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Omar Rizwan @omar

"Such an object would usher in a revolution in computing"

The standard way to achieve what you're doing is to protect the share_ptr with a std::mutex. There is no easy way to provide a lock-free pointer to string. Such an object would usher in a revolution in computing.

LOL this revolution in computing would also destroy the job of a lot of senior engineers, but I don't think we'll see that happen anytime soon. –
kuroi neko
Feb 26, 2015 at 9:44

The standard way to achieve what you're doing is to protect the share_ptr with a std::mutex. There is no easy way to provide a lock-free pointer to string. Such an object would usher in a revolution in computing.

LOL this revolution in computing would also destroy the job of a lot of senior engineers, but I don't think we'll see that happen anytime soon. –
kuroi neko
Feb 26, 2015 at 9:44

Omar Rizwan @omar

-ffast-math

So what is fast-math?

It's a compiler flag or option that exists in many languages and compilers…

So what does it actually do? Well, as the name said, it makes your math faster.
That sounds great, we should definitely do that!

I mean, the whole point of fast-math is trading off speed with correctness. If
fast-math was to give always the correct results, it wouldn't be fast-math, it
would be the standard way of doing math.

— Mosé Giordano

ye olde "why don't they make the whole airplane out of
the black box"

i guess the retort is: if it's a tradeoff, why does "fast" get
to be in the name

like it's a tradeoff but only the upside gets in the name. i
mean maybe that's appropriate

could be hasty-math

So what is fast-math?

It's a compiler flag or option that exists in many languages and compilers…

So what does it actually do? Well, as the name said, it makes your math faster.
That sounds great, we should definitely do that!

I mean, the whole point of fast-math is trading off speed with correctness. If
fast-math was to give always the correct results, it wouldn't be fast-math, it
would be the standard way of doing math.

— Mosé Giordano

ye olde "why don't they make the whole airplane out of
the black box"

i guess the retort is: if it's a tradeoff, why does "fast" get
to be in the name

like it's a tradeoff but only the upside gets in the name. i
mean maybe that's appropriate

could be hasty-math

Omar Rizwan @omar

http://laysaroundtheworld.com

Omar Rizwan @omar

http://lafstern.org/matt/segmented.pdf

Omar Rizwan @omar

found this last night… good website. wikivoyage energy. hand-assembled information about a place https://www.nychinatown.org/canal2.html

Omar Rizwan @omar

currently compiling gcc

Omar Rizwan @omar

High-Resolution Timing on the
Raspberry Pi

Just to be clear, this post is about measuring the times at which events happen. Making things
happen at specific times is a completely separate (and much harder) problem.

High-Resolution Timing on the
Raspberry Pi

Just to be clear, this post is about measuring the times at which events happen. Making things
happen at specific times is a completely separate (and much harder) problem.

Omar Rizwan @omar

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-linux-vdso-and-clockgettime/

Omar Rizwan @omar

the wobbulation symbol and the Barker code…

synchronization symbol. Two synchronization symbols are proposed
to achieve frame synchronization for an OFDM, the wobbulation
symbol and the Barker code. These symbols are evaluated in AWGN

synchronization symbol. Two synchronization symbols are proposed
to achieve frame synchronization for an OFDM, the wobbulation
symbol and the Barker code. These symbols are evaluated in AWGN

Omar Rizwan @omar

metaevents

>the whole github pr thing where a state change has its own id, comments, permissions, etc. is so… rich. i feel like a ton of software is built on taking something that used to be a transient state change and giving it its own id
>like all those professional social media apps explode the "tweet" button into that sort of social process

i always think about this with Facebook and with Goodreads for some reason. those both have had feeds that are weirdly rich in these like meta-events
you see an event that your friend liked X, and then you can in turn Like the fact that they Liked X
and comment on it etc
a web app where there's just a single seed event at the beginning and everything on the site is just levels of metacommentary on that one event (likes, comments, retweets etc)

>the whole github pr thing where a state change has its own id, comments, permissions, etc. is so… rich. i feel like a ton of software is built on taking something that used to be a transient state change and giving it its own id
>like all those professional social media apps explode the "tweet" button into that sort of social process

i always think about this with Facebook and with Goodreads for some reason. those both have had feeds that are weirdly rich in these like meta-events
you see an event that your friend liked X, and then you can in turn Like the fact that they Liked X
and comment on it etc
a web app where there's just a single seed event at the beginning and everything on the site is just levels of metacommentary on that one event (likes, comments, retweets etc)

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