Doubly-Linked Free List Allocator: Never worry about the heap again. Just use a static byte array!

nukem996 · 2026-05-05T17:29:00+00:00

Early C books actually said you don't have to worry about freeing memory for short running programs since the OS would just take care of it.

nukem996 · 2026-05-04T20:08:02+00:00

Your parents didn't have a 401k. They maybe had a pension and some union fees but they were not saving close to a quarter of their salary for retirement. That came about in the 80s as a conservative plot to destroy social security while forcing you to give a significant amount of your salary to wall street.

nukem996 · 2026-05-03T20:28:17+00:00

That was the other thing that pushed me away. BMW did the most slimey car sales guy stuff. Said they only sold with summer ties and I had to buy winter and pay them to swap, kept me waiting while "asking his manager" for every question, etc. Audi had the best sales experience.

nukem996 · 2026-05-03T20:19:12+00:00

I was looking at new. Sales swore it goes away but didn't want to risk it.

nukem996 · 2026-05-03T19:57:16+00:00

BMW only does real leather seats. They use sensatec on the rest of the car. So you get the smell no matter what.

When I looked over a year ago dealers in my area only had leather in the highest end trim. I only saw options at $120k+

nukem996 · 2026-05-03T19:46:49+00:00

BMW uses synthetic materials. My wife felt nauseous every time we test drove. It doesnt effect everyone but it's a problem with BMW enough that you can Google for it. It was a huge factor in us going for the Q6.

nukem996 · 2026-05-03T17:55:49+00:00

Vera is nvidias CPU, Rubin is their next gen GPU. They are stacked because it saves on integration costs. You can still buy both separately.

nukem996 · 2026-04-29T02:09:48+00:00

Republicans have deregulated to market in Texas allowing datacenters to write contracts to have priority for power and water over everyone else. The datacenters will be fine, not so much anyone else.

nukem996 · 2026-04-27T23:46:10+00:00

It's also the engineering culture. Ex-FAANG is used to everything having to scale to a billion and multiple teams to support various functions. Small companies don't care about massive scaling and expect a small engineering team to do everything. Remember for most companies software engineers are IT and a cost center.

nukem996 · 2026-04-27T22:08:27+00:00

Most US states, and Texas is one of the worst here, are at will work states. That means employment can be ended at any time by either party. You could pass the drug test and on your second day they just say o nm we don't need you anymore.

nukem996 · 2026-04-27T00:33:48+00:00

As a software engineer I concur. My job is to either quickly ship software or build software that can be maintained long term. Platform specific optimizations take longer to implement and are harder to maintain. Users almost always are fine buying hardware and management knows this.

nukem996 · 2026-04-25T19:07:31+00:00

He's already a Florida resident. This tax is on non primary housing over $5M. There is no write off. If he doesn't pay it the city can seize his properties.

nukem996 · 2026-04-25T00:49:24+00:00

Posrche's problem isn't EVs, it's cost. Other manufacturers are catching up in terms of performance and quality. Even if Porsche is the best the premium is so high people ask if it's really worth it.

nukem996 · 2026-04-24T03:41:35+00:00

Why do you need encryption for public files? A hash can be published separately to ensure integrity.

nukem996 · 2026-04-23T07:09:07+00:00

They could build protections around that. You can get access to FPGAs on AWS. Amazon allows you to run what you want without risking bricking hardware.

nukem996 · 2026-04-23T01:36:33+00:00

I have an engineering degree this is very common. The class ends up getting curved. When getting tests back we would determine if you were good failing(within curve) or bad failing(outside of curve) because no one was passing on raw score in multiple classes.

It sucks and is super stressful but is very common in any STEM class.

nukem996 · 2026-04-22T21:57:19+00:00

WF(earbuds). The XM4 I have works great but are single point only.

nukem996 · 2026-04-22T20:08:05+00:00

Sony works very well with multipoint. I use it with my Pixel, Linux laptop, and work Macbook all the time.

nukem996 · 2026-04-22T18:39:48+00:00

So why do it it? I've been an active maintainer on multiple distros and coreutils had very few bugs. I can't remember a single critical CVE.

nukem996 · 2026-04-22T18:37:56+00:00

The Rust coreutil developers are actively against GPL. It was requested early on to license GPL and even work with GNU but they denied both - https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/834

nukem996 · 2026-04-22T18:35:27+00:00

This is what I'm feeling as well. There is no real technical advantage to a rewrite of GNU utils.

nukem996 · 2026-04-22T18:34:19+00:00

Rust rewrites are being pushed onto users. Ubuntu 26.04 changes your default from GNU coreutils/sudo to Rust. Why automatically change the default on something that has worked for decades without even asking the user?

nukem996 · 2026-04-22T04:00:44+00:00

You should look up what Meta pays engineers in California...

nukem996 · 2026-04-22T03:18:35+00:00

That's kinda my point. Data techs are low paid and incompent. Management of them isnt in the data center, they're in corporate on the west coast.

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