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A portentous reunion | The Observation Deck

I just attended my thirtieth college reunion, and there were some clear trends among my mid-life peers. First among them: grave concern for what AI means for our future and for the future of our (broadly young adult) kids.

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Accelerating copy_if using SIMD

Introduction I have a Zen 4 CPU with a bunch of AVX512 feature flags. So I thought - let’s try and use it to implement something, even if it’s in the realm of wheel-reinvention. I started with the following goals. Implement an algorithm that cannot be...

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The pressure

I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my family...

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Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432?

Processor design over the last few decades has moved toward RISC processors that aim to implement a few simple operations very efficiently. For a while, though, the trend was toward ever-more-compl…

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Human proof for FOSS contributions

When receiving patches from first-time contributors it is sometimes hard to determine if the person has used an LLM to write the patch, looking at the code alone. We usually rely on the person's good behavior to tell the truth, as the patch mimics the same...

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tunecat

tunecat - Simple and dumb internet radio thingy.

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GitHub - yugr/rust-slides

Contribute to yugr/rust-slides development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The User Is Visibly Frustrated

In this article, I try to understand why coding agents can be infuriating to use. I think the problem is their conversational UX: they behave enough like helpful colleagues to trigger our social instincts, but they don't learn, adapt, or take responsibility...

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