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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • It’s a risk management strategy where you only do checks afterwards.

    “Trust” means that you don’t make processes wait on passing checks before proceeding, because that would be expensive and/or slow.

    “Verify” means that you have a separate process that comes through and runs checks afterwards, maybe on only some of the things you trusted, to catch issues.

    It’s ideal when you have high-volume and/or low-latency processes where failures are low stakes but you still want to catch systemic issues eventually.

    It’s related to the idea that “the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero”.



  • For the first part, I was like, yeah, that’s pretty much how all C++ GUIs work: a markup file describes the structure, a source file controls the behavior, and a special compiler generates more C++ code based on the markup file to act as glue.

    That’s all pretty standard, and it’s annoying, but I didn’t really get why they were making such a big deal out of it.

    Missing documentation is also annoying but not uncommon for internal widgets.

    What really elevates this from simply annoying to transcendentally bad, is the lack of error messages, the undocumented requirements that resource IDs be sequential, and the mandatory IDE plugin. That’s all unforgivable.




  • I assume that they mean that OpenCL, which is a traditional GPGPU language, is a very restrictive subset of either C or C++ (both are options) plus some annotations.

    In fact, OpenCL toolchains already use the Clang frontend and the LLVM backend, so the experience of using and compiling them is very close to C++.

    The talk mentions all of this; it says that a benefit of using full C++ on the GPU over using OpenCL is that you don’t have to deal with all the annoying restrictions and annotations.


  • I received an actual email requesting a donation from the “Harris Victory Fund” two hours ago.

    Here’s the fine print from the email on where the money would go:

    The first $41,300/$15,000 from a person/multicandidate committee (“PAC”) will be allocated to the DNC. The next $3,300/$5,000 from a person/PAC will be allocated to Harris for President’s Recount Account. The next $510,000/$255,000 from a person/PAC will be split equally among the Democratic state parties from these states: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY. Any additional funds will be allocated to the DNC, subject to applicable contribution limits.










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    5 months ago

    IMO the ideal thing to do for hamburgers, mac and cheese, and grilled cheeses (the three foods that I would consider using American cheese for) is this:

    Half american cheese for meltiness, half gruyere or other aged flavorful cheese for flavor.

    A lot of modern recipes suggest that approach and it has worked well for me.