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I'm wondering whether any of the Google security team will use this for their "leaving tradition" [1], or whether it's considered cheating, just too easy. [1]: https://t…

I'd be happy to see benchmarks of that. The problem is that the "shuffling" creates serial data dependencies, while the matrix form doesn't. Sure, the number of multiplications is …

Yes, Android then Fuchsia. I agree it's good, overall I prefer it to Github, but by "hacky" I mostly mean it's very much out of step from the way the rest of the ecosystem works. T…

Gerrit has had the concept of "draft" for a long time. It's also better at multiple "patchsets" as a "changelist" evolves, some of which can have rebasing without ne…

All this is an excellent ad for sci-hub, which avoids most of the serious drawbacks of publishers like Elsevier. It was interesting how that was relegated to a veiled comment at the end, "or find…

Yes, they do explicitly say exactly that. Term 3 in Jon Fine's email is "AMI agrees not to publish" and that directly follows term 2, which is Bezos backing off his assertion that AMI i…

You can get rid of the heap allocation for Mutex by using parking_lot, and there is work to merge this into standard library. The rest of what you wrote sounds right to me.

It's not as easy as it looks, but probably can be done. The research I was doing was very much pure transducers, but with a couple of twists (the one I'm proudest of is alternating between f…

The best way to measure end-to-end latency is an Arduino with a light sensor, with the Arduino programatically injecting USB events. I made an Amazon shopping list[1] a year ago. I hope to rework my c…

It's not useful advice. One does not simply add complex script support to some simplistic text drawing codebase. You have to take on dependencies to codebases at least an order of magnitude large…

This is actually a super-interesting problem. The complex scripts require "shaping", which increasingly is done by HarfBuzz. Companies used to maintain their own proprietary implementations,…

The Tao of programming is Nigel Tao, long one of the main people on the Go team. Not to be confused with the Tao of mathematics, who is of course Terence Tao, Nigel's brother.

I find the converse of the observation is true as well. I often post things about potentially controversial topics (Rust advocacy, undefined behavior, the suitability of Electron for UI), but I am alw…

Absolutely. Two other negative models are the music publishing industry and academic publishing. I was going to write "paywalled academic publishing," but some of the worst ethics are in the…

My personal sense, from watching developments in this space, is that we are going to have to find some way for taking on an open source dependency to be an economic transaction, with money actually ch…

Though Inconsolata was inspired by Consolas, I wouldn't consider it all that similar. For example, the digits in Inconsolata are much closer to the Franklin Gothic model. Also, Consolas has excel…

Source Code Pro is a very good font. My only real problem with it is that it's a touch too wide. One of the things I really like about it is the wide range of weight and the true italic.

You might want to consider adding "image-rendering: pixelated" to your CSS; on a high-dpi monitor, these render with bilinear interpolation, which I think doesn't do justice to the cris…

This. Right now I'm basically on a year sabbatical where I'm doing almost entirely open source software without worrying about funding, but I also know that's not sustainable I hope you…

I have done this, and just for reference, my Patreon currently brings in $203/month. I am very grateful to my supporters, but making this scale doesn't look easy.

I'm with you. It would have to be well-run and not toxic, which is not the default in open-source, sadly. Perhaps I'm thinking about the world the way I want it to be, rather than the way it…

Thank you, Steve. You have personally done more to make the Rust community what it is today than possibly any other person. It speaks very poorly of Mozilla that they don't value your work. Perha…

No, but I intend to use it as the foundational layer that I build the production implementation on top of.

You need to integrate the square root of a quartic polynomial – the derivative of a cubic is a quadratic, then you square the norm of that, which gives a quartic. I spent a little time in Mathematica …

That is a beautiful memorial. Thank you Terry for writing it, and helping me appreciate Jean's life and work better.

These quadrature techniques are strictly more powerful than adaptive sampling. Part of the motivation for this blog post was to raise awareness of quadrature, as it's an excellent general method …

You're really trying to nerd snipe, aren't you? I spent some quality time with elliptic functions as the solutions to the elastica, and also with the Fresnel integral which of course generat…

The simple answer is that these days I go where the muse takes me. I'm basically on a year-long sabbatical after leaving Google this summer, where I'm not particularly worrying about making …