banachtarski

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by banachtarski 6y ago
I'm not going to lie, I don't understand the usage of Python and other such languages in the embedded space in general.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
It's uncanny but I literally looked at this an hour ago (prior to seeing this posting on HN). Thanks for the comments/annotation!
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by banachtarski 6y ago
You're not wrong, but the contention here is that bad CEOs also want money and by all metrics, the Mozilla ship is going in the wrong direction.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I'm using the word "giant" in terms relative to the value of the staff and engineering talent that was downsized.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Yea how about not handing out giant executive packages while downsizing your teams.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I agree that light schemes are better, although I'm not sold on the reason given in this article. My understanding is that eye strain isn't purely a function of brightness (accumulation of photons), but the focusing effort needed
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I'm very partial to "Real Time Rendering"!
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I would not recommend this to aspiring graphics engineers today. There is far too much here that is completely disjoint from how computer graphics is done pretty much everywhere (CAD industry, games, film, etc).
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Slippery slope fallacy. By this logic, 1 ms, 1 day, 1 year, and 10 years are all equivalent degrees of notice and the degree of complaints would persist.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
The ability to just develop and deploy experiments to the wild was one of the greatest propellants of my career when I was younger though. If I started my career in the current era, there is no chance I would have been able to afford to dev
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by banachtarski 6y ago
On the flip side, even though I have a 5 GHz capable phone, I always connect to the 2.4 GHz band because the range is better.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
$100 is actually a really big deal in developing countries and lower-income areas. How many of us started working on software to experiment with for free growing up? Arbitrary cost barriers like this are honestly an impediment to learning
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by banachtarski 6y ago
> Ps: Doom Eternal runs really great, but I'm sure with tuning Unreal can produce similar results, right? Absolutely NOT! UE4 has great tools and awesome APIs for creating content from the perspective of an artist. The runtime, unfo
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by banachtarski 6y ago
They have components that run in the cloud, and unfortunately, when I wrote "cloud services" I probably should have written "services that leverage the cloud."
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by banachtarski 6y ago
In all seriousness, Apple may do certain things well, but cloud-anything just doesn't appear to be in its DNA. Maps, mail, iCloud, Timemachine, etc. Pretty much every service I can think of is laden with bugs, quirks, actual data loss
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Sure. It's honestly not even a stretch. Any studio that depends on UE4 to deploy to Apple hardware would have been affected if the injunction did not go through. If Epic doesn't have access to tools for UE4 or even just Fortnite
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Apologies. The injunction ended up passing such that the tooling was not in fact revoked by Apple. Epic relies heavily on deploying Fortnite in order to test the Unreal Engine at scale. Fortnite itself is, in some sense, the test bed from w
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by banachtarski 6y ago
As someone that works at an Unreal Engine shop, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
From a friend, post layoffs there are some good people left but also lots of grifters/dead-weight, especially in the upper echelons (not referring to engineering specifically)
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I'm sure the mods won't take kindly to your swearing but I agree with both you and your sentiment 100%
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by banachtarski 6y ago
This is evidence of the reality distortion field. It's like when they made the argument why Netflix/Spotify should pay them 30% of the proceeds of all sales because it's good for consumers and people actually bought it.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Hilariously wrong reply to OP. Reading Wald means you’re comfortable with differential geometry which an undergrad in math encounters several years after calculus. Not to mention that other texts mentioned cover Lagrangian and Hamiltonian
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by banachtarski 6y ago
People will gladly spend hundreds of dollars on "fancy plates" (aka china) that sit on display in shelves. Thousands or tens of thousands of dollars could be paid for paint on canvas, just because the paint arrangement is unique,
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by banachtarski 6y ago
What's the point of judging how people spend money on the internet? Are you saying you are above reproach in your spending in every facet of life? You don't buy anything because you just enjoy it, or because it strikes your person
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by banachtarski 6y ago
The claim should be completely indisputable. It's well known that teams within Apple are not privy to the roadmaps of other teams, even teams working on a different aspect of the same project.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
C# is consistently a worse performer than most javascript runtimes currently, and it's not much better than Python, Ruby, and PHP. It's not just that. Basic patterns in C# are known to have pathological performance problems (impli
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Comptime is certainly nice but not usable in this context I’m afraid. Also I’ve heard that argument a ton. It’s total complete rubbish as far as I’m concerned. Extrapolating, if you see a function call, what really can you say about the “co
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Very familiar with myriad abi issues and tbh, I don’t care. The compiler managing the mangling means that I the programmer do not. Also, I can easily expose a stable c extern abi from a c++ library but use overloading internally.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I don’t understand that goal I think is the issue. I have no issues with understanding control flow with just... functions and operators? Sure you can’t glean it from a glance at the textual representation of code you aren’t familiar with,
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I went from gentoo to arch years ago. Unless you absolutely need to compile the universe from scratch on your machine all the time, don’t bother. Arch’s greatest asset is its speed and excellent binay distribution. Gentoo affords you none o

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