<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@wren6991" class="u-url mention">@<span>wren6991</span></a></span> pssst, wanna write some Amaranth?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> took me years to figure out what it actually meant</p>

<p>PSA: Tempered glass should not be made into sheets!</p><p>You think it&#39;s &quot;pretty&quot; and &quot;aesthetic&quot;, but it only stays a sheet when it&#39;s in extreme distress. This is what REAL tempered glass looks like, relaxed and stress free:</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@j2kun" class="u-url mention">@<span>j2kun</span></a></span> could be a totally stupid idea, I don&#39;t know! I&#39;m not even a GPU programmer. I just know that in theory there&#39;s a huge amount of available parallelism in many compiler phases.</p>

<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>