coming soon in a https://github.com/bearcove/figue near you

You know, I've been very critical of GitHub in the past few months, but I have to say, I just opened a very large PR, and I was able to view the entire diff in my browser without expanding anything, without things lagging or whatever. That's nice!

RE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116535169774717465 Uh oh

guys I clicked the gemini "enhance this slide" button and my deck is gone ...rude

I'm glad to hear that Google Slides is able to create Slides (albeit in beta)

I should work on my video and my talk but I'm NOT because I'm working on my papeerrrrrrr

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/116514964772194133 it was... rsqrt vs metal::precise::rsqrt I love how in GPU land the default is "eh good enough whatever"

status update: i've rented enough macs from scaleway that they stopped me halfway through to check with their "safety and trust" team (they deemed me safe and trustable)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/116511201511806023 karma works swiftly, as today I am debugging why my implementation yields different results on Apple M2 and Apple M4. (At least it's deterministic... I hope)

the "co-authored by copilot" vscode change is almost definitely accidental and so, so unfortunate. whatever little goodwill left, poof, gone

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@oli/116511996904636221 🔔

Imagine working on an ASR paper, and you port your model from one system to another. And your word error rate tanks by 4.6 percentage points (a LOT) and instead of figuring out whatever you messed up and fixing it, you go on to run another hundred evals and publish the paper anyway. ?!?!??

oooh AV2 yesss https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d

send me strength, for I have to use histograms

Spent some time writing about the latest #rust #bioinformatics crate I’ve been working on: seqair, an alternative to (a subset of) htslib with some neat APIs and memory patterns! If you work in the field: expect a crates.io release soon! If you like software architecture rambles, hope you enjoy […]

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously ...yup

congrats to the @zed team for reaching the 1.0 milestone :) it's been my daily driver for... a long time https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0

You know, now is probably a good time to recruit GitHub employees. I know that if I worked there, I would be actively interviewing (...and being oddly silent on social media)

apple: to develop for mac you need to own a mac me: uh-huh. and can I disable SIP? apple: okay... you, specifically, need to own two macs

github blog: > Here’s what we’ve done [...] to improve our availability and reliability. bro a postmortem is supposed to happen, you know, "post'

so many fun tidbits you need to know to survive on macOS, for example: codesign then copy → 🙅 binary gets insta-killed (AMFI hammer) copy then codesign → ✨ all good

So my Metal workload is so spiky that I can hear.. what I can only assume is coil whine (?) coming out of my laptop on every "pulse" of work. Spooky.

There is one very important fact of life I forgot about making a profiler. On macOS, if your profiler is slow, you cannot profile it. You have to self-profile. Fuck my life.

good news — apparently (in the US), independent bookstores are making a comeback: https://www.fastcompany.com/91529634/independent-bookstore-day-bookshop-org-founder-on-how-small-retailers-are-taking-on-amazon

linkin park sounds even better when there's a buffer underrun in the middle of the chorus

okay, ELI5 foreign policy to me: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260427-china-warns-eu-made-in-europe-plan-countermeasures what "countermeasures" is China talking about here exactly?

MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT I will soon possess: a proper COB light, a 90cm softbox, a C stand, a wider green screen, 2x90cm LED bars, an SM58 (SM7B too heavy to hold, shotgun mic in untreated room = bad), an Elgato 4K S (USB-C!), an acoustic blanket, various cables, gaffer tape, zip ties, nipple cla–wait

@bjorn3 Can you confirm that there is no specific AddressSanitizer integration with Cranelift? It's too low level, anyway. Right? That there would be nothing meaningful to, to emit, that ASan could check?

https://docs.rs/cranelift-jit/latest/cranelift_jit/trait.JITMemoryProvider.html ahhahha cranelift has a JITMemoryProvider trait that you cannot implement (because JITMemoryKind is private). allow-unsigned-executable-memory entitlement here we come.

okay well, my profiler only works if you run it inside of lldb I guess lldb is a dependency now.

is this good? do you like this?

lmao someone made a static analysis profiler for Metal https://github.com/imperatormk/metal-profiler (which relies on uhhh several years' worth of reverse engineering)

Will I see you at RustLab in November? I hope so! https://rustlab.it/

me: "I would like to manage my own memory" genie: "done! you can now manage your own memory leaks" me: "my own what?" genie: "you heard me. two wishes left"

> quantize weights harder > dequant flares up in profile I don't know what I expected

Anthropic's Stupid Fucking Move Of The Day is a conspiracy by Big Zitron to sell more Where's Your Ed At

pity the poor English translator of the LoongArch documentation, who put a note in the preface that, honestly, they have literally no idea what the original big-brain authors are talking about

> eval says model got utterance wrong > listen to utterance > reference text is wrong FLEURS WHY

update: I'm being oppressed

I was disappointed to "only" beat other papers by a few points but ...it turns out I was comparing my unnormalized scores with their normalized scores. I'm beating them by /a lot more/, as it turns out.

PSA: for 5EUR, you can get TinyStart which does all of what I used RayCast for, for a fraction of the memory budget https://tinystart.app/

PSA: for 5EUR, you can get TinyStart which does all of what I used RayCast for, for a fraction of the memory budget https://tinystart.app/

REMINDER: the AMA is today — https://luma.com/lqxrgthf?tk=9UyrVe you better show up with questions!

romanian has "new" vs "old" diacritics???!?? hmph

So in my dictation app, I actually have the volume, animate down, while dictating, and then animate back up. Well, it turns out that the animation is too fast for AirPods. Some of the frames are dropped, and the volume of the left and the right earbud get out of sync 🫠

LLM-based ASR is fascinating, not just because it can do 52 languages, be super resilient to background noise, transcribe songs and be fine tuned for live translation etc. etc. but also because of its failures modes: the first few tokens came out as A Really Long Fallout Boy Song And It Just Kept On

PSA "text-align: justify" still makes your blog unreadable Even if you do hyphenations properly Unless it wasn't meant to be read, then it's fine ig

Just had to hunt down an invoice in Alibaba Cloud's dashboard, I will never complain about AWS again. (ok I probably still will)

remember bluesky?

...you worked for a law firm and you made 2700 EUR? were you done in an afternoon?