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Alan Grow
Personal blog · alangrow.com/blog · on HN as sigilaiprogramming
Alan Grow's personal blog at alangrow.com covers ai and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer that shows compile times. The one comment discusses CMake build timing and flame-graph profiling of compile times.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
That does just do CMake time. Sorry if my comment was confusing. I forgot that I used a wrapper or something myself to collect the compile times. Anyway, my point is, you aren't the first person to have this issue. I've definitely profiled compile times before and viewed a flame graph with some gadget made by Google. The easiest way you to do it may depend on your compiler and build system. You could attack the prob…
Comment linking /blog/profiling-every-command-in-a-makefile
on “I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer”Submitted Turn Vim into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data (2013) as a story · 92 points
HN discussionThis is a nice guide! Used Thinkpads have been very, very good to me over the years. For most of the last decade I bought used Thinkpad T42's for $100-$200 (see the empirical depreciation curve here [1]), beat them up for a year or two, then swapped the hard drive into a fresh machine when I finally and inevitably killed the old one. No downtime, no waiting for repairs, no tears shed over the death of a fancy laptop…
Comment linking /projects/laptop-prices/
on “Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide”Submitted What Letter-Pair Tileset Forms the Most Words? as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> I believe the bounding box has to fit all the possible ascenders and descenders etc., so the em-height is proportioned within the box to whatever the highest and lowest marks in the typeface are. I wish it were this simple. The em square != the bounding box of all glyphs. The em square is defined by the font's ascent & descent vertical metrics, which are set by the font designer. There are reasons why you might wa…
Comment linking /images/blog/script-font-escaping-em-square.png
on “Font-size-adjust Is Useful”Submitted Music To Program To as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI lost a hundred bucks to this behavior. http://alangrow.com/blog/how-i-lost-100-and-blamed-cal
Comment linking /blog/how-i-lost-100-and-blamed-cal
on “Cal – Display a Calendar in Your Terminal”Submitted Mental Models and Potemkin Understanding in LLMs as a story · 1 points
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