cornstalks

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by cornstalks 13d ago
TFA implies the issue is land owners won’t allow it: > But beavers can only thrive if landowners allow them to.
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by cornstalks 28d ago
I’d love to see how that compares to zmij: https://github.com/dtolnay/dtoa-benchmark
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by cornstalks 1mo ago
As far as I know HTTP 1.0 doesn't have a standards-track RFC (HTTP 1.1 and later do). JSON and HTTPS do indeed have standards-track RFCs, but I stand by my original wording that their first informational RFCs were "extremely impor
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by cornstalks 1mo ago
> which notably is not seeking recommendation status! I don’t have a dog in this fight, but some extremely important RFCs are only on the “informational” track. RFCs 1945 (HTTP 1.0), 4627 (JSON), 2818 (HTTPS), etc.
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by cornstalks 2mo ago
This is an advertisement, but it's one of the few I actually enjoy watching, and it suggests a track is "2500 times smaller than a human hair" which puts an upper bound on the size of a bit: https://www.youtube.com
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by cornstalks 2mo ago
How would you do it, then? Sandboxing a project's build.zig via Wasm (and the various dependencies's build.zig files) seems like a great improvement to me and is how I would personally try to sandbox the build process.
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by cornstalks 3mo ago
A PhD is a Doctor of Philosophy, so unless that PhD has been invalidated he is in fact a doctor. I don't know his personal preferences so perhaps he doesn't like to be referred to as a doctor (based solely on what you're sayi
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by cornstalks 3mo ago
He earned a PhD…
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by cornstalks 3mo ago
x265 is an encoder, not a decoder. Also, being open source doesn't matter here: an open source library, even with a patent grant, doesn't give you a license to someone else's patents.
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by cornstalks 3mo ago
Some programmers will write more efficient code. At my $dayjob (one of the big tech companies) we're already planning a major goal next year of optimizing server code to reduce RAM requirements, and this is directly in response to the
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by cornstalks 3mo ago
> Reducing radiation from CT scans is a noble cause on its own Is it? Linear No Threshold has largely been rejected at this point. https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/early/2024/06/21/jnumed....
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by cornstalks 3mo ago
> like landmines Boy do I have news for you about the use of landmines in the Ukraine war…
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by cornstalks 3mo ago
The most difficult part is acquiring the necessary domain specific knowledge, including what your AHJ changed from the national codes. But yes, once you know everything it’s all pretty straightforward stuff.
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by cornstalks 3mo ago
No, you also need to calculate the voltage drop over your distance to show to minimum wire sizing, and the voltage and power levels at the ASHRAE minimum temperature, the current level at 156.25% over the wiring at the ASHRAE max temperatur
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by cornstalks 4mo ago
No, I’m saying that it’s how I like to tinker. Others have their own ways of tinkering that are just as valid! I personally think the optimization challenge is fun. I like digging in to low level stuff, reviewing the assembly dumps and proc
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by cornstalks 4mo ago
When I want to tinker it’s usually because I want to make something faster than anyone else has done. Does that help illustrate why some might prefer to tinker in Zig, and why your definition of tinker seems a little narrow?
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by cornstalks 4mo ago
It allows you to fill in padding in a buffer. For example, all data in a buffer will be interpreted by a downstream system, and someone pre-calculated the size of that buffer. Rather than encode everything twice (once to figure out the exac
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by cornstalks 5mo ago
SQLite is arguably the most widely deployed database in the world. It also has its roots in government/defense contracting so it was built with navigating that kind of red tape in mind. Most OSS projects simply don’t have that kind of
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by cornstalks 5mo ago
PGBackRest was sponsored by some specific organizations, but not owned by them, and PGBackRest was not their product. SQLite is in a whole different league when it comes to funding, corporate support, etc. There are commercial contracts dir
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by cornstalks 5mo ago
SQLite doesn’t depend on donations. They have a consortium, sell licenses (it is open source but some companies like the explicit CYA), sell support contracts, sell an aviation-grade test harness, and sell extensions. Of course there is alw
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by cornstalks 5mo ago
I’ve done it multiple times without much effort. Or skill. Really it was a skill issue and I tried things that I thought would work but apparently don’t. I screwed up jj a few times while picking it up, but jj’s undo command made that trivi
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by cornstalks 5mo ago
If you're already super comfortable in git, it's not. I'm saying this as someone who recently converted from git to jj and never wants to go back. You also don't have to follow what the GP said. I never say `jj describe`
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by cornstalks 6mo ago
Given the pause in hostilities announced today it certainly looks like insider knowledge: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1162782323629...
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by cornstalks 6mo ago
Anecdote time! I had Codex GPT 5.4 xhigh generate a Rust proc macro. It's pretty straightforward: use sqlparser to parse a SQL statement and extract the column names of any row-producing queries. It generated an implementation that wor
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by cornstalks 7mo ago
I think your average person knows what sequential means but might not remember what series means. Personally I always remember the meaning of series in “parallel vs series” because it must be the opposite of parallel. I’m not proud of the f
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by cornstalks 8mo ago
> Metric prefixes are always lower case, so GB isn't valid metric. Ummm, what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
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by cornstalks 8mo ago
> That doesn't conform to SI. It should be written as kB mB gB Little m is milli, big M is mega. Little g doesn’t exist, only big G.
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by cornstalks 8mo ago
I implemented a rational number library for media timestamps (think CMTime, AVRational, etc.) that uses 64-bit numerators and denominators. It uses 128-bit integers for intermediate operations when adding, subtracting, multiplying, etc. It
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by cornstalks 8mo ago
> Would you pay for source-available products? GPL and paid license? I'm not GP but I would at least consider it. I say that as someone who refuses to build on closed-source tooling or libraries. I'd even consider closed-sour
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by cornstalks 9mo ago
GP only has two panels that generate 960 W (I’m going to generously assume NMOT and not STC). That’s hardly anything, and certainly not what I would use to try and charge 10 kWh of battery like they’re suggesting. But sure, I agree it would

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