Posted by Solid-Film-818 - 124 votes and 14 comments

I've received an email regarding a Fakku ™️ DMCA involving gallery-dl as well as 28 other repositories: INFRINGING FILES: gallery_dl/extractor/nhentai.py - NHentai extractor gallery_dl/extracto...

Recently, during a production incident response, I guessed the root cause of an outage correctly within less than an hour (cool!) and submitted a fix just to rule it out, only to then spend many hours fumbling in the dark because we lacked visibility into…

Posted by CodeEleven0 - 271 votes and 79 comments

Applying Alexis King's parse-don't-validate principle in TypeScript, where the type system fights back just enough to be annoying.

An appreciation post for something so simple, yet so wonderful to use

Posted by derjanni - 723 votes and 144 comments

Reverse engineering the traffic system from Pizza Tycoon (1994): how the original devs drove dozens of cars through a city with almost no CPU budget.

Posted by Successful_Bowl2564 - 156 votes and 36 comments

Modern DRAM is based on a brilliant design from IBM.

But, we're still paying for a latency penalty that's existed since the 60s!

In this video, I'm introducing my personal research project (Tailslayer) that immensely reduces p99.99 latency on traditional…

Our story begins as most database issues start: with hands on foreheads, internally or externally, saying ‘WTF is going on?’. We observed a series of database freezes on our production environment. It was quite severe. Connections spiked, writes were stalled…

From <1 kB to ~1 MB: experimentally bounding required contiguity by per-element work

View and download this historic assembly code for your own space program

Actually building floating point from scratch!

Posted by Successful_Bowl2564 - 149 votes and 32 comments

While the Meson build system has been capturing much of the limelight in recent years by open-source projects, the cross-platform CMake build system also shows no signs of slowing down and continues evolving with new features and functionality.

Why you need nested, structured error data.

Debugging a graphics bug in Blackshift

Why scalar types give us a false sense of safety, and how wrapping primitives in domain types catches bugs the compiler never could.

A single two-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware. No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos,...