Network Connections(blog.exe.dev)
3 points by anitil 3mo ago|1 comments
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by anitil 3mo ago
Always a good day when I get to look at the McMaster catalogue
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by anitil 3mo ago
The article mentions that you typically have to longjmp within the same function as setjump (or a descendant function) otherwise your stack gets cleared and you longjmp to a garbage stack. I believe this counts as memory safety? Though I do
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by anitil 3mo ago
How interesting! I thought that setjmp and longjmp were probably incompatible with Fil-C. And I'd somehow never heard of ucontext at all. I suppose managing the stack is still managing memory after all, even if we typically don't
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by anitil 3mo ago
> writing well is really hard I think because good writing is easier to read and understand than bad writing, there's almost an inverse relationship between how easy writing seems and how easy it is to read. So you read something an
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by anitil 3mo ago
Interestingly the earliest capacitors were glass jars (called Leyden Jars) [0]. I was taught that early inventors thought that charge was accumulated within the jar, and it wasn't until much later that it was realised that the shape wa
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by anitil 4mo ago
And sometimes you click a permanent action ('ignore' or 'accept' or 'decline') out of muscle memory or an imprecise click. Just this morning I _think_ I allowed some telemetry on a system I use (but don't
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by anitil 4mo ago
My go-to for this is to screenshot and use the built-in text extraction in the screenshot tool (I'm on a mac), then pass on that text data to whatever processing. It's a pretty good tool so long as the PDF is in OK shape (I'v
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by anitil 4mo ago
I feel like any problem that Postgres can't handle is a good problem to have. Either you've got so many customers that you're hitting sharp edges, or you're working on such an interesting problem that you're out of
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A Diner's Guide to Mars(mceglowski.substack.com)
5 points by anitil 4mo ago|1 comments
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by anitil 4mo ago
The latest in the 'Mars for the rest of us' series that covers a host of issues with space travel. This one covers the issue of food and nutrition in space. Including this charming little tidbit - > Officially there is no alcoh
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by anitil 4mo ago
This was a lovely tribute. As much as we like to complain about windows, there's clearly a lot of love and care that has been put in to it by people like Tony
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by anitil 4mo ago
Interesting, I was wondering where catching these errors would fall between 'silently wrong on certain inputs' to 'how did this ever work!?'
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by anitil 4mo ago
Do we have a sense for how many of the programs that work [0] are now detected as having asm violations? [0] https://fil-c.org/programs_that_work

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