Software engineer with a focus on embedded and HPC applications.

Joined April 2009
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Normalise πŸ‘ D&Ds πŸ‘ roles πŸ‘ for πŸ‘ Software πŸ‘ Engineers πŸ‘ Software Priest: Excels at fixing bugs and recovering lost data from backups Software Barbarian: Rewrites the whole project while enraged Software Rogue: Steals the best JIRA tasks Software Wizard: Conjures the cleverest code on demand Software Shaman: Installs telemetry and monitoring totems to keep the infrastructure healthy Software Ranger: Can fix bugs via remote or just from looking at logs
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"64 bits. 32 bits. 16 bits. 8 bits! 4 bits! 2 BITS! ONE BIT! HALF BIT! QUARTER BIT! THEEEE WRIIIST GAAAAAAAAAAME!!!" Episode 113: Tiger Electronic Video Games
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The Bathrobe rants. Here they are. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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It's done. My longest and most difficult article. I studied CS for 4 years. I used Functional Programming in the industry for 10 years. All, so that the essence of my knowledge manifested itself in The Most Elegant Configuration Language. Link in replies
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Visualization of Cache-Optimized Matrix Multiplication
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9 May 2024
What is the difference between an LLM and an embedding model? πŸ€– LLMs: take a string as an input and output a string by predicting the next token. πŸ€– Embedding models:Β take an input andΒ return a list of floats (embeddings),Β which are theΒ numerical representation of the input.
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23 Dec 2024
Today I learned the city of Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free for anyone to download πŸ‘€

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I can't believe I finally get to say this. SDL3 is officially ABI locked! We will _add_ new things but not _change_ or _remove_ what's there, starting right now. Which means it's safe to start migrating your games to it, starting today! github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/re…
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Crowdstrike Analysis: It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C language. Since I am a professional C programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.
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4 Jun 2024
Microsoft Excel championships is peak human performance
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21 Jan 2024
First videos of the atmospheric entry of asteroid #Sar2736 now coming in. Augustusplatz Live Cam, Leipzig, Germany.
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GodotOS, an operating system interface created entirely in Godot! Browse folders, edit text files, view images, play games, and more in one cohesive polished interface that can even be used on the web popcar2.itch.io/godotos
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Doom in Space Just in time for its 30th anniversary, on the 28th Doom ran on ESA's OPS-SAT satellite I'm so grateful I got to help with this experiment and with expertise from Georges LabrΓ¨che and great work from Marcin Jasiukowicz this became a reality github.com/olafurw/opssat-do…
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New MISRA guidelines for C have been released! πŸŽ‰ misra.org.uk/misra-cpp2023-r… The last ones were for C 03, the new ones are for C 17. It has been an honor to be able to contribute. I hope you like them! Looking forward to your feedback!

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Programing Languages: you pass a parameter X to a function by value or by reference. C :
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DOS Subsystem for Linux integrates a real Linux environment into MS-DOS systems, allowing users to make use of both DOS and Linux applications from the DOS command prompt. github.com/haileys/doslinux
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21 Sep 2023
Holy cow. Everything you ever needed to learn about Makefiles, in one place. makefiletutorial.com/
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We care about you.
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26 Apr 2023
This is one of the most incredible demo of distributed systems you are ever going to see, promise 🀯🀯🀯 youtu.be/w3WYdYyjek4?t=3180 (timestamp 53:00)

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16 Mar 2023
This is real life sound visualization. 449 Hz, higher frequencies, then some jazz and then some rock are pushed into a Ruben's tube with propane to show standing waves and other configurations. [πŸ“Ή Jared Fikling: buff.ly/3s2kL1r]
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