I owned an OP1 from the day it was released until 6 days after I discovered it rotting in a drawer, unused, in a room full of far better examples of synthesizer interface. I tried really hard to accept Teenage Engineering's priority of non-sequitur over functionality.

Sure, the OLED occasionally shows you a few things. But its completely useless compared to, say, the utility eked out of the display of the Deluge, or Bluebox. By comparison to either of these devices, the OP1 is unacceptably paltry for the price.

And then, there are the Pocket Operators. Don't get me started on just how useless that very expensive bespoke LCD print is to the musician...

Blasphemy! Thou shalt not present such claims without the proper scrolls and ledgers of sales to substantiate. Ist thou not acquainted with the more-expensive instruments of musical synthesis available?

Under disadvantages:

> You can also call the layout code twice (once to get the size, once to do the interaction), but that is not only more expensive, it's also complex to implement, and in some cases twice is not enough. egui never does this.

I've found multi-pass imgui to work totally fine, and I use it for one of my apps [1]. I can support (nested) hstack and vstack layouts which IIRC egui can't. There is added expense of calling the "draw" code again, but it's negligible in my profiles (doing the actual layout calculations is more expensive, so I only invalidate the cached layout when the data model changes). It wasn't particularly complex to implement: each ui function simply does different things if you are doing a layout pass vs a draw pass.

[1] https://audulus.com

So much is bad about it:

> After two weeks, I come up with some of my own tweaks that make the algorithm work a bit better. I happily add “built a state-of-the-art library for numerical integration, with novel improvements on the best techniques in the academic literature” to my resume.

Ok so he's a liar. He made something "work a bit better" and then claimed to build the whole thing. Two weeks of work. Talk about resume padding.

> After declaring, I finally get assigned an adviser who doesn’t tell me to take easier courses.

Where I went, you barely got any such advice. P R I V I L E G E.

> Math classes haven’t saved me from getting bored of college.

Links to an another article "Why I left Harvard early" oh FFS

> directly trying to improve the world, at Wave.

As opposed to those lesser folks who aren't "directly" trying to improve the world, or just not improving the world at all. Just trying to get by and live a decent life.

> For some reason, a lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life

Well it's better than fucking up the world at least.

> most graduates of elite schools—including me—

Yes mr elite.

> my root goal was to use my skills to get the most possible leverage on improving the world.

I'm reminded of the great "Make the World a better place" skit from Silicon Valley.

> Thanks to Eve Bigaj, Alexey Guzey, Jeff Kaufman, Dan Luu, Lincoln Quirk, and Yuri Vishnevsky for reading a draft of this post.

Someone actually didn't catch the lameness of the post.

> > For some reason, a lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life

> Well it's better than fucking up the world at least.

I think there's a good case to be made that over-focus on narrowly defined "hard problems" is one of the biggest drivers of existential risk we face

I think the explanation for "defund the police" is simpler... they just see the bad stuff cops do on the news, but haven't ever actually needed the cops personally (and few of their friends have too), primarily due to their affluence. There are exceptions, obviously.

Of the people who have obtained a restraining order, I wonder what percentage want to defund the police.

Can that be done without disabling JIT for the rest of us? My app would benefit greatly from JIT compilation, and it's always been a bummer that it can't realize its full performance potential on iOS.

No. A JIT requires marking pages of runtime-generated data as executable. It’s an attacker’s dream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIT_spraying

The entire compiler and language-runtime using a JIT becomes an attack surface. Securing Javascript is hard enough.

Isn't this more of a problem of Google being too permissive about trash browsers on their store than an issue of whether a browser can have its own JIT compiler?

Indeed.

Admittedly lot of the Safari security concerns (like JIT) seem very extreme.

While I agree with that general sentiment, far more than that experienced homelessness over a 20 year period.

There was no sentiment in my analysis. Unless you count 'bruh'.

I was quite clear on the tense of the statement: "The US has..." etc.

This is a ridiculous statistic however you cut it. Multiple the homeless stat by 20 (a vast overestimate) and you STILL give every one of them a ridic house. What's going on here is unfathomably evil.

Do the math with 20x the number of homeless.

They haven't. You can't get a paper into SIGGRAPH that misses relevant existing research.

Various comparisons with plenoxels are in the paper.