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I still use copilot as my main completion tool. I found ChatGPT to be too slow and expensive to use for tab complete level of usage, but it works really well for larger things (e.g…

One way I've found to isolate this is to turn off turbo boost and underclock the cpu, while making sure the avx offset is set to 100%. While you would never want to run a productio…

There are many high schools like this in the U.S. that are state funded, both in very liberal and very conservative states.

Recompiling without fastmath gives the same answer as the article "3.1415926545880506". mac >> clang++ -O3 -march=native main.cpp mac >> ./a.out 3.1415926545880506 total time taken…

Great article on the complexities of investigating performance issues! Another very interesting surprise is when I run this locally on my macbook, clang is much faster mac >> go ru…

One caveat of perfect hash functions, including CMPH, is that for a very large amount of keys the data structs they use internally become very large. In the case of CMPH when I tri…

Here's another one of his projects where you can write ruby script using just underscores. https://github.com/mame/_

spf13 is a great plugin bundle for vim that got me started using relative line numbering. It's great for the lazy person who doesn't want to bother setting up all the fancy vim plu…

Meh, I knew the days of tax free internet purchases would end some day.

Looks great, but the price is exorbitantly high for a large number of users :(