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Nicolas B. Pierron retweeted
Unlock the power of Nixpkgs overlays! 🌟 Learn best practices and advanced techniques with Jacek Galowicz’s comprehensive guide. Don’t miss out on practical tips that can transform your NixOS experience. Read now nixcademy.com/posts/masterin… #NixOS #DevOps #TechTips
Path finding #algorithms, matrix multiplication, and softmax #function are just code.
#AI is only a set of inputs tuned to favor specific outputs.
```
$ ping $(firefox --version | tr -d ' [[:alpha:]]')
PING 127.0 (127.0.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms
```
Soon, the version 127.0.1 … 😉
Now that the UF2 Batch Flasher seems functional, it is finally time to resume the work on this other pet project.
nbp.name/projects/uf2-batch-…
github.com/nbp/uf2-batch-fla…
ChatGPT> One possible creative term for a chaotic or ineffective merging of AI into various aspects of life could be "technofuffle". This playful and whimsical word combines techno, referring to technology, with fuffle, a colloquial term for a disorderly or confused situation.
Nicolas B. Pierron retweeted
Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-e… by @Ameobea10
Nicolas B. Pierron retweeted
I think @hillelogram makes a very important point in xitter.cf/hillelogram/status/159…: dynamically typed languages seem increasingly uninterested in exploring the things that they can do that statically typed languages can't. /1
I have a new newsletter out!
"I am disappointed by dynamic typing"
While "dynamic types" is most often presented as "you don't have a typechecker", I'm more interested in runtime program modification. Unfortunately, that hasn't been done very much.
buttondown.email/hillelwayne…
Nicolas B. Pierron retweeted
re-read the copy-and-patch paper and it's still very nice, being only marginally more runtime effort than a template jit (with a complex pre-build step for the stencils) but Pretty Good output rules arxiv.org/abs/2011.13127
If you are using @FirefoxNightly and enjoy using keyboards more than mouses, then type these 2 characters `> ` in your address bar.
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I'm devastated by the news that my mentor @EelcoVisser has passed away unexpectedly. He was my master's and PhD supervisor (the Nix project wouldn't exist without him). Above all he was a wonderful person, and this is a terrible loss to everybody who knew him.
Nicolas B. Pierron retweeted
Lineiform, a meta-JIT library for Rust interpreters
blog.redvice.org/2022/lineif…
This is an awesome feature that I have been waiting for! bugzil.la/1578220
Not every browser is based on Chrome / v8!
This is a work-around for those who wish to stay with @Firefox, as well as an advocacy letter for others who have not even tested their code in Firefox.
@FirefoxNightly (98) now includes support for blackboxing lines. The feature is currently behind the pref flag "devtools.debugger.features.blackbox-lines". It could be useful for skipping loops or specific functions within code. Let us know what you think.
My policy for this twitter account is to have more followers than tweets.
To get more notification about future streams or videos about #ReverseEngineerSpidermonkey , follow @_BackToTheCode_ account.
Next stream, this Friday at 6pm CET on twitch.tv/BackToTheCode.
One month ago was the first stream of #ReverseEngineerSpidermonkey at twitch.tv/BackToTheCode.
Let's do it again this Friday at 6pm CET with the rest of LifoAlloc, and figure out why the free function of this allocator is empty.
Following @codehag 's footsteps with #CompilerCompiler, this Firday 6pm CEST would be the first #ReverseEngineerSpidermonkey stream at twitch.tv/BackToTheCode.
On the topic, the LifoAlloc allocator used to speed-up large number of allocations while reclaiming the memory quickly.
What could be better than the JavaScript addition to explain Inline Caches?
I would be presenting the Principles of Just-In-Time compilers at the JavaScript online conference of @webdirections.
The schedule is available at webdirections.org/globalscop… (20% off with "nicolassentme")
ALT Control Flow Graph of the AddOperation function of SpiderMonkey. This highlights many blocks of code are present in the function. 3 to handle Integer math, 4 to convert both operands to primitive types, 13 to concatenate strings, 3 to convert operands to numbers, 3 to add BigInt numbers and a final one to add floating point numbers.
Slides and transcript of this talk are available at nbp.github.io/slides/GlobalS….
This content was used as a prompter when recording the presentation.
Here are the slides: nbp.github.io/slides/FOSDEM/…
This presentation was interleaved with multiple demo, and the commands for running these demo are in the notes of the slides (N key)
At @fosdem 2015 I saw a @nixos_org talk from @nbpname & remember thinking, "YES! THIS IS WHAT I WANT!"
I've regularly read articles about it since but had never tried it. (Life, etc?)
But with @dave_universetf & everybody raving about it lately, I finally installed it. Yes: ❤️!
Nicolas B. Pierron retweeted
Reverse-execution debugging in QEMU with gdb is landing. Very cool.
mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@…
(Based on VM snapshots, like VMWare's stuff, so kinda slow I imagine.)
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La seule touche de couleur sur mon clavier démontre mon amour du Lafayette.
Je remercierais jamais assez @fabi1cazenave pour la révolution que ça a été pour moi
