isogon

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by isogon 2y ago
Becomes a lot less interesting when you consider that there's no way to power such a camera for any meaningful period of time without a much larger battery (ignoring the issue of storage/transmission).
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by isogon 4y ago
Repurposing flags not always well-motivated, but one legitimate reason to do this is the memory (and particularly cache) footprint. Often flags are local to a particular object. If there are lots of such objects, you want each to take as li
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by isogon 4y ago
There is certainly much variance between the firms, especially the sign-on IME. People I know have turned down HRT core dev for big tech because their offers were unimpressive. I think an interesting target for comparison with big tech is J
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by isogon 4y ago
I cannot confirm this. ~300k is pay (excluding sign-on) fresh out of college at a big HFT -- sufficiently senior devs make 7 figures.
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by isogon 4y ago
Noticed this just now. It is.
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by isogon 4y ago
The idea is precisely that you want to avoid pinging main memory at all, which is possible (in the happy case) if you do things correctly with DDIO. Not everything is done in hardware where I am. I am wary of saying much because my employer
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by isogon 4y ago
For low-latency strategies, AMD's lack of DDIO [0] makes it a non-starter. The memory latency is a big gap to close. [0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/data-direct-i-o-t...
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by isogon 5y ago
Right, and I disagree with that post in this sense: there is a social expectation of fitness for a purpose that cannot be disclaimed with a license. Many projects under licenses providing no warranty are nevertheless of high quality and wel
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by isogon 5y ago
There is social context to licenses. My employment contract states that I am an at-will employee, so my boss could technically fire me because they didn't like my haircut. If they were to _actually_ do this, I would certainly be slight
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by isogon 6y ago
I think the thrust of the complaint is that the society doesn't sufficiently value privacy for its own sake. In a different kind of society, websites of the sort that you describe would be unpopular, because users at large would place
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by isogon 6y ago
I think it's quite reasonable to compare defer and destructors, in that case. Destructors probably cannot be usefully imported into C while preserving the simplicity of the language: then you'll want at least unique_ptr to manage
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by isogon 6y ago
It does often gloss over the nuance. I ultimately try to estimate how bad I am at assessing the veracity of arguments concerning the topic at hand, which I think is most valuable. For example, I read many conflicting predictions concerning
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by isogon 6y ago
I think it is valuable to read a hundred convincingly-written arguments in favor of one point of view, become convinced, and then read a hundred opposing arguments and again become convinced. This maintains my awareness of the fact that I&#
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by isogon 6y ago
That's true. I should add /r/Sino to that list. I also subscribe to ChinaTalk, but I'm not sure how valuable a it is for really gauging what goes on in that part of the net. Unfortunately, I can't read Chinese, so I
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by isogon 6y ago
My own experience is that it works quite well for a certain kind of person: on Reddit I was simultaneously subbed to /r/The_Donald, /r/politics, /r/ChapoTrapHouse, /r/Libertarian, etc (while those wer
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by isogon 6y ago
In my view, the fact that a[b] is equivalent to *(a + b) in C and C++ (in most languages with arrays the latter notation is meaningless) is a sort of a neat coincidence which we shouldn't feel bound to in language design in general. Th
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by isogon 6y ago
I think it's a trope because most people really don't need color printing, so that advice is appropriate for them. I, for example, have only ever used my printer to print such things as tickets and documents which must be mailed f
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by isogon 6y ago
Dockerfiles are far simpler than the Nix language. Likewise, sure, FreeBSD had jails first (and for a long time!), but they are more difficult to set up. Docker allowed reproducibility to be accomplished by a person who likes the idea of i