What is going on with Anthropic limits?? It is Monday, 1:15pm. I asked AI to do one task on my code--one prompt. And it used 48% of my session token limit??

Only 2 more weeks of Karazhan. I don't think I'm going to get orange in every slot. Close, though :D Proud of thank rank 298 on Netherspite. Also, how the heck are rogues supposed to parse on Nightbane?!

I've been holding out on AI. I tried it a handful of times. It underwhelmed then. Plus, AI has SOOO many ethical problems. Despite that, I've been saying for a while now that it seems like an inevitability. I decided to try to commit. Gotta say...it's pretty good now.

I believe Google is strongly encouraging its devs to use AI. I haven't contributed to Chrome in a while. I figure I should. But I do not have the wild AI budget they do. I am paying for my tokens out of my pocket. I wish Google would sponsor contributors w/ hardware & tokens

14 days until @subnautica.bsky.social 2! Plenty of time to beat Subnautica & Below Zero again.

This is Google Maps showing the main Google HQ. If you drop into street view...that definitely isn't Google HQ. Maps lets you report the mistake. I have. But it was too funny so I had to record it, too. (Also, wow. This place is beautiful. Where is it?!)

Is the typical solution for JWT revoking to get a subtoken? I feel like it should be, but I don't see people talk about it. Have a long-lived main token that authenticate but doesn't authorize. Use it to get a short-lived authorizing token. Propagate (rare) revokes between servers that authorize.

Oof. I'm working on my own deflate, comparing it to zlib with correctness & performance tests. zlib was 4x faster. Fair enough. This is my naive first attempt. So I crack open the profiler and... top 2 hits are std::sort and vector's realloc github.com/ProgramMax/m...

Published in 1995. Yikes.

Huh. eBay is down

So uhhhh who had #$AMD and #$INTC calls open? Congrats.

FINALLY. Got the hard case (dynamic blocks) working in my deflate compression. Now to fix some edge cases & clean up the code. Then onto performance.

Random thought: - Coders don't get a lot of "your work is amazing". - Mostly because 1.) not many people know coding, and 2.) reviewing code is work. I wonder if we can make it more digestible.

Hey cool. My buddy got #1 global AI demo. Grats, Jack!

I need the wisdom of C++ nerds, (summoning @hanicka.net ) A template parameter can be a function pointer type but not a function itself, right? So the badge pattern cannot be used on free functions, right? awesomekling.github.io/Serenity-C++...

OOoooooh my god. Windows' Kernel32 ordinals change between versions. Whyyyy?!?!

Been playing with VC6.0 recently. Soooo much easier to get ICEs. We've come a long way, baby.

Hey @xylafoxlin.bsky.social , you might enjoy today's maptap.gg Usually, it shows you the 5 locations as pings and has a blurb about each. But today's has a lot of pings. It was a clue that something was up... Anyway, read today's blurbs. It's up your alley.

TIL calling GetProcAddress() for kernel32 using ordinals deliberately fails. It was an obfuscation mechanism. Secret functions were originally made visible by exported name. Those names were removed, leaving legit ones. You could still use the ordinals though. So Microsoft blocks that.

I keep getting this urge for a more simple time in computing. I think I might setup an old Win98 box next to my main computer for a while. Maybe try to do my work on that machine.

C / C++ nerds, Why does integer promotion exist? Is the idea to just operate on machine words as a default? auto mask = ~(uint8_t{0b1111'1111} << bits_read_); // note: bits_read_ is also a uint8_t debug output: mask = -511 *sigh*

I'm clean-room reverse engineering zlib's behavior. (I know I could just go through the source. But when you do it the hard way, you learn all the wonky details.) That said, it is WEIRD. At the highest compression setting, it *definitely* isn't close to optimal deflate compression.

I know this is an old trope but I'm disappointed in how slow and unwieldy computers are still.

I think this is the first YouTube video I've seen where the presenter code switches. There is just enough English and the examples are clear enough that I can follow along. (That said, I'm not yet convinced PASETO actually solves the difficulties of JWT?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD8G...

The more I think about water cooling, the more I come to the conclusion that the bulk should be external to the case. Pump(s), rad, ... I also want a bigger, slower-moving fan over a larger rad. 120mm fans seems weird. But that might lose static pressure?

I have an old XBox One. It does not work. I assume I kept it disconnected for too long, it didn't get some critical update, and they ended all service? 1.) Online required is BS 2.) I guess I'll mod it? Microsoft, this is entirely on you. I wasn't going to otherwise.

Oh. So Anthropic DOES value copyright. Interesting.

*reinstalls Kerbal*

I dislike how LLMs just predict the next word and we call it AI. That misses the point. A few days ago I started a project to actually *learn*. I figured I would give it a head start with sentence structure, nouns, and verbs. Turns out I was just reinventing Knowledge Graphs.

Spicy take (heh): Banana pepper is better than jalapeno. And it could probably sub in for every usage??

I recognize this is deeply nerdy, but... I don't think verb phrases should be able to contain noun phrases. I think it is to allow Subject Verb Object ("I kick the ball") and Subject Verb ("I danced") to both form a sentence. Just clump the object into the verb. But that is a terrible solution.

I keep typing and deleting various forms of "thank you" because none of them convey it just right. Eric, —sincerely—thank you.

I FINALLY figured out this stupid deflate compression thing. I stepped through zlib's output bit by bit going "this part doesn't work...maybe that data is stored differently?" Sure enough, it is. Different parts are stored most-/least-significant bit first.

The Deflate algorithm operates on blocks. An uncompressed block stores its size. That means you can quickly skip past it. This is a nice feature for parallel work. The compressed blocks do not store the size. I wish I could magically change history and add that size.

When reading, we finish the line and our eyes need to zip back to the beginning of the next line. There is an ideal line length so that our zip successfully finds the next line without hunting. This is why you see columns in news papers and magazines, for example.

HOLY FUCKING ERRATA Was: "...stored with the most-significant bit first, e.g., bits 1110 represent the value 14." Now: ".../stored with the least-significant bit first, e.g. bits 0111 represent the value 14."

I wonder if I would prefer C-style languages allowed nesting block comments, /* ... */.

Music nerds, When you have different timbres, what makes it a given note? Is it the average frequency? Is it the base harmonic?

Anyone know of some computer cases that are designed for water cooling? Specifically, multi-radiator. I would love if there was a good spot for a fill and drain port. But my main issue is normally you're stuck with 1x 360 radiator, normal thickness.

Yesterday, an AI bot posted to Reddit--the last sanctuary of genuine human wisdom. And I responded before realizing. Dead Internet Theory is hitting hard. I don't think young people realize how valuable and promising the internet was in the '90s.

Got Lempel-Ziv compression working. Now to combine it with the Huffman from before to get Deflate. This is how Lempel-Ziv compresses Green Eggs & Ham. The numbers inside the parentheses are the offset from the start and the length. (5, 3) is the "Sam" it saw before. (0, 4) is the "I am".

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I feel like that might be a new one for me.

Finally getting around to writing my own compression implementations. Got a naive Huffman compression going. Had to take some notes while debugging. LZ77 next.

I love C++. But uh...the literal situation is a mess. 0xXXX for hex. 0bXXX for binary. Many similar prefixes. u8'X' for a unsigned char 8, another prefix. XXXll for long long. Suffix. Many more. XXXs for seconds. XXX_foo for user-defined literals. Gotta use a _. It could be XXXb for binary...

I'm sure they don't think about it at all, but it keeps crossing my mind... I explained to several managers that I was drastically under-leveled. I'm pretty sure they thought I was lying. Having quit and retired, have they since "huh."?

February is almost over. Sit rep: I added a state machine for the player and am feeding it input. So now there is a "running left" state, for example. I also cleaned up a bunch of animation code. But I didn't add frame timing yet. So the player's animations are way too fast.

There is a thing I wish C++ supported. Might be time to finally write a proposal? class Foo { auto bar_ = baz(); }; We have 'auto' return types for functions. It is a hard requirement if you're returning a templated type involving a lambda. It is also a hard requirement here.

Is there a standard name for combining state machines and stacks? Example in reply. But tl;dr most state transitions are effectively a JUMP. I want to also CALL & RET.

Theeere we go. Got a player sprite working.