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I think Java got this mostly right. On the threading front, very little is thread-safe or atomic (x += 1 is not thread-safe), so as soon as you expose something to threads, you have to think about safe access. For interacting with C code, y
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If I were CEO, I'd notice that smart phones, tables, Chromebooks, and a more successful Apple have shifted the market. Windows is only 10% of revenue, so I'm not about to throw it away, but it's declining, and it's my fo
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When the desktop environments unite and a single distro rises up as champion, the year is nigh.
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Not to mention population growth. The debt per capita or debt to GDP could be improving (it's not) and we still see headlines like this. It's a fun milestone, but context matters.
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Three nines might be good enough when you're Fornite. Probably not when you're Robinhood.
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He wasn't elected, but sometimes (spiritual) protest votes win. If Harris had won and appointed a conventional secretary, it would have been a status quo that people haven't been happy with. > but the "but before that happ
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If they really wanted that dividend, they could see that the company is doing $X in buybacks, figure out what percent of its market cap that works out to, sell a corresponding amount, and pretend it's a dividend. A lot of shareholders
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How about this: he's good at pointing out problems, but not good at proposing effective solutions?
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He does, but before that happens, the legitimate medical community needs to look in the mirror, reflect on how he happened, why they lost some amount of trust, and look to remedying that. Someone else in this thread pointed out their role i
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I'd rather the industry standardizes on some sort of guest network and proxy/hub. It could even ship with hardware from ISPs. Separating the network buys you a lot of security, and running everything through a proxy makes it easie
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It's getting priced like an easy-to-fix recall that affects some cars of a specific model for one of their brands.
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Now I'm going to disagree with myself... there came a point where movies started innovating in storytelling rather than the technical aspects (think Panavision). Anything that was SFX-driven is different, but the stories movies tell an
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> Unreal engine 1 looks good to me, so I am not a good judge. But we did hit a point where the games were good enough, and better hardware just meant more polygons, better textures, and more lighting. The issues with Unreal Engine 1 (or
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> non generative AI up-scaling I know this isn't an original idea, but I wonder if this will be the trick for step-level improvement in visuals. Use traditional 3D models for the broad strokes and generative AI for texture and light
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> "I don’t understand the docs, anyone have a video?" As an experienced dev, I hate this trend. I don't need my hand held for 10 minutes; I need to see three specific lines of config that may or may not be somewhere in the
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Those are all possibilities, but https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/RYR3418/history/2025... They had at least an extra hour of fuel, and they landed at the third airport they tried.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Armchair quarterbacking it, but it was human error. They should have diverted sooner and been more aware of the weather. Edit: there might also be part of Ryanair culture that contributed, but that's speculation.
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I'm not sure if Microsoft knows it, but it doesn't care about or need Windows anymore. Office has native apps and is on the web, Xbox is doing its own things, dotnet has been freed from Windows, and Azure doesn't need Windows
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This looks like the house money effect. It's sort of a corollary to the sunk cost fallacy.
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> Evidence from Google architects shows GPUs at 60-70% utilization survive 1-2 years , with 3 years maximum. Really?! I'm not used to chips having such a short lifespan.
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I doubt this is the answer, but I was talking to a European about this, and he said it's not like Europe is much better. If you look at the largest Europeam economies—Germany, the UK, and France—all are facing their own issues not unli
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Enshitification is common in public companies, too. It's more a feature of greedy, short-term owners.
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> This isn't unique to just aviation btw but most industries Most of us work in tech. Imagine an auditor coming in and trying to sort out if one of the most complex systems at your company is "safe." What's safe? Ever
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I buy that vibe coding doesn't work at that scale, and there will always be an investor that thinks it does (these aren't being led by traditional tech investors) who's willing to pay, thinking there's an opportunity. Th
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> The debt buyers are the same people that created that debt (the people doing the LBO in the first place) Sometimes, but not always. I did a quick search on who it is for EA, but didn't find anything. > They force the company th
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Found this: > The investors are betting that AI-based cost cuts will significantly boost EA’s profits in the coming years, people involved in the transaction told the Financial Times. It halfway makes sense. EA is priced at current game
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At some point, the debt buyers will (or should) balk over the track record of this debt, or the company has enough collateral that they're happy either way.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Shameless plug, but a while back, I implemented a "branchless" (I think it actually branches, but not in the usual sense) binary search in C. It was just a POC to see if 1) I could be clever enough with bitwise operators to do it
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> Rice is now very much a staple food in the UK. I knew a Brit who described chicken tikka masala as the national dish of the UK.
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> this article That's the one! Thank you!

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