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@zeuxcg Something VS Code should learn from.

Great to see this. It really helps to have regular dedicated periods of time where no work that's not fixing bugs and paper cuts is done. A week is a good amount of time! If I were making user facing software I'd probably go as far as a week every month, OKRs be damned.

@zeuxcg It's not too late to go back!

If you look at the tokenizer in the just-released MSFT Phi-2 model and you're used to Llama-like models, something may stand out: wtf is "Ġ"? Well... - The tokenizer is using SentencePiece as is common these days; - SentencePiece uses regular whitespace as a segment delimiter, including file formats (eg token pairs for token merging are delimited by a space). So it needs to "escape" the whitespace. - And indeed, by default SentencePiece escapes whitespace with "▁" (U+2581) which AFAICT semantically doesn't have much to do with a space, but looks sufficiently like it, so fine. But... "Ġ" is emphatically not "▁". What gives? If you look at the Unicode symbol for "Ġ", which is U+0120, and you know your ASCII table, this is suspicious because it's as if someone said "escape spaces by adding 256 to them". And indeed, this seems to date back to GPT-2 tokenization code which represented any byte outside of a small set of known "valid" Unicode codepoints as 256+n... and space (32 = 0x20) wasn't part of the set: #L8-L28" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/openai/gpt-2/b… I don't really have a point here but I'm actively questioning my life choices right now.

dear imgui 1.77 release: github.com/ocornut/imgui/… - general maintenance release with 25+ fixes and small additions in main branch. - click for changelog with details individual branches (always a recommended read because you'll discover features)

@stefandd7 @wvo For-each iterator is a reference to the target element (unlike for example, C# where iterating over a value-type array will only give you a copy)

Benchmark comparing Lobster with Lua and LuaJIT (it is faster than both): github.com/stefandd/Tic4

I know there are many Lua debuggers available, but I wanted it to always be enabled in my regular VS debug sessions with zero setup on app side.

Was a bored last week, created a Lua debugger for C++ applications, integrated into Visual Studio debugger: #overview" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

@zeuxcg It's like you're waving a carrot on a stick in front of me.

We have evaluated open source alternatives and for various reasons aren’t able to use them - so if you’re *also* suffering from NIH, come work with us ;) Did I mention we have cookies? And cupcakes?

Our goal is world class interpreted language performance and world class optional typing - in both cases, for Lua. Lots of people love tinkering with language tech but rarely get paid for this or get to have their tech be used by millions - Roblox now is a perfect place for both.

Somehow, one of the major annoyances of working with Visual Studio

@aras_p Looking at some C++ proposals, there seems to be an over-reliance on "it's zero overhead if you compile with -O3". Like you've mentioned, the result is that the feature is now being avoided in production, because debug builds are important and huge overhead makes those unusable

My previous tweet on C++20 ranges example kinda exploded, so I thought it would be good to write down wot I think in a blog form. "Modern C++ Lamentations" aras-p.info/blog/2018/12/2… It's kinda random and not structured well, but hey I'm also trying to have a vacation here :)

PSA: Both NVidia and AMD symbol servers don’t provide symbols! They only provide binaries with unwind info, which is necessary because frame pointers are commonly omitted in x64, making stack unwinding difficult. Hoping one day the “symbol” in “symbol server” becomes a reality.

@__Necrys__ А у меня совсем наоборот, когда выходит альбом и "Парни, у вас был такой хороший стиль, куда вас понесло?"

Narita Boy looks amazing [please don't fail] -The retro futuristic pixel game on @Kickstarter kck.st/2lqJBoD

@Lattelecom what's up with your connection speedtest.net/my-result/6058…

@bga_ Batman v Superman: DoJ, Captain America: CV and now this too? I had some hopes for X-Men :(

@grumpygiant if you want strong typedefs, you can use 'enum Handle: int{};' from C++11, as long as you don't require all the arithmetic ops

@grumpygiant your first point of 'Calculating the size of a static array' is covered by std::size open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21… in C++17

It's pretty sad that the most exciting thing in C++17 is std::clamp.

@CatalystMaker Any chance that this new Crimson software won't put itself in every explorer context menu?