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Contrapunk is a cool name though. How are you finding rust for audio development? I have a background in pro audio, and both for the audio and GPU render threads, I used a lot of a…

Gradus ad Parnassum! What a cool idea, and the fact it's counterpoint gives you a nice little time buffer for any DSP. Super cool

I guess it's possible that Russia and/or China delivered some hardware to the Iranians. Doesn't seem far fetched given the low international support for this "excursion". Both coun…

The irony of an IP scraper on an absolutely breathtaking, epic scale getting its secret sauce "scraped" - because the whole app is vibe coded (and the vibe coders appear to be obli…

The irony of an IP scraper on an absolutely breathtaking, epic scale getting its secret sauce "scraped" - because the whole app is vibe coded (and the vibe coders appear to be obli…

Interesting article; I've always been fascinated and intimidated by FPGA programming - it's one of the few remaining "dark arts" of software engineering. > VHDL’s delta cycle algor…

> The deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million t…

Integer promotion? - Stroustroup pleads C source compat else stillborn. Initializes lists suck mainly because of C source compat constraints, too. In fact, most things that suck in…

You made me laugh!...Bjarne indeed can't be accused of being a modest man. And by some accounts, he's quite a political animal. But in fairness, when was D&E first published? Argue…

Can you share what aspects of the design you (and Stroustroup) aren't happy with? Stroustroup has a tendency of being proven right, with 1-3 decade lag.

I'll have a stab at this. I'll start with an attempt at justifying the remark that an agent which is a good coder will be good at other tasks. 1. Coding is, as a technical endeavou…

In my experience, an indicator that my interlocutor is (possibly) lying/BSing, when challenged for an explanation for something they did, is that they provide a list of reasons. Th…

Is that really true? I would have expected by now that AI companies nowadays are doing RL on git histories , not just on the HEAD.

This -- and obviously David Ng's article -- are absolutely fascinating pieces of work. I have a few (very naive) questions: There is a widespread intuition, encapsulated in the ver…

A UI design tool for TUIs -- made with Electron?... fun times!

I agree with the author that changes are needed to stymie the proliferation in malicious packages (almost certainly potentiated by the ubiquity of LLMs), but I wonder if this is th…

That was a thought provoking read. From a language design viewpoint, I wonder whether the current crop of async implementations - eg 'def' -> 'async def', f(x) -> 'await f(x)', 're…

The whole point is that this fits on an ESP32, which has wifi. We're not quite at the point where it makes sense to run the whole thing locally - if you do try it, it will need a f…

How are JVM startup times nowadays? Frankly the need to ship with a JVM (modulo graal admittedly) is a drawback, eg for CLI tools - which the author listed as a requirement. Go's s…

Congrats on creating and helming such a cool project! Out of curiosity, does ghostty do the Quake terminal thing - I use yakuake for this, but it feels a bit long in the tooth.

I "pray" that you'll learn how work in an inclusive and non-toxic work environment. What did I say? I lean on LLMs because I can't get help without being subjected to unnecessary d…

I'd be remiss to point out we went from "LLMs are vaporware" to "people are becoming slaves to their LLMs" awful quick. > [I'm scared] you are growing dependent on stilts that coul…

Sure! First, here are references, in case you want to deep dive: 1. http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Binary.pdf 2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221321423_Parasitic... Se…

To my mind at least, it is different. I lean heavily on AI for both admin and coding tasks. I just filled out a multipage form to determine my alimony payments in Germany. Gemini w…

Absolutely! -- and we could play this game for a long time ;) The right way of looking at it is, there was tiny little interlude of something vaguely approaching the free market --…