ajross

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by ajross 9mo ago
That's... literally what a merge collision is. The tooling for that predates git by decades. The solutions are all varying levels of non-trivial and involve tradeoffs, but none of them require 24/7 cloud service availability.
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by ajross 9mo ago
> There are still some processes that require a waterfall method for development, though Not on the 2-4 hour latency scale of a GitHub outage though. I mean, sure, if you have a process that requires the engineering talent to work compl
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by ajross 9mo ago
I think this is being downvoted unfairly. I mean, sure, as a company accepting payment for services, being down for a few hours every few months is notably bad by modern standards. But the inward-looking point is correct: git itself is a d
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by ajross 9mo ago
This seems like intuition fed from 8+ years ago and a HN culture of mac fetishism. It's just not like that. You can find some loud gaming laptops. And sure, occasionally there's an individual device with outlier fan behavior.
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by ajross 9mo ago
> It doesn't really make much sense to compare per-cycle performance across microarchitectures as there are multiple valid trade-offs. That's true in principle, but IMHO a little too evasive. In point of fact Apple 100% won th
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by ajross 9mo ago
> you'd think tax cuts would create more jobs, less unemployment Again, that idea is rhetoric , not policy. In fact no one ever thought this, it's a zero-sum/microeconomic intuition (to wit: that there is only so much mo
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by ajross 9mo ago
> First of all, Apple CPUs are not the fastest. The cores are. Nothing is beating a M4/M5 on single CPU performance, and per-cycle nothing is even particularly close. At the whole-chip level, there are bigger devices from the x86 v
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by ajross 9mo ago
Democratic administrations see less spending growth, though. Definitely not more. Look it up. You're confusing rhetoric with policy.
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by ajross 9mo ago
> I wrote a couple hobby compilers. So did most of us, join the club. What you can't do is write such a compiler for $20k if you want to put food on the table, or do it in two weeks (what it costs to buy your time currently until A
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by ajross 9mo ago
OMG. It's the !?%!@# pandemic. All education statistics measuring across 2020 are horrifyingly polluted. Kids who stayed at home for a year are behind relative to the same cohorts before or since, AND YET WE KEEP FLOGGING THESE NUM
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by ajross 9mo ago
> inefficient but working FWIW, an inefficient but working product is pretty much the definition of a startup MVP. People are getting hung up on the fact that it doesn't beat gcc and clang, and generalizing to the idea that such a
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by ajross 9mo ago
> if you spend months writing a tight spec, tests and have a better version of the compiler around to use when everything else fails. Doesn't matter because your competitors will have beaten you to market. That's just a simple
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by ajross 9mo ago
Responding to the headline and not the article substance: no, the SaaS crash is a crash because valuations are speculative and have been very high. Security price motion is only very loosely coupled to fundamentals in the short term, and t
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by ajross 9mo ago
> Not for general purpose use, only for demo. What does that mean, though? I mean, it's already meeting a very high quality bar by booting at all and passing those tests. No, it doesn't beat existing solutions on all the chec
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by ajross 9mo ago
> Parsing is solved with yacc, bison, or sitting down and writing a recursive descent parser (works for most well designed languages you can think of). No human being writes a recursive descent parser for "Linux Kernel C" in tw
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by ajross 9mo ago
If it generates a booting kernel and passes the test suite at 99% it's probably good enough to use, yeah. The point isn't to replace GCC per se, it's to demonstrate that reasonably working software of equivalent complexity is
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by ajross 9mo ago
Yeah, that's sort of the market that's picked it up: "I need to connect to old junk". And it would seem like a great fit, except that (as you point out) volumes are tiny and the benefit of a $1 chip vs. a $10 FPGA is hi
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by ajross 9mo ago
> $20,000 set on fire To be fair, that's two weeks of the employer cost of a FAANG engineer's labor. And no human hacks a working compiler in two weeks. It's a lot of AI compute for a demo, sure. But $20k stunts are hard
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by ajross 9mo ago
> it turns out that there are a lot of situations where PIO can avoid the need for an application-specific peripheral And I can only repeat: I think that's an aspirational delusion. I'm not aware of anyone shipping a PIO solut
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by ajross 9mo ago
> what are you blathering on about, sir? Please don't. I mean, I applaud your work. But let's also be honest (in the "tough love" sense): those are all toys with significant limitations that preclude anyone shipping
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by ajross 9mo ago
The RP2040 is a Cortex-M0, which is about the smallest core you find on modern systems but still a pipelined 32 bit RISC machine running in the dozens of MHz. Note though, that the article is really about the PIO device on these SOCs',
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by ajross 9mo ago
Which is fine, for the 90% of people that spend their time on the 70% of common features and interact only with the screen and headphones and internet. But sometimes people like to do stuff like configure their QMK keyboards or load new fir
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by ajross 9mo ago
> I'm still angry they killed flash. There has never been a better platform for non-technical folks Capcut and Roblox would like words. No, that's kinda just wrong. Content generation for non-technical folks has never been ea
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by ajross 9mo ago
A PWA on iOS is just a cached web page. Safari remains pretty crippled with regards to the APIs (bluetooth, usb, filesystem, etc...) that make local apps attractive in the first place. Apple is fine with letting people cache web pages, th
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by ajross 9mo ago
Because in 1985 Ken Shoemake dropped the idea like a bomb on the computer graphics industry and it changed the way hackers thought about rotations forever. https://www.ljll.fr/~frey/papers/scientific%20visualisati
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by ajross 9mo ago
This is reasoning from a mistake. Market valuation is about VALUE , which is an abstract idea assigned by the market, which is not the same thing as MONEY , which can be "printed"[1]. Market values go up and down on their own,
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by ajross 9mo ago
> biometrics on phones is just another way so-called "tech" companies perform data collection ultimately to be used for commercial purposes No, sorry, that's just silly. Routine biometrics have made personal devices near-
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by ajross 9mo ago
Yes, but even so doing it because of protest is a restraint on speech, and that's expressly prohibited by the constitution. The first amendment may be frustratingly silent on fruit trade regulations, but it's 100% not unclear abou
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by ajross 9mo ago
> Liquidity is still in abundance and no other market can capture that liquidity. I don't know what that means? Market crashes are changes in speculative value, they don't care about counting literal amounts of currency. Sell
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by ajross 9mo ago
Literally the whole economy has "over-raised its fundamentals" though. Not everyone is going to fail in exactly this way, but (again, pretty much literally) everyone is exposed to a feedback-driven crash from "everyone else&

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