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Delimited continuations in lone Lisp
The lone lisp delimited continuations implementation journey.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,109 posts.
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Optimizing Matrix Multiplication on RDNA3
Writing Super-Fast Matrix Multiplication with HIP, RGP, and ISA
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Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.
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I fear for the unauthenticated web
LLM and AI companies seem to all be in a race to breathe the last breath of air in every room they stumble into. This practice started with larger websites, ones that already had protection from ma...
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Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v Confirm ID
This opinion is a routine ruling over TOS formation and whether disputes must go to arbitration. However, before I dig into that question, I need to note the case’s chilling implications. * * * This case involves the Adult Friend...
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Learning Is Slower Than You Think
What AI-optimized schools misunderstand about learning
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All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly
Indentation styles are a hot topic in every language. So let's see how Lisps do indentation! Uuuuuuugh!
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The Greatness of Text Adventures
Text adventures are weird. They are so weird I don’t know how to write this article, so prepare to read something even more rambly than usual. Normally, when this happens, I decide not to publish the article. But
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Writing code is easy, reading it isn't
Writing code is easy. Once you have a solution in mind, and have mastered the syntax of your favorite programming language, writing code is easy. Having an LLM write entire functions for you? Even eas
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Breaking computers taught me to build them
My 12-year journey in software: how breaking computers taught me to build them.
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The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming
Every field of human activity has its unique characteristics, and programming is no exception.
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Community Is Motivation on Tap
A good community can have tremendous influence on one’s motivation. I never appreciated this fact enough so I wanted to write about it here.
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Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in the Browser
I wanted to share a side project I’ve been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground – basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this inte…
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Context Engineering for Agents
Patterns for managing agent context.
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The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars
Looks fake, doesn’t it? This implausible Medieval forest of towers, as dense as Manhattan skyscrapers, is our best reconstruction of the town of Bologna at its height, toward the end of the Medieval Guelph-Ghibelline wars. We don’t see many such towers today… or think we don’t, but actually their remnants are all over…
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Not all OCuLink eGPU docks are created equal
I recently tried using the Minisforum DEG1 GPU Dock with a Raspberry Pi 500+, using an M.2 to OCuLink adapter, and this chenyang SFF-8611 Cable. After figuring out there's a power button on the DEG1 (which needs to be turned on), and after fiddling around with the switches on the PCB (hidden under the large metal…
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Load-Store Conflicts
meshoptimizer implements several geometry compression algorithms that are designed to take advantage of redundancies common in mesh data and decompress quickly - targeting many gigabytes per second in decoding throughput. One of them, index decoder, has seen a significant and unexpected variance in performance across…
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What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?
Governments worldwide are trying to increase fertility with cash. But the most famous birthrate "boom" had a lot to do with science and technology, as well.
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My thoughts on renting versus buying
I've read numerous articles about renting versus buying and most dive into financial projections while completely missing the bigger picture.
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Systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
As all developers, I’ve been using git since the dawn of time, since its commands were an inscrutable jumble of ill-fitting incantations, and it has remained this way until today. Needless to say, I just don’t get git. I never got it, even though I’ve read a bunch of stuff on how it represents things internally. I’ve…
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Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Continuous glucose monitoring has been a thing for a while. It's a probe that sits just inside your body and measures blood glucose levels frequently. Obviously this is most useful for type 1 diabetics, who need to regulate their blood glucose manually.
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Should we drain the Everglades?
no pls dont
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A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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YouTube audio quality – How good does it get? (2022)
You Tube is clearly used by a very large number of people. In general, they will be interested in watching videos of various types of content. One specific purpose is that it gets used to distribute, and make people aware of, audio recordings. A conversation on the “Pink Fish” webforum devoted to music and audio set…