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The Imperceivable Force
Spoiler warning for Project Hail Mary Part of the fun of sci-fi is getting an excuse to talk about real science, and Andy Weir exemplified this in Project…
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Stop Using memcpy
Look, I know it’s the fastest way to copy data from one location to another. But hear me out: The problem is that memcpy copies raw bytes, regardless…
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One Container to Rule Them All
At least, the two sequential containers I’m going to talk about. Vector or List?1 The classic use case for a linked list is frequently inserting (or removing2) elements…
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Predictability is the New Optimization
When choosing an algorithm for a task, we often try to minimize the computational work needed to complete it. That’s usually a good idea, but there are situations…
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