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merksoftworks
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Nor are the victims of preventable disease to be blamed for being born into countries without functioning governments. I'm happy to pay $37 as a U.S. taxpayer if it saves the life of someone I'll never meet.
merksoftworks
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
Very! there are unified headers and a C library that the maintainers have written as a wrapper around the library.

https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native

https://github.com/eliemichel/WebGPU-Cpp
merksoftworks
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
in oh-my-zsh you can use `take` to do what mkcd does.
merksoftworks
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Agreed. I wish it was easier to embed the compiler in my favorite languages and reflect on it. Quite excited bout Wesl: https://github.com/wgsl-tooling-wg/wesl-rs.
merksoftworks
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
I dug around on this web page and found outlinks to:

The "Stop Gangstalking Awareness Group", and especially this page about "Understanding Neuro Weapons." LaserPointerSafety has not evaluated the accuracy or usefulness of this group or their information. (Thanks to M.D. in July 2024 for bringing this to our attention.)

These are kind of kooky links: https://web.archive.org/web/20240509210655/https://stopgangs...
merksoftworks
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
This has been posted here a while ago but I'm pretty excited about bolt: https://github.com/Beariish/bolt - I've been looking for a statically typed language which could integrate well around something with a strong type system and good meta programming facilities for generating bindings. Bolt has the benefit of being a pretty small library with the downside of being nascent.
merksoftworks
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
What I will say about sycophancy - the recent rollback that OpenAI went through does appear like a clear attempt to push the envelope on dark patterns wrt AI Assistants. Engagement optimized assistants, pornography, and tooling are inherently misaligned with the productivity or wellbeing of their users in the same way that engagement maximized social media is inherently misaligned with the social wellbeing of it's users.
merksoftworks
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
This is a misquote - the two minutes of context around the content he was commenting cause it to make way more sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

He's right that to someone who's art is about capturing the world through a child's eyes, the dreamlike consonance of everyday life with simple fantasy, this is abominable.
merksoftworks
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
So, gingerol is anti inflammatory. Fun fact, so is allicin, which is produced by garlic. You get a lot of medicine that looks quite a bit like quack medicine - for instance people making garlic extract: https://www.allicin-c.com/?AFFID=549212

But then you end up with peer reviewed studies which indicate some anti-viral properties of garlic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7434784/
merksoftworks
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
This is the direction i've been theoretically harping about to all my friends, API first creative software will win out. After Effects has a decent JS api, Da Vinci Resolve has python and lua, you can script your way to a decent starting point with any of these tools. They even have well featured rollback for transactions committed during scripting. We need a generic MCP for the scripting environments in many desktop apps, screen capture for ones which take multimodal input.
merksoftworks
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
This is really cool but it's not portable to MacOs or aarm64 yet, and that kind of portability unfortunately is what appeals to me about an embeddable scripting language.
merksoftworks
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
My experience has been more like this: - Write small library as contract work. - Client vibe codes with it. Code doesn't work. - End up doing good faith assurance work to fix the vibe coded bug in the client code, the issue was not in my small library.

People are programming out on a limb - and blame goes to the library maintainer if the user lacks the fundamental skills to do troubleshooting.