Given an array of N numbers of type double, the standard way to sort it in C is to invoke the qsort function
qsort(array, N, sizeof(double), compare);

where compare is a function which returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the…

The Earth is subjected to a hail of subatomic particles from the Sun and beyond our solar system which could be the cause of glitches that afflict our phones and computers.

Related thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186412
The Problem macOS ships with Z shell settings that do not find commands far back enough using the history command to be useful.
If you have a shell open and echo "test", then history | grep…

What is ‘git switch and git restore’

Comparing one of the most popular Postgres features against alternatives

A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer. Contribute to rvaiya/warpd development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I describe as living “outside” the application – like, how does…

essons on migration projects from Box, Stripe, Pinterest, Doordash, LinkedIn and others.

A field guide to VPNs, proxies, and traffic relaying

Developer Tim Davis, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has claimed on Twitter […]

Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.

💩🚀 Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. - felixrieseberg/windows95

🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM. - valeriansaliou/sonic

How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases.

Unix
counts time as seconds since the epoch. Seems straight
forward. What could possibly go wrong?