This dude on CNN keeps saying "your eyes don't lie" but they use these circles (2d, area focused) to represent a 1-dimensional value.
I want to mail him a copy of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Your eyes *do* lie and that is specifically an example of how.
TIL LLVM-based compilers support -Rpass-missed=.* so you can see what optimizations were missed.
-Rpass-analysis=.* gives the reasoning behind it.
I'm working on a product and building the components separately.
So far, auth is the hardest part by a long shot.
It's been maybe 3x harder than the product itself?
PNG has this clever way of marking chunks so a tool might not understand the chunk but does understand it should be kept after an edit.
It is a brilliant, small detail that enables a lot of power.
Unfortunately, pretty much every tool just ignores it. :'(
What are you favorite cheap & cheerful bits of programming?
I think for me it is loops that go to zero. Maybe also 'auto' typing.
You know how movie makers story board--so they can change it while it is cheap?
In AI coding, part of that goes away. But part of it is more important now.
It is easier to make changes.
But pure vibe coding is ~directionless.
Think AI image "slop" but in architecture, too.
Mountain of Woe??
Yeah right! This place is paydirt.
Farm this specific rock, charm weapons that sell for a ton...
Chrono Trigger on PC only has achievements for seeing the different endings.
*THIS* should be an achievement.
Spekkio has different forms depending on your level. And it is difficult to get to him in the level 1-9 form.
When tech companies measure their uptime, I feel like it would be fair to not include when someone else messes up their BGP settings.
However, the end user doesn't care what a BGP is. To them, it is down. From that perspective, I feel like it should be included.
Today's Fireship video is about stereotypes of today's programmers.
One of them is the old, jaded programmer.
"He is in his mid-30s."
Ouch.
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About eMudhra's private key being just 4...
I need to revisit how this works.
I thought the numbers had to be prime.
The point is factoring primes is hard, right?
QTEs.
Before QTEs, people who did not understand gaming thought you "just push buttons".
Then QTEs come out and you literally just push buttons.
If your game already has a dodge and a player is fast it is a cool moment.
But QTEs suck the air out of the room. Bleeds aura.






