This is so true tho
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Bless Ronald
Our math depends on him 🙏
Written in hand-optimized assembly with individual implementation for every CPU on the planet, with integer division function in 10000 lines of code impelented with XOR and bit-shifting which is somehow 0.3% faster than CPU built-in division operation.
He had to de-optimize the init sequence because the little trick he added that caused the init sequence to return a little power to the grid instead of taking it was causing grid stability issues because the returned power from offices starting up was a bit higher than the extra power required for factory startup weekday mornings.
By gods, the interactive one is great!
All I get is “Browser wants to open another app” which I have never allowed… D:
Wat.
Just loads in for me.
They are real people
XZ Utils (maintained single-handedly by Lasse Collin) is widely regarded as the most critical infrastructure library run by one person. Its near-catastrophic compromise in 2024 revealed how global digital security hinges on solo, thanklessly managed open-source projects. Other major examples include cURL (Daniel Stenberg) and SQLite (D. Richard Hipp)
When I last talked to Richard he had company to work on SQLite. It was like four people.
SQLite is still deployed on everything, everywhere. You browser. Your phone. Macs. Half of Linux machine. Your airplane. It’s super impressive.
It’s lite architecture makes it the only valid option to not having to deploy a full on postgre
I mean, what’s the alternative aside from spinning up a MariaDB for your small local app? I can still remember the swamp of .ini files some older programs used for this or the totally overblown Windows Registry. Not a good time.
CSV or a spreadsheet (xlsx/ods)?
You didnt specify it had to be a good optio ;)db.txt
Now you’re just trying to hand-roll your own DBMS. Have fun with that. It won’t work out
Also interesting is that it’s one of the small number of unquestionably public domain pieces of software. Not open source, but public domain. It’s not entirely clear if you can technically put your own work in the public domain, or if you’re just freely licensing it to anyone.
Sqlite was initially developed for the US military though, which explicitly makes it public domain.
It doesn’t matter, but it’s interesting.
Fatfs is also a big one iirc
Probably gonna get really bad once AI actors start combing the internet for exploits on a larger scale.
Start??
Not sure if it’s part of the joke but that word means “jerk” (as in “jerk off”) in Swedish.
So a perfect open source name then.
Runk that hog, swedish boy.
pojke/kille/grabb/gosse = boy/dude/guy/kiddo, so have fun with that. 😂
Arööö!
Is that how they climax over there?
Everyone who understands Norwegian love the name Ronald chose for his invaluable tool.
Came here to say this (no pun intended)
But pun gladly taken nonetheless
Ah. He must be a KDE contributor as well.
Kontributor
You know, I was VERY tempted to write it that way, but decided against it at the last moment.
Klearly you are not a KDE Kontributor.
Khx klreno kor kour kontribution!
Qrunk
The myth of Steve Jobs needed the actual genius of others to exist. Steve’s gift to the world was recognizing and pointing out actual gifts tonthe world that would have otherwise gone unoticed or not brought to their full potential.
If Steve was still around, he would have taken Ronald’s idea and had it rebuilt with a little polish and an exorbitant price tag.
There is no Jobs without Wozniak.
One hundred percent, but don’t forget Jony Ive. The mythology of Steve Jobs is built on the genius of Woz and the designs of Ive.
For a long time all systems which deal with timezone data (like ability to convert utc to est for example) was reliant on 1 server in 1 random guy’s basement which he paid for himself. I heard they were working to correct this situation but haven’t been following it.
You’re probably thinking of Paul Eggert.
Edit: I was a bit quick to post. The article I linked says Arthur David Olson (mentioned in sibling comment) started the TZ database, with Paul Eggert extending it and maintaining it later. The 2011 lawsuit is also mentioned in the Wikipedia page I just linked.
handles all math on every machine on earth
That’s just gmp. The go-to unlimited precision arithmetic library.
>>> import runk
>>> print(runk.count(1))
1
>>> runk.count(2)
1
>>> runk.count(3)
3
>>> man runk
How nice of them to provide a Python wrapper for the C library
I think it’s worth noting there’s few people like Jobs and more like Gates but they’re all psychopaths.
Those were both exploitative business men more than engineers or developers. Jobs wasn’t special and there’re reasons why Microsoft boosted Gates to be the richest person in the world at one point.
my impression is that gates was doing some pretty impressive computer programming for a good stint in his early days…
thanks Daniel Stenberg!
Awesome usage of the word “consequential.”
Had to use 'runk", because 'runc" is already taken. :P
