Yossi Kreinin

I find it very useful to be able to do everyone else’s job — it helps you learn how they work and what they need, and it helps even more when you need their job done, but they won’t do it themselves.

You used to tell people, “why are you doing all this by hand — write a script to do it!”

An industry veteran in my circles has recently made the rookie mistake1 of printing a warning from his code upon misuse.

Scarred by bare metal programming during my formative years, I consider the speedup from multithreading worth pursuing no matter how limited a form of it you’ll get, and no matter how hideous the hacks you’ll need to make it work.

I believe that language models aren’t world models.

We'll discuss how to make sure that your access to TLS (thread-local storage) is fast.

A timeline showing function call and return events is a great way to debug performance problems, especially in production.

What constitutes managerial competence?

I once wrote about how profiler output can be misleading.

We're going to speed up some numpy code by 100x using "unsafe Python."

There are many potential ways to use AI1 (and computers in general) for 2D animation.

Here are some thoughts which are often basically correct: Every time I try to do the right thing here, it's like the place actively resists it.

There's a simple way to make your builds all of the following: Reproducible/deterministic - same binaries always built from the same source, so you can cache build outputs across users Debuggable - gdb, sanitizers, Valgrind, KCachegrind, etc. find your so…

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This is inspired by Dan Luu's post on the advantages of a single big repository over many small ones.

I'm going to discuss 3 very basic things about patents: Why it's good for you to get them; Why it might be bad for your employer (and why they don't care); How to get a patent for your idea (doesn't matter which.)

For better or worse, things want to work.

OK, so 2 things: 1.

OK, published at 3:30 AM.

The Moscow apartment which little me called home was also home to many other creatures, from smallish cockroaches to biggish rats.