This behavior should be illegal. The “invest-in-your-own-sales” scheme that NVIDIA is using is disgusting. Where are the regulators? It is a failure of the West and the price signal of markets simply doesn’t exist. Market self-regulation doesn’t exist. In my life at least 3

At 28,000 MB/s, the first PCIe Gen 6 SSD is officially faster than DDR4 RAM. At 28,000 MB/s read bandwidth, it surpasses the theoretical maximum of single-channel DDR4-3200 memory (25.6 GB/s).

Languages for machines are different from languages for humans. A whole set of tools need to be built. The key issue is verification: by humans (requiring languages for humans?) or buy automated verification tools?

Don’t remember where I read this but I like it: Bandwidth can be bought but latency must be earned.

In Italy yesterday, our Senate passed a law that will essentially make it illegal to criticize Israel. This is how bad it is. Zionist lobbies should be dismantled everywhere by stating the truth: they are foreign nation lobbies buying national representatives, and most nations

The world is built by people who focused on one pursuit longer than anyone else thought was sane.

Math scales better than infrastructure. Be smart, use TLA+ as a design accelerator! One of the purest intellectual pleasures is finding a way to simplify and cut out complexity. TLA+ is a thinking tool that lets you do that.

The feedback loop is essential. It is also what brings joy to the craftsman: the many small decisions make the artist feel that his work is emerging like a sculpture.

The operating system

photonlibos.github.io/blog/stackful-… I think this is valid only if you fix semantics. What happens if you add colored routines? Blue: can call red and blue and can be suspended. Red: can call only red (standard routine). Now whenever you switch, the stack is empty; it is used for

Experienced developers are more important than ever. When writing specifications, focus heavily on data formats; consider memory as a storage medium just like disk. This is nothing new; it’s a key recommendation that Mike Acton suggests. Document your data formats both in

I’m now a father for the first time.

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

Slug font rendering algorithm is in public domain! Today software world is celebrating! I already see posts of people implementing it left and right. Today is a good day!

This is great news for text rendering use cases.

I have a theory about AI that nobody is talking about: It’s going to make smart people way smarter and dumb people way dumber

also Mike Acton "style" has been embedded. 😂 Mike Acton's Rating: 7/10 — "This person clearly thinks about the machine. There are real problems, but the instincts are right." He'd open with something like: "Most C++ codebases I see, the programmer is writing for themselves.

great talk on concurrency at a low level from Jane Street: youtube.com/watch?v=tND-wB… (Cc Valentin Ignatev)