Beware of Fast-Math(simonbyrne.github.io)

292 points by blobcode 1 year ago | 198 comments

Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian(twitter.com)

208 points by flaxxen 10 months ago | 394 comments

Chat Control faces blocking minority in the EU(twitter.com)

357 points by miohtama 1 year ago | 112 comments

A post on X by Tuta (TutaPrivacy) saying the EU Chat Control proposal faces a blocking minority among member states; the tweet content did not load.

America AI: Public Funding, Elite Extraction (not innovation)(x.com)

25 points by salkahfi 11 months ago | 5 comments

Center for AI Safety's new spokesperson suggests „burning down labs"(twitter.com)

9 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 year ago | 6 comments

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority(twitter.com)

757 points by turrini 1 year ago | 682 comments

A post on X by John Carmack arguing that the world could run on older hardware if software optimization were prioritized.

John Carmack on mutable variables(twitter.com)

447 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 523 comments

A tweet by John Carmack advocating single assignment and avoiding variable reassignment, noting that in C/C++ making variables const by default is good practice.

The Goose Programming Language(aardappel.github.io)

561 points by bobbydigitales 2 days ago | 346 comments

An X post by John Carmack praising Wouter van Oortmerssen's Goose programming language for its multiple data stacks, relative references, and binary structure validation.

John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)

528 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 363 comments

Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority(twitter.com)

757 points by turrini 1 year ago | 682 comments

A post on X by John Carmack arguing that the world could run on older hardware if software optimization were prioritized.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.