David will not rest until people realize it's Aspire not .NET Aspire

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I'd love to rack and stack a server in a DC someday

2 months on Math Academy and I've made it to Diamond League

I've got an agent in a loop optimizing a renderer with the goal to minimize frame times (and tests to measure). It got times down from 88ms to 2ms and allocations down from ~150K to 500. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This is exactly why agent psychosis is a big fucking problem. As an experiment, I rewrote the Ghostty core render state in Go, with access to identically laid out data structures as Ghostty and the exact same validation tests. I made a purposely naive renderer (simple, correct, but slow). 88ms per frame with 150,000 allocations (horrendous, lol)! I then kickstarted a Ralph loop to bring the frame times down. I told it it can't modify input data structures or the public API or tests (they're correct), but it can do anything else it wants. It got to work. It has worked for about 4 hours. I've spent around $350 on this experiment so far. The results? 88ms => 1.5ms 150K allocs => ~500 allocs Incredible right? Nope. My hand-written renderer I ported has frame times (same benchmark) of ~20us (0.020ms) and 0 allocations in the update path. This is the problem with psychosis and lacking systems understanding. If you don't understand the system, you're going to accept that this is an incredible result. If you understand the system, you'll see better solutions immediately and can do roughly 75x better on throughput. The people who blindly trust agent output are in the former camp. They're sheeple, overdrinking from a fountain of mediocrity. Standard disclaimer: I use AI all the time. I like AI. The point I'm making is to not blindly accept results. Think. Analyze. Learn.

Finally pulled the trigger on a kindle and I absolutely love it. Should have gotten one ages ago

Another great Madison Systems paper discussion!

Form was sloppy but finally hit the 405 deadlift

This is the way. It's Saturday 7:20am and I've already finished my daily Math Academy goal.

I really like @ReadwiseReader's chat feature to quickly ask questions about a passage

3 more days, get to reading!

In the long run, the world rewards quality. In the short run, keep that in mind. Do the harder thing today to make tomorrow easier.

I'm very impressed by the digital electronics and computer architecture course by @pikuma. Great educator.

Great take. The issues causing Bun to switch to Rust have much to do with Bun than Zig. People give languages too much credit. You can write wonderful or terrible software in any language!

Building a computer from first principals