truefossil

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truefossil··on Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer (2017)

Linux, FreeBSD seem to have memfd_create(). Mac OS seem to have shm_open() instead. Actually, the first two have that one as well. Interesting.

The technique itself is indeed very elegant.

truefossil··on Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken

size_t is 64 bits on 64-bit CPUs

truefossil··on All Garmin Connect services are down

I remember that some Garmin employees gave talks on CRDTs at some event. That was 2015 or 2016, so I can not recall any details.

truefossil··on Anyone Noticed the Outage?

My bet is on a BGP glitch at the moment.

truefossil··on Anyone Noticed the Outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42362781

Nope, observed in different places. Was fixed in an hour or so, but it was something big.

truefossil··on Ask HN: Anyone else experience an internet outage?

https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/

This one shows a global event as well.

truefossil··on Ask HN: Anyone else experience an internet outage?

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/

A good "Internet dashboard" from Cloudflare. Something happened indeed, globally. China looks unaffected.

truefossil··on The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding

Agree. So far "the progress" implied understanding (discovering) previously unknown things. AI is exactly the opposite: "I don't understand how, but it sorta works!"

truefossil··on Emoji Under the Hood

The safest path is to consider it a blob. There is some library that can render it magically and that's the only wise thing you can do. The internal structure is hard to understand. Also, definitions change over time. So, you better leave it all to professionals.

truefossil··on Emoji Under the Hood

I wonder why Mediterranean nations switched from ideograms to alphabet as soon as one was invented. Probably they did not have enough surplus grain to feed something like the Unicode consortium?