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The other day, while driving, a friend commented that the most common word in song titles was Love, and that the second most common was not 'You' as you might hope, but 'I'.
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For more than 70 years computer scientists have studied sorting algorithms. Amazingly, we're still finding ways to make them faster and more memory efficient. Python recently replaced its legendary TimSort, and today Rust 1.81 released with two new adaptive sorting algorithms featuring serious performance improvements.
The well known saying about eating and having cake makes a lot more sense if you reverse the subjects, ie. "You can't eat your cake and have it too". Did you know that until recently you could be sued for singing the Happy Birthday song?
The command-line tool of the day is hyperfine. It's a very nice replacement for good-ole time for measuring (and even comparing) program execution time.