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FWIW I don't agree with the comment chain's source, I read "regular people" as "civilians" and don't think there was any nasty connotation meant.

It didn't used to be this way.

I think 20-30 years of copyright should be plenty to extract whatever profits you deserve from the fruits of your labor. Anything beyond that is just holding culture hostage for the benefit of a few. It doesn't serve society in any meaningful way.

So if you use Rust, you get these by simply calling [T]::sort(_unstable). Great performance out of the box :)

On my machine (Apple M2), using the benchmarks from the repository on Apple clang 17 and Rust 1.98 nightly:

    Sorting 50 million doubles:
    ipnsort             0.79s
    blqs                0.90s
    driftsort           1.13s   (stable)
    std::sort           1.22s
    std::stable_sort    4.64s   (stable)

    Sorting 50 million (i32, i32) structs:
    ipnsort             0.82s
    blqs                0.89s
    driftsort           1.07s   (stable)
    std::sort           3.09s
    std::stable_sort    3.15s   (stable)

    driftsort           0.29s   (stable)
    ipnsort             0.81s
    std::sort           1.15s
    std::stable_sort    1.63s   (stable)
    blqs                1.89s

However, since a * b = b * a, our input space has a lot of duplicate outputs. So from this alone you can conclude roughly half of the output space must be uncovered by any input pair, simply because there aren't enough input pairs.

If you are insecure because someone has had one of their otherwise completely innocent PRs merged into your repo... you are insecure, period.

I have no idea why you interpret my words that way. I just meant that I didn't want to analyze the cash portion of their offer any further and just wanted to take it at face value.

If you word it like this it's just a hostile proposed change of leadership. Weird way to apply to become CEO of eBay, but sure.

The issue is the non-cash portion of the offer. They claim that the remaining 27.5B is covered by GameStop stock. But that's more than double the market cap of GameStop.

> Our offer is $125.00 per share, comprising 50% cash and 50% GameStop common stock

Even if you magically included all existing GameStop stock in the offer, it still would not comprise 50% of $55.5B.

EDIT: looks like it's not impossible and I misunderstood. It's a proposed change of leadership with a $25B injection of cash to sweeten the deal. GameStop would issue shares which would capture the original eBay value (since GameStop would own eBay after the trade), making that part a wash. At least assuming people owning eBay stock currently would value the combined company at at least the sum of their parts, which is a big if.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.splice

The point of a CS degree is to know the fundamentals of computing, not the latest best practices in programming that abstract the fundamentals.

If something "carries" or is "a carry", it means it is so strong it metaphorically carries the rest of the setup with it. For example:

> This card carries.

> These two are the carries of the team.

Convolving two arrays can be done perfectly accurately in O(n log n), despite every element being combined with every other element.

Or consider the even more basic sum of products a[i] * b[j] for all possible i, j:

    total = 0
    for i in range(len(a)):
        for j in range(len(b)):
            total += a[i] * b[j]

Your logic that 'the result contains terms of all pairs, therefore the algorithm must be quadratic' simply doesn't hold.

As it fills up the false probability rate goes up. Once the false probability rate reaches the threshold of unacceptability, the bloom filter is full, and you can no longer insert into it.

That most interfaces still let you do something that looks like an insert is an interface failure, not a bloom filter feature.

If you find this controversial and want to reply "I don't have a threshold of unacceptability", I'll counter that a false probability rate of 100% will be reached eventually. And if you still find that acceptable, you can trivially modify any probabilistic filter to "never become full" by replacing the "is full" error condition with setting a flag that all future queries should return a false positive.

In my experience agents don't converge on anything. They diverge into low-quality monstrosities which at some point become entirely unusable.

I almost never even think about the borrow checker. If you have a long-lived shared reference you just Arc it. If it's a circular ownership structure like a graph you use a SlotMap. It by no means is any harder for this codebase than for small ones.

> how productive power users in different [fields] can be with their tools

There are a lot more tools in programming than your text editor. Linters, debuggers, AI assistants, version control, continuous integration, etc.

I personally know I'm terrible at using debuggers. Is this a shortcoming of mine? Probably. But I also feel debuggers could be a lot, lot better than they are right now.

I think for a lot of us reflecting at our workflow and seeing things we do that could be done more efficiently with better (usage of) tooling could pay off.

For example if I were to give $1 to every person on earth, but $100 million to you, everyone would be richer but you would be a lot richer still.

(not me, but...)

Bach - Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

> But one wonders what he could have made without those constraints.

Bach-Busoni - Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004