I think “blitzkrieg” matches somewhat: don’t stop to engage every stronghold, just drive around them, isolate them, and cut off their support networks.

This doesn’t make sense to me. The ultimate value of shares is in the dividends they represent, no? If there are no dividends ever, what are they sharing in? Is it just a postponement until future dividends? A share in control of activities?

I get that there’ll be speculation that will keep values increasing, and selling can net a profit, but what does the last share-holder get?

Why are you guys getting so personally triggered by a one-word comment? They said it’s performative. Yes, the liberals do it too. Is this a sports game? Are we keeping scores? Is your team winning?

I don’t think the world applauds that at all. The US used to be the good guys. Very flawed but still “good” as things go. Now they’re just dangerous and thrashing wildly…

Disagree. Just because luck saved your ass doesn’t mean what you did wasn’t stupid.

Winning a round of Russian Roulette doesn’t make you a genius.

You are being liberated. Please do not resist.

Thanks, and sorry about that! I removed the colon from near my URL now, just in case.

The real meat of the story is in the referenced blog post: https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

TL;DR

If you’re short on time, here’s the key engineering story:

• McIlroy’s first innovation was a clever linguistics-based stemming algorithm that reduced the dictionary to just 25,000 words while improving accuracy.

• For fast lookups, he initially used a Bloom filter—perhaps one of its first production uses. Interestingly, Dennis Ritchie provided the implementation. They tuned it to have such a low false positive rate that they could skip actual dictionary lookups.

• When the dictionary grew to 30,000 words, the Bloom filter approach became impractical, leading to innovative hash compression techniques.

• They computed that 27-bit hash codes would keep collision probability acceptably low, but needed compression.

• McIlroy’s solution was to store differences between sorted hash codes, after discovering these differences followed a geometric distribution.

• Using Golomb’s code, a compression scheme designed for geometric distributions, he achieved 13.60 bits per word—remarkably close to the theoretical minimum of 13.57 bits.

• Finally, he partitioned the compressed data to speed up lookups, trading a small memory increase (final size ~14 bits per word) for significantly faster performance.

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I will be messaging you in 7 days on 2025-04-07 10:06:96 UTC to remind you that there is no RemindMe! bot on lemmy.

Ok, that could be true. I assumed they meant the “building” phase that some frameworks go through.

Except… the compilation step doesn’t add type safety to JS.

As an aside, type safety hasn’t been something I truly miss in JS, despite how often it’s mentioned.

Bees are pretty much the angels of the insect world… Harming no-one and nothing, and almost single-handedly holding up the ecosystem of a quarter of the planet’s life forms.

He’s got a long way to go to reach level bee.

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Have you considered that you may be a hallucinating AI yourself?.. Quick, try drawing a full glass of wine!

That’s not true, I’m sure NATO will answer NATO’s call to help kick NATO’s ass.

No scam. She’s just a lonely girl who can’t believe no-one here is taking her seriously… Tragic story as old as time.

Oh, sweet summer grandpa…

A trump speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elhyo-_fR0E

Well, no, China is bad because freedom is very restricted there and because they have ambitions to dominate the world.

Yes, every other world power in the world is more or less the same. People cannot, in general, be trusted to be “good” when given the opportunity to abuse. A world power can be held in check by the presence and efforts of other world powers, though.