Notices by Chandler Carruth (chandlerc@hachyderm.io)

@dalias @regehr Can't speak for John, but I also have personally experienced a similar refactoring aid, and yes, this was *after* manually reviewing the results thoroughly.

I apply pretty near the max-distrust level of review on the results. This makes some things a wash or a waste of time. But there are an increasing set of cases where it is a big time saver.

@inthehands @airspeedswift

Kate Gregory gave one of my favorite talks about this that has influenced how I like to think about the tradeoffs between explicit and implicit syntax: https://youtu.be/-Hb-9TUyjoo?si=tToVr-ZKBolLLh3P

@thomasfuchs I think power dynamics are still at the root....

Lots of folks who find their own tiny power by following / supporting / being in (what they perceive as) the "in-group" of an influential politician or mogul who is one of, or is funded by, these billionaires. They see being able to remain in that group, and feel that tiny bit of power, as attached to the claims and beliefs that they now hold.

And when those beliefs start being challenged, they lash out defensively.

My best guess.

@thomasfuchs Loss of power.

Not power as in energy, but power as in power dynamics between people & groups.

If we fight it, entrenched, stupendously powerful entities become _sharply_ less powerful. They both directly lose or weaken their economic & political means of power, and have to admit to the causal factors that erode or destroy peoples' perception of power.

And people broadly have to come to terms with being wrong and having done harm, which removes their own personal sense of power.

Ok, another (maybe silly) Arm Neon performance question --

Is there truly no way to do a conditional branch other than to first `fmov` (or `umov`) into a GPR? I feel like I'm missing something as I read the Neon docs....

Really nice post detailing Linux system performance techniques and tools: https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html

Love to see how mad the Onion is here. More folks should be this mad about this.

If you want a really solid critique, it's actually here too. They put their *all* into this piece and while it's sarcastic as usual, it really does cover *so many* aspects of how horrible the current trend of "news" in this space has been.

Go read it:
https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997