anitil

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1. 31.▲
   by anitil 20d ago

   > dynamically sized fields are packed into a contiguous area of memory Are you able to explain this? Do you mean an N sized array where each entry is either a value or a pointer to a value where the 'pointed-to' values are afte
2. 32.▲
   by anitil 20d ago

   I had no idea! I have heard that 'heaps of' and 'have a think about' are unique though
3. 33.▲
   by anitil 21d ago

   I'm keen to follow along with Wild as their intent is to be incremental, and Zig recently announced incremental linking support. I'm also a fan as its cool to seen an Australian working full time on open source (I'm also Aust
4. 34.▲
   by anitil 1mo ago

   Very impressive for a 17yo!
5. 35.▲
   How much memory is needed to render a TrueType font to bitmap(nothings.org)

   2 points by anitil 1mo ago|1 comments
6. 36.▲
   by anitil 1mo ago

   By Sean Barrett who I know from popularising single-header C libraries, and is apparently a known figure in the gaming world A fun treatment of a dilema I've come across a few times when trying to limit excessive memory allocation. It&
7. 37.▲
   by anitil 1mo ago

   It says a lot about sqlite that a bug becomes front-page news on HN. I'm impressed that Tailscale took this seriously enough to engage with a commercial support contract. I'd love to work for a company that cared so much about cor
8. 38.▲
   by anitil 1mo ago

   This is so cool, and having a live demo is just chefs kiss
9. 39.▲
   by anitil 1mo ago

   Have you tried using HardCaml? I heard about it on the Jane Street (of course) podcast. I've only used vhdl and verilog, and liked neither
10. 40.▲
    Open Science Framework Shutting down, Use ResearchBox Instead(datacolada.org)

    1 points by anitil 1mo ago|1 comments
11. 41.▲
    by anitil 1mo ago

    I believe it's a public good that researchers should be able to share the materials and analysis of their research. Sadly it seems they've found that hosting files on the internet is a dangerous endeavour, and so they are shutting
12. 42.▲
    by anitil 1mo ago

    If you're comfortable sharing, did you have any symptoms? Or was it just latent/dormant?
13. 43.▲
    by anitil 1mo ago

    That is a very cool contribution, I actually didn't know that it required a new calling convention! I look forward to reading your thesis
14. 44.▲
    by anitil 1mo ago

    Thanks! I agree, I've only just started looking at the gds file and I keep thinking - 'is that it?'. But then, I guess there's thousands of different use cases, and this is the simplest format that works for all of them.
15. 45.▲
    by anitil 1mo ago

    I've been working on the Jane Street reverse engineering puzzle that was posted here a few days ago[0]. As usual I've not made much progress on the actual challenge because I've fallen down a bunch of rabbit holes. So far I&#
16. 46.▲
    by anitil 1mo ago

    In some sense companies that don't protect your data make money off the back of your data being leaked (in the sense that they saved money by not spending it on security)
17. 47.▲
    by anitil 2mo ago

    I'm becoming a big fan of Zig every since learning about `zig cc` as a way of dipping my toes in it. I was already impressed by the build caching so I'm keen to play with this
18. 48.▲
    by anitil 2mo ago

    I came across this via patio11's podcast [0] and really enjoyed it. I'd also recommend listening to their podcast or reading the transcript [0] https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/what-youre-ac...
19. 49.▲
    by anitil 2mo ago

    I appreciate this opinion, it's very generous
20. 50.▲
    by anitil 2mo 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
21. 51.▲
    by anitil 2mo ago

    I wasn't sure if I would be able to listen again - it's so hard to hear.
22. 52.▲
    by anitil 2mo ago

    > probably the biggest drawback of nuclear pulse propulsion is the thousands of nuclear bombs The more you know
23. 53.▲
    by anitil 2mo 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
24. 54.▲
    by anitil 2mo ago

    I mean.... it does sound like a fun project
25. 55.▲
    by anitil 2mo 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
26. 56.▲
    by anitil 2mo 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
27. 57.▲
    by anitil 2mo 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
28. 58.▲
    by anitil 2mo 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
29. 59.▲
    by anitil 2mo 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
30. 60.▲
    by anitil 2mo 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