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Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by collinstevens »

FacelessJim wrote: post #22

Terrific presentation. But I have a comment: His dismissal of the argument Knuth makes regarding the hot loops could have been explored a bit better. I found it weird he didn’t mention the difference of types of programs of then vs now. Even today, in scientific code it is still absolutely the case a lot of the time that a huge chunk of the runtime comes from a single very very hot loop. It might be hidden in a libra…

> I found it weird he didn’t mention the difference of types of programs of then vs now.

iirc, in the talk casey in fact does goes on about how he tried to find examples, but couldn't. in the q&a, he was also asked about this further.

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by andai »

wpm wrote: post #24
torginus wrote: post #9

Personally I'm quite sure this is super interesting, but I don't really have 3 hours to listen to this, even 1.5h at 2x speed is too much. I would very much prefer something written down, so I could absorb this at my own pace. I know, gift horse, but still.

Audio transcription has been around for a while, you could solve this problem for yourself quite easily.

I get the auto-transcript with yt-dlp then ask a cheap LLM like DeepSeek to clean it up.

Though lately I've been uploading the audio to AssemblyAI, I somehow still haven't used up my credits after several years lol

At one point I built a system that would summarize the transcript and I'd be able to ask questions about it, but Gemini can do that natively now so I usually just use that.

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by andai »

torginus wrote: post #9

Personally I'm quite sure this is super interesting, but I don't really have 3 hours to listen to this, even 1.5h at 2x speed is too much. I would very much prefer something written down, so I could absorb this at my own pace. I know, gift horse, but still.

Maybe go for a long drive? Long walk? Whatever floats your boat.

I used to do manual labor and I would work my way through like eight hours of audiobooks per day.

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by pton_xd »

torginus wrote: post #9

Personally I'm quite sure this is super interesting, but I don't really have 3 hours to listen to this, even 1.5h at 2x speed is too much. I would very much prefer something written down, so I could absorb this at my own pace. I know, gift horse, but still.

It's worth the listen if you're even mildly interested in the history of computer science. He's a great presenter. I guess at some point you do have to prioritize how to spend your time, though.

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by xen0 »

torginus wrote: post #9

Personally I'm quite sure this is super interesting, but I don't really have 3 hours to listen to this, even 1.5h at 2x speed is too much. I would very much prefer something written down, so I could absorb this at my own pace. I know, gift horse, but still.

Thanks to modern playback technology, you can pause it and resume play later at your convenience.

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by moefh »

socalgal2 wrote: post #25
cuechan wrote: post #6

He is just legendary when it comes to game programming

What games has he shipped?

He works in the engine/tool side of things. He worked on some widely used libraries, mainly Bink 2 (video codec) and Granny 3D (3D animation) used in a ton of shipped games.
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