Stories by fanf2

Xsum: Exactly-rounded summation of floating point values

Illuminating Synchronization Edges for ThreadSanitizer

Social media doesn't turn people into assholes, and everyone's wrong about echo (2021)

The Game of Life caterpillar spaceship

Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)

Generalizing over generics a.k.a. higher kinded types in Rust

Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders (2022)

The Actual OSI Model

Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows (2021)

When the CRC and the TCP checksum disagree [pdf]

Cleaning up your PostgreSQL database

Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages (2022)

IPv4 Address Markets

Behavior Inheritance in Rust (2021)

The Byte Order Fiasco (2021)

The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)

Getting the world record in HATETRIS (2022)

USB HID deevice class definition [pdf]