A funny thing about the like live-chain-of-thought stuff for chatgpt and gemini deep research is that you can click through and be like "ah, I see, you're spending several minutes struggling with listing the files in the link to a github repo subdirectory I put in the prompt".

I think a lot of people's mental model of C compilers is "good at turning easy to analyze slow code into fast code" but a more accurate model is "good at turning easy to analyze slow code (in the style written at companies that employ C compiler maintainers) into fast code"

Unrelated to any ongoing ISO stuff, just a general comment: I think that like 99% of C/C++ could be specified formally if people really wanted; but provenance + the type system + the object model are in the last 1%.

MLIR devs working under llvm/:

A screwy thing about the ptx memory model is that it's so hardware-inflected that some things that are complicated in CPU-land end up being actually fairly simple again.

heartbreaking dot jpeg

"Only check this box on computers you trust"? I am at best in a barely maintained détente with any computer I possess