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In this essay, Carson Gross argues that as AI makes code cheap to produce, understanding code becomes the expensive and scarce resource. He warns of the complexity that LLM code can generate and proposes the subtractive, constraining engineer as the...
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I recently read Simon Tatham's Nitpicking the shell history scene in Tron: Legacy, where one thing that surprised Tatham was the film using 'login -n root' to become root instead of 'su. This surprised me because I found that perfectly ordinary, and this...
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My notes on learning J where I learn about J's fundamental type, the multi-dimensional array.
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Performance results naturally depend on the underlying hardware. The following benchmarks show the execution times for sorting 50 million doubles using different sorting implementations. The measurements were taken on an Apple M1 system using Clang and on...
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Announcing stumpalo, an extremely fast bump allocator for rust, with chunk reuse and safe scoped stack support.
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Run away while you still can, it's not too late for you to avoid the curse of knowledge.
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Fast pointer movements can skip over elements, breaking hover detection. The surprising solution can be found in game development.
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These reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting items of news from elsewhere in the increasingly-important area of software supply-chain security. As ever, if you are interested in contributing to the Reproducible Builds...
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What you actually mean when you say 'I work in the terminal' - the terminal emulator, the pseudo-terminal (TTY/pty), and the shell (bash, zsh, fish) as three independent layers cooperating through a kernel object, with line discipline and VT100 escape...
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Minimize mental and mechanical effort while switching between sessions. - maxonvim/tmux-underkeys
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Compilers can vectorize loops you never wrote. IDEs can finish functions before you do. Agents can refactor your codebase from a sentence. And yet, when you want to inspect the value your program just produced, you still use the REPL as if nothing has...