It’s nice getting real hacker material on hackernews
Readit Newsglouwbug commented on I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color blog.otterstack.com/posts... · Posted by u/adunk
glouwbug commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
The Canada the author refers to is gone.
It was a time of post WWII boom and unrivalled economic prosperity. For the vast majority of human existence wealth like that was never offered to regular commoners.
Canada today might be expensive to rent in and buy in, but the quality of life in terms of safety, culture, political stability, nature, and medicine (minus the temporary shortage in health professionals) is still unmatched globally. Canadians who complain about Canada haven’t faced or lived life outside of Canada
I like the approach; it reminds me of Towards Zero Defect Programming by Allan Stavely and Dijkstra's idea of deriving programs mechanically from their specifications.
Were LLMs used to produce some of the writing? Not sure how to describe it, but it has a certain recognizable writing style (e.g. "The Problem"/"The Solution", lots of bulleted lists with bolded first words, etc.) Readers might appreciate if AI use is disclosed.
Given they have 30 years of what looks to be safety critical UNIX experience, it’s probably not AI. They might come from rigorous fields like medical device engineering where writing and design are continuously audited for spec and standard conformance
glouwbug commented on Some C habits I employ for the modern day unix.dog/~yosh/blog/c-hab... · Posted by u/signa11
Regarding memory, I recently changed to try to not use dynamic memory, or if I need to, to do it once at startup. Often static memory on startup is sufficient.
Instead use the stack much more and have a limit on how much data the program can handle fixed on startup. It adds the need to think what happens if your system runs out of memory.
Like OP said, it's not a solution for all types of programs. But it makes for very stable software with known and easily tested error states. Also adds a bit of fun in figuring out how to do it.
Dynamic memory allocation solves the problem of dynamic business requirements.
If you know your requirements up front, static memory initialisation is the way.
For instance, indexing a typed array with an enum is no different then an unordered map of string to int, IF you have all your business requirements up front
glouwbug commented on Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy ossa-ma.github.io/blog/op... · Posted by u/calcifer
Unplug
In all seriousness. Windows is invaded by copilot, OpenAI introducing ads, Google providing Siri for Apple, it’s all just a collusion to keep you buying. Disconnect. From TV, Media, Ads, Social Networks, Predatory subscriptions, all of it. The only way to show these companies that we are not on board with this is to not participate.
Reddit generates its revenue with schadenfreude, YouTube and AAA games with GenAI (see: Ghibli in Call of Duty, and fast growing AI channels like Nick Invests or Bernard with “Why it Sucks to be X”).
On my shelf from the corner of my eye I see “Understanding the Linux Kernel”. It’s outdated, but it comes from a time of peer review and subject matter experts. I don’t need to double guess if the author is hallucinating or if they’re subconsciously trying to sell me something.
Maybe it’s time we return to books for entertainment and knowledge share.
glouwbug commented on · Posted by u/nelkazzu
Yes, if it ever releases
glouwbug commented on The next two years of software engineering addyosmani.com/blog/next-... · Posted by u/napolux
glouwbug commented on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com/news/158... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
AI works for Antirez because he's already a master of his domain