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2026-05-26 09:55 #

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2026-05-26 09:51 #

the key point is that matrix transpose serves as a prime example of the problem which appears trivial but nevertheless requires tremendous effort to be solved efficiently for CPU. Root causes of this unpleasant surprise can be traced to high memory latency and limited parallelization capabilities of CPUs. Neither of these issues is going to be alleviated in the future. — What it takes to transpose a matrix

2026-05-26 09:51 #
2026-05-26 09:50 #

Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively little activity between ~1995 and ~2015. — The Modern CLI Renaissance

2026-05-20 21:11 #

/me is listening to “They Say in Love” by The Tempers

2026-05-19 08:51 #

The old tram tracks of Paris (10 meters from the new tracks).

2026-05-18 20:44 #

I’m not against writing code with debuggability in mind, but implicit returns are an idiom in Rust. It feels so unnecessary to reduce the idiomatical adherence of the code due to a DAP gap, especially when the debugger on the other side of DAP supports logging return values. Just don’t make me do this. — Debugging Rust with Vim’s Termdebug

2026-05-18 10:53 #

vim and the quickfix list: jump to a location, search and replace in multiple files, and other shenanigans: One of the best blog post about the underrated Quickfix list that I use all the time. #vim

2026-05-18 10:30 #

Roswell is advertised as a solution, but it’s possibly the most un-Lispy tool in the ecosystem. It doesn’t download dependencies, or help you build them. — Deploying Common Lisp Scripts

2026-05-18 10:29 #

Engineering Design Optimization, by Joaquim R. R. A. Martins and Andrew Ning.