Hey, as I say in another post:

The objective of learning more about the uxn ecosystem is not to create something “new” and “better”, but to learn more about PDA and associated algorithms. This will train my brain to think outside the box because of the restrictions on the way uxn works.

The only real alternative is using a Linux phone. The main problems with that would be (1) hardware support; (2) running Android apps. Although, (2) already has solutions in development or you could replace those native apps with web apps.

https://mobian-project.org/

https://sailfishos.org/

https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems

This is a comparison of popular Android “ROMs” (better term: AOSP distributions or Android-based OS). Please note I’m not affiliated with any of these projects and I am not giving any specific recommendation. If you think anything is factually incorrect, please let me know.

It’s cool to rewrite simple libraries to understand how code works at lower levels.

What style of formatting are you using? It seems peculiar at times.

I was enthusiastic about this project. But I am afraid these recent tangents will only reduce momentum.

I have talked with the author to confirm what he meant with this and other posts he made on compilation. He has confirmed that most (if not all) C compilers are not deterministic. He has pointed me to here as an example. He added that optimizations are not applied in deterministic order and when you add LTO it worsens the problem.

I agree that LLM are made to be more exploratory, this is good as it allows them to experiment with more different topic, as opposed to always saying the same. However, I do not agree it is a feature for code generation, as you would need it to follow strict ruleset (code syntax, specification, tests). Whatever errors it generates and people accept are little mistakes in the threshold of acceptance for the person and a tradeoff for the cost of fixing the problem. In some contexts we see people focusing almost only on short term which leads to a lot of errors being allowed.

Moreover, you cannot say compilers are deterministic. There are situations where they are not (at least for the user).

https://krystalgamer.github.io/high-level-game-patches/

GCC’s unwarranted behaviour

In order to keep the code as small as possible I was compiling the code with -Os. Everything was working fine until I started to remove some printfs and started to get some crashes. Moving function calls around also seemed to randomly fix the problem, this was an indication that somehow memory/stack corruption was happening. After a lot of testing, I figured out that if -O2/-O3/-Os were used then the problem would appear. The issue was caused by Interprocedural analysis or IPA. One of its functions is to determine whether registers are polluted across function calls and if not then re-use them.

a relative time formatting library that contains no code

The library is two text files (code) that are processed by an LLM (interpreter) to generate code of another type. This is not that new in terms of workflow.

I think what makes this the worst is the fact that the author admits that you can’t be sure the library will work until you generate the code and test it. Even then you cannot guarantee the security of the generated code and as you do not understand the code you also cannot give support or patch it.

When Performance Matters

If performance of a datetime processor is not relevant, what is? The author mentions they would like a browser implementation to be fast, documentable, fixable. However, operative systems, browsers, and other complex systems are made of little utilities like this that have very well documented functionalities and side effects.

But the above isn’t fully baked. Our models will get better, our agents more capable.

The whole assumption is that instead of creating a good stable base that anyone can use we should be just shtting out code until it works.

Eventually the hardware will be good enough to support a shitty bloated browser so we don’t need to optimize it.

Eventually people will harden their PC enough so we shouldn’t care about security.

I guess the point of using only text is to test how far you can go with performance. Using plaintext, or a simple markup language, also forces you to not do the things you can do with HTML.

Image a news website where the focus is the actual news, instead of the weirdly sized max-contrast cookie banner, or the weird space left for ads that do not load because of uBO.

It seems plaintext blogs are a weird child of smallweb design.

I think it would be best to have some kind of markup to identify links, and provide other things like italics, bold, subscript, superscript. For example, as in gemini protocol.

We have won, but at what cost…