I spent two days learning about quaternions to fix a buggy spaceship moving in space, when an LLM could have done it for me in seconds. A great use of my time: now I understand quaternions and I have levelled up in my knowledge, which makes me more confident to tackle larger problems in this space.

I have been paying for my VPN with lightning payments; it takes less than one second to go through.

It's all a matter of how long it takes to reach peak concentration in your blood stream. Smoking takes seconds, lozenges take minutes, a patch takes 2 to 3 hours.

Years later, I replaced my ADHD medication with low-strength nicotine patches and I find it as effective, cheaper, longer-lasting and with less addictive potential than dexamphetamine. The side effects when I forget a patch are much less than not having my morning cup of coffee — just extremely distractable and lower energy.

Smoking is terrible, but I wish people learned that the effects of smoking are much more intense from the effects of pure nicotine.

That's called being a manager, not a vibe coder.

Makes writing a simulator so easy (just have to focus on RV32I to get started), and also makes RISC-V a great bytecode alternative for a homegrown register-based virtual machine: chances are RV32I covers all the operations you will need on any Turing-complete VM. No need to reinvent the wheel. In a weekend I implemented all of RV32IM, passing all the official tests, and now I have target my VM with any major compiler (GCC, Rust) with no effort.

If there is any architecture that scales linearly from the most minimal of low-energy cores to advanced desktop hardware is RISC-V.

Disclaimer: I don't know much about ARM, but 1) it isn't as open and 2) it's been around enough to have accumulated as much historical cruft as x86.

These days the only qualification required for people believing anything you say is to have a blog and strong critical opinions about $AUTHORITY. Software engineers somehow believe they are knowledgeable in any topic just because they spend a lot of time reading on the Internet.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

No one’s crazy enough to push that button, because once you do there is no turning back.

My job is basically recreating a small part of the infrastructure that was designed for AWS, while patching some shortcomings of the OVH offerings which are not as featureful.

It takes time to find a suitable replacement to a global monopoly.

As a European dev, because I like RISC-V and because of the geopolitical situation I wouldn't bet on x86 in the long term.

What do you mean that Africa is a continent of great diversity in cultures, languages and history? They all look poor and black to me.