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by fsloth 2mo ago
Whoa the acceleration from the start surprised me. It’s huge and it just … zipped off the pad like a bullet (ok not real bullet but still).
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by fsloth 2mo ago
Hmm I never could get the DWARF debug information to hook up properly, must give this a try next time I need to return to the topic. If you don't mind - what's your specific setup when debugging Sokol, I might start from replicati
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by fsloth 2mo ago
" it's cross-platform" Nothing in real time graphics _actually_ is cross platform. You are always programming a vendor hardware. "Cross platform" really has no value in graphics programming, honestly, when discussin
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by fsloth 2mo ago
"The "universal" nature of WebGPU with the "web" focus feels a lot like the graphics API equivalent of WASM" Having shipped non-trivial WASM code in two projects That's not a positive thing. WASM is stuck
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by fsloth 2mo ago
TBH to me she reads as high performing idealist, not naive. Different things, may give similar signals.
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by fsloth 2mo ago
"insufferable and very naive." IMHO she is just not from US. US culture _is_ totally foreign to anyone not from there. Read the part where she describes her interactions with New Zealand prime minister and you will get it. That pa
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by fsloth 2mo ago
If you loved Catch-22 you will love ”Careless people”! I warmly recommend a read. Not to support Sarah necessarily - just because the book is great! It’s not really a spill-the-tea as much absurdist escapade in corporate america. Ok the det
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by fsloth 2mo ago
”Web compilers are dime-a-dozen” Oh didn’t know that! What is the best for ”compiles to wasm in browser” featureset?
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by fsloth 3mo ago
I came to the comments exactly for this ("wait I thought we 'knew' this already"). I'm so happy we have HN with likeminded people and no noise.
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by fsloth 3mo ago
Hiit training can use any type of exercise that allows quick change of pace. The routine in Tabata’s original HIIT work was just cycling. Crossfit afaik is a more complex affair than just cycling. So is the risk of injury due to specific mo
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by fsloth 3mo ago
"hiit also causes a lot of damage in a lot of ways" Oh! I didn't know about this. Are there any references you could quote?
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by fsloth 3mo ago
There is no bad publicity! I wonder if OpenAI explicilty asked for this.
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by fsloth 3mo ago
I could read this as black comedy. "Take him to a psychologist" was standard playbook in soviet block to silence dissent. Everyone knows of the gulag archipelago but just declaring someone insane was part of the toolkit.
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by fsloth 3mo ago
No, read the post. This is directly copying another product. "Vibe coding" which may or may not have happened is not the point here.
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by fsloth 3mo ago
If you need this stuff in production I recommend getting a good computer graphics textbook. These cheat sheets are convenient _if you already know what you are doing_ and _are confident the cheat sheet uses same presentation as your problem
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by fsloth 3mo ago
"The boss" is not who says what is good enough. Ultimately it's the customer. In many industries it seems good enough is not very good. Then there are industries where the customer complains if code is slow. They will actuall
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by fsloth 3mo ago
On the topic of public engineering projects overall, I'm wondering are there better books on this topic than Robert Caro's "Power broker"? Which is basically "Soul of a new machine" for municipalities with all
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by fsloth 3mo ago
I guess they can say "Made in China, designed by Apple in California" in the packaging but at least they still take pride in the design. With AI it sounds you are disavowing also the authorship of the design.
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by fsloth 3mo ago
"Founding cannot be a commodity. If it is, you have no moat or point, meaning you instantly collapse again, because you are an interchangeable commodity." IMHO you still need to find the product and PMF There are bunch of books st
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by fsloth 4mo ago
This! The only way to get to a stable system at least with c/c++ source, where you can hunt bugs, is to have a fairly large unit test coverage. When something fails - add that as test case; run ctest - pray that this is discoverable wi
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by fsloth 4mo ago
"has already replaced several software engineers. " I think this is incorrect, unless your friends employed software engineers, or would have employed software engineers.
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by fsloth 4mo ago
"I think most of us are happy to believe that most companies simply have bad leadership" I don't believe this for a second. I don't know if this makes me the minority or not though! It trivializes forces influencing larg
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by fsloth 4mo ago
I wish it was so as well but "When McKinsey Comes To Town" by Bogdanich and Forsythe documents exactly standard tactics such as these in e.g. insurance.
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by fsloth 4mo ago
"the crazy part to me is how blatant the executives of bricks and minifigs are in saying go ahead and try to sue us, we’ll drag this out " To my experience this is a common strategy in disputes when the corporate party has people
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by fsloth 4mo ago
Well there are already offerings like githits ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105112 ) that sort of promise optimize bang-per-buck of inference
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by fsloth 4mo ago
> Some FAANGs are doing amazing things with unlimited tokens. Would love to know what things!
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by fsloth 5mo ago
In my mind design and theory are inseparable. Design is the accumulation of many design decisions. Theory explains what influenced those decisions. Design needs theory to be intentional. It can of course be accidental (”seems to work, I gue
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by fsloth 5mo ago
Agree! Another point of view is that LLM:s perform to an extent on the same level as outsourcing does. This interface requires a bit more contract mass than doing everything within single team.
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by fsloth 5mo ago
Having worked in CAD for over a decade previously, I think the users want a product surface, and the people paying for the engineers time want a reliable trainable solution that will exist exactly as it is today in five years. They are happ
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by fsloth 5mo ago
"McKinsey comes to town". Basically same shaped taylorism-derived industrial management has imposed itself as the "default dogma" in private and public administration.

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