Pradeep Gowda btbytes

Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator

Making performant dynamic manual memory management in C feel almost like garbage collection.

RYAN FLEURY

SEP 24, 2022

In every instance when I’ve said that I prefer to write my software in C, the response is—normally—raised eyebrows. Several dominant memes in the programming world make my position unpopular, and thus uncommon to find. I regularly hear, “why would you write new code in an unsafe systems language?”, “performance isn’t everything!”, and perhaps the most common, “why subject yourself to the requirement of manually managing memory?”.

The Second Email

TheSecond.Email is an email that is online when you are online.

As a user, I want to receive email only when I'm online.

What if we can provide an email address to the user that is active ONLY when the user is online and expecting an email?

When the user is online (ie., logged into the webpage offering this service), the email is delivered to their inbox, ie., the web page they are on.

Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again

To setup your computer to work with *.test domains, e.g. project.test, awesome.test and so on, without having to add to your hosts file each time.

Requirements

Homebrew
Mountain Lion -> High Sierra

Install

Prerequisites

API key for OpenAI.
API key for Picovoice
API key for ElevenLabs
mpg123 installed
node 18+

Directions

git clone https://gist.github.com/ericlewis/ccd3f0b7a17fcbe2473121a473082c8f
edit .env with your keys

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The Novice's LLM Training Guide

->Written by Alpin<- ->Inspired by /hdg/'s LoRA train rentry<- !!!warning This guide is being slowly updated. We've already moved to the axolotl trainer.

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Doing code review and rewrite using ChatGPT

I took the following code and asked Google Bard to convert it to text.

I then used ChatGPT to rewrite it using the following prompt:

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name make danluu.com readable
	// @namespace https://www.btbytes.com/
	// @version 2024-01-30
	// @description make danluu.com readable
	// @author Pradeep Gowda
	// @match https://danluu.com/*
	// @icon data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==
	// @grant none
	// ==/UserScript==

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import zipfile
	import sys
	import re
	import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

	namespaces = {
	'a': 'http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main',
	'r': 'http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships',

	#r "nuget:Microsoft.ML"
	#r "nuget:Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime"
	#r "nuget:Microsoft.ML.OnnxTransformer"
	#r "nuget:Microsoft.ML.ImageAnalytics"
	#r "nuget:System.Drawing.Common"

	open System.IO
	open System.Drawing
	open Microsoft.ML
	open Microsoft.ML.Data