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kookamamie··on Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website
I know. Typically I'd let CC know with "I reverted these changes."
kookamamie··on Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website
Yes, reverting outside. This can happen often when one is not happy with CC's output - Esc + revert.
kookamamie··on Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website
CC absolutely does not read the context again during each run. For example, if you ask it to do something, then revert its changes, it will think the changes are still there leading to bad times.
kookamamie··on Configuration files are user interfaces
Yes, the syntax makes no intuitive sense, whatsoever.
kookamamie··on Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's ultra-high core count processors
NUMA is satan. Source: Working in real-time computer vision.
kookamamie··on Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?
Because it is easier to keep adding stuff than to remove it.
kookamamie··on How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development
Agreed, the roles seem more cerenonial than anything else.
kookamamie··on Show HN: CLAVIER-36 – A programming environment for generative music
I'm curious - was it two and a half lines of code you contributed?
kookamamie··on SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V
Makes sense. How have you found C++20 modules?
kookamamie··on SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V
Looks great. I did pick up pretty strong NIH vibes, though. As an example, would CMake or Meson not work as a build system?
kookamamie··on Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal
You have a patent for alpha in videos? Curious to hear more about this - the application you describe sounds eerily familiar to me.
kookamamie··on Vibe Coding Through the Berghain Challenge
> Why This Challenge Will Make You Question Everything

This kind of headlines make an article an annoying read.

kookamamie··on Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
At the same time Time selected Henna Virkkunen on their AI 200 list: https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305860/henna-v... - they are one of the architects of this AI Act nonsense.
kookamamie··on Animated Text in Voxel Space
Voxel space? I only saw planar objects flying in 3D space.
kookamamie··on What to do with C++ modules?
Fully agreed. The modules are an afterthought, and inevitably lead to a mess where we have both modules and includes all over the place.
kookamamie··on You Have to Feel It
> You have to feel it.

The corporate machine does not feel it.

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead.

kookamamie··on AI models need a virtual machine
"Like dude, a JVM for AIs!" - it reads like that.
kookamamie··on AI models need a virtual machine
No, they do not need one. The article paints VM as a very broad definition, mostly revolving around permissions for accessing things or executing actions.
kookamamie··on Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
> We are still figuring out how to use LLMs, and it will be some time before we have a decent idea of how to use them well

As per typical, Martin is so late to the party that he projects his own lack of understanding of the subject to be the general state of matters.

People are, and have been for a while, using LLMs as very effective accelerators or augmentations of themselves.

Claude Code, is a great example of something that can easily one-shot most trivial-to-average programming tasks.

While some wait for the "bubble to burst", a lot of people are gaining significant benefits from using LLMs to boost their speed in software development.

It's not a good idea to muddy the expectations for AI by mixing AGI and LLMs into the same bucket. LLMs are already useful for many purposes, even if they didn't lead to AGI, whatever the definition is.

kookamamie··on Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking
> Serverless

uses someone else's network for signaling

kookamamie··on Sometimes CPU cores are odd
Assuming core count to be even seems pretty oblivious to me.
kookamamie··on Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library
A windowing library, not a GUI library.
kookamamie··on Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]
Cute, but all of the example emojis look pretty poor, murky if you will.
kookamamie··on Emacs as your video-trimming tool
> The solution relies on ffmpeg to do the heavy lifting and is roughly 300 lines of code

Checked the source and it seems to make a lot of assumptions on the output format, codec and quality.

kookamamie··on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
Exactly. I never saw SourceForge as some sort of inspiration name-wise.
kookamamie··on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
It is not a term of art. A veteran programmer here and I also cringed when saw it used in this context.
kookamamie··on Stylish Bugs
Ok, so the author thought it's a great idea to embed a little mini-game onto the page - in case two squares shot by the things in each bottom corner ever collide, your mouse cursor vanishes. Brilliant - tab closed.

PS. fix the origin of the projectile shooters - right now they are shooting from the "side" and it looks sloppy.

kookamamie··on Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit
We're working on HPC / graphics / computer-vision software and noticed a particularly nasty issue with VBS enabled just last week. Although, have to be mentioned it was on Win10 Pro.
kookamamie··on NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem
Indeed. This is throwing pennies in virtue-signaling openness.
kookamamie··on Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit
Windows suffers from similar effects when Virtualization-Based Security is active.
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