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I use https://pagefind.app/ for search on my website. It’s really easy to add to a static site.

It isn’t on-die, the ram is separate chips in the same package. See the pics about halfway down https://www.apple.com/de/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-m3-m...

There are actually four variants:

• loop counts downwards vs upwards

• the processed part of the array is a uniform sample of the whole array, or it is a segment that has been uniformly shuffled

Knuth described only the downwards sampling version, which is probably why it’s the most common.

The variants are compared quite well on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle

This doesn’t work for testing migrations because MySQL/MariaDB doesn’t support DDL inside transactions, unlike PostgreSQL.

Ian Jackson (the author of this article) also wrote debbugs.

It’s easy to find on https://openinframap.org

Byte ranges are the only way to access files over sftp. Look at the read and write requests in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filex...

This article assumes that no extra mass is needed for cooling, i.e. that cooling is free. The list of model assumptions includes:

• No additional mass for liquid cooling loop infrastructure; likely needed but not included

• Thermal: only solar array area used as radiator; no dedicated radiator mass assumed

It has broken scrolling, very irritating. Scroll to top doesn’t work at all and when I fiddle with the fake windows regular scrolling can’t decide if the fake window or the whole page should scroll.

FaceID is much slower than TouchID, FaceID fails with wet glasses, it fails with a breathing mask. I can’t use the phone with wet fingers or gloves so needing a bare dry finger for TouchID is fine. FaceID annoyingly worse.

What happened to the blog post? It was moved and now it has disappeared :-(

No, because Knuth’s test was for Algol 60 and Algol 68 is a very different programming language.

No, it cane from DEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym#Numerical_contractio...

It seems unlikely to me that stenography would use this style because they have better ways of abbreviating long agglutinative words.

(2019)

The IETF’s review has an amazing title “The Helminthiasis of the Internet”

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1135

Before apt, the main user interface for dpkg was dselect, which was written in C++

At a quick skim this looks like they reinvented something very similar to phkmalloc, but they didn’t cite phkmalloc nor include it in their benchmarks.

https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/phkmalloc/

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c?h...

The atoms strcmp()ed by the interpreter are all created by the compiler so you can ensure the pointers are equal by construction.

Instead of representing atoms as string literals, you can represent them as global variables, eg

    const char conti[] = "conti";

Then you can use pointer comparison instead of strcmp().

A newish solar farm near here has fixed panels https://maps.app.goo.gl/DCw7DfNb5bDTRu1E9

There are lots of news stories in recent years about Oracle sending lawyers round to demand money from orgs both commercial and non-commercial who are using Oracle Java SE, eg https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/users_advised_to_revi...

Yeah, the longstanding hpn-ssh fork started off by adjusting ssh’s window sizes for long fat pipes.

https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh

Yeah, there’s a replacement for scp that uses ssh for setup and QUIC for bulk data transfer, which is much faster over high-latency paths.

https://github.com/crazyscot/qcp

Reminds me of Teletext, the BBC Micro’s mode 7, and Bedstead https://bjh21.me.uk/bedstead/

That sentence is specifically about composers of methods in change ringing, where the musical possibilities are tightly constrained by the rules and the physics of ringing large bells. Change ringing is based on permutations constructed by swapping adjacent pairs. (Except for the jump changes that the article is about.) For a “triples” peal on 7 bells the ringers are supposed to ring all 5040 possible permutations. It’s called “triples” because you can make up to 3 swaps at a time; one of the challenges (for example) is to construct a triples peal that only uses triple changes.

The problem in the US is that time zone boundaries very frequently do not match state boundaries.

It’s common for major cities to be located on rivers that are state boundaries, the area around the city uses the same timezone, and one of the states has a timezone boundary in the middle. Indiana has many tz database entries because of this kind of thing.

There are other fun cases like the Navajo Nation in Arizona.

There were X11 extensions that implemented access controls, eg in TrustedSolaris.

Unicode used to have a system of in-band language tags, but it was deprecated https://www.unicode.org/faq//languagetagging.html

Apple’s ARM cores have wider decode than x86

M1 - 8 wide

M4 - 10 wide

Zen 4 - 4 wide

Zen 5 - 8 wide