Stories by signa11

Bypassing the Branch Predictor

Whatever Happened to String Theory?

Automated Equality Checks in C++ with Reflection (C++26)

TCP, the workhorse of the internet

Gamification of Programming Languages

This Isn't a Battle

The price of dynamic memory: Memory Access (2020)

Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models"

Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors

LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology

The folly that was Tandem Computers and the path that led me to NonStop

Problems with C++ exceptions

AI's $5T Data-Center Boom Will Dip into Every Debt Market: JPMorgan

Super Thin RAII Wrappers for C Types

The Root Cause Fallacy: Hidden Causes

How I learned to love Zig's diagnostic pattern (2024)

5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking

A Plan for 5-10%* Faster Free-Threaded JIT by Python 3.16

Dissecting the Syscall Instruction: Kernel Entry and Exit Mechanisms

C++ Move Semantics Considered Harmful (Rust Is Better) [2021]

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