Unfortunately many new open source projects have performance benchmarks that seem to be heritage of Apple marketing.

Zed editor is a great example of this. There's so many moving parts missing here that I could write a book just listing those one by one ;-) This is objectively marketing propaganda because absolute timing values without context and environment do not have any other meaning than giving preferred impression.

Examples of reasonable ways to analyze performance can be found from e.g. https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf.

I guess I’ve activated to post random stories about #vim lately ;-) There’s so much hate for it, especially from some members #neovim community, so I just want to show that there is also other side of the story. In other words, there are people who pick “just” Vim purely based on technical advantages.

It is a bit over year since Bram Moolenaar died so I guess this is also good timing in that sense (RIP) ;-) Remembering that by migrating my vim files to vim9script 🍾

Just learned that #Servo is independent project these days because #Mozilla laid off all of its staff in 2020. #Rust was originally developed specifically for this project. So I guess we have now three competitive web engines instead of two: #Gecko, Servo and #WebKit. servo.org #rustlang

On #macOS, I’ve found that best way for me to manage #vim installation specifically is to just download the dmg and install pkg given that it auto-updates and contains all the command-line versions (instead of using homebrew or macports):

$ ls -1 /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin
gview
gvim
gvimdiff
gvimtutor
mview
mvim
mvimdiff
mvimtutor
view
vim
vimdiff
vimtutor
xxd

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bcs_orvo9j4

When comparing micro-architectures in general so that it makes any possible sense, at minimum comparative analysis of advantages of disadvantages would be appropriate.

Not sure if I dare to say this but what a load of nonsense.

Just to name an example, the standard for RISC-V with MMU is unfinished and ambiguous to the point that how a SiFive CPU's do stuff is more of a guideline than the specs. The commercial weight if AFAIK more in the compute core area where you just "fork" the hardware description and make it your own.

Not slandering RISC-V per se, I actually like many thing in that ISA, just saying that it is not *even* comparative to x86 and ARM at this point of time. E.g. OpenMIPS would have been (if there had been any analysis of other ISA's than x86).

https://hackaday.com/2024/03/21/why-x86-needs-to-die/

Interactive external commands is also one reason that made me return back to regular #vim, in addition to working remotes out of the box and the fact that I use only a few plugins, which carry out somewhat trivial tasks where e.g. performance is not a factor.

Interactive external commands is a useful feature from time to time because it allows to leverage privileges for an external command.

For example, this will result an error in #neovim instead of a password prompt: :r !sudo ls.

The next time you're worried that you're not doing great at your job, just remember that someone probably made six figures to change HBO to HBO Max to Max.

Just published the #ASG2024 schedule! Lots of good stuff, and at least one terrible talk that nobody should attend.

Early bird tickets are also still available - but not for long - go grab them while they last!

https://all-systems-go.io/

Another step forward towards making the compiler omniscient:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-overflow-idiom-exclusion/80093
(Excluding "test for overflow" code patterns when using the unexpected overflow checker in Clang.)

Built a site with a PDF resume (see /about) using Jekyll and Typst:

https://jarkko.codeberg.page/

Woodpecker CI puts everything together for every push building both site and the resume:

https://codeberg.org/jarkko/pages/src/branch/main/.woodpecker.yml

And resume made with Typst is a separate project, which can be updated independently while publication is taken care by the site project: https://codeberg.org/jarkko/resume

This is convenient…

#codeberg #woodpecker

I just realized that #vim has these in the distribution:

❯ ls -1 /usr/share/vim/vim91/pack/dist/opt/
cfilter
comment
dvorak
editexisting
editorconfig
justify
matchit
shellmenu
swapmouse
termdebug

Thus, I can shrink my plugin list a bit:

diff --git a/.vimrc b/.vimrc
index a66c03b..383ea80 100644
--- a/.vimrc
+++ b/.vimrc
@@ -35,13 +35,14 @@ nnoremap <silent> <C-l> :nohl<C-R>=has('diff')?'<Bar>diffupdate':''<CR><CR><C-L>
 nnoremap <silent> <leader>lcd :lcd %:p:h<CR>:pwd<CR>
 nnoremap <silent> <leader>n :set number!<CR>
 
+packadd! comment
+packadd! editorconfig
+
 if !empty(globpath(&rtp, 'autoload/plug.vim'))
   call plug#begin()
   Plug 'ap/vim-buftabline', { 'as': 'buftabline' }
   Plug 'catppuccin/vim', { 'as': 'catppuccin' }
-  Plug 'editorconfig/editorconfig-vim', { 'as': 'editorconfig' }
   Plug 'kaarmu/typst.vim', { 'as': 'typst' }
-  Plug 'tpope/vim-commentary', { 'as': 'commentary' }
   Plug 'vim-scripts/git_patch_tags.vim', { 'as': 'git_patch_tags' }
   call plug#end()
 endif

Leaving only:

if !empty(globpath(&rtp, 'autoload/plug.vim'))
  call plug#begin()
  Plug 'ap/vim-buftabline', { 'as': 'buftabline' }
  Plug 'catppuccin/vim', { 'as': 'catppuccin' }
  Plug 'kaarmu/typst.vim', { 'as': 'typst' }
  Plug 'vim-scripts/git_patch_tags.vim', { 'as': 'git_patch_tags' }
  call plug#end()
endif

#holiday activities

I think #hmac #encryption series for #TPM went well, and also think that enabling it by default only for x86-64 at first was the right call. The recent issue on power architecture proved it. It is better increase scope per request by architectures instead. #linux #kernel

holiday activities

I use ctags myself but if I’d really wanted to use LSP with kernel tree I’d put this running to a tmux pane:

echo vmlinux | entr scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py

In English: every time vmlinux changes, compile_commands.json will change.

For more information, see https://eradman.com/entrproject/.

Apple has committed to allowing rivals to access the 'tap and go’ technology of iPhones.

Today’s decision opens up competition.

From now on, competitors will be able to effectively compete with Apple Pay for mobile payments using iPhone in shops.

Read more: https://europa.eu/!tmg37y

#EU4Consumers #EU

you gained +5 windows xp

print the initial commit ID: git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD #git

LOL, took time and learnt to use #vim's internal spell checker after using it since 1998. Thought that I should do it since my worst side at #LKML is that I have misspelling in every second #email.

I also have minor dyslexia so reading those emails before sending might not help.

#linux #kernel

In an art exhibition of some sort