Scott Graham

@zack_overflow Thanks for writing this up! It makes me want to nerd snipe one more level and see how much the indirect jump in dispatch hurts. (Probably more of an x64 issue since the Apple aarch64 seems pretty magical with that.)

Anyway, this thread is getting too long. As you can tell I've nerd sniped myself on this whole topic. I'll tell you one more thing Both V8's and HotSpot's interpreters are known as "template interpreters" and I wrote a blog post on the whole damn topic: zackoverflow.dev/writing/templa…

The year is 2006. You are Mike Pall, author of LuaJIT Everyone tells you compilers are so good that a human can rarely beat one Despite this, you rewrite LuaJIT's interpreter in assembly and it's *faster* than the compiler's version How? Lets talk about interpreters and JITs:

@kaler If you're deriving median purchasing power from the per capita GDP (averages), I don't think that's correct. It could just indicate greater income inequality in the US: if Elon, Tim, and Sergey split the whole GDP, the median worker's purchasing power is 0.

Canadian GDP per capita is ~$48k USD. American GDP per capita is ~$59k USD. The median US worker has ~23% greater purchasing power parity than the median Canadian worker.

@haxor That looks useful! One reason I don't like rustc is that the errors are so verbose, even when the error is "obvious", which can make it tiring to visually parse through the chaff. In your mock-up, a simple underline under "xy" would be enough, so some incremental exposure maybe?

For example, given this program, here is the Markdown-formatted type error message that gets printed to the console, and then what that looks like in the GitHub issue submission UI:

Shouldn't compilers print type errors in Markdown format so when they're inevitably pasted into GitHub issues they're already well structured and pretty?

YANKEE DOODLE: *sticks feather in his cap* This is called macaroni YANKEE DOODLE'S FRIEND: Ok, cool. Listen man, everybody's worried about u

@sucktime Maybe Quebec language laws?

@h4kr Those darn privacy policies for Canada and Europe getting in the way of our corporate overlords I guess

support.google.com/bard/answer/14… not in the backwater of Canada apparently 🤨

@mrdoob 1) I'm old, and 2) Visual Studio (not Code)/WinDbg.

Why do people still use Windows?

@sucktime I was trying to play videos from phone on PC. I think if you control the encoder it's sorta fine, but "play a file from someone else" seems like a CF. Hence big fat electron apps I guess :/

@h4kr On web or something else? Like is Webm any good?

Admittedly, the entirety of everything I know about video codecs I learned in the last two hours, but wow! what a mess. \

@TheJare Guess I need to write stb_video.h ... how hard could it be :p

@h4kr Back in the day, you just called RAD Game Tools and, for a pretty reasonable price, you could sleep at night again

Or is there some non-ridiculous 3rd option that I didn't find?

If you want to play some video, you either 1) just swallow ~100M of ffmpeg binary; or 2) vaguely hope that the OS/GPU combo your users are on have support for the right things? \

@Wealthsimple Hi, could you add to Google Podcasts? Thanks.

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I guess as of today "programming" is "authoring GPTs"? So here's a new blog post with updates on my compiler for a language from 1978. scot.tg/2023/11/06/mor…

On the off chance that you follow me, have a Garmin watch, use YouTube Music, and use Windows: scot.tg/jogjams/ (no, Garmin/YT don't get along by default)

@zeynep Great news! The article seems to say later that accidental deaths are excluded, so I interpret that to mean that it's not a reduction in all deaths. (?)

Amazing. That’s a reduction in all deaths — a big number because malaria is a big killer: about half a million children annually. “In a major analysis in Africa, the first [malaria] vaccine cut deaths among young children by 13%.” Plus “a 22% reduction in severe malaria”.

@nickbarnes @michael_nielsen "The comparison, covering 46 months, revealed the 13% decline in mortality—excluding accidental deaths—attributed to RTS,S."

Oh my god: science.org/content/articl…

@nathanwpyle "again!" "again!" "again!" "again!"

someone asked why they haven’t seen as many new comics recently and it’s because I have been throwing my daughter in the air. once you do it the first time you are not really allowed to do anything else

@thisIsSebM @browsercompany "Arc is only available for Mac, but we’re working on supporting Windows soon!" Less chat, more Windows! :DD Have fun with all the shiny and new!

I'm excited to announce that I've joined @browsercompany to work on Arc ! Here's my invite code if you want to try it: arc.net/gift/bc72c68a

@BruceDawson0xB It's always the cookies and indexeddb state!