Bara ett år har sett färre mord sedan 60-talet.

The French music site Qobuz is a good resource for people like me who don’t want to rely on streaming. It has surprisingly much from old records that are difficult to find, as lossless CD quality files. For instance, I was finally able to get two tracks from Lalo Schifrin’s Charley Varrick […]

Me one week ago: Why did I choose this obscure top-down approach? I probably just hadn’t realized at the time that a standard bottom-up solution would work. I’ll try refactoring it to bottom-up, it will be more comprehensible and manageable. Me now, testing the refactored code: Oh, I see, that […]

[PLEASE Stop using Spotify. Use literally anything but Spotify.] Why? • They don't pay musicians https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/confirmed-next-year-tracks-on-spotify-1000-plays/ • They fund right wing extremist podcasters […]

Fun fact: I just wrote a little Java class called FunFact. It’s a factory class that produces a function object.

Being one of the white trash usians who gets dumped on, getting called a Nazi and bs like that, I'm damn tired of how self defeating the US left is determined to be. Trump has no better ally than social media progressives who tear down anyone who tries. Anything. Harvard perfect only. The foul […]

Philosophy is born in opposition to story.

Business idea: buy lots of perfectly good computers that can’t run newer Windows than version 10, install the latest version of a free operating system on them, and sell them to people who are not on (or can break free from) Microsoft’s leash.

“Funny” phenomenon: compiling this code with “clang -O” makes it go into an infinite loop, not stopping at p==3. I almost filed a Clang bug report before I realized what the problem was with the code. Can you spot it? I still think it’s a bit extreme that it behaves this way.

I discovered that “professon” originally and literally means “open declaration”. So why don’t we stop with the confusing free/open software categorization and just call it professional software!

If humility is good, why is humiliation bad.

“Finished” writing my garbage collection module for the third or fourth time. Previous times, my subsequent code review have resulted in “oh no, that won’t work!”, rethinking, and rewriting. Let’s see if this version makes it to testing.

That was fun. https://youtu.be/wPa0EhzvhaA?feature=shared&t=171

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Across Europe, when centrist parties have adopted far right themes and sought to appease far right voters, they go down in flames. Why? Because: 1. They alienate their own base. 2. They tell other voters that the far right is correct. The determination not to learn this lesson is a wonder to behold.

Det var ju bra att vi ändå hade 70 år när nazism allmänt ansågs dåligt (i texten står det 80, men det senaste decenniet har ju lett fram till där vi är i dag) www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...

One of the big questions to ask is “What is the purpose of an economy?” Does an economy exist as a side-effect of having a society, or does a society exist as a side-effect of having an economy? Market economies take the latter approach, but so do most planned economies: The economy is treated […]

This reminded me of the film title DOG DAY AFTERNOON. The connection seems weak, though.

There's a lot of misinformation out there about the concept of universal basic income. If you want to be well-informed, follow me and learn about what we know from studies in this thread: bsky.app/profile/scot... Here's a UBI starter pack too: bsky.app/profile/scot... And here's a UBI 101 link:

Jag har ingen häst i det här racet, men innan folk drar slutsatsen att det här har med I/P att göra borde de kanske läsa det här.

We're slowly seeing what leftists always warned about in the UK: all these laws against 'terrorism' are now expanding the definition to be used against every day citizens, from authors being arrested for donating money to activist organizations or hundreds being arrested for protesting a […]

Regnet försöker få mig att lämna balkongen med några små kalla droppar, men jag ser på SMHI:s radarkarta att det saknar molnstöd, och låter mig inte luras.

For various reasons I’ve been trying to avoid getting into discussions about AI for several years, and I’ve been hesitant weather I should post something about my viewpoint on LLMs, but I found Dennis Schubert’s tennis ball analogy (linked in the post) so appealing that I was inspired to revive […]

Amazing, for hours I’ve been typing complex code on the verge of understanding what I’m doing, and when it finally compiles I test it and it just… works. 🤯

The female-gendered bot jumping in to say hi contributes a couple of layers.

It’s terrible how much time I’ve spent trying to find a reasonable solution to the problem of creating an array of a template type in Java. About an hour today. But at least I found a new one.

Wow, modern optimizing compiler backends… The first picture is what my frontend produces. The second one is what’s left after optimization.

Blog post about garbage collection with LLVM statepoints: the basics explained and a demo that simulates garbage collection. (No, it has nothing to do with audio software, it’s a new project, but I haven’t created a website for that yet.) […]

I dropped my boost of a link about Meta from a few hours ago since it turned out it’s probably fake news. Here’s a link into a thread below it, in case you are still interested: https://mastodonsweden.se/@avadeaux/114896865873794999

Lalo Schifrin died today, one of my favourite artists all categories. I count to 19 releases in my record collection, despite only having got my hands on one during my most intensive soundtrack fandom years (Sudden Impact and the Best of Dirty Harry). The one I play most often these days is […]

Just saw this scrolling through Facebook. I don't know anything about the matter, but my point remains valid: using other people's platforms does not and never will guarantee the safety of your data. #ownyourdata

A strange Christian cult, that americans specifically believe to be "Christianity", is what's behind the US support for Israel's wars. It's a core belief in this cult that Israel's "true" borders must be restored. "It’s important to emphasize that this was never just about foreign policy; or […]

Vindkraftparker blir fristäder för hajar och rockor https://growsverige.se/2025/06/20/vindkraftparker-blir-fristader-for-hajar-och-rockor/

Det är i ärlighetens namn som att se filmer av SS-räder i nazityskland under andra världskriget, som griper judar.

Hrmph, the Java compiler says “error: variable col might not have been initialized” here. Come on, if you don’t trust me you could at least check carefully yourself!

New from me: Let’s call AI something else. (drawing on "The AI Con" by @emilymbender and @alexhanna ) https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/lets-call-ai-something-else/

I've discovered a deficiency in how Emacs handles å, and presumably other Scandinavian letters, in filenames. Now the question is, should I dig down into the elisp to try to find the actual cause, or should I spend the better part of a day on writing a comprehensive bug report for someone more […]

“The library came alive, but it was not life. It was not eating, breathing, dancing, hating, and loving, just describing all that. But so many descriptions, and so detailed! Somehow, the contents of the library had reached a critical mass, and started reproducing. You could now check out books […]

Today’s “I thought I knew Java, I’ve been working with it for almost thirty years!” discovery: the need for “super.” here. If I remove it, the compiler complains about referencing non-static method from a static context. If I replace it with “this.”, the it […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

Finally, the week of waiting is over, the Bluesky bridge of this, my new Fediverse account, to Bluesky is operational: https://bsky.app/profile/avadeaux.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy