merksoftworks
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Comment · 5 months ago
Nor are the victims of preventable disease to be blamed for being born into countries without functioning governments. I'm happy to pay $37 as a U.S. taxpayer if it saves the life of someone I'll never meet.
Comment · 11 months ago
Very! there are unified headers and a C library that the maintainers have written as a wrapper around the library.
Comment · 1 year ago
in oh-my-zsh you can use `take` to do what mkcd does.
Comment · 1 year ago
Agreed. I wish it was easier to embed the compiler in my favorite languages and reflect on it. Quite excited bout Wesl: https://github.com/wgsl-tooling-wg/wesl-rs.
Comment · 1 year ago
I dug around on this web page and found outlinks to:
The "Stop Gangstalking Awareness Group", and especially this page about "Understanding Neuro Weapons." LaserPointerSafety has not evaluated the accuracy or usefulness of this group or their information. (Thanks to M.D. in July 2024 for bringing this to our attention.)
These are kind of kooky links: https://web.archive.org/web/20240509210655/https://stopgangs...
Comment · 1 year ago
This has been posted here a while ago but I'm pretty excited about bolt: https://github.com/Beariish/bolt - I've been looking for a statically typed language which could integrate well around something with a strong type system and good meta programming facilities for generating bindings. Bolt has the benefit of being a pretty small library with the downside of being nascent.
Comment · 1 year ago
What I will say about sycophancy - the recent rollback that OpenAI went through does appear like a clear attempt to push the envelope on dark patterns wrt AI Assistants. Engagement optimized assistants, pornography, and tooling are inherently misaligned with the productivity or wellbeing of their users in the same way that engagement maximized social media is inherently misaligned with the social wellbeing of it's users.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a misquote - the two minutes of context around the content he was commenting cause it to make way more sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc
He's right that to someone who's art is about capturing the world through a child's eyes, the dreamlike consonance of everyday life with simple fantasy, this is abominable.
Comment · 1 year ago
So, gingerol is anti inflammatory. Fun fact, so is allicin, which is produced by garlic. You get a lot of medicine that looks quite a bit like quack medicine - for instance people making garlic extract: https://www.allicin-c.com/?AFFID=549212
But then you end up with peer reviewed studies which indicate some anti-viral properties of garlic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7434784/
Comment · 1 year ago
This is the direction i've been theoretically harping about to all my friends, API first creative software will win out. After Effects has a decent JS api, Da Vinci Resolve has python and lua, you can script your way to a decent starting point with any of these tools. They even have well featured rollback for transactions committed during scripting. We need a generic MCP for the scripting environments in many desktop apps, screen capture for ones which take multimodal input.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is really cool but it's not portable to MacOs or aarm64 yet, and that kind of portability unfortunately is what appeals to me about an embeddable scripting language.
Comment · 1 year ago
My experience has been more like this:
- Write small library as contract work.
- Client vibe codes with it. Code doesn't work.
- End up doing good faith assurance work to fix the vibe coded bug in the client code, the issue was not in my small library.
People are programming out on a limb - and blame goes to the library maintainer if the user lacks the fundamental skills to do troubleshooting.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the borrow checker doesn't get enough credit for supporting one of rusts other biggest selling points - it's ecosystem. In C and C++ libraries often go through pains to pass as little allocated memory over the API barrier as possible, communicating about lifetime constraints and ownership is flimsy and frequently causes crashes. In Rust if a function returns Vec<Foo> then every Foo is valid until dropped, and if it's not someone did something unsafe.
Comment · 1 year ago
I love this sort of thing. I wish there were a better alternative for ISF[1], it's quickly showing it's age. The kind of GPU sand boxed graph construction that this enables would be really powerful with the right "linker". I'm thinking about drafting a proposal for wesl[2] to have a more ergonomic reflection and metadata system to make this kind of quick and scrappy pipeline construction feel first class in shader tooling. Slang has something like this, so does GDShader and the shader tooling for unity.
[1]: https://isf.video/ [2]: https://github.com/wgsl-tooling-wg/wesl-rs
Comment · 1 year ago
SEEKING WORK | Location: Bay Area / Remote
I Run a small contracting group, we have a few floating designers and devs of various backgrounds. We love creative work and hard technical problems. Our site doesn't list all of us at the moment.
Technologies: Rust, C/C++, Web (multiple backend, multiple frontend), Swift, Many graphics API's, adobe SDKs, python, databases, devops, godot, ecommerce, radare2 etc.
Website: https://www.merkatoria.com/