badpun

17 ms·

241.
by badpun 2y ago
Check out graphicsprogramming sub-reddit, people ask that question there fairly frequently. Writing a real-time renderer basically comes down to learning a graphics API like Direct3D and then implementing various tricks and techniques from
242.
by badpun 2y ago
By what metric has VW failed? It's second largest car manufacturer in the world. Similarly, Intel has 80% of global x86 CPUs market share.
243.
by badpun 2y ago
The battery may have explosive inside (which I believe was the case in Lebanon), inspecting elements one by one may not be enough.
244.
by badpun 2y ago
That's a vision of a potential future, not the world we live in right now. Right now, there are a couple hundred million people in Asia and Africa making things for the Western consumer, mostly for pittance wages.
245.
by badpun 2y ago
Minor nitpick, but Ukraine does not have many young man fighting for it, the average age of the combatant is over fourty.
246.
by badpun 2y ago
> If you really had these attributes you'd be much better off starting your own company. Isn’t „founding engineer” actually starting the company? If not, what does the „founding” mean here?
247.
by badpun 2y ago
> I don't think anyone growing up in developed countries can emotionally understand that, even though there's high competition for great universities, top jobs, etc., you can still live a very fulfilling and decent life without
248.
by badpun 2y ago
It's simple. If one day we run out of people willing to work on goods for us for pittance, the price of goods we consume will rise and our quality of life will drop, because we won't be able to afford as much stuff. Right now, the
249.
by badpun 2y ago
You also need millions of destitute people somewhere on Earth, to work on all the goods that Americans buy for cheap.
250.
by badpun 2y ago
I believe the market in EU for remote dev jobs is quite bad. Plenty of good candidates chasing limited number of positions. It's probably way easier to get an in-office job, but I'm not interested in that.
251.
by badpun 2y ago
NVidia makes more money on a GPU sale than the vendor selling it, even though it's farther from the consumer.
252.
by badpun 2y ago
I'm betting a lot of that is reviews, approval, documentation, testing, re-testing etc - but it may be required for building a safe aircraft, and for getting it licenced to fly.
253.
by badpun 2y ago
I remember reading that one engineer spent 6 years designing „ventilation for seats 40-80” on one of the larger Airbuses. It seems like the amount of design and engineering work required for a prototype of a complete aircraft (assuming you
254.
by badpun 2y ago
99% chance you’re just bored in your career. You’ll probably be as bored in your new career, as most of work in any field is just a boring grind. It’s best to alleviate boredom without severely compromising one’s earning potential.
255.
by badpun 2y ago
Apple, like other european giants, sends all its European business through Ireland, which is a convenient tax haven. Now, Ireland seems no longer happy being the tax haven, and Apple is forced to pay somewhat normal taxes.
256.
by badpun 2y ago
A 3.23 miles long, central part of M2 metro line in Warsaw, going right under city centre, costed around $1b in 2012.
257.
by badpun 2y ago
> shorter waits for specialist visits and advanced imaging procedures Those are not health outcomes, but merely services KPAs. The KPAs may be better, because a portion of population can't afford the services, so they don't hav
258.
by badpun 2y ago
I know multiple people whose cancer was successfully cured (or, at least, treated) in the healthcare system you can "unavailable". The systems in Europe typically focus more efforts on critical care (like cancers), and less so on
259.
by badpun 2y ago
Siri! What a blast from the past. I wonder if there are people still using it nowadays, now that the novelty is long gone.
260.
by badpun 2y ago
Middle management IS about managing the managers - hence the "middle".
261.
by badpun 2y ago
Tell me you live in the US without telling me you live in the US...
262.
by badpun 2y ago
Large org architecture is, most importantly, just much larger. The bank I worked in had 6000 _systems_. A lot of that was redundancy due to a lot of mergers and acquisitions that didn't get cleaned up (because it was really hard to do)
263.
by badpun 2y ago
In every team I've worked with, DevOps didn't do any of the development, while being called DevOps. The only thing they were developing were automation for build, tests and deployment. Other than that, they're still a separat
264.
by badpun 2y ago
The easy solution for that is to not care if you're "in the stratosphere". Being too ambitious is setting oneself for failure and then for cynicism (because, by definition, only a few people can make it to the top, so your od
265.
by badpun 2y ago
Culture is a continuity that builds upon the past - in that sense it's our culture. Also, I've never ever heard anyone say that wives need to take names of their husbands, because the Bible says so. Is that an American thing?
266.
by badpun 2y ago
It was part of our culture before Christianity emerged, it remained part of the culture afterwards. Seems like Christianity didn’t have much to do with it.
267.
by badpun 2y ago
In Poland, they sometimes do. For example, they rent the property to another person (they claim that it’s legal), who is a goon. The goon moves in with the original renter, and makes his life hell. Other paths are to disconnect electricity
268.
by badpun 2y ago
How’s that related to Christianity?
269.
by badpun 2y ago
That’s the official story about itself that the US is telling to the world. Meanwhile, reality is very different. US does not care about „remaking countries in its image” and is very happy with supporting brutal dictatorships, as long as it
270.
by badpun 2y ago
It’s two different dimensions. A country can be democratic or authoritarian, and also a country can be driven by conquest or not. For example, USA is a democratic, conquest-driven empire. While Russia is an authoritarian, conquest-driven em

More ›