ben_pfaff

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by ben_pfaff 5mo ago
I spent over a decade posting so much to comp.lang.c. I've run into a few regulars there in my work since then. I suppose it's still ticking along but I haven't visited in almost 20 years.
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by ben_pfaff 6mo ago
I use Emacs.
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by ben_pfaff 6mo ago
I decided to try using proportional fonts for coding starting a year or two back. It worked out well and I stuck with it, because proportional text is easier for me to read on the whole, and because it allowed more characters to fit comfort
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by ben_pfaff 6mo ago
Bjarne Stroustrup wrote a paper about adding overloading for the "whitespace operator" in C++, but in his case it was a joke: https://stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf
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by ben_pfaff 1y ago
> Main downside I found when testing Feldera is that their SQL dialect has a bunch of limitations inherited from Apache Calcite At Feldera, we're adding features to our SQL over time, by contributing them upstream to Calcite, making
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by ben_pfaff 1y ago
I'm new to CI auto-fixes. My early experience with it is mixed. I find it annoying that it touches my code at all, but it does sometimes allow a PR to get further through the CI system to produce more useful feedback later on. And then
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by ben_pfaff 2y ago
(Feldera co-founder here.) There are some cases where Feldera needs to index data indefinitely, yes. For those cases, Feldera can put those indexes on storage rather than keeping them entirely in RAM. In a lot of cases where one might init
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by ben_pfaff 4y ago
These days, it is absolutely unheard of for someone to get a doctorate at age 21. I don't know whether it was unusual then.
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by ben_pfaff 4y ago
I bet you could build something like this as a pair of earrings.
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by ben_pfaff 5y ago
I wasn't sure anyone but the authors remembered C Unleashed! I wrote the chapter on binary search trees and balanced trees. Comp.lang.c was important to me for many years. I've met 5 or so of the regulars at least once. The most f
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by ben_pfaff 5y ago
There's an indirect relationship between Rego and DDlog, at least people-wise. OPA comes from Styra, which was founded by Tim Hinrichs and Teemu Koponen. Teemu designed nlog, which is also a Datalog variant, for use in NVP, which was
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by ben_pfaff 5y ago
I don't know anything about Souffle so I can't directly answer the question. But there is some related material. The DDlog repo includes a Souffle-to-DDlog converter: https://github.com/vmware/differential-d
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by ben_pfaff 5y ago
If you're talking about building the DDlog-to-Rust compiler, then it's not that hard. Really it's just a matter of installing Haskell then typing "stack build". But each release also comes with binaries for GNU&#x
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by ben_pfaff 5y ago
Speaking with my VMware hat on, I don't know of use cases there.
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by ben_pfaff 5y ago
Yes, and I'm really impressed with what we've been able to do with it in OVN lately. The patches aren't posted yet (probably Monday) but (with Leonid Ryzhyk's help) I managed to take one benchmark from about 110 seconds
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by ben_pfaff 6y ago
I just released what I think is a well crafted e-book for a favorite old science fiction book, with permission from the author: https://twirb.github.io
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by ben_pfaff 10y ago
I like this naming philosophy too. I once named a feature "VLAN splinters" to discourage people from using it; after all, who likes splinters? Unfortunately, people did use it and I'm only now getting to the point where I