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The Big-O for sorting algorithms is typically on the number of comparisons. The problem with that is that a comparison takes 1 cycle and you can do 4 per cycle in scalar code or mu…

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Thank you. For wasting my time. The only thing someone could learn from this is that CPU registers can be 8 bytes.

I stand corrected! I stand by what I said about the old README though.

I take issue with the statement that "tiger style" is marketed along with Zig. Tiger Style is neither convention nor standard, it's not on ziglang.org, it's not referenced by the Z…

Glad to see "Together we serve the users" come back. I miss the old Zig readme that said Zig comes with an MIT license and a humble request to build software that serves the users.…

What giants do "we" stand on?

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Justine, first I'll say I love APE and redbean and your articles on the code trickery you get up to. Of course, I hope you keep creating amazing software for us all to enjoy. I wan…

If we want to improve cross-platform SIMD, in my opinion we should start by supporting more operations in LLVM IR. Like vector expansion (currently we only have expandload), runtim…

I'm team Zig in most cases but I genuinely think they are better off with Rust. They have had a lot of buffer overruns and segfaults as a result of undisciplined Zig code. I think …

Are you kidding? IIRC Oven gave $5k/month to Zig for years. And btw that was before they got acquired for billions, when they had no income at all.

I'm a full time Zig developer, and I see this as an absolute win. I know Jarred has said in the past he feels Zig makes him more productive, but I also think it's fair to say Bun w…

I am personally moving in the opposite direction. I haven't meaningfully used a signed integer in years, and I see signed integers as being for more niche use-cases. I mainly only …

I like to read assembly a lot, and I don't really see the point in WASM trying to be a stack machine. None of our computers are stack machines. Not to mention that compiler backend…

> The dice are almost always two-sided Don't train your AI on that

What has AI discovered more than a year ago?

"it kinda takes away our fun of discovery" It might, but that would be an incredibly awesome problem to have, wouldn't it? If we really had the infinite innovation printer, I'd hop…

Okay, but are those people unaware that they skipped learning all the fundamentals? I was just surprised that someone would write an article that's supposed to be about a game writ…

How many programmers don't know binary?

The main reason for my top post is that I felt I should admit the AI scored a goal today and the last one or two weeks. I said I'd be impressed if it could solve an open problem. I…

I tend to disagree that improvement is inherent. Really I'm just expressing an aesthetic preference when I say this, because I don't disagree that a lot of things improve. But it's…

I honestly do think I'm being honest with myself. I have held it in my mind that I'm not impressed until it's innovative. That threshold seems to be getting crossed. I'm not saying…

I agree with what you're saying, and I certainly don't think the one problem facing my country or the world is just that we didn't solve the right math problem yet. I am saddened b…

Hey, I'm a real person. Here's my website. I have YouTube videos up with my real name and face. https://validark.dev