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by Arainach 8mo ago
"faster than realtime" doesn't mean much if it's in a device that's supposed to do more than just transcoding (such as serving a web app) or if you need multiple transcodes, etc. Even on modern chips, transcoding is
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by Arainach 8mo ago
The users aren't the ones getting trillion dollar valuations. And for most of them the answer is "they don't have a choice, it's bundled into Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace / Meta / everything" or
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Congratulations, you ignored all the substance in my post and focused on one word.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
>I've put it in quotes as the effort required from these chips for streaming transcoding is so low these days What's your source for this? Transcoding without acceleration is incredibly expensive, especially for 4K content, an
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by Arainach 8mo ago
> how to add lead to gasoline Your other examples line up, but this wasn't a problem being solved - engine knock was a problem being solved.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Agreed. I was an early outlook.com user (was working at MS when it launched, I think internal users got slightly early access allowing me to claim a nicer name than my Gmail) but despite having well over a decade of accounts tied to it got
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by Arainach 8mo ago
And my point is that if you write "no hire" than the candidate doesn't proceed and thus no one generally reads the feedback.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
My experience at FAANG is that if you get a "no hire" vote, then unless several other reviewers are "strong hire" the candidate doesn't even make it to a committee and is already rejected - and this was before 2022.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
If we are going to claim to be software "engineers" we have ethical obligations. That means that you don't just do whatever the person signing your paycheck says, you raise objections and refuse to do things that will cause
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by Arainach 8mo ago
> absolutely none of these things will fly on an interview feedback in any big company Sure, you never write "no hire because they worked at Palantir". You write "candidate didn't ask clarifying questions about {X} a
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by Arainach 8mo ago
>Microsoft was completely abandoned in the mobile market because they were so widely hated. This was not a factor. Windows phone lost because they didn't have apps. They didn't have apps because they rewrote between Windows M
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by Arainach 8mo ago
> This is obviously false. It's the sort of thing anyone can look up on the internet before buying one. It's not something that's quantifiable, and it's easily manipulable. The iPhone(tm) has a twelth-generation quan
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by Arainach 8mo ago
>Or is the underlying 'brainrot' actually destructive to creative potential? Creativity comes from constraints. Writing code hasn't been the hard part since the 90s. Deciding which things make for a good game and are wor
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Consumers have no way to tell that a phone gives "privacy" or even to understand the implications of that to their life. They have a significantly easier time understanding an error message that says "because your device has
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Consumers, when faced with a $100 Microwave that will last 2 years and a $130 microwave that will last ten, will buy the cheaper one nearly always. They don't care. Consumers, when faced with a phone that offers "privacy" bu
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Pixels aren't physical space. The number of square inches remained similar. A wider aspect ratio means that a horizontal line takes up a larger percentage of the overall screen and is more costly.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
By the time you have so much code that you benefit from a monorepo, you probably have so much code that you benefit from working in a statically typed language, and addressing that first will probably give you concrete benefits faster.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
>At least then it would somewhat represent the collective will and intelligence of the people. You seem to think the "training data" represents the collective will and intelligence and is otherwise unbiased, but that's com
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by Arainach 8mo ago
> That is also my experience with DuckDuckGo but all search engines. They ALL suck including Google Search. I don't know why, but the results are simply crap. (obligatory disclaimer: I work for Google but not in Search, all opinions
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Very much agreed. I haven't read all of Dan's work to comment how it ranks among his output, but Carrion Comfort is a book that I still think back on years after I read it.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
None of those things is "a history of getting things wrong". You've failed to link to any evidence criticizing their past investigations.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
You're not wrong. The NSA circa 2008 was probably doing some of the most algorithmically interesting CS work in the world. That said, I think that in terms of living with myself, sleeping well at night, and being able to travel the wo
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by Arainach 8mo ago
I applied for an internship with the NSA. My understanding of the process (years ago, pre-Snowden) was that they did a pass on your resume (I can't recall if there was even a phone screen), then they started background checks and if t
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Writing code isn't the hard part of running an email server. Getting your server not marked as spam is essentially impossible, not a coding problem, and why everyone gives up on this.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
I don't think there's a drone in this proposal. On the list of "laws you don't want to screw with", National Firearms Act violations are high on my list. Regardless of whether something is or isn't a violation
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by Arainach 8mo ago
The full operator post is itself a wild ride: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post... >First, let me apologize to Scott Shambaugh. If this “experiment” personally harmed you, I apologize
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by Arainach 8mo ago
>Law enforcement is not an armed gang It always has been in America. Literally, the history of policing starts with armed gangs looking for escaped slaves, and never went away from those roots. You can see this in their "us or the
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Who said anything about immigration? Let's start with abandoning science funding, abandoning investments in and tax credits for renewable energy sources that are the future. Then there's applying political pressure to academic in
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by Arainach 8mo ago
It bears repeating: for everyone who insists that the US Executive Branch isn't compromised by our enemies, what different actions would someone who was compromised and trying to speedrun the destruction of American power, influenc
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Raymond generally discusses public things and history. That's allowable plenty of places. Bruce Dawson was publishing debugging stories (including things debugged about Google products done as part of his job) for the entire time he wa

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