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Your architecture diagram is lying: I tested both ways of writing it as code

Most architecture diagrams in production are out of date — not through carelessness, but because they live in a PNG someone drew once while the code kept changing.

• Most architecture diagrams are static PNGs, not code-based
• Structurizr CLI generates C4 levels quickly from a .dsl file
• C4-PlantUML maintains larger model size but no installation needed

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Rust Coreutils 0.12 vs GNU 9.12: almost everything works the same, starting a process costs nearly 3x more

I measured Rust Coreutils (uutils) 0.12 against GNU coreutils 9.12 in containers with limits: the full GNU test suite, 157 commands with their output compared byte for byte, and process start-up.

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TabPFN and TabICL against tuned XGBoost: the model that does not train won on fourteen tables out of fourteen

The claim behind TabPFN and TabICL: they predict on a table without ever training on it, and still beat tuned boosting. Measured on 14 datasets from the Grinsztajn benchmark, same split and same clock…

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Wild beats mold linking Rust 20 times out of 20, and in release the linker is no longer the bottleneck

I measured Wild 0.10.0, mold 2.42.1, rust-lld and GNU ld linking ripgrep and cargo. Wild won all 20 repetitions of each project, by 1.9 ms and about 8 ms .

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