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It might actually be a better environmental decision, if instead of buying a new second phone, it is instead about keeping an existing phone in use and not adding to the burning he…

> on top of C. If we're referring to the "C is a subset of C++" / "C++ is a superset of C" idea, then this just hasn't been the case for some time now, and the two continue to dive…

Well, each `defer` proposal for C agreed that it shouldn't be done the way Go does it, and should just be "run this at the end of lexical scope", so it'll certainly be less surpris…

Jen's macro that this was based on was an implementation of his own proposal (N3434) for `defer`, which was one of a few preceding what finally became TS25755! So, yes, C2y is line…

Testing with Jen's macro this was based on, and found that the always_inline was redundant under even -O1 ( https://godbolt.org/z/qoh861Gch via the examples from N3488 as became th…

The two will also continue to diverge over time, after all, C2y should have the defer feature, which C++ will likely never add. Even if we used polyfills to let C++ compilers suppo…

The blog post, in its opening section, directly points out: > Everyone had their own pretty-printing settings for viewing it however they wanted This is an example of how treating …

The blog entry is short and simple, perhaps consider reading it before knee-jerk reacting to the title, and then you might understand why "should" and "unnecessary" are operative i…

Quite the opposite, a clever algorithm needs less compute, and can leverage extra compute even more.

AlphaZero may have the rules built in, but MuZero and the other follow-ups didn't. MuZero not only matched or surpassed AlphaZero, but it did so with less training, especially in t…

Any high-enough dimensional space means the distance between any two vectors tends towards 1, so given a "good" concept all other related "good" concepts and all "evil" concepts ar…

That's not the uvx way? Dependencies at the top of a script was outlined in PEP 723, which uv/uvx added support for. Not everything is a "project", some files are just one-and-done…

Now that's a trick I should remember! I recently switched over my python aliases to `uv run python` and it's been really quite pleasant, without needing to manage `.venv`s and the …

For anyone curious: the performance difference between Clang and GCC on the example C solution for verbal arithmetic comes down to Clang's auto-vectorisation (deducing SIMD) whilst…

I think you're misreading a singular opinion as occurring between two disparate points here. The initial phrase was > doctors hurt people for years while learning to save them It's…

Having ended up with a critical bug in the SAT solver I wrote for my undergrad thesis, it really can be a challenge to fix without clear logs. So, always nice to see a little love …

Many startups seem to aim for this, naturally it's difficult to put actual numbers to this, and I'm sure many pursue multiple aims in the hope one of them sticks. Since unicorns ar…

I think the situation with regulations will be similar to that with interpretability and explanations. There's a popular phrase that gets thrown around, that "there is no silver bu…

So, from the perspective I have within the subfield I work in, explainable AI (XAI), we're seeing a bunch of fascinating developments. First, as you mentioned, Rudin continues to p…

Telemetry is exceedingly useful, and it's basically a guaranteed boon when you operate your own systems. But telemetry isn't essential, and it's not the heart of the matter I was a…

I think the kind of profiling information you're imagining is a little different from what I am. Continuous profiling of your system that gets relayed to someone else by telemetry …

Those are numbers from 7 years ago, so they're beginning to get a bit stale as people start to put more weight behind having frame pointers and make upstream contributions to their…

> it's quite impressive for a single author to have a functional, fast language with a working garbage collector and arena allocator (with some issues) in only a few years. As the …

Unfortunately, the perfect is very much the enemy of the good here. Aside from HTML, I'm afraid that PDF and EPUB are very much driven by purpose-built tools designed to show inter…

Personally, whatever helps with the specific writing part of it all the most is what's best. If you find writing in a given dialect of Markdown or LaTeX or Org-mode is easiest, do …