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These lines are very difficult for me to write because I feel like digging my own grave. AI systems are improving by leaps and bounds. From the early 2022 fumbling release of ChatGPT, which couldn’t correctly count the number of a’s in my name (it claimed two), we reached OpenAI’s release of math…
Why `specialArgs` in `lib.evalModules` is considered an antipattern.
How per-item RwLock reads became expensive in our read-heavy workload, how using lock-free has improved performance, and where a simple RwLock remained a good fit.
SHA-256 is the new object format in town, available since Git 2.42. It has a few benefits:
Gentoo Linux is made possible by many community donations and sponsors, together with the enthusiastic work of our developers. Unfortunately, this year several long-running sponsors were unable to continue their prior support, and at the moment we are looking for replacements.
Rust has a number of kinds of smart pointers, both in the standard library and defined by user [...]
A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - Release v0.46.0 · jj-vcs/jj
Using agents to build property-testing machinery, then turn the findings into small, reviewable fixes.
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is, and a lecturer at UCLA keeps it in his spare time. We counted who writes the software under your phone, from the code itself.
I don't remember exactly when but, earlier in the year, I decided I didn't want this website to be indexed by search engines anymore. A lot of it has to do w...
I have had the displeasure of integrating with a few different APIs over the past few weeks while working to automate Vori’s onboarding flow. These APIs have been for systems including contract rendering and e-signature collection, invoicing/billing systems, CRMs, card processors and gateways, and…
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My school has a controlled remote code execution environment to automatically grade the code we submit. The system checks execution, verifies proper formatting and surely has other checks not shown to the user (e.g. a code plagiarism detection tool1).
rat is my smallish compiler backend (with a semi-working C99 frontend). Its x86-64 code generator translates the intermediate representation (IR) into x86-64 instructions. These use an unlimited number of virtual registers (vregs).
A lot of people have been commenting on this over time so I figured I would put together a little post summarizing my thoughts on the matter and everything else. The post is going to be quite large. Every section can be read more or less separately, but they are all connected to each other.
Over the past few months I’ve been working on mapsnap, a program to automatically georeference old insurance maps. This post explains why these maps are interesting, how mapsnap works, and why this is worth doing.
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust - storytold/photocraft
You turn on Go’s race detector and get a data race inside net/http that makes no sense at first. This post digs into how Go’s HTTP client really …
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