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Yes but. How would you express NaN or infinities or even precise floating-point (the reason hex float exist) in this format? That breaks interchange if you cannot save/restore floating-point as in the save.

4 lanes of SIMD (like in say SSE) is not necessarily 4x faster because of the memory access, sometimes it's better than that (and often it's less).

PSHUFB wins in case of unpredictable access patterns. Though I don't remember how much it typically wins.

PMOVMSKB can replace several conditionals (up to 16 in SSE2 for byte operands) with only one, winning in terms of branch prediction.

PMADDWD is in SSE2, and does 8 byte multiplies not 4. SSE4.1 FP rounding that doesn't require changing the rounding mode, etc. The weird string functions in SSE4.2. Non-temporal moves and prefetching in some cases.

The cool thing with SIMD is that it's a lot less stress for the CPU access prediction and branch prediction, not only ALU. So when you optimize it will help unrelated parts of your code to go faster.

They said it in the Epic vs Apple litigation, something along the lines of "we create the entire App Store market", like the 3rd party developers aren't.

Most of the content in this space is paid for.

Well it could also self-improve increasingly slowly.

I'm using:

- TODO: will be needed before release, mandatory or else turn into another category. Blocks release.

- FUTURE: will be turned in to a TODO eventually, optional, often architectural

- MAYDO: nice to have, very optional

- PERF: do this if more performance is needed

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some semantic tags related to domain

Opinion: TODOs are NOT code smells, they accrue around the most valuable parts of the codebase.

Well that meant your users do not hang in IndieHackers

We've added formant shifting to Graillon https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Graillon.html largely because LLMs thought it already had formant-shifting.

Even if this was Apache in the first place, you're not supposed to remove Copyright lines in source code.

Sorry, those keywords work in block like those, or relatively to a single function, in any order.

I don't think you're wrong, I have used D for 19 years and don't really use the UFCS dot style, it requires too much context. Just loops are more readable. In D you don't have much decisions forced on you tbh.

The full quote is: “Jack of all trades master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one.”

Strangely my favourite feature after 18 years of D programming (!) is that could place keywords largely in the order you like. It is strangely liberating to be able to put:

    pure nothrow @nogc: 

or

    pure:
    nothrow:
    @nogc: 

or

    pure nothrow @nogc
    {
        block
    } 

Sometimes this helps readability.

Programming education should have more humanities such as writing, sociology, epistemology and design, and not nearly as much maths.

I wanted to use HALIC but ended up using SQZ instead. QOI is overrated but QOIR and my own QOIX are a bit more interesting, albeit ultimately stupid.

This is real, anytime I code I'm obsessed about RoI

Well that would be a good way to kill off Chrome and get out of the mono-browser culture.

But this is exactly what the higher ups want according to Braverman, they will insist on "know-how" being non-existent, and always push to tell workers what they - of course - know of the work, that we peons would ignore.

This is unfortunately my take with almost every interaction I had with the Rust community. Expressing any diverging opinion is enough to get ostracized.

s/a month/a day

Brand new site with no user gets 1k request a month by bots, the CO2 cost must be atrocious.

I'm using D for audio plugins and we do use CTFE extensively (named comptime in Zig). Zig might be a bit more fit maybe because of the easier C and C++ interop and targetting, but I'm not sure about the COM and OOP story.

Because it goes hand-in-hand with your code self-describing with static reflection.

Code is not really lossy zipped text.

Yes: https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/06/20/loudminer-mining-c...

You don't see blogs about all the desirable properties of a software company with 10/10 in every direction.

itch.io

Yes I feel like this "public" work only for non-veblen goods, else it just devaluates the whole creation process.

I found this book very helpful to understand most cellular process, and viruses, with an intuition of how things works at these scales: https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...

Doubling the register size only affects things if CPU operations were the bottleneck. Often he bottleneck is memory accesses.