Place where goldstein dumps his links so she doesn’t have 500 tabs ever again.
Tags are structured like this:
is- tags are about medium. Books, papers, blog posts, interactive explanations etc.
about- tags are about about. What’s this post topic or what’s this project is/for.
to- tags are about reason. Why did I even save this?
for- tags are about connections. Where can I use it?
Very much not-production-ready (didn’t even compile on my machine), but looks pretty cool (rad, even).
Latency, throughput and port usage of x86 instructions.
microforum in DNS TXT records
A distributed network that allows you to add host-independent repo identifier as a git origin. Looks like it worth a try, especially with sr.ht being down and Codeberg half-broken because of a DDoS attack.
Some thoughts on custom allocator interfaces with nice examples.
Another take on io_uring in Rust. Doesn’t bring its own runtime, instead choosing to integrate with tokio.
This is an opinionated essay about good and bad practices in data visualization. Examples and explanations are below.
The book, focusing on Homo sapiens, surveys the history of humankind, starting from the Stone Age and going up to the twenty-first century. The account is situated within a framework that intersects the natural sciences with the social sciences.
Dungeons and Dragons, but about philosophy.
Tutorial about building a self-hosting cargo-compatible build tool. I have many problems with cargo and was interested in nixifying our job builds for eternity, so maybe there’s something useful there.
The paper’s claim:
False.
Compilers do optimize atomics, memory accesses around atomics, and utilize architecture-specific knowledge. This paper illustrates a few such optimizations, and discusses their implications.
Interestingly, none of the optimizations proposed in the paper actually work on GCC or Clang.
Abstract: Polymorphic inline caches (PICs) provide a new way to reduce the overhead of polymorphic message sends by extending inline caches to include more than one cached lookup result per call site. For a set of typical object-oriented SELF programs, PICs achieve a median speedup of 11%.
What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari’s earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not be able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family.
Supports a lot of fun stuff, maybe worth trying.
An example of false sharing in real-ish workload.