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by fsloth 3y ago
I can’t confirm but it does look like a significant portion of current software engineering zeitgeist is developed for compartmentalized careerism with a good splash of non-value adding complexity. If that keeps food on the table and the wh
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by fsloth 3y ago
Because love vs hate is completely wrong way to view the product - unless it’s some pointless fluff. Users can be compelled to use a product because it solves a problem for them, but it may have features and bugs that cause them to hate it.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Exactly! You don’t want love, you want users to be compelled to use the product for whatever reason. I don’t love a hammer but it’s a super compelling option when I have some nails…
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by fsloth 3y ago
I thought the intent was to maximize diversification, not to saturate a single channel? Not sure what actually takes place and I may be mistaken.
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by fsloth 3y ago
" faking 750 artist names" Why would this be problematic? Artist commonly work under one or more pseudonyms. 750 is quite a lot for sure, but is there material difference between that and just a few?
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by fsloth 3y ago
I still default to pen and paper when approaching problem that lacks a predetermined fixed schema. Computer editors are not ready yet. There is nothing that is as powerful and immediate as pen and paper (and yes, I've seen a lot of the
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by fsloth 3y ago
Early Foundation books are literally just dudes smoking and mansplaining galactic events to one another. You don’t need a CGI budget to actually film foundation - you only need a room and few good actors who can carry dialogue for hours. Fr
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by fsloth 3y ago
Rendering the triangle meshes and polygon meshes is actually a ’nice to have’ tip of the iceberg in CAD/CAM/BIM flows and Blender doesn’t really help in the domain problem as such. In general design workflows feed data to downstre
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by fsloth 3y ago
BIM is a well known acronym in the building&construction market where this plugin is intended to be used.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Meh. Geometry kernels are oversold. Triangulate, CSG and triumph. CSG is the non-trivial part - and Manifold ( https://github.com/elalish/manifold ) is excellent at this. At least for consumer stuff where you anyway even
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by fsloth 3y ago
Excellent point. To be honest I've not approached the material in a few years. Can you pinpoint which areas are wrong?
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by fsloth 3y ago
Agner Fog’s optimization manuals are pretty good https://www.agner.org/optimize/
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by fsloth 3y ago
AFAIK Cybertruck is edgy due to manufacturing constraints on the body?
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by fsloth 3y ago
Any vanilla option with millions of users and some reputation for quality works for this. Windows works just fine out of the box. As does mac os. As does debian. With windows you ofc run the risk of purchasing your kit from a shitty vendor
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by fsloth 3y ago
Android development seems to be universally acknowledged as a backwater -experience compared to other platforms.
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by fsloth 3y ago
When you first learn that the industrial revolution started in England, you imagine it must be still amazing given 200 years at it. Then you grow up, and learn what they actually did was 100 years of manufacturing with the same infrastructu
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by fsloth 3y ago
44 here! This is what it’s to be middle aged! To me it’s not weird to do some Rust programming out of work. What is weird is if people believe it would be some sort of virtue. If it’s fun for the person, great! If it’s not fun and you are
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by fsloth 3y ago
At 24 I mostly played video games and avoided studying for my MSc (which I passed a few years later despite my best efforts to flunk it). Then I found what I really like, dropped out from a PhD program, and am now two decades later pretty g
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by fsloth 3y ago
”Do stuff that interests you” is possibly the best recipe for happy life ever. That’s the Einstein, Feynman & James Watson recipe as well. But the point is not to be succesfull, the point is to do things that interest you, and avoid tho
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by fsloth 3y ago
”MS Office users need to get used to working with the standard document format, which is what OpenDocument is.” This is not how the world, in which most of Fortune 500 operate in, works. The software and format people use, is the one usuall
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by fsloth 3y ago
libcurl is excellent.
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by fsloth 3y ago
I guess this could be an economics thing. Stereotypically maintenance of scientific codebases in general is not very lucractive, and the mental kick (IMHO you need to enjoy high performance numerical computing to be truly good at it) can be
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by fsloth 3y ago
Now don't go blaming capitalism. It's the software engineers tendency to always be on the lookout for the silver bullet that will fix one of the currently broken things so it doesn't hurt so much that drives this endless perf
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by fsloth 3y ago
What is ”bulge bracket 2”?
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by fsloth 3y ago
US media is a huge cultural influence. It takes a ridiculous amount of mindspace globaly. However, with youtube&tiktok this seems to be changing - the most important influence is not from Hollywood but ”random” youtubers. So, ”content
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by fsloth 3y ago
You don’t need to keep up with the joneses to write C++. The whole point with the language is that it’s for millions of lines of code that exist for decades and you don’t update every line every time the standard is updated. Most existing c
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by fsloth 3y ago
You don’t choose C++ because you want to but because you need to due to constraints that Java likely does not fullfill. As a C++ dev - If you don’t need C++ then choose whatever other modern language. We keep up with C++ because of spec
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by fsloth 3y ago
You shouldnt need to ”keep up with a language”. A professional computer language should always have a ”LTS” mode where you can compile a decade old code without modifications. Otherwise the language is a toy.
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by fsloth 3y ago
I think in any case you need to learn C before C++. As a language C++ is a footgun. Unless you really want to learn it or need it for a job, it’s not something you pick up for fun. If you want to do computer graphics or computational geomet
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by fsloth 3y ago
I write C++ as my day job. The secret is you don’t need keep up. The standard is weird and getting weirder. And no, it’s not ”well thought out complex technical endeavour”. It’s a jury rigged pile of legacy code with tons of useless sugar,

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