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I felt the same, but then thought of experts in their field. For example, my PhD advisor would already know all these papers. For him the prompt would actually be similar to what w…

You are absolutely right, and a follow-up CL fixed the non-Zba code path. At the time of writing of the blog post, the generated code was however still using the 4 instructions ins…

When Plasma crashes, all programs keep running. The only noticable thing (to me) is that the order of my apps in the task bar is different.

Pretty impressive. When I published Grisu (Google double-conversion), it was multiple times faster than the existing algorithms. I knew that there was still room for improvement, b…

Sleef is a SIMD library that is often used (transitively) when working with LLMs. Its maintainer now requests $1000 for approval of PRs. Here is an example where they reject a smal…

If they can get the data without a user's consent, then it's independent of this new feature and thus unrelated. If you believe that the government has unlimited access, then it wa…

In that case they don't need consent anyway and it's not about this new feature.

Speed and reliability. We found that Python isn't really designed for constrained environments. The object model, in particular, makes it hard to have fast method calls. The memory…

A similar project: https://toitlang.org (or https://toit.io ). Currently it's only targeting the ESP32 family, but the code is pretty portable. By default, it probably also needs m…

You will improve your language skills this way, but if your skill level isn't high enough it's going to be exhausting to the native speaker as well. I have been living in Denmark f…

As maintainers of our open-source project, we provide support on multiple different channels: Stack Overflow, GitHub discussions, and Discord. The problem: Most activity happens on…

Like many other projects we provide support through Discord. However, questions asked in Discord aren't indexable or searchable. To fix this I wrote a small GitHub action that gene…

Balcony solar requires the 50Hz of the energy grid. If you turn off the main power they will stop feeding into the system.

I implemented `DateTime` in Dart and Toit and wrote a blog post about the things I noticed: https://medium.com/@florian_32814/date-time-526a4f86badb Timezones are fun...

An add-on that uses CodeMirror to syntax-highlight code sections in Google docs and slides. The code is open-source: https://github.com/code-syntax-addon/code-syntax The documentat…

The other ones for me: - "go to your happy place", or "imagine you are on an island..." - counting sheep to fall asleep. I just couldn't visualize them.

I have aphantasia, and I don't feel handicapped at all. The only thing where I really notice differences is when trying to describe people. Since I can't visualize them in my head,…

I used this technique to send data from the cell-phone to an ESP32 using the phone's flashlight: https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/wfea4r/send_data_wit...