Notices by Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems), page 4

Unreasonably angry about this.

Who, exactly, are these “pronounciation guides” going to help?!

“How do I pronounce ‘ch’?”
“/ch/“

There goes Slava, shooting down my dream of making integers a sequence of their bits:

> func f(_ foo: some Sequence & ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral) is similarly technically satisfiable but perhaps uninhabited in practice.

https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-noncopyable-generics/68180/40

@airspeedswift Somehow you found a way to make both audiophiles and republicans worse. Thanks, I hate it.

Finally managed to be set up with a tripod at the right time to catch a monarch butterfly emerging from its chrysalis.

(This is at normal speed, btw)

Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases
@rjmccall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFrw

@rjmccall It's a good talk, John.

@inthehands @shriramk Considering that I currently have to drive an hour each way to get a decent masala dosa prepared for me, I would absolutely stay at the office for one.

Special bonus edition #realestateshitposting: this house is on an island, only accessible by boat. The “bike score” is 27/100. I have questions.

Maybe the baseline expectation of bike infrastructure in the US is so low that this _is_ 27/100?

???

@inthehands @finestructure 2004 was awful. I was flying from NYC back to Berkeley on election night and the mood was … ugh.

_finally_

https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-again-se-0220-count-where/66659

Our long national nightmare of not having count(where:) is over.

Philosophy before children: “who are we? How did we get here?”
After children: “what is under the stove? How did it get there?”

Intel SIMD extension naming continues to be very straightforward: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, AVX10

[long tangent about AMD's various extensions, too]

[insert dissertation about AVX-512 subsets here]

Sitting next to some foreign policy types today, overhearing bits of conversation about AI/ML chip embargoes against China. Surprisingly good on technical details, but: left wholly unexamined was the (to my mind quite fundamental) question of "how exactly do we benefit from preventing China from being just as confidently wrong as we are?"

@inthehands @vowe @finestructure precisely