🌸 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…

🌸 Sat, Oct 26, 2024 🌸

Developers love to latch onto the latest “magic bullet” solutions—object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven techniques, design patterns, test-driven development, continuous integration, continuous deployment, memory safety, rapid development, extreme prog…

🌸 Fri, Oct 25, 2024 🌸

I asked ChatGPT to generate a productivity mantra based on the Sith Code:

1. “Tasks are a lie.”
   Challenge their necessity; reject pointless obligation.

2. “If you can avoid a task, avoid it.”
   Value your time and energy as precious resources.

3. **“If avoi…

🌸 Fri, Oct 25, 2024 🌸

I wish I could quit. Can someone hire me? I am so frustrated with SVN; simple things like getting the three dots diff between branches turn into impossible tasks.

🌸 Fri, Oct 25, 2024 🌸

I don’t use perfect forwarding often and always forget to put Args std::forward<Args>(args)... Just a reminder for the future me.

template<typename T, typename... Args>
std::unique_ptr<T> make_unique(Args&&... args)
{
    return std::unique_ptr<T>(
        <a href="post/1729868660.html">...</a>

🌸 Thu, Oct 24, 2024 🌸

DejaVu Sans Mono is the best mono font. I periodically try to jump from it, but I cannot find a better font.

🌸 Thu, Oct 24, 2024 🌸

After $260, the washing machine is fixed.

🌸 Thu, Oct 24, 2024 🌸

I need to slow down, just record ideas and focus on my game.

🌸 Wed, Oct 23, 2024 🌸

With AI-assisted code, I’ve been wondering what’s more optimal and also more enjoyable. On one hand, it feels great when AI generates code that, with just a couple of tweaks, works well enough for me to start iterating. But it often misses edge cases, which can lead to a lot of f…

🌸 Mon, Oct 21, 2024 🌸

The washing machine broke. 😦

🌸 Sun, Oct 20, 2024 🌸

Note: alpha = opacity; 1 is equivalent to full opacity, 0 is fully transparent.

🌸 Thu, Oct 17, 2024 🌸

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy

I always wanted to be happy my way, but maybe Leo is right.

🌸 Thu, Oct 17, 2024 🌸

Found on YouTube a good tune; I thought that song was a banger. I checked it out, and it had 50 views. Wait a minute; no way. I got a bit suspicious; somebody just reposted the song, and the official version has 500,000 views. For a moment, I thought I found a diamond in the roug…

🌸 Thu, Oct 17, 2024 🌸

OMG! Sony! How come X is accept and O is cancel?!

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