rand_flip_bit

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1. 31.▲
   by rand_flip_bit 4y ago

   libjpeg? Absolutely, it’s not that difficult if you read the spec and can do a bit of math. sqlite3? No, DBs do nasty things with filesystems and I would rather just rely on them to get it right.
2. 32.▲
   by rand_flip_bit 4y ago

   Sadly, this actually isn’t true, and can cause some dangling/use-after-free issues. An empty string_view has a length of zero, but it’s representation might contain a null/non-null pointer + zero or two pointers that “compare equa
3. 33.▲
   by rand_flip_bit 4y ago

   For the purposes of a stopwatch/timer, this is exactly what you want. A measurement of time that is exact and does not include leap seconds. Accounting for DST or leap seconds or any other changes to the local timezone for that matter
4. 34.▲
   by rand_flip_bit 4y ago

   Sadly, while Chase-Lev is great, there is currently a patent for the algorithm that won’t expire until 2025. Of course, this algorithm is held by non other than Sun/Oracle. Once I discovered this, I had to switch over my implementation