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How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
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Easy Forth (2015)
This small ebook is here to teach you a programming language called Forth. Forth is a language unlike most others. It’s not functional or object oriented, it doesn’t have type-checking, and it basically has zero syntax. It was written in the 70s, but is still used today for certain applications .
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Memories of Kurt Gödel
[This memoir essay appeared in the magazine Science 82 in April 1982, and in my 1982 book Infinity and the Mind. It’s based on the “Conversations With Godel” documented in my previous post. Some of the photos are from a recent trip through the West, others from the 1970s.] [This is a cropped version of
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Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack
Taking over Pokemon Yellow from the inside.
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Mailing lists are resistant to censorship
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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The Social Radar: What I Did at Y Combinator
Culture matters for startups. For a startup to succeed, it must have a culture that reflects what it wants to achieve. This is one of my areas of expertise. I've spent the past decade focusing on Y...
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Typestates in Rust (2018)
A long time ago, the Rust language was a language with typestate. Officially, typestates were dropped long before Rust 1.0. In this entry, I’ll get you in on the worst kept secret of the Rust community: Rust still has typestates.
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How much does Rust's bounds checking cost?
Rust prevents out-of-bounds memory accesses and buffer overruns via runtime bounds checks - what’s the cost of those bounds checks for a real-world, production application?
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Update to Kagi Search Pricing
UPDATE: This blog post is old and does not reflect current plans or pricing. You can find current plans and prices here . --- It has been a while since our last update, and we have...
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How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition
<small>Pssst! Formatting messed up? Add ".md" to the url ✨ If you're stuck using Zoom, jump on [one](https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meet...
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How to Store Data on Paper?
How to print my voice? How to put music on paper? How to print an executable program? All this boils down to storing digital data on paper. This is also called paper data storage . Arrived in this domain from poetry, I’ve been investigating the area for some time. Here is what I found.
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Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It
You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as Go's os.Setenv ( Go issue ) and Rust's…
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Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown
The story of these attacks starts in late 2004. I had submitted my doctoral thesis and had a few months before flying back to Oxford for my defense, so I turned to some light reading: Intel's latest "Optimization Manual", full of tips on how to write faster code. (Eking out every last nanosecond of performance has…
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A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64
Move over, Sennheiser. Make yourself scarce, Bose. Here comes the ultimate Hi-Fi solution for your living room: The Commodore 64! I s it sa...
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Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard
Before I start this post, let me preface it by saying that I’m not an experienced Rustacean by any means. The excellent foks at /r/rust gave a lot of helpful feedback and cleared up some misconceptions I had. Futher errata and corrections are appreciated. This post is aimed at helping other fledgling rust-learners…
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The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language
This paper presents an evaluation of the use of a high-level language (HLL) with garbage collection to implement a monolithic POSIX-style kernel. The goal is to explore if it is reasonable to use an HLL instead of C for such kernels, by examining performance costs, implementation challenges, and programmability and…
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The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
Relics Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that: ...today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers. Whenever two or more Smalltalkers gather over d
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LaTeX Math in MS Office
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HTTP/2 zero-day vulnerability results in record-breaking DDoS attacks
The “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset” attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. Cloudflare has mitigated a barrage of these attacks in recent months, including an attack three times larger than any previous attack we’ve observed
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Analysis of longevity of code across many popular projects
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.
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GCC 7 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
This page is a brief summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 7. For more information, see the Porting to GCC 7 page and the full GCC documentation .
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Asahi Linux: July 2022 Release and Progress Report
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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XML is almost always misused
In 1996, XML was invented. No sooner than it was created, it was adopted for all manner of misconceived applications for which it was a poor choice.
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Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
Our new decision-scoring model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform both LLMs and other decision models.
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Laser Socks – a sweaty game pointing toward the future of computing
A sweaty game pointing toward the future of computing.
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Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel
Nano How-To explaining how to setup a root file system with only emacs.