Jack Pappas

Software developer building high-performance systems in F#/C#/C++.

[Sixty-Six Wards @sixtysixwards]

The tracker is live! I estimate that as of 7:45, 75,000 Philadelphians have voted in person, in addition to 178,000 mail in ballots received (as of Monday).

https://t.co/rvgpOKMqp8

When you vote, submit your number to https://t.co/mUF9uDXsBd!

[_native.dev @_nativedev]

I’ve brought #FreeBSD up to date w/ #Apple libdispatch source sans reliance on the Linux compatibility layer by injecting native BSD style kqueue/kevent and futex support via _umtx_op. An implementation of kevent_qos should satisfy the remaining tests failing wrt prioritization.

[Technical.ly @Technical_ly]

Eleven years ago, this volunteer editor came to understand that if a neighborhood librarian is to have a full supply of information, it would help to have a home online. A tangible project emerged: Wikidelphia. https://t.co/JBbD1qSBRY

[Karel Zikmund @ziki_cz]

5 more teams in Developer Division are hiring in Czech Republic:
- C++ compiler
- .NET Performance
- ARM64 ecosystem
- .NET Runtime
- ASPNET Core Balzor

And 3 previous positions:
- Unified product build
- F# Tooling
- .NET Networking

For details see https://t.co/jlYdTTktOd

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Every programmer not using VBA spends their entire life justifying why they don't get actual work done.
You see someone coding VBA? That shit is happening in like 15 more minutes.

[Formula Data Analysis @FDataAnalysis]

#F1 Teams Power and Drag comparison 📈
The answer to the most asked question❗️

-Ferrari has 1% more power (~10hp) than RB and 2% more power (~20hp) than Mercedes
-Red Bull had a 15% (!!!) lower drag than Ferrari and 17% lower drag than Mercedes! Impressive efficiency 😲

Share!

[Jack Pappas @JKPappas]

@pcwalton I don’t know what your use case is, but depending on the graph characteristics you may be able to use a bisimulation algorithm instead.

[Yury Selivanov @1st1]

WOW.

Bloomberg finally opensourced memray—a new versatile memory profile for Python. Can't way to use it.

Thread 👇

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

2. Donate money to support the Ukrainian Army. You can transfer money to the following accounts:

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3. Organize street protests in your city to support Ukraine and condemn Russian aggression

[Jason Morris (he/him)💻⚖️🇨🇦 @RoundTableLaw]

Couldn't go to Programming Languages and Law #ProLaLa at #POPL2022 ? I've got you covered. #RulesAsCode #ComputationalLaw #LegalTech

https://t.co/vlG6K13EOZ

[Brandon Falk @gamozolabs]

New blog: Rust on MIPS64 Windows NT 4.0 https://t.co/Jw8okbTPCx

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

Posted "How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha" at https://t.co/TliHJWVyhx

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

NEW: #PandoraPapers reveals the inner workings of a shadow economy that benefits the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone else.

Brought to you by ICIJ and 600+ journalists, the largest collaboration in journalism history. 🧵 https://t.co/qXMuUcqPc4

[Ellen Kwon @ellen_hwang_phl]

.@KenSteif, you were a real one. You are missed in our community. A brilliant mind, heart of gold, and a mentor to many.

[Angie Jones @techgirl1908]

I'm not even gon hold you. Today I had Gumbo Ramen and whewwww 🔥

[Dmitry Babokin @DmitryBabokin]

I'm hiring to work with me on ISPC: https://t.co/wgxCb17gwL

All kind of SIMD optimization fun is guaranteed!

Apply now or DM me. If you are not in the US / Canada - DM me.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

📍Bad news on #MuVariant—Japanese scientists: "Mu variant is highly resistant to sera from convalescent & [Pfizer]-vaccinated people. Direct comparison of different spike proteins revealed that Mu spike is more resistant…than all other current variants”🧵
https://t.co/Ilf5gh3OGd

[Don Syme @dsymetweets]

F# folk, please vote on this suggestion, that F# tooling should show

int array

rather than

int[]

Primarily because beginners can be confused by this only occurrence of C-style syntax.

https://t.co/iSjx28bap1

[Henry Beaucejour, MBA @HBeaucejour]

Cayes , les Nippes ,Jérémie est sous les décombres … @RedCross @Pwoteksyonsivil more area affected by #haitiearthquake2021

[Jack Pappas @JKPappas]

@pentasori @cmuratori Yes, you can set thread affinity (to specific core(s)) for managed-language threads just as for native threads.