<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@j2kun" class="u-url mention">@<span>j2kun</span></a></span> tabular representations, just big-ass arrays</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> Just curious, what is the core idea as to how to avoid pointer chasing?</p>

<p>if you look at what LLVM actually spends its time doing (and I assume probably also GCC?), it&#39;s pointer chasing. basic blocks are doubly linked lists, etc. for a while I&#39;ve had the idea that a from-scratch compiler re-implementation for GPGPUs might work out pretty well. and if not, it would at least be a couple years of super fun hacking. anyhow somehow I only now ran across this:</p><p>&quot;Compilation On The GPU? A Feasibility Study&quot;</p><p><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3528416.3530249" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/352</span><span class="invisible">8416.3530249</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/@dx" class="u-url mention">@<span>dx</span></a></span> agree! On my blog I have paragraphs with an outline, a bigger font and a different color, but they are just part of the text.</p>

<p>Look… </p><p>Mastodon/Fediverse is always going to be more complicated than a centralized app. But the thing is, it doesn&#39;t actually have to compete with them. Fediverse is here for people who actively want to pay a little price of learning for the freedom it offers.</p><p>And with that, the UX here is really not that bad. Probably could be better, and probably will. But UX is almost never so important to be a game changer.</p>

<p>Am I the only one who thinks &quot;Black Friday&quot; sounds like we&#39;re memorializing the date of some horrible massacre?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> of course you can flip the utility problem on its head: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113567984302152503" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@jwz/113567984</span><span class="invisible">302152503</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> here-in lies my main issue with crypto in principle (letting aside all the self-important neo-liberal double-think and grifting) - consuming energy so massively and pointlessly. </p><p>I feel similarly about generative AI - it&#39;s one thing to run intensive compute for drug-discovery or scientific modelling, it&#39;s quite another to do it so everyone&#39;s damned PowerPoint presentation can have a crappily rendered scene on every 3rd slide.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> People will abuse even the smallest amount of power 😪</p>