> DHH is free to describe his proprietary software as Open Source, a form of greenwashing, and even though he wants to “Well akshually” denigrate those saying why this is BS, we as free citizens are free to explain why, despite how fast he talks and confident he sounds, he’s not always right.
“For seven weeks, our blind monkeys hardly slept, banging away at the typewriter in an inspired rush to produce the best prompts for the next McDonald's ad."
It's still not really wrong though. The C standard is just the minimal common feature set guaranteed by different C compilers, and even then there are significant differences between how those compilers implement the standard (e.g. the new C23 auto behaves differently between gcc and clang - and that's fully sanctioned by the C standard).
The actually interesting stuff happens outside the standard in vendor-specific language extensions (like the clang extended vector extension).
Off topic but if you're the author of sokol, I'm so thankful because it led to my re-learning the C language in the most enjoyable way. Started to learn Zig these days and I see you're active in the community too. Not sure if it's just me but I feel like there's a renaissance of old-school C, the language but more the mentality of minimalism in computing that Zig also embodies.
Their new CEO fired (sorry "laid off") long-time loyal staff and kicked out the original founders, then described it as "a fond farewell to some colleagues". Complete sociopath.
I enjoyed many of their articles but it's a different company now, wearing the face mask of the old name. I will never read any new stuff from the company.
Curious to see what the original founders may start next.
And the world, people as a mob, will try its best to punish that person for daring to be different. The nail that sticks out gets beaten.
RMS is a flawed person, a stubborn unreasonable man with questionable traits. But dismissing his life's work as "said some decent things" is just ignorant revisionist history. We can acknowledge his flaws while respecting the work he did and the overall message, which changed the world for the better.
Uhhh no, it's a huge net loss because the cost of sending it to the GPU and back greatly exceeds the cost of just doing it then and there in CPU; even on iGPU the kernel launch latency etc will kill it, and that's assuming the kernel build is free. Not to mention this is doing pow calls (!!), which is so ridiculous it makes me wonder if this was a kneejerk AI prompt.
Another post in this thread mentioned V8 sped this up by removing a buffer copy; this is adding two buffer copies, each about an order of magnitude slower.
Uhhh, go for it? You're welcome to link anything you like of course, but do you maybe want to address my actual points if you have any objections? Let's do some measurements, it sounds like you might be surprised by the outcome.
Web browser in a shader also sounds extremely inefficient, for obvious fundamental reasons.
Sorry, I was cracking a joke about the browser in a shader.
The GLSL I originally posted is from the "cursed mode" of my side project, and I use it to produce a data URI of every frame, 15 times per second, as a twisted homage to old hardware. (No, I didn't use AI :P )
The graph is horrifying. Before the 2008 crisis, less than $1 trillion. By the time of the 2020 crisis, it had hit 4, then in the next few years more than doubled to $9 trillion. It may contribute to explaining why the rich are swimming in free money while the underclass can't afford to live anymore. With AI eating up the job market, we seem to be headed for another even bigger crisis.
The picture of a little car kit loaded with a breadboard, a mountain of wires, and an added camera in the front was delightful. Now that's the hacker spirit! Thanks for the article, it's a joy to read.
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