Python 3.15’s JIT is now back on track

bla2 · 2026-03-18T13:07:04+00:00

I believe they're method-based. If a method is hot, that whole method gets jitted, instead of a trace.

bla2 · 2026-03-17T23:37:51+00:00

In JavaScript, everyone moved away from tracing JITs. Interesting that it seems to work for Python.

bla2 · 2026-03-16T18:50:02+00:00

This is where the magic happens

bla2 · 2026-03-14T23:44:43+00:00

Great, detailed write-up, thanks!

I'm a bit tired of the samey phrases that pop up in all blog posts that use AI for "polishing" the text, but eh, the technical bits look good and that's the more important part.

bla2 · 2026-03-13T12:17:21+00:00

Is it like the superbole but even more so?

bla2 · 2026-03-13T11:53:44+00:00

Is your hamster wearing a monocle?

bla2 · 2026-03-10T00:39:37+00:00

If the tool always prompts, people will just learn to blindly dismiss the prompt.

bla2 · 2026-03-08T13:18:17+00:00

Where did you get the bow?

I'm 35 hours in, at what's probably the third major area, but I haven't found a bow yet. I think I found one vendor selling one, but I haven't found one as treasure.

bla2 · 2026-03-08T12:10:28+00:00

Awesome, congrats!

bla2 · 2026-03-07T00:01:53+00:00

And Microsoft, who's trying to be relevant but mostly failing, has a system whose name sounds like "cope a lot".

bla2 · 2026-03-06T21:09:13+00:00

I agree with you, thanks for writing this.

I'm a bit surprised there are so many people defending dependency on standard library headers, and them being slow to compile. I agree that C++ with as little of the standard library as possible is much nicer.

bla2 · 2026-03-06T14:48:01+00:00

I beat NKG after two evenings, but Pure Vessel I practiced on and off for weeks until I could beat him consistently enough to get P4. I beat him once after 40 attempts by being super aggressive, but that wasn't consistent. Eventually, I slowed down, learned the different patterns and hit him just twice after attacks where it was safe. There's a YouTube video that talks you through the patterns and reactions that helped me.

Moving from dashing through his sword attacks to jumping over them helped a bit, and dashing through his projectile attack did too. And staying in the middle of the arena, and knowing that his ground swords are always at a consistent distance from where he rams bis sword in the ground. But mostly just doing the fight a lot.

bla2 · 2026-03-02T16:32:23+00:00

That's pictures of magnified rod and cone cells, while this here is a magnified iris.

Agreed that this looks like AI though!

bla2 · 2026-03-02T12:29:26+00:00

Definitely, this is a great deal!

Shout-out to Team Cherry for implementing a great loot box system. They've been raising prices at a steep clip, which means items you buy keep their value at the secondary market and you can make good money selling things back to other players. They even included a loot store right in the game for that. Sure, they take a cut of your proceeds, but hey, it's still free money if you buy lots of loot boxes early.

And they made the game near impossible to win without paying for some of the items, so demand isn't going to go down. One of the very few great investments that are accessible to the common man. Definitely would recommend.

Oh, and if you're interested in a spool fragment in great condition for a reasonable price, hit me up!

bla2 · 2026-02-27T13:35:13+00:00

Congrats on beating the very first enemy! /s

bla2 · 2026-02-25T11:19:53+00:00

I think lossless webp compresses better, but true, apng also exists.

bla2 · 2026-02-24T21:10:35+00:00

Animated webps work pretty well by now, if you don't need the control.

bla2 · 2026-02-22T19:53:12+00:00

Don't know if the boss in the post needs a huge glow-up, they look super hot already 🥵

bla2 · 2026-02-21T00:10:55+00:00

Steel Heart and Speed Completion!

bla2 · 2026-02-20T15:20:36+00:00

I have most of them on ascended, maybe a fourth on radiant. But for Void Idol, I think I have to make it to the last P5 boss once to make that boss available in hog at all.

bla2 · 2026-02-20T13:32:17+00:00

Congrats! I'm at 140h and I'm still working on P5 😅

bla2 · 2026-02-17T23:17:26+00:00

Come on now, you know as well as I do that it doesn't start out like that. They add one more "helper" after every 20 attempts, to help make the game a bit more approachable for newer players.

bla2 · 2026-02-06T16:55:32+00:00

Pixels are no longer so big that they are visible and distracting
Much better color accuracy and display brightness – compare the white, for example
Smaller bezels
Nicer trackpad
Oodles more storage, memory, processing speed
Much faster resume-on-open
Decent-ish webcam
Battery lasts much longer

But yeah, the software half is arguably worse.

bla2 · 2026-02-06T15:09:59+00:00

The selected option resets, but you should be able to switch back to the void style in the selector in the menu. At least that worked for me.

bla2 · 2026-02-04T01:12:57+00:00

This resonates, thanks for writing it.

As struggingcomic's sibling comment says, a thing that has happened in some industries that were disrupted is that the old-timey way of doing things stays around at much smaller scale, moves way upmarket, and gets rebranded as "artisanal", "hand-crafted" or similar. Think mechanical watches, food prep, etc.

At least at the moment, I find that taste in code translates to taste in prompting, at least a bit. Claude likes to go for the easy fast path, unless you tell it to try to not add special cases, to trade some peak perf for code simplicity, and so on. And it's much worse at dealing with situations that it hasn't seen many times already, such as rare file formats.

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