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New comment by mindv0rtex in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

mindv0rtex — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:35:02 +0000

The fact that they've started promoting using the Caveman mode tells me that the unlimited usage policy is taking its toll.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term"

mindv0rtex — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:06:39 +0000

How is Tenstorrent h/w more general purpose than NVIDIA chips? TT hardware is only good for matmuls and some elementwise operations, and plain sucks for anything else. Their software is abysmal.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Show HN: Latex.to – LaTeX to image converter running in the browser"

mindv0rtex — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:40:42 +0000

I was recently trying to solve a similar problem but on desktop platforms. I don't want to depend on LaTeX, but I'd like to be able to generate equation images inside a C++ desktop application. I tried to make MathJax run via QuickJS and extract the SVG for rasterization. But I couldn't make MathJax run with QuickJS.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)"

mindv0rtex — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:24:34 +0000

It's definitely AI generated, that picture makes no sense.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Fq: Jq for Binary Formats"

mindv0rtex — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:14:11 +0000

The functionality that I am personally interested in from a binary parsing framework like Kaitai is generating an encoder implementation in addition to a decoder one. In other words, given a description of a binary format, I would like to be able to construct an instance of a class whose memory layout matches the format. For instance, if the format has an int n, then an array `a` of size `n`, and then a double `d`, it would be awesome to be able to construct a corresponding object with fields `n`, `a` and `d` and when I change `n`, then the size of `a` changes accordingly. And then, if I pass a pointer to this object to the decoder, it would be able to parse it correctly, as if the memory representation of the object came from some external buffer.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Zig Quirks"

mindv0rtex — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:15:12 +0000

The only requirement placed on the “moved out” variable is that you should be able to call its destructor. Which means that it has to be in a valid but unspecified state. So it's fine to access such a variable, so long as you don't read its exact state. You can still assign to it, for instance.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Getting Started with Tmux"

mindv0rtex — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 15:41:03 +0000

I recently decided to give terminal multiplexer a try. I first used tmux for a couple of weeks and then discovered zellij. It felt much more user-friendly, but I don't know how much I am missing out in terms of useful features compared to tmux.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group"

mindv0rtex — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 14:15:23 +0000

Explains Putin's approach to ruling over Russia rather well.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Facts about State Machines"

mindv0rtex — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 03:22:32 +0000

At our company, we rely a lot on https://github.com/boost-ext/sml

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)"

mindv0rtex — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 15:20:14 +0000

My favourite among this class of Python libraries has been traits from Enthought:

https://github.com/enthought/traits

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Scikit-Learn Version 1.0"

mindv0rtex — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:17:45 +0000

Speaking of what's possible in matplotlib, I am very much looking forward to reading this book: https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal"

mindv0rtex — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:43:52 +0000

I'm genuinely curious which of those items you consider as sucky and why. I am asking because I've recently been moved from a C++ to a JS team at my current workplace, and now I am exposed to this wide range of new tools which are all alien to me.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Show HN: Play with Shaders Inspired by Slime Mold"

mindv0rtex — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 13:43:41 +0000

That's what I did when I recently came across the same model. Here's my CPU-based implementation (in Rust): https://github.com/mindv0rtex/physarum

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Slack Running Slow / Hanging?"

mindv0rtex — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:19:23 +0000

Does anyone have a fallback solution for such situations? WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Zulip, something else?

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Sparse Matrices (2019)"

mindv0rtex — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:44:32 +0000

Not mentioned in the article, the ELL format is very efficient for banded matrices.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Rust 1.49.0"

mindv0rtex — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 01:01:02 +0000

Done!

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Rust 1.49.0"

mindv0rtex — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 21:31:41 +0000

I really enjoy using Rust for personal side projects. It made me a better C++ developer. I'm excited about stabilized const generics to be able to speed up my linear algebra code.

This issue though prevents me from recommending Rust for closed source development to my colleagues: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/40552

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Bevy 0.4: data oriented game engine built in Rust"

mindv0rtex — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:20:51 +0000

That's the level of Rust I wish there were more learning materials about.

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19"

mindv0rtex — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 22:53:14 +0000

Hmm, then I must indeed be living in a bubble...

New comment by mindv0rtex in "Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19"

mindv0rtex — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:53:49 +0000

Just my anecdata. We live in Maryland, in a middle-class suburb. I have 3 kids and a SAH wife. We're doing OK, saving for 401k, driving two cars, paying cash for house maintenance and renovations. Yeah, we don't travel much, but that's luxury. I earn the Google L4 level base, if one can trust levels.fyi. I am not sure how unique my situation is, but I have never felt the need for my wife to start working...