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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
This isn't an "enormous software investment", this is table stakes which lose out heads up against Nvidia. See AMD.
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
this sentence doesn't make any sense a) ROCm is an AMD product b) ROCm "applications" are GPU "applications".
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> After searching for solutions, I came across rocgdb, a debugger for AMD’s ROCm environment. It's like the 3rd sentence in the blog post.......
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
this is a tort not a criminal act - cops wouldn't/couldn't do anything.
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
"why would I use a frying pan when I can use a flashlight" The two things have nothing to do with each other.
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
you're running based purely on vibes and I'm misinformed? Lol
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> you're going to concoct some story to deflect Yes surely I'm the one concocting things (rolls eyes) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party As Sartre said - it's pointless debating peo
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> where nations had to build walls Name the Eastern nations plural that built these walls please. As far as I am aware, the G in GDPR stands for Germany, a country/nation/state which is (and always has been) firmly Western. Peo
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> sentiment ... > theory these two words aren't interchangeable > Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Wilhelm von Ketteler, Louis Blanc ... > generic cog-in-the-machine critique that is explored by many other people literall
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> one single sentiment Lol alienation of labor is not a single "sentiment" - it's a core principle. So like it or not you share a core principle with Marx.
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
Do you think this is clever? For a metaphor to be relevant to a discussion it has to be fitting, not just a dunk.
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
The second or third most popular language of all time? God forbid lol
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> But software development is different. There has been many decades where software developers suffered very little alienation. It only changed with the universal adoption of "corporate agile" Lol are you really gonna go with &
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
How many people agree with the above but "disagree" with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation Lololol Edit: I'm already down one - for people that don't read wikipedia here ar
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> positions are encoded as strings over the alphabet on 2 bits This is the most pedantic way of saying "binary 2-tuples" I've ever seen. Also for quadtrees this is inferior to base 4 because you can assume clockwise (or co
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
i have no idea what's interesting about this? guilds make it more likely that people are willing to grind? less likely? i don't understand?
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> it’s (a) going to be harder for you than for people who like it and (b) maybe you should consider a field that you do like? This shit is so infantile. It's like people have never heard of grinding. Do you think big law attorneys &
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
You can't have ideals about other people's things - you want to be idealistic (ideological?), feel free to start your own uni.
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
People have such strong delusions about universities (and they're so vocal about them too).
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> one of the greatest humans I can't fathom being this exaltant about some dead guy I've never met who supposedly manufactured some stuff (like you realize he wasn't a scientist and was primarily a businessman). Where do
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> together rectangles with height one and width decreasing in geometric progression The geometric series sums to 2 - your glued together rectangles will have perimeter 2*(1+2) and area 2*1.
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
I have no idea why you think the geometric series has anything to do with this - this is related to continuous but nowhere differentiable functions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...
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by almostgotcaught 10mo ago
> NVIDIA is a generation ahead of the industry a generation is 6 months
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by almostgotcaught 11mo ago
> compiler writing as an art cooking is an art. software is engineering. no one would say "building skyscrapers as an art is dying".
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by almostgotcaught 11mo ago
..... Yes that's exactly my point that these cutesy books give a completely inaccurate picture of what the job is really like.
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by almostgotcaught 11mo ago
there are no good modern compiler books - everything that's been written down pales in comparison to what GCC/LLVM really involve. recently i found Engineering a Compiler by Cooper and Torczon when reviewing/prepping for in
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by almostgotcaught 11mo ago
looks like a fun book but just be forewarned real compiler engineering is nothing like what's covered there.
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by almostgotcaught 11mo ago
You know you have a web presence right? You know it's very easy to verify you've never been in FAANG right? lolol
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by almostgotcaught 11mo ago
> written maths Absolutely no one when they're navel gazing on this topic is discussing the aesthetics of notation . > seem to love what they see. Nor visualizations

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