Raph #Levien on #Mastodon posting a PDF of a letter #Dijkstra wrote him about #Io on 01989-11-11 when he was 19, which means he was born in 01970 or late 01969.
Kazinator on #Mastodon replying to Raph #Levien about #Dijkstra
#Posits for computer #math
electrical #energy #pricing by #USA state and sector from the EIA
#Maru, #Piumarta’s tiny language
#Piumarta’s a full professor now!
#Levien explains of #Dijkstra’s letter to him: “Yes, we were corresponding for a while, this wasn’t just a response to a cold contact. My dad, who was quite a promoter and very invested in the idea of me being a gifted kid, reached out to a bunch of computer scientists, and several responded. I have some of those letters but haven’t done any careful organizing of them. As I mentioned in the memorial note, Dijkstra would go on to invite me to the Marktoberdorf summer school the following summer, where I got to spend time with him, Tony Hoare, Greg Nelson, Robert Constable (of Nuprl fame), and others.”
In #Erlang you can send messages to process IDs (Pids), registered names, or process aliases.
#PDF #paper by Wiger in 02007, “Extended Process Registry for #Erlang”, #toread #history
“We are extremely pleased to announce the availability of the new “Swiss Table” family of hashtables in Abseil and the absl::Hash #hashing framework that allows easy extensibility for user defined types. Last year at CppCon, We presented a talk on a new hashtable that we were rolling out across #Google’s codebase.” #C++ #Swiss-tables #performance
"Abseil" is “an open source collection of #C++ libraries drawn from the most fundamental pieces of #Google’s internal codebase”
#ByteDance proposed that #Golang use #Swiss-Tables for #hashing, apparently accepted in Go 1.24
"Dolt" is “Git for Data! (...) a #SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a Git repository.” #databases #version-control