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2025-06-08 18:06 #

by failing to provide programmers with features they need to make the best use of modern hardware, programmers instead resort to enabling an option that is known to be blatantly unsafe. — Beware of fast-math

2025-06-08 18:04 #

Sad Sad Apple Tears: A thoughtful review and commentary on Apple’s evolution from a developer’s point of view. #apple

2025-05-23 21:12 #

img Happy birthday to you dearest …

2025-05-21 10:57 #

I am not saying that it’s not useful at all. If what you’re doing to begin with is copying and pasting code from e.g. Stack Overflow, then sure, because Google and other search engines have become so bad, AI can often provide you with relevant answers much faster than you shifting through page after page of useless Google junk. The reason why i don’t use AI or even code completion

2025-05-21 10:25 #

Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers. TL;DR generate floating-point numbers with probabilities given by drawing a real number and then rounding to floating point.

2025-05-20 20:06 #

/me is listening to “Danny” by The Durutti Column

2025-05-20 13:35 #
2025-05-20 12:57 #

TIL about basedpyright, which provides better defaults and additional capabilities compared to pyright, like inlay hints. #python

2025-05-19 10:10 #

Differentiable Programming from Scratch: A clear and concise exposition of DP applied to computer graphics.