tman's random youtube archive

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This was a presentation I gave to the University of Twente in early 2021. It's a case study of how simple, straightforward coding can turn several thousand lines of code and 10's of seconds of runtime into a few dozen lines of code and a sub-second runtime. It attempts to provide concrete examples of why software is often an order of magnitude (or more) slower than it should be.

Casey Muratori giving his thoughts on smart-pointers, RAII, OOP, briefly the Rust borrow checker etc, and why you should avoid them and instead focus on learning and moving to the next stage of programming; "Grouped element thinking and systems", which he refers to as N+1.

Casey also talks about ZII (Zero Is Initialization) and stubs as alternative ways of memory structure and error handling (Referred to as N+2 in the stream).

Source clip from: watch?v=f4ioc8-lDc0 @ 1:13:27

Frankly, I find this clip to have been the second most important advice on programming I ever saw.

Everyone is fighting AI slop by banning words. "No em dashes." "Stop saying delve." It does not work - and a viral thread claimed the real fix is a writing standard built for aircraft mechanics in 1986.

So I dug through ASD-STE100 (all 434 pages of it), distilled its rules into an agent skill and a linter, and ran the test nobody had run: 6 real writing tasks x 4 conditions x 2 models.

The skill, the linter, and every number from this video: https://github.com/woosal1337/blog/tree/main/videos/ep01-the-cure-for-ai-slop

The spec (free): https://asd-ste100.org

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Here are two new singles featuring Miku, continuing from the previous release.

以前の続きとして制作した、ミクを使ったシングル曲2曲です。

How to use diodes, schottky diodes and P-FETs to protect your circuits from reversed voltage/power connections.

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Part 1 of three videos examining some interesting linguistic properties of English.

As a quick correction, at timestamp 6:00, Brythonic languages were spoken in the British Isles at the time. Old Saxon was one of the languages the Romans encountered in their conquest of Northern Germany, at the time Germania Magna.

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