Lorenzo Gil Sanchez @lgs@mastodon.social

TIL why git notes is an awesome idea but a terrible implementation

Really good post and talk about games architecture design and its implementation in Rust:

https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html

Bookmark this page https://www.aftersabbath.com/ and cancel your Spotify subscription right now.

You are welcome.

"I simulated California housing and learned... about simulators"

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20180918

https://auth0.com/blog/on-the-nature-of-oauth2-scopes/

Today I Learned that Python sort function used the TimSort algorithm after Tim Peters. It's such an awesome algorithm that Java adopted it a few years ago. Really impressive stuff that takes some time to grasp.

Save is not working: http://www.lorenzogil.com/blog/2018/08/05/save-is-not-working/

Maybe it's not decentralized blockchains the ones stealing the payments cake after all.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-payment-systems-china-usa/

"I'm in the middle, the middle of life" https://youtu.be/sgTVKW7g2Dg It's sad to realize you are too old for one of your favorite songs

I find this article interesting https://www.kapwing.com/blog/a-female-engineers-opinion-on-fewer-women-in-tech/ in the way it explains why there are less women in tech. It's a little bit of a refreshing view point.

I really dislike the way keybase.io has emailed me about the PGP vulnerability. It's not only that they used it as Trojan horse to get users into their system (including me) but now they claim to be vastly more secure to it and treat PGP in a condescend way. I'm really thinking about deleting my account now.

To be honest, it doesn't "force" you as long as you don't have cycles. But doing the tree in a Rust way it's not only safer for memory management but also faster. Pretty satisfied with this result and the learning experience overall.

I believe the reason is due to the way Rust handles memory it forces you to write self-referenced data structures (like a tree) without using pointers but using handles. Thus this achieves a lot better data locality which is really important for performance.

I was finally able to write a Rust program that is 165 times faster than the C equivalent. It builds an AVL tree from a stream of 10,000 integers and then does an in-order traversal. Just a fancy way to sort a list.

I'm very confused after reading https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/10/17215406/webauthn-support-chrome-firefox-edge-fido-password-free What is the relationship between password free systems and phishing?

And remember, the more factors the better. Raplacing passwords with devices is just replacing something I know with something I have. It's just different attack vectors.