Why doesn’t Rust care more about compiler performance?. #rust

Setup an OpenBSD VM on macOS Using UTM. #apple #unix

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching.

LOL I just switched back to NetNewsWire as my default feed reader. Lire app uses too much RAM and does not sync correctly to iCLoud. #apple

» brew info --cask container
==> container: 0.1.0
https://github.com/apple/container
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/HEAD/Casks/c/container.rb
==> Name
container
==> Description
Create and run Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines
==> Artifacts
container-0.1.0-installer-signed.pkg (Pkg)
==> Analytics
install: 63 (30 days), 63 (90 days), 63 (365 days)

More info: Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers to foster creativity, innovation, and design. #apple

When good pseudorandom numbers go bad: An interesting discussion about eigen decomposition with applications to sampling from multivariate distribution. #rstats

I never could get used to Pandas data frame (while I’m able to use any Scheme or Lisp data frame frameworks, and Mathematica association lists or tabular data structure). Good points discussed here, although I’m a vanailla R user (no tidyverse): Why pandas feels clunky when coming from R. #python

The fundamental difference between streaming and downloading is what your device does with those frames of video. — The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming

It’s not going to put me out of a job. This is from 2017 but still relevant as of today.

At least 75% of the actual job of programming is figuring out what a person means when they ask for something. This is not a problem that a machine can solve for you, for the same reason that it’s harder to build a robot that builds other robots than to just build a robot. Have you had words with Siri lately? Do you think Siri is in a good position to understand your intent, or it’s maybe just searching for command words in a limited lexicon? Do you really think it could find Henry’s stool? Or does it seem more likely that it would get confused and require a human… trained to translate… high-level human-language… into language suitable for… the machine?

Why I’m not especially interested in machine learning

I was a happy user of newsboat until it stopped working on my MacBook, for whatever reason. It probably just works right now, but since I’m definitely out of sync with my RSS feeds, I was looking for a way to have it both on my old iPhone (this excludes de facto most modern readers, including NNW) and my MacBook. It looks like lire fits the bill, although there are occasional iCloud syncing issues (sync time and rate limit). Anyway, that’s still better than Reeder which does not sync to iCloud at all. #apple