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by boulos 6y ago
Nice work! In addition to dahart’s suggestions, I’d be curious to see some of your profiling that you did. Like, what’s the breakdown of the timing now? Are you PCIe limited, or have you overlapped the I/O with enough compute that it’s
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by boulos 6y ago
Dave, I’m curious to see what happens now that the latest Quadro and Tesla parts have 40 or 48 GB of memory. That’s now plenty enough for all the geometry of a production scene plus a texture cache, but almost never enough for the base text
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by boulos 6y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned that "All this computer hacking is making me thirsty. I think I'll order a Tab" [1] will no longer make sense :). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st6-DgWeuos
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by boulos 6y ago
Tyler Cowen (from Conversations with Tyler) does a variant of this, but a bit less creepy than that sounds :).
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by boulos 6y ago
A pipeline is all about coordinating between teams / departments. So a single person probably doesn't have much to gain (the main value would be the benefit of rigor / tooling, sort of like using git for your own local proj
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by boulos 6y ago
> base pay isn't so far off, but you don't get equity. This is the best summary of the situation. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any levels.fyi data from any of the studios. Anecdotally, film, like the game industry, has
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by boulos 6y ago
Hmm. Image Movers Digital (IMD) was definitely 50-weeks minimum. IIRC, the "original" DD had the same policy.
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by boulos 6y ago
Cool! Maybe you should have titled it as a Show HN? Fwiw, a lot of the images / references aren’t showing up for me (Mobile Safari). Hug of death?
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by boulos 6y ago
American intervention in Cuba due to newspapers absolutely fits the “most people believed it” criterion [1]: > American newspapers fanned the flames of interest in the war by fabricating atrocities which justified intervention in a numbe
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by boulos 6y ago
> without being accountable to the public Edit (I should have included this), Disclosure: I work at Google Cloud and have worked with folks at Twitter (but never their policy teams or anything). I would say that compared to many cable ne
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Remdesivir Fails to Prevent Covid-19 Deaths in Trial(nytimes.com)
17 points by boulos 6y ago|1 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
They’re talking about exactly that: disruptions in offices have a huge drag, so WFH can allow companies to recoup productivity.
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by boulos 6y ago
Interestingly, the commissioned study opens with a productivity argument being much more than any of those perks: > Loss of focus due to distractions translates to an estimated annual salary cost of US$34,448 per person in lost productiv
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by boulos 6y ago
I found this quote particularly damning: > Even with the stress and anxiety caused by the covid-19 pandemic, 36% feel either much more or somewhat more focused working from home as opposed to their office, compared with 28% who feel less
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In Search of Lost Focus(lostfocus.eiu.com)
2 points by boulos 6y ago|1 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
Thanks for highlighting the set of challenges (and also right near the top of the blog post). Do you or the EIU intend to make the study results more broadly available? (There was a good discussion of Nick Bloom’s recent surveys yesterday,
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by boulos 6y ago
The Lost Generation were the people who came of age during WW1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation
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by boulos 6y ago
Actually, while many units were built, they were almost all in tall buildings in Soma. Many of those are occupied by renters, and approximately everyone wanted out (100 unit building with a pair of elevators isn’t a covid friendly plan). Li
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Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID19 shutdown(science.sciencemag.org)
91 points by boulos 6y ago|19 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
This is actually a lot of Bloom’s point in all of this: this isn’t a good test of WFH, yet many people are already quite pleased. See my other comment linking to the original survey description and results (this was done in May , and I t
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by boulos 6y ago
They did separate out never and rarely in the original research survey [1]. Edit: The question was "In 2021+ (after COVID) how often would you like to have paid work days at home?“ (surveying "2,500 US residents aged 20 to 64, ear
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by boulos 6y ago
You clearly wouldn’t see the movie if you’d seen some final frames that were emailed to you :). > It'll be interesting to see in the future when content is cheap to produce. I predict a complete shift away from this. It’s actually
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Your intuition is right: they're afraid of the content leaking. For cloud providers, this results in ... amusingly long documents. Here's GCP's at 110 pages [1], while the AWS folks were cl
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by boulos 6y ago
Cool! I was curious to see what you chose to do for representing arbitrary bit width. I didn't see an example / test for something like u19 though. Your backend compilation seems to generate calls to an arbitrary width [1], but I
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by boulos 6y ago
Re-reading the end of that post, I’m reminded that Josh had a talk about potential improvements. I only return to Rust about once or twice a year (currently) and keep cutting myself on an ergonomics thing like this. But I’ve also seen it im
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclaimer: I haven’t used bitflags (but I don’t think it applies for my need). The nginx example in the above blog post seems like a bitfield! equivalent would be... unpleasant. For very small structs that are just only wire formats, I mig
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by boulos 6y ago
This is a good list of positives. I'm surprised there's no mention of bitfields though. I like the u32::from_le_bytes and into() and so on, but I feel like Rust would be a perfect match for explicit "u3" types when deali
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by boulos 6y ago
Interesting! Thanks for clarifying! Edit: And your brokerage doesn't force the settlement funds into your local currency at an exorbitant rate or anything? (I am deeply amused by your backdoor currency exchange)
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by boulos 6y ago
Presumably by “trade in New York” you mean there’s an ADR (so you’re still trading within your account, but for a separate security). Edit: because otherwise you’d need to also wire transfer, right? (Not saying this isn’t rational, just ask
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IBM to Spin Off IT Operations(newsroom.ibm.com)
1 points by boulos 6y ago|0 comments

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