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Google AI claiming there is 1 P in the name Bryan.

A reply window for the previous post in this thread, claiming that the original is in Greek, and offering to translate my post to greek.

More Node.js FFI benchmark showing even better perf gains.

Latest benchmark results from a PR I'm working on for Node.js FFI improvements. Anywhere from ~100% to ~1000% improvement on each of the benchmarks (except one outlier).

A slack message from me, replying to someone else. The other person said "It can absorb real humans." and I replied with "Please don't do this. It's completely unsettling."

confidence improvement accuracy (*) (**) (***)
ffi/add-f64.js n=10000000 *** 40.50 % ±1.43% ±1.91% ±2.51%
ffi/add-i32.js n=10000000 *** 37.66 % ±1.05% ±1.41% ±1.84%
ffi/getpid.js n=10000000 *** 9.04 % ±0.58% ±0.77% ±1.00%
ffi/many-args.js n=10000000 *** -6.27 % ±0.49% ±0.65% ±0.84%
ffi/pointer-bigint.js n=10000000 *** 69.83 % ±0.93% ±1.24% ±1.62%
ffi/sum-buffer.js n=1000000 size=1024 *** 23.58 % ±0.40% ±0.53% ±0.69%
ffi/sum-buffer.js n=1000000 size=16384 *** 3.71 % ±0.77% ±1.03% ±1.34%
ffi/sum-buffer.js n=1000000 size=64 *** 36.93 % ±0.56% ±0.74% ±0.96%

Me approving a PR apparently 4 times on GitHub.

Menu from The Breakfast Club, in London, UK

Menu for Cask & Craft, a Detroit airport bar.

My backyard, in the Detroit suburbs. It's snowing.

A snowy street in suburban Michigan, pic taken from passenger seat.

The album cover for "Rust Never Sleeps" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

A latte in a Duralex glass. Orange juice in the background.

Excerpt from Wired article:

It’s unclear how the literary world will respond to the terms of the settlement. Since this was an “opt-out” class action, authors who are eligible but dissatisfied with the terms will be able to request exclusion to file their own lawsuits. Notably, the plaintiffs filed a motion today to keep the “opt-out threshold” confidential, which means that the public will not have access to the exact number of class members who would need to opt out for the settlement to be terminated.

https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-authorship.pdf (Section 306)

A tree in my backyard that I'm failing at identifying.

My patio with some kids toys and a play structure behind it

Sign for "Gerrit's High Pressure Car Wash: Do It Yourself"

A still from Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

Some notes on "New Media <-> Creativity Systems" from Ted Nelson circa 1965, taken from the Internet Archive.

A page from "Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice" comparing space occupied by code versus time spent in code.

Canadian Alternative 90's and 00's

Playlist on Spotify

An ad for Pizza Pizza, a Canadian pizza chain. Offers 25% off pizza in response to tariffs, calling it the "reverse tariff".

Me, drinking a Tim Hortons large double double, with a Canada 150 t shirt, and a look on my face that's intended to say "fuck off, Donald".

A Tim Hortons large coffee cup with the roll up the rim campaign livery.

Screenshot of benchmark results of a semver implementation I'm working on.

summary
fast-semver satisfies ^1.2.3
21.4x faster than @vltpkg/semver satisifies ^1.2.3
28.57x faster than node-semver satisfies ^1.2.3

The book "Approachable Open Source", in my hand.

$const [MAJOR, MINOR] = process.versions.node.split('.').map(Number) let testCommand = 'node --test' if ( MAJOR >= 22 || (MAJOR === 20 && MINOR >= 1) || (MAJOR === 18 && MINOR >= 17) ) { testCommand = 'node --experimental-test-coverage --test' } else if ( MAJOR >= 20 || (MAJOR === 18 && MINOR >= 1) ) { testCommand = 'node --test' } else if (MAJOR >= 18) { testCommand = 'node_modules/.bin/node--test' } else { console.error('Node.js 18 or higher is required.') process.exit(1) } const { spawn } = require('child_process') spawn(testCommand, { shell: true, stdio: 'inherit' })$