Notices by Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)

github used to be pretty stable, now it's very glitchy all the time

how's that pivot to AI going

ah, yes, `void *mustbezero_2`. we've all been there, amirite

oh god, I fell behind by a couple days and now I've been doing 100 cards per day with no new lessons and still the debt keeps growing

@feld thanks, I read the paper just now and it helped me to understand why some measurements were favorable and others not - specifically the pattern of one thread allocating and another thread freeing in my simple design will result in ever-growing RSS

I know I "should" start with the paper but for me papers are too boring until I've already tried from first principles

last night I had an idea for a fast multi-threaded allocator, whipped it up, and at first glance it outperforms glibc.

need to do some more testing, but it's looking good so far

it's only 212 lines of code!

@indutny this one tickled me last week:

やば！「返信ください」がタイプミスでオートコレクトされて「変死してください」になってた。

Yikes! "Please reply" was mistyped and autocorrected to "Please die unnaturally."

feels like every day, 10 things are added to my life's "todo list", and I get 1-2 things done.

@sobeston @kristoff some Americans claim to not love ranch on their pizza however they are in denial and just trying to act cool

@cnx I'm sure it's an inevitability, hoping to eek out a few more years before undergoing that suffering

@bluegreenandfree @ct_bergstrom if you say people were a mistake, you've become the villain

@regehr for a moment I was confused why there was a picture of my hand in my feed

thanks I hate it. inb4 users start a pointless meta discussion about the proper way to mark something a bug on github

meanwhile they still can't even display big diffs. this diff was hand written, not machine generated, and yet the machine can't even display it

@regehr I almost didn't graduate because of crap like this, it really sucked the credibility out of the entire university system. Especially since I was barely scraping by, paying my own way through college, and then what is my money going towards? Between being told that every C++ instance has its executable code copied for every method, being assigned UML diagrams by profs that obviously had never written a line of code in their life... ASU CS program was a shit show

how do you manage YOUR memory, coward?

@cadey

> Running chat programs and social media apps is mind-bogglingly expensive

why would a chat program be expensive? it's a good example of how computers can do something cheaply IMO

Really nice SDL3 package for Zig: https://github.com/castholm/SDL

Writeup from the author: https://ziggit.dev/t/sdl3-ported-to-the-zig-build-system-with-example-games/7606?u=andrewrk

Short story by Cory Doctorow

Be careful, if you start reading this, you'll blink and 2 hours will have passed by

https://prospect.org/culture/books/2024-12-09-radicalized-cory-doctorow-story-health-care/

back in like the year 2000 I sent him a really cringey fanletter asking him to be my mentor and he responded with a generic message and linking to the forums. ooooof. now I get those fanletters myself and think, "oh you sweet summer child"

underrated album.

this guy's music is a love letter to synthesizers.

this is possibly the most hipster album in my entire collection