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@Catfish_Man I agree the interview structure isn't the right one, but there's something to be said for picking the right data structure in the first place, so that you don't have to wait for the natural pushback later. 80% of the time it won't matter, and 5% of the time it might make things worse, but I think there's still a good 15% or so where having better defaults than "accidentally quadratic" is worth being part of the initial implementation.

@coreyspowell Nitpick: the alt text is off because you rotated the image!

@slava@mathstodon.xyz @joe@f.duriansoftware.com @steve@discuss.systems @ferrix@mastodon.online something something Zombo COM

@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt using a silent-K word is icing on the cake

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com I hear Linux uses ARF binaries

@kylebshr@mastodon.social @joe@f.duriansoftware.com well, if it were up t' me…

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com and int(String) interns the string and gives you a unique symbol

@ole@chaos.social It's open source, how much free time do you have? :-P

@slava You sold it for me with that last line!

@skinnylatte (This message got disconnected from its thread in my timeline and I was very confused on first glance until I got to the third sentence.)

@lindsey Reminds me of an (internal) presentation about zero-knowledge proofs where the presenter showed an example system that is successfully zero-knowledge but does not actually prove anything.

@sophieschmieg if that's their lifetime achievement, what does that say about their life

@maccatalan @kalleboo I mean I wrote a real program in it. But also it was PowerPC-only, and if I were doing it today I would base it on Embedded Swift. (Which might even Just Work, if you can get the proper object file tools?) I think the Rust folks may have a 68k target though…

@citizen428 @joe Yeah, sorry, I didn’t mean it as a mark against you either! It just rang a bell, having run into people attempting to do even a less silly thing.

@sugar@goblin.camp Excellent alt text

@thephd@pony.social So on the one hand what I said was true and there was a difference, on the other it basically didn’t affect the qualitative results. Well, good to be sure!

@thephd@pony.social For the record, macOS thread-locals were notoriously slow back when I worked at Apple, because they’re hidden behind function calls in order to not make the special thread-local data register part of the ABI. I don’t know if that’s still the case, but it may be interesting for you (or someone else) to re-run on Linux. Or it may not be, I can’t imagine it’s ever going to be cheaper than the static case anyway.

@Catfish_Man …also, computers only had one core, so it didn’t help!

@mcc@mastodon.social Are the login buttons also arranged as an alignment chart? Log in with… Lawful Good: Any OAuth Provider Lawful Neutral: Apple Lawful Evil: Facebook Neutral Good: email with login link True Neutral: email/password Neutral Evil: still email/password, but the password can only be 8 alphanumeric characters Chaotic Good: SMS code Chaotic Neutral: the act of making an ActivityPub post mentioning the website Chaotic Evil: username (no password) [my personal view is that alignments are about motivations, not outcomes, which may explain some of the more questionable positioning. also a reminder that I said all nine of these are on one page]

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com The Bechdel-Wallace-Turing Test: does your submission contain two politicians that talk about something other than a corporation

@mrencyclopedia@retro.pizza @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io My friend calls the former “eldritch conference tables”.

@lily@glaceon.social Hmm fair, they may usefully be different types without being different units. (in the spirit of “miles per gallon is area density”)

@lily@glaceon.social @irenes@mastodon.social if this is a coherent answer your types aren’t strong enough (middle C isn’t 260-whatever Hz, it’s at best a longitudinal physical vibration at 260-whatever Hz, if not a value of distinct type altogether that happens to have that as one possible rendering)

"Ooh, I love your POSIX-compatible networking library!" "Thanks, it has sockets!"

@porglezomp@mastodon.social Whew!

@lindsey@recurse.social @regehr@mastodon.social Fun example (that both of you might have seen before): '\n' in rustc. https://rodarmor.com/blog/whence-newline/

Six years at Signal! (at least three of them were 2020)

Talking about compiler work today reminded me of my writeup from *checks calendar* ten years ago on ways to get into working on compilers. I think it mostly holds up! https://belkadan.com/blog/2016/05/So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Compiler-Wizard/

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space [untagging Ada because I don’t know her] I hate this all too, but I don’t think “get out of the well-paying field because some people enjoy it” is a very good argument. Or even “because some people take pride in their work and you should too”. The field is well-paid. The fact that many of us enjoy the work and would choose it even for less pay is barely relevant.

@penryu@hachyderm.io so, so much

@slava@mathstodon.xyz @zwarich@hachyderm.io @joe@f.duriansoftware.com I've been bitten too many times by "declarations produce unit" to believe everything is naturally an expression. I can generally live with "you can force everything to be an expression" though. (The big misstep was "loops do an implicit collect" but I think everyone's in agreement about that these days.)

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com "src/gnu/llvm" FSF lawyer 🤝 corporate lawyer "what"

@mikeash@mastodon.sdf.org No, see, this used to be true back when we had search engines that worked. These days you should save the page to your hard drive to be sure!

@citizen428 @joe Hey, guess what syntax the C preprocessor strips out for you? Guess what syntax is really common in web pages? (and also property lists, where I first encountered this clash)

@Catfish_Man “async but on the main actor” is definitely an interesting one for me. I guess as long as you’re not CPU-bound you must have an await somewhere in the task that means you’re yielding for UI stuff to run.

Tempted to never again donate to anywhere that wants my phone number. Better figure out how to make sure that's not a compliance issue if you ever want donations again.

@yosh@toot.yosh.is Can you explain further? None of the features I'm imagining reorder execution, which means I must be thinking of the wrong features.

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space I still don’t really see a consistent rule to separate quote-posts from rich previews of any other kind of content, and of course posts get screenshotted plenty already… But maybe this is another “don’t make it too easy” thing.

@joeress @inthehands Mm. I agree this is the trend, but also: Claude

@porglezomp@mastodon.social Does that mean there was already an Apple Clang 26 and now there'll be a second one in a few years?

TIL "overmorrow", "the day after tomorrow" (cognate with modern German "übermorgen"), from RobWords. We should definitely bring this back. ("ereyesterday" I'm less sure of.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK-8gfqmFNo

@yosh@toot.yosh.is …now I'm super confused what this would be useful for. Looking forward to the blog post, I guess!

@rotopenguin@mastodon.social @joe@f.duriansoftware.com at the disco…very of stack frames

@helge@mastodon.social “Swift 6.3: Objective-C, without the C, with the C.”

@steve@discuss.systems @joe@f.duriansoftware.com I'm sure we've done this one before. Maybe it got garbage collected.

Context: Swift has not officially had a way to expose plain old functions to C until now. Why? Because it had Objective-C interoperability first, and so deciding whether C functions should support everything ObjC does or not was…complicated. You can read about it here: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0495-cdecl.md

@dalias@hachyderm.io @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Yeah, neither of you are wrong, but it isn’t really convincing either. Maybe I should have put my reply on the second message of the original thread (“I invite you to…”). Or maybe I should have just accepted that the audience for the posts is us in the first place and not the people making a hash of the craft.

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com vigor :: pepsi