andrewf

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by andrewf 5y ago
A tangent, if you have time: where would I go for a primer on operations research and/or discrete event simulation? My thought is that Goldratt's "The Goal" / theory of constraints is a useful way of thinking about
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Also "Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 is a presentation from a manufacturing engineer which goes into some nitty-gritty
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I'll second the suggestion to attack one problem at a time. A very long time ago I was on a team that built a desktop application in Qt + Visual C++ for Windows (98/ME/2K/XP), and we wanted to port it to Mac OS X (10.3)
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This article goes into some specifics for OS/2: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-os2-is-hard-to-virtualize/
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https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/blob/mast... is interesting. It transitions from todo list to a narrative format right after Quake launches :) In subsequent years you see Carmack opine on v
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by andrewf 5y ago
Yes, positive reinforcement is generally the most successful way to get people to do what you want.
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Chocolate preserves Doom's framerate cap (35fps). GZDoom makes it configurable (I think uncapped is the default)
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Doom can make me nauseous, especially if I'm watching instead of playing. So does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Fury (an anachronistic indie game using Duke3D's engine) Theories: Doom's 35fps framera
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I've often felt this way about spruced-up Doom ports. Bilinear texture filtering and hi-res exposes the simplicity of the geometry and textures, it's like when TV went HD, and TV-quality sets/costumes/makeup suddenly loo
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by andrewf 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm at AWS, but not on the EC2 or networking teams, I'm not experienced with their stuff, and they'd be rightly upset if you took me as an authority. That said, SR-IOV may obviate some or all of your concerns. The
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similar c++ proposal from April 1998: https://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf
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by andrewf 5y ago
Getting a partial read from a TCP socket I wish common test frameworks and/or stdlibs made it easier to "fuzz" this. I've written more than one io.Reader implementation (Golang) that breaks up results from an underlyin
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If I were your customer and coming up against a deadline like 11:59PM on December 31, or April 18, I would not be happy.
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I just like it because it's smaller than the other iPhones.
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I work at a Go shop that was a Python + RoR shop when I joined. I don't dispute Go's benefits at our scale. As a matter of personal preference, I don't enjoy Go. Go is Blub ( http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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I'd just pick something from the backlog that I don't think is prioritized highly enough, and do that.
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"Our metrics tell us that with these UI changes, people are approving more PRs and it's taking them less time!", probably.
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Personal take: Apply for lots of jobs, at companies that have these problems, on the roles/teams that solve them. Some'll have room for a relatively junior engineer who can teach themselves. You should talk about technical challen
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I moved from Australia to the US and I agree. It was small talk as a kid in Australia (where 30% of residents are born overseas), and it's a no-no in the US. Possibly I was offending some folks in Australia.. in 2022, as a white man wi
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by andrewf 5y ago
A lot of early Win32 code was originally Win16 code - you could in theory have the same code target both. I think that encouraged everyone to favor long / DWORD when they wanted a 32-bit integer even once the 16-bit compilers were
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by andrewf 5y ago
I think Thunderbird gets to piggyback on some Mozilla infrastructure - hosting, CI/CD, receiving donations into a dedicated Thunderbird pool - but has been mostly cut out as you describe for some time. https://blog.thunderbi
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The big companies were going to be launching redesigns anyway - as institutions, they're not equipped to "don't fix what isn't broken."
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You can see a lot of Starlink’s peering at https://www.peeringdb.com/net/18747
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Family is nepotism, friends are cronyism.
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I'm years out of date on this stuff, but I note the staging URL has found its way into Google as well, you might be able to fix that up by adjusting the <link rel="canonical" href=" https://blog.staging.begi
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by andrewf 5y ago
I was wrong, I looked at the source and forgot all the CP/M-inherited syscalls are supposed to lack an exit code. The MS-DOS 2 exit-with-return-call method works, and it looks like WSL2 can propagate that from its' Linux VM into W
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I've used emu2 to run ancient MASM out of a Makefile. It should work under WSL. (Edit: it doesn't propagate exit codes afaict) https://github.com/dmsc/emu2
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Even if the CPU was fast enough to do all the graphics work, getting those pixels to the framebuffer could be a bottleneck. See benchmarks on p287 of the same authors' Doom book at https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom.pd
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by andrewf 5y ago
This reminded me of a recent talk: USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo At 9:00 the speaker la
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At least Linux POWER can go little endian! Being big endian seems pretty lonely in 2022 - AIX, Solaris and stuff on System Z? https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/b...

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