AI seems to work a lot better once you acquire some AI equity, you go from not working at all to AI writing all the code. /s

Every Rust SIMD article should mention the .chunks_exact() auto vectorization trick by law.

Didn't know about this. Thanks!

Not related, but I often want to see the next or previous element when I'm iterating. When that happens, I always have to switch to an index-based loop. Is there a function that returns Iter<Item=(T, Option<T>)> where the second element is a lookahead?

You probably just want to use `.peekable()`: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/iter/trait.Iterator.htm...

Note that `peekable` will most likely break autovectorization

I use the slice::windows for that.

Early in 1999 my 1st build was a Celeron 300A on Asus P2B-LS overclocked to 450. Later upgraded to 1.4Ghz and 512MB ECC RAM. Much later running FreeBSD as a home server probably till 2015 when the power supply finally gave out, I wish I kept it. Got me through the capacitor plague and was competitive with Pentium 4 for a while. Absurdly stable and quite snappy with a 10k SCSI system drive. Would love to install Windows 98SE again on it and play some Unreal Tournament.

It's decent at explaining my code back to me, so I can make sure my intent is visible within code/comments/tracing messages. Not too bad at writing test cases either. I still write my code.

Are you saying that you literally write the features by yourself and that you only use LLMs to understand old code and write tests?

Or a more meta point that “LLMs are capable of a lot”?

I'm saying it's not good enough to write code yet, but good at explaining code. If it can't that means I messed up and I need to make it clearer. Once it's explanation and my meaning line up, the code is good enough and I move on. Meta point is that people are using AI for the wrong thing. It's great at consuming, not creating.

I got over 20 years of sane, reliable and consistent computing from the FreeBSD Project, thank you.

FreeBSD on bare metal hooked up to a nice network.

Tier 3 is max official

I prefer developing Rust on FreeBSD, memory allocator, scheduler, network stack, kqueue, dtrace and other instrumentation are all superior than the Linux counterparts. What's missing for you?

I just replaced a quite cheap Windows laptop that was over 10 years old for an old person. It was just fine. The only reason it got replaced was because the battery was completely dead and being so old you couldn't find the part.

Not that it matters because it got replaced by a laptop costing 1/3 of the cheapest MBA. Mac users are delusional about the longevity of Apple stuff and have a distorted worldview where PC users change their hardware every 2 years or so. They don't and my experience is that it's completely the reverse (hence the massive 2nd hand market for Macs).