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by fsloth 2y ago
As a fun anecdote I think this same rationale - ”next years hardware is so much better” - is why so many desktop softwares 90’s->00’s became slow - ”meh you don’t have to care about performance, next year’s cpu is going to be so much fas
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by fsloth 2y ago
As other poster said, Gripen is perfect for a defensive role as a missile launch platform. It's not supposed to go 1:1 with F-35:s, but to counter the Russian air capability - and mostly in a defensive role. F-35:s were really great wh
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by fsloth 2y ago
This is not about value signaling. It’s a reaction to the fact that US is willing to shutdown US service offerings and hardware owned by counter parties for political arm twisting. US products are great. But suddenly they look just as risky
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by fsloth 2y ago
No, the number of comments indicate git is often an inappropriate tool. I do agree I’ve often wondered about my career choice after being forced to use git. Any other VCS system I’ve used bar some old unix tools offer much better usability.
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by fsloth 2y ago
A large part of high performance programming using any language is about memory management. For stuff that you run only for yourself and _always_ executes in a blink of an eye I do agree.
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by fsloth 2y ago
Exactly. VCS is part of an industrial process. It's not supposed to be implemented with a thin wrapper to a database whose node structure you need to rummage through. The software analogue would be that in order to use the platform def
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by fsloth 2y ago
All of them. A command line should not be the default option. Again, this is not to bash Git. It's a bash on the industry for selecting tool that requires engineers to spend time and effort on non-value adding part of their work rather
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by fsloth 2y ago
VCS should be trivial push-button activity (and _is_ except with Git). There is no added value making a thing far less usable than could be. This is not git’s fault - it is what it is. But it is incomprehensible industry selected it as it’s
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by fsloth 2y ago
This. There are other options.
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by fsloth 2y ago
Git is bad. Super bad. It's brilliant for it's original purpose of managing diffs in an open source project. For industrial projects that are not organized like an open source project it's a massive, massive footgun and it sa
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by fsloth 2y ago
Does not still fix the root cause that Git is super-bad as an industrial tool - actions that should be trivial push-button activities become incomprehensible command line character soup. The fact there is a book on the subject speaks volu
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by fsloth 2y ago
Exactly. Nukes are the ultimate guarantor of piece.
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by fsloth 2y ago
You do realize Russia is _puny_ in all other aspects expect corruption and lack of value of human life where they are champions. The reason Russia has succeeded so far is because most parties have _minimized_ their engagement with the confl
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by fsloth 2y ago
Agree on the Web App. Cursor with Claude 3.7 is a pretty good "CoPilot" experience though.
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by fsloth 2y ago
The research models offered by several vendors can do a pitch deck but I don't know how effective they are. (do market research, provide some initial hypothesis, ask the model to backup that hypothesis based on the research, request
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by fsloth 2y ago
So Unity’s own ui tools should suffice? Do they?
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by fsloth 2y ago
It’s psychologically very rewarding to be needed. And CEOs are needed all the time.
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by fsloth 2y ago
As a developer that looks horrible but if I was running a bodyshop I would probably love this. Just plug-in people to whatever codebase. If I was VC I would probably immediately fund this. ”The human adapter”. As technology develops AI agen
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by fsloth 2y ago
And 1080 is totally fine at 1920x1080 60fps even with recent games (I see my son enjoying Elden Ring, Helldivers 2 etc with that setup).
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by fsloth 2y ago
No, focusing on code style is weird. It’s tablestakes it should be uniform in style and legible. Automate styling to vanilla defaults. Leave it . It’s like obsessing over the font on the packaging of the marker you use to write to the whit
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by fsloth 2y ago
Filesystem is great. It’s insane it took so long. Optional is nice but slightly awkward in a non-garbage collected language. IMO variant is one of those things that should not exist in standard. It tries to implement discriminated union in
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by fsloth 2y ago
Trick problems and whiteboarding was always “jump through the hoops” bs IMHO. In-person dialogue with multiple team members and sufficiently complex take-home assignment remains a pretty good method. LLM are excellent API docs and should no
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by fsloth 2y ago
"This is going to sound really unfair, " That's not unfair at all, I think it's a fair assessment. Industrial tools should have adults at the helm. People who care about longevity and robustness foremost. About deliverin
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by fsloth 2y ago
>evidently this project has >been done lots of times in >similar circumstances without >LLMs. LLMs help organizing knowledge and research in a novel domain. The point is not “can you do it”. LLMs are great at giving vanilla stan
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by fsloth 2y ago
$10k transatlantic return hop. Add expedited immigration. Does not sound insane. First class tickets London-NY can be already in this price range. Not for everyone of course (certainly way out of my price range).
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by fsloth 2y ago
Hilarious. This was brilliant, thanks. And eerily, eerily poignant.
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by fsloth 2y ago
“ client is interested in 3D scanning cars, outdoors and in varying conditions.” The implications of these requirements (ie car _in specific location_) is not obvious to me. What are they planning to do with the model? Have they customized
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by fsloth 2y ago
IMHO - No - having individual contributor workflows is diffenrent thing than aligning 10 people. The question is not who gets to do the decisions but how the team aligns itself and coordinates. It’s an accurate observation that single contr
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by fsloth 2y ago
“many reports (and management self-help literature) where teams are shown to be the superior approach” Isn’t the manager himself the BDFL - or a part of a BDFL led chain of command - for the team he is empowering in this case? He does not g
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by fsloth 2y ago
If Vim tracks you then that’s a willfull act that breaches trust. IMO no governance model can defend against supply chain attacks. IMO you shouldn’t try to fix things with governance model which it doesn’t fix. Use a governance model that l

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