🌸 Wed, Nov 13, 2024 🌸

I have always had a hard time understanding why we need antivirus software. There is plenty of code that has bugs, and viruses exploit these bugs to compromise systems. Instead of writing more code to protect us from viruses, why not fix the bugs? Similarly, I do not understand: …

🌸 Wed, Nov 13, 2024 🌸

The neighbors dog 🐕 started barking before 5am 🕔 in the morning. 🤔 not sure what’s wrong with that dog. It may have some PTSD or even worse currently abused.

🌸 Wed, Nov 13, 2024 🌸

I am on a quest to find the perfect software for working from my Oculus Quest on my Linux laptop. So far, Immersed is the best option for me. However, I’m looking for more features and better functionality. For instance, audio is broken. I’ve tried different methods to troubl…

🌸 Wed, Nov 13, 2024 🌸

Did you know that if you want to get to ChatGPT, you can just type in the browser chat.com?

🌸 Wed, Nov 13, 2024 🌸

To start Bluetooth pairing on my Logitech OROCHI mouse, I need to press two side buttons and the DPI button simultaneously for 3 seconds until the DPI LED starts blinking.

🌸 Wed, Nov 13, 2024 🌸

Snap is an annoying feature when I am moving windows or adjusting guidelines in GIMP; sometimes I need it, but more often it is in my way. Probably invert the behavior and enable snapping by some hotkey (e.g., Shift), but by default never snap.

🌸 Mon, Nov 11, 2024 🌸

Standard Apple practice. Make everything suck and then unsuck things one by one and call it innovation.

🌸 Mon, Nov 11, 2024 🌸

Apple added a tool to convert DirectX shaders to Metal. 🤯 Metal can be used with C++. 🤯

https://developer.apple.com/games/game-porting-toolkit/

🌸 Mon, Nov 11, 2024 🌸

I ended up acquiring Tesla insurance. Had no idea how cheap and convenient it is. Took me about 20 minutes to get it, no waiting for 2 weeks, no talking to representatives, no paperwork; a flat rate of $340/month for two cars and two drivers. I am glad other insurance companies w…

🌸 Mon, Nov 11, 2024 🌸

When did auto insurance become such a headache? I got my first and only insurance in 2008, and never had any problems until now. 45 minutes listening to a purely produced MIDI music on the phone waiting for a representative.

🌸 Sun, Nov 10, 2024 🌸

There is an issue with connection reusing in curl multi, not sure if I am doing something wrong or if there is a bug in libcurl. Currently, I work around it by just disabling the connection reuse. curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, 1L);

🌸 Fri, Nov 8, 2024 🌸

I am working on a new project, and the default character return for source code files is set to the DOS style. That gave Emacs some measles disease, filling the screen with bright red ^M symbols. To investigate, I placed the cursor on ^M, pressed Alt+X, and ran `describe-ch…

🌸 Thu, Nov 7, 2024 🌸

What am I doing with my life? I make AI to write code, and spend tons of time debugging and reviewing the code. And AI also blames me for writing bad code. The world is upside down. What if I write messy code and AI reviews it and fixes bugs? Can we arrange that?

🌸 Wed, Nov 6, 2024 🌸

A Thought Experiment: Simplifying C++ Function Calls with Structs (C++20)

Ever dealt with a C++ function that has too many parameters, most of which are optional? Here’s an example:

auto llm(
    ChatCompletionsQuery,
    int npredict = 2048,
    float te<a href="post/1730913352.html">...</a>

🌸 Wed, Nov 6, 2024 🌸

Donald Trump won.

🌸 Wed, Nov 6, 2024 🌸

Note to future me. I take it back; I realized I have a smaller GPU, and it’s on 7.5. I want to use both. So, the command to build whisper.cpp on my laptop is.

CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH=compute_75 GGML_CUDA=1 make -j

🌸 Mon, Nov 4, 2024 🌸

Command to build whisper.cpp on my laptop. Note for future me.

CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH=compute_86 GGML_CUDA=1 make -j

🌸 Mon, Nov 4, 2024 🌸

Why do we call things headless, usually there is a head, but no body. Like headless Git, it has everything except the working tree. Or a headless VM, it has the brains but no visual representation. Maybe ‘faceless’ would be a more appropriate term?

🌸 Mon, Nov 4, 2024 🌸

Do you remember that I complained about Bank of America about a month ago? They sent an email that looked suspiciously scammy. And I needed to double-check if it was a legitimate email. They asked me to verify my personal data, my name, date of birth, and so on. I did it a month …

🌸 Fri, Nov 1, 2024 🌸

Not fond of that: std::numbers::pi_v<float>. Too long for simple humble π.

🌸 Wed, Oct 30, 2024 🌸

Time is hard. My approach to the problem. Internally, time is always in the UnixTime format, which might be a number of seconds, or if more resolution is needed, it might be in milliseconds, microseconds, or even nanoseconds. Sometimes we may have an integer overflow, so we can g…

🌸 Tue, Oct 29, 2024 🌸

I set tabs to be 3 spaces, so I can relatively easily detect if we have source code with mixed-up spaces vs tabs.

🌸 Tue, Oct 29, 2024 🌸

Yesterday, I pulled my back.

🌸 Sat, Oct 26, 2024 🌸

It took one week and one day without long COVID symptoms from last Friday until today, Saturday. Chest pain is starting now.

🌸 Sat, Oct 26, 2024 🌸

My sense of smell is slowly returning. Initially, I lost my sense of smell due to COVID, and subsequently, long COVID. I thought it was not a big deal, mostly I missed the smell of coffee, but it’s nice to be able to smell familiar smells of the house when I return home, or the c…

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