AndreasPK

> 5% is a little excessive, IMHO. I can't imagine the Canadian prairies being 5% wildflowers instead of farmland.

What makes it seem excessive to you? Imo in the end pollinators need enough space to maintain a stable population. If that takes 5% then it takes 5%.

The debugger taunting me when I'm hungry.

Finally I learned what upgrading python projects is like.

Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of features and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.

Today I came across one of my comments on someones blog from 14 years ago. It was peak denglisch.

And if it goes wrong you can still pivot to bread theory.

And a few hours later ...

Some musings about unknown function calls and arity tracking in GHC:
andreaspk.github.io/posts/2025-0...

Also: Five years between blog posts! Time flies when Covid happens.

Who doesn't love consistency?

Benchmarked haskell a package I maintain across some GHC versions.

Surprised by the degree of improvement.

If you haven't thought about unification before probably yes.

Lua. Because everyone should experience 1-indexed arrays at least once.

stageNumber stage = stage+1

Things that make me hate my job sometimes.

It's not perfect but you could try using the serokell hackage code search to search for uses of those: hackage-search.serokell.io

As far as I know if one needs ($label | 3) or similar often you can still avoid computing this at runtime by using linker scripts which will compute the relevant address at runtime and expose it as a symbol. But I haven't had to use that myself yet.

It comes down to what the linker relocations support and that is in the end "arbitrary".

Offsetting an address is a common operation (read a field in a struct), and so is multiplication (indexing into an array). So they have good support. By comparison ($label | 3) is pretty exotic.