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by eska 3y ago
Good article. 2 suggestions: 1. you mention that passing by value may be faster. The Vector2D function would be a good example for this, because the floats may be passed through registers instead of memory in certain ABIs. It’s a common mis
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by eska 3y ago
On console the ram is shared, and moving data to / from ram can be accomplished via onboard streaming hardware. PC lacks this This hasn't been true for years now.
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by eska 3y ago
Sorry for being ignorant, but I always imagined that the terminal workflow should work much better for blind people than Windows‘ reliance on graphical widgets. Or is the issue elsewhere?
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by eska 3y ago
I don’t think that throwing even more complexity at not only our problems but also our solutions is the lesson from that.
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by eska 3y ago
qed
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by eska 3y ago
Programmer humor is generally terrible
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by eska 3y ago
You think Chinese would be relaxed if a white person called their cuisine “yellow food”? I don’t believe that for a second.
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by eska 3y ago
That’s not true. You sign a form where you write where you were baptized, if you remember, and that’s it. You have to pay for the privilege of exiting, however, although it was your parents who signed you up. Absolutely insanity.
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by eska 3y ago
I don’t see any new idea in this article. It’s more of a plot summary to begin with.
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by eska 3y ago
Have a beer, bro
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by eska 3y ago
Considering that your tone is consistently hostile, I don’t want to engage with you anymore. For your consideration, you probably alienate a lot of people/talent in real life, too. And again “fwiw” as a teen I used to translate and dis
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by eska 3y ago
I think you may be underestimating the importance of this. Say you have a test that detects skin cancer 60% of the time. ..flipping a coin would do it 50% of the time. Such a test is pretty useless. Remember that you’re applying this diagno
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by eska 3y ago
The problem is the same as what destroyed the diagnosis through expert systems the first time around in the 80s/90s.. the software adds an asterisk behind every diagnosis, whether positive or negative, and says “..but talk to your doct
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by eska 3y ago
Almost all of your queries are simple google/documentation/“ffmpeg -h” lookups. AI doesn’t do anything here but add uncertainty whether the information is correct. Anyway, I don’t think you understand what costs programmer time. T
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by eska 3y ago
I don’t mean to sound disrespectful, but out of all examples you could’ve picked, almost all of them scream that your programmers are very unproductive as a baseline.
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by eska 3y ago
* crun could go much lower than that, and require < 1M. The used 4MB is a hard limit set directly in Podman before calling the OCI runtime.* Enough room to hide a lisp implementation!
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by eska 3y ago
Sorry if I misinterpreted your comment, but the last sentence reads like a snark. Why did you have to go from “the basics” to “read half a compiler book”? Most developers don’t even seem to read a single Wikipedia article on it.
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by eska 3y ago
From the parsers I see in the wild (not strictly speaking about compilers here), I think most programmers should definitely spend some time studying the basics of them. It’s incredible to me how people mess up parsing even the simplest of f
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by eska 3y ago
Thanks for remaining neutral and not invading them over it.
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by eska 3y ago
Sorry, I wasn’t being clear. The “you” in my last sentences wasn’t directed at you, but at people sending such replies to the author! I agree with you wholeheartedly.
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by eska 3y ago
In the follow up post he writes that many people commented this kind of work is beneath them and can be done by anyone and will just be automated away by ChatGPT. Say that at my company and I’ll reconsider working with you. So out of touch.
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by eska 3y ago
>I personally helped grow Facebook’s UXR team from a dozen to over 100, then did the same for Airbnb in the same amount of time it took Facebook/Meta to go from 100 to over 1000 researchers. Lots of open headcount everywhere, highly
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by eska 3y ago
If I joined a company like Mozilla as a programmer rather than Google etc my motivation would probably be to create a privacy-protecting browser. If my company asked me to implement user-hostile features I’d just walk out. It’s not like som
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by eska 3y ago
I just hand out a jitsi meet link when the bloated software people have each other install doesn’t work. No install or account required
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by eska 3y ago
The navigation on the left lists “gallery” and “screenshots”
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by eska 3y ago
In my case I write Python like this because the colleagues who are using my software are hardcore engineers but only intermediate or beginner programmers. Well-designed APIs with IDE support and safe patterns protect them from a lot of pote
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by eska 3y ago
BTW I’ve seen studies that people who swear sometimes tend to be more honest and are usually viewed as more honest. Contrast that with constant corporate speak that makes people’s eyes roll.
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by eska 3y ago
The instructions always tell me to let go of my thoughts and concentrate on a mantra I’m confused all instructions you found said this. This is the opposite of what you’re supposed to do. When you calm down your hamster wheel of a brain w
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by eska 3y ago
Not made up: her Made up: xer
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by eska 3y ago
I think the GDPR creates benefits in more areas than you may be aware of. For example I used to work for a hosting provider. An admin noticed that one of the hosted customers had customer data exposed to the internet without a password. Due

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