Tbh I had no idea this was even a thing until recently. I've been working with Rails for a while now and somehow never came across it. So let me explain it the way I understood it. You know how we normally do associations in Rails, User has many Posts, Post belongs to User. Two different models, two different tables. Simple. But what if a model needs to reference itself? Like same table, same mode
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Why I built another Ruby test runner inspired by Playwright Test Ruby already has great testing tools. If you are building Rails applications today, you probably use one of these combinations: RSpec + Capybara Minitest + Capybara Rails system tests Maybe Selenium, Cuprite, Ferrum, or Playwright through Ruby bindings These tools are mature, battle-tested, and widely used. So the natural question
I built a Vamana-based vector search engine in C++ called sembed-engine. Recently I made a pull request that sped up queries by 16x and builds by 9x. The algorithm stayed exactly the same. The recall stayed at 1.0. The number of visited nodes did not change. The speedup came from data layout. The original code stored vectors as separate objects pointed to by shared_ptr: struct Record { int64_t