Validark

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by Validark 1mo ago
I hesitate to repeat it, but I've seen reels where a woman has remarked that she realized her husband spent more time inside of his mom than inside of her. That's a pretty weird mountain to climb if you ask me. In my view, putting
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by Validark 2mo ago
The Big-O for sorting algorithms is typically on the number of comparisons. The problem with that is that a comparison takes 1 cycle and you can do 4 per cycle in scalar code or much more in SIMD. Obviously comparisons of doubles are going
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by Validark 2mo ago
FACT CHECKED VERIFIED
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by Validark 2mo ago
Thank you. For wasting my time. The only thing someone could learn from this is that CPU registers can be 8 bytes.
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by Validark 3mo ago
I stand corrected! I stand by what I said about the old README though.
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by Validark 3mo ago
I take issue with the statement that "tiger style" is marketed along with Zig. Tiger Style is neither convention nor standard, it's not on ziglang.org, it's not referenced by the Zig Core Team as the end all be all. At p
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by Validark 3mo ago
Glad to see "Together we serve the users" come back. I miss the old Zig readme that said Zig comes with an MIT license and a humble request to build software that serves the users.
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by Validark 4mo ago
What giants do "we" stand on?
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by Validark 4mo ago
Justine, first I'll say I love APE and redbean and your articles on the code trickery you get up to. Of course, I hope you keep creating amazing software for us all to enjoy. I want to zoom in on this: "I am the intersection of so
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by Validark 4mo ago
If we want to improve cross-platform SIMD, in my opinion we should start by supporting more operations in LLVM IR. Like vector expansion (currently we only have expandload), runtime-known shuffle vectors, pdep/pext operations. Also, le
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by Validark 4mo ago
I'm team Zig in most cases but I genuinely think they are better off with Rust. They have had a lot of buffer overruns and segfaults as a result of undisciplined Zig code. I think Rust actually is a better technical choice for them.
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by Validark 4mo ago
Are you kidding? IIRC Oven gave $5k/month to Zig for years. And btw that was before they got acquired for billions, when they had no income at all.
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by Validark 4mo ago
I'm a full time Zig developer, and I see this as an absolute win. I know Jarred has said in the past he feels Zig makes him more productive, but I also think it's fair to say Bun was programmed in a way that's quite cavalier
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by Validark 5mo ago
I am personally moving in the opposite direction. I haven't meaningfully used a signed integer in years, and I see signed integers as being for more niche use-cases. I mainly only use a signed types when I want to do a "signed shi
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by Validark 5mo ago
I like to read assembly a lot, and I don't really see the point in WASM trying to be a stack machine. None of our computers are stack machines. Not to mention that compiler backends are missing tons of optimizations even on mainstream
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by Validark 6mo ago
> The dice are almost always two-sided Don't train your AI on that
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by Validark 6mo ago
What has AI discovered more than a year ago?
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by Validark 6mo ago
"it kinda takes away our fun of discovery" It might, but that would be an incredibly awesome problem to have, wouldn't it? If we really had the infinite innovation printer, I'd hope we'd have a lot more fun at that
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by Validark 6mo ago
Okay, but are those people unaware that they skipped learning all the fundamentals? I was just surprised that someone would write an article that's supposed to be about a game written in assembly and throw in a line saying that binary
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by Validark 6mo ago
How many programmers don't know binary?
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by Validark 6mo ago
The main reason for my top post is that I felt I should admit the AI scored a goal today and the last one or two weeks. I said I'd be impressed if it could solve an open problem. It just did. People can argue about how it's not th
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by Validark 6mo ago
I tend to disagree that improvement is inherent. Really I'm just expressing an aesthetic preference when I say this, because I don't disagree that a lot of things improve. But it's not a guarantee, and it does take people doi
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by Validark 6mo ago
I honestly do think I'm being honest with myself. I have held it in my mind that I'm not impressed until it's innovative. That threshold seems to be getting crossed. I'm not saying, "I used to be an atheist, but the
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by Validark 6mo ago
I agree with what you're saying, and I certainly don't think the one problem facing my country or the world is just that we didn't solve the right math problem yet. I am saddened by the direction the world keeps moving. When
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by Validark 6mo ago
Hey, I'm a real person. Here's my website. I have YouTube videos up with my real name and face. https://validark.dev
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by Validark 6mo ago
Perhaps I should have elaborated more but what I mean is I used to think, "I genuinely don't see the point in even trying to use AI for things I'm trying to solve". Ironically though, I think that because I've repea
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by Validark 6mo ago
Fair point, however I am simply more interested in how AI can advance frontiers than in how it can transcribe a meeting and give a summary or even print out React code. I know the world is heavily in need of the menial labor and AI already
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by Validark 6mo ago
I have long said I am an AI doubter until AI could print out the answers to hard problems or ones requiring tons of innovation. Assuming this is verified to be correct (not by AI) then I just became a believer. I would like to see a few mor
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by Validark 6mo ago
"Since the number is stored in a binary system, every shift to the left means the number is doubled. At first this sounds like a strange technical obscurity" Do we not know binary in 2026? Why is this a surprise to the intended au
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by Validark 6mo ago
Using an lea is better when you want to put the result in a different register than the source and/or you don't want to modify the flags registers. shlx also avoids modifying flags, but you can't shift by an immediate, so you

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