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New comment by dmpk2k in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

dmpk2k — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:44:09 +0000

You're right that a lot of material really does require a physical book. Anything even remotely technical.

That said, I would argue that a voice actor is far more significant than page formatting when it comes to novels. A good voice actor can turn a good story great, and sometimes a poor story to... acceptable.

I've read thousands of novels over the decades, both with and without audio, so I'm reasonably confident about the above.

New comment by dmpk2k in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

dmpk2k — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:06:11 +0000

The same Oman Trump was recently threatening to blow up? Heh.

New comment by dmpk2k in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

dmpk2k — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:54:35 +0000

It's weird for physicists to complain about nuclear weapons. They did it. Own it.

New comment by dmpk2k in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

dmpk2k — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:21:03 +0000

For all its faults, you won’t get a rug-pull like this with OSS CAD Suite and something like the ECP5, especially as a hobbyist.

New comment by dmpk2k in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

dmpk2k — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:18:37 +0000

Embedded developers often suffer under archaic toolchains. There's plenty of reasons for that, but one of them is UB: a newer version of the compiler can completely change an embedded program's behaviour.

New comment by dmpk2k in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

dmpk2k — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:56:53 +0000

I find your emotional language truly quite fascinating. I've heard people talk like that about drugs.

New comment by dmpk2k in "Honda is killing its EVs"

dmpk2k — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:18:06 +0000

While true (beyond 30-50km/h), that assumes that cars are driving at a steady state. Obviously, cities with much more stop-and-go require more revving of engines.

Acoustic tyres are also gradually becoming the norm, primarily with EVs. This cuts noise by several decibels.

So it's not an unreasonable claim per se.

New comment by dmpk2k in "SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads"

dmpk2k — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:26:15 +0000

Huh, you're right.

Apparently it's still considered experimental (even though Google uses it in production) so it's not in the User Manual. There's this: https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/doc/internals-notes...

New comment by dmpk2k in "Steel Bank Common Lisp"

dmpk2k — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:58:29 +0000

Vaguely related, but have you tried Alive? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rheller....

New comment by dmpk2k in "AVX-512: First Impressions on Performance and Programmability"

dmpk2k — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:32:22 +0000

> There's essentially no reason to prefer the aligned load/store commands over the unaligned ones - if the actual pointer is unaligned it will function correctly at half the throughput

Getting a fault instead of half the performance is actually a really good reason to prefer aligned load/store. To be fair, you're talking about a compiler here, but I never understood why people use the unaligned intrinsics...

New comment by dmpk2k in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

dmpk2k — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:26:19 +0000

The only decent Prolog book out there, IMNSHO, is "Clause and Effect" by Clocksin. Maybe some of the later chapters might help?

All the other books that I looked at were pretty awful, including the usual recommendations.

New comment by dmpk2k in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

dmpk2k — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:14:47 +0000

wistia.com

New comment by dmpk2k in "An Implementation of J (1992)"

dmpk2k — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:26:36 +0000

You're probably aware of it, but if not: Uiua is much easier to understand in this regard.

New comment by dmpk2k in "Golang's big miss on memory arenas"

dmpk2k — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:57:29 +0000

They added arenas to SBCL recently. SBCL has a moving GC, and the Common Lisp spec was finalized in the 1990s.

Okay, this is just Lisp being Lisp, but it's still an example...

New comment by dmpk2k in "The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out"

dmpk2k — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:32:17 +0000

I suppose there are worse things than my scribblings sounding like a late-night kitchen gizmo ad. :)

New comment by dmpk2k in "The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle"

dmpk2k — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:40:19 +0000

Similar with Babylon 5, although the CG has not aged as well.

New comment by dmpk2k in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

dmpk2k — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:24:58 +0000

That is how attrition war works. Until it doesn’t.

New comment by dmpk2k in "Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub"

dmpk2k — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:36:41 +0000

> Some people don't, evidently. Other people do.

I like how this can be interpreted two ways, depending on whether you place loved ones above governance, or vice versa.

New comment by dmpk2k in "How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)"

dmpk2k — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:13:15 +0000

Pikuma.com has a good one.

New comment by dmpk2k in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

dmpk2k — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:23:31 +0000

Both can be true: over-regulation and bad regulation. And the West (especially the EU) is arguably suffering from both to various degrees.

At some point a regulation is no longer worth the weight in the overhead it imposes. Even if all regulation was effective, at some point the collective burden would be too high.

Sadly, this also means that some bad behaviour is inescapable at the margins. There are always a few people looking for an angle to make a quick buck in a certain way, yet not enough for a regulation to be supported.