I don’t think I can continue with the current state of AI. It just generated 500 lines of code in no time, and none of it works. I don’t need a crystal ball to see myself debugging this for the next 2–3 days.
TIL: Mitochondria have their own small, circular DNA! 🤯
Once, I was arguing about operator precedence in C++ with my colleague. He was very confident about the precedence of one particular operator—I don’t remember exactly which one, but I think it was || versus &&. He claimed he could see the precedence clearly in his mind because he had printed a table, put it on the wall, and memorized it.
We decided to check online, and it turned out he was wrong, which left him very confused. As it turned out, the printout on his wall was incorrect. For a long time, if you Googled “C++ operator precedence,” the first link provided by Google led to a table that contained a mistake. I actually emailed the professor who had published the table to have it corrected.
I dreamt about my dad last night. It wasn’t explicit, but it was implied. I was at a café ordering food, and I ordered for two. After placing the food on a tray, I walked toward a table. While I was setting the dishes on the table, a stranger sat down next to me. I was expecting my dad to sit there. Instead of asking the stranger to leave, I quietly started moving the dishes to another table. That’s when I woke up.
I forgot to pay for my credit cards this month, buy buy $200 😦
The pancake lenses on the Oculus Quest 3 are so good. I’m never going back to Fresnel lenses.
Is AI curiosity a necessary trait to have?
It should be like this: using namespace std::chrono::literals;, but currently it is like this: using namespace std::chrono_literals;
After installing or updating a dynamic library, don’t forget to run ldconfig.
How to build llama.cpp on my laptop
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
cmake --build . --config Release -j
sudo cmake --install .
🌸 Fri, Dec 6, 2024 🌸
I think OpenAI made ChatGPT dumber, so they can put the not dumb model to the $200/month tier without doing anything.
🌸 Fri, Dec 6, 2024 🌸
Someone once said, “If something is free, you are the product.” Remember, you are always the product, whether you got it for free or paid for it.
What is going on with ChatGPT? It has suddenly become extremely stupid.
I never had a robots.txt file on my website—I simply forgot to add it. Apparently, for Google’s crawler, no robots.txt equals “don’t index.” 🤔 Ever since I added a robots.txt file, Google’s crawler has been hanging out on my website non-stop. Now, I can finally find my pages on Google! 🤔
Message to my future self. For some reason, Unreal Engine thinks my laptop screen is a High DPI screen and makes the UI huge. So, to address this issue, I need to go to the Editor Preferences and disable support for High DPI.
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: we have too much bureaucracy and inefficiency in the government, too many departments; let’s create another department to combat that. How about we simply fire people who do nothing?
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.
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 troubleshoot, but it’s challenging without access to the source code.
One of my main wishes is to have a simple 2D app, allowing for easier multitasking—like running YouTube on the side. Unfortunately, I don’t think Immersed will ever focus on this, as the immersive experience is part of its brand and purpose.
The controls in Immersed are also a bit finicky. I feel that what Meta has done with the controls in the Quest’s main lobby is far superior.
Yesterday, I discovered xpra. Setting it up on Linux was frustratingly complex, and my system crashed multiple times. Overall, I wasn’t impressed; the latency in Immersed is significantly better. Like Immersed, xpra also has no audio support on my system. It seems to require PulseAudio, which I switched away from a long time ago in favor of PipeWire. It’s possible that xpra does support PipeWire, but the Debian build appears to be compiled specifically with PulseAudio dependencies.
I even tried building xpra from source, but it required Cython version 3. In the end, I don’t think it’s worth pushing forward with xpra, as the high latency is a definite deal-breaker.
Did you know that if you want to get to ChatGPT, you can just type in the browser chat.com?
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.
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.
Standard Apple practice. Make everything suck and then unsuck things one by one and call it innovation.
Apple added a tool to convert DirectX shaders to Metal. 🤯 Metal can be used with C++. 🤯
https://developer.apple.com/games/game-porting-toolkit/
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 were so cumbersome, otherwise I would not have gotten the Tesla one. So far, my experience with Tesla insurance is A+.
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.
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