Notices by Joe Groff (joe@f.duriansoftware.com)

is this a real root cause analysis, or are you just causeplaying

@mcc @JamesWidman what if we simply add a web browser to the Linux kernel

@unnick i think that's an apple i actually, you might be a millionaire

Yesterday: “it only takes 6000 examples of bad code to turn an AI Evil”

Today: EA releases a big pile of raw unfiltered 90s game developer code on Github

coincidence??

First, a land acknowledgment—this large language model is built on stolen content. Now let’s delve in—

@skinnylatte or San Jose’s “this is where Chinatown was before we burned it down and killed everyone” plaque

@jrose actually, as perl teaches us, there are three function colors: scalar, array, and hash. but at least you can make the same function do different things depending on what color you call it as

@inthehands i felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "still love the car", and were suddenly silenced

“Canadiano” is a good bit but if i were canadian, then “espresso diluted with water” is something i would let the US take the blame for

2025: Denmark buys California
2026: 85% of Denmark's citizens unable to reliably remember whether they are "Danish" or "Dutch"

@eramdam still can’t believe they called the low level virtual machine WASM and the weird assembler LLVM

@inthehands the Constitution, our Maginot Line

in these trying times, it's refreshing to see someone willing to speak the truth

@inthehands whenever I see someone post that guys posts I can only think about jwz’s anecdotes about him leaving the Netscape bathrooms uninhabitable every time he used them, and how thats what my timeline feels like after seeing his posts

@vitaut the most sensible default for binary floats is clearly hexadecimal float notation

@steve @cr1901 @pkhuong and even with that, compilers will often sever the dependency explicitly by doing an xor or movsx/xx to the destination at the start of an operation chain

the other thing that makes 16 bit operations slow on some uarches iirc is a penalty for the operand size prefix byte

@steve @cr1901 @pkhuong nonetheless it is absolutely the right thing for a contemporary ISA to not have unnecessary partial register updates in the first place, to cr1901’s point about risc-v. luckily AMD at least figured that out by the time they designed x86-64

so anyway, I enrolled, and before i knew it, two years had passed. and that's how i got my dissociate's degree

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@mcc French is such an elegant language