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by billti 3y ago
It's also the "entry point" price for a HoloLens ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy ). Businesses will spend that on an AR/VR device that adds value to their use-cases. It seems prett
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by billti 3y ago
And I think that's part of the problem. I've done my taxes (in the U.S.) manually for the past couple of years (i.e. filling out a 1040 directly, no TurboTax etc.), and the amount of times I've read through some absurd item t
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by billti 4y ago
This looks heavily geared towards graphics. I’m interested in the compute capabilities of WebGPU to build an in-browser simulator (e.g. physics/quantum). Anyone know of any good resources for that? (Samples, best practices, etc.)
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by billti 4y ago
I ruled cars out of my last purchase that didn’t have CarPlay. I didn’t realize wireless was available now. Having to hook it up is the one major pain. Wireless CarPlay will definitely be a requirement on the next purchase.
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by billti 4y ago
A day where I’m constantly dealing with incoming random crap that has me context switching all day leaves me exhausted and unhappy. A day where I can shut that out and focus on a couple things intensely usually leaves me feeling energized a
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by billti 4y ago
> half the time stuff isn't loading at all or is broken in obvious, overt ways I use the app for a couple hours a day (according to my iPhone weekly reports), and have barely noticed any degradation since "the takeover". (
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by billti 4y ago
I had a good streak going for a while with maintaining a good diet and exercise. Once you decide to take a break it's easy to stop though. Recently I've had a project at work which is just enjoying and engrossing, so I'm &quo
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by billti 4y ago
Exactly. My impression is that in very large orgs the first couple levels of management normally find out about layoffs a couple hours before they have to deliver them. Both to keep the news under wraps and to avoid personal bias, how many
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by billti 4y ago
I do think there's a big cultural difference. I've worked over a decade each in the UK, Australia, and now the US. In the UK and Australia, it was very common to hang out with colleagues socially, but I see it rarely in the US. Ma
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by billti 4y ago
There is no “bitchy” compiler to deal with. There are no errors in JS files (unless you choose to explicitly enable them). The JSDoc by default just powers the docs, signature help, and member suggestions.
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by billti 4y ago
If you’re using VS Code as your editor, its JavaScript editing is powered by the TypeScript engine’s support for JS. The JSDoc support there is pretty good, as are the docs for the syntax supported. https://www.typescriptlang.org
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by billti 4y ago
I buy my own laptop for work. Work will give me a good one, but I want a GREAT one. It’s the one tool I need to do my job, and I’ll be using it over 40 hours a week. It’s a few thousand dollars, but I make a comfortable six figure salary, a
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by billti 4y ago
Tangentially related, but after installing LLVM on Windows I notice that the clang, clang++, clang-cl, and clang-cpp binaries are all identical. That's four copies of the same 116MB file. The linkers (ld.lld, ld64.lld, lld, lld-link, w
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by billti 4y ago
I find many of my “work from home” days worryingly sedentary. If I’m slammed with work at home I barely leave the chair. If I’m slammed at work in the office I’m usually running between meetings and going to talk to people at their desk.
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by billti 4y ago
Amongst the first sentences... > It may be thought of as what happens when a whole computer starts, since the CPU is the center of the computer and the place where the action begins. I thought that too. Last year I spent a while getting
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by billti 4y ago
I bought this year because the new camera system was getting great reviews (iPhone). I’ve a couple very young kids and most of the photos/videos end up being taken on the phone, and the years go quick, so happy to pay to capture those
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by billti 4y ago
Yeah. I have an Intel MacBook Pro (nearly 10 years old) and never hit this problem. I can leave it on the shelf for a month and it’ll still have a 70% charge. I just gave up on Windows and brought a new M1 Mac due to this exact issue (the I
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by billti 4y ago
I think that's the point though. Our non-tech friends are exactly the people who shouldn't be downloading and installing random (unsigned) binaries. As much as I love to hack and tinker with my OS, I also appreciate the safety inh
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by billti 4y ago
> The difficulty of adding qubits increases super-linearly with the number of qubits Is that true? Hardware from the likes of IBM and IonQ has already gone from < 10 to >= 20 “algorithmic qubits” [1] in the space of a few year. [1]
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by billti 4y ago
That clip resonates strongly with me. I’ve seen exactly the good and bad scenarios he describes there in orgs for the reasons outlined. I think that’s why Apple created so many iconic products under Jobs. You hear stories of Steve using the
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by billti 4y ago
Or be compromised themselves and an unknowing vehicle for attacks (e.g. see SolarWinds).
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by billti 4y ago
I just bought a new 14" M1 MacBook Pro because they stopped doing OS updates for my 2014 Intel MacBook Pro. Kinda sad, as the 2014 MacBook Pro is still, STILL - in 2022!, one of the best laptops I've had (including for running Win
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by billti 4y ago
When I was "seriously" using C++ I created myself a bunch of flashcards (using the Quizlet app) to regularly test myself (spaced repetition) on various C++ idioms and rules; such as when to implement which copy/assignment&#x2
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by billti 4y ago
Same. Stuck at a “modest” diet & exercise habit daily for 8 months with great results. Then I stopped for a couple days and haven’t been able to “keep the chain” going again since. From the article: > While most people get demotivate
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by billti 4y ago
Nice. After decades of high level software development, I’m starting to get back in to microcontroller/processor and “bare metal” development. I first learned to code with Basic and Assembly on the Z80 inside the early Sinclair product
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by billti 4y ago
Similar, but you can do most of those in one line! I also turn on line numbers and map "jk" to Escape in insert mode: set expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 tabstop=4 syntax on set number inoremap jk <Esc&gt
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by billti 4y ago
Nice! Thanks for the link. As I've been playing around building a toy OS for my Raspberry Pi and learning more about hardware virtualization, I was thinking exactly along these lines, i.e. instead of virtualizing an full OS, virtualizi
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by billti 4y ago
Oh, and another similarity: I start lots of projects that interest me, but the ones that get finished are the ones my boss (the wife in this case) keeps hassling me about ;-)
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by billti 4y ago
> The physical work itself is then completely different to software engineering. It’s funny, but I often think how similar they are after doing a project. Maybe I haven’t written enough software for it to feel routine, but I often enjoy
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by billti 4y ago
Someone posted this Steve Jobs response the other day that demonstrates this well. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o ) . Even in front of an audience that size, there is no rush to answer. He takes quite a while t

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