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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
Large GitHub PRs are miserably slow even with a maxed out Mac Studio on gigabit fiber with single-digit ms ping to their server. It’s not an example of something that works well on high-end hardware but scales down poorly.
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
The eight round interviews are incredibly stupid from the hiring side as well. My job’s thankfully not gone quite that far, but I’ve had a bunch of hiring panels where I don’t have anything to add that the four other people who interviewed
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
I would have guessed a much higher number, and the number possibly being as low as 4% seems like good news to me.
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
The entire point of having multiple branches of government is that they have different powers.
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
And to some extent it got less entertaining as it got higher quality.
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
I do suspect this would not run well on a 75 Mhz Pentium 1. It would be very surprising if Quake 1 was actually the pinnacle of what as possible on the hardware of the time, though. id made exactly one game targeting that generation of hard
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
Oddly enough starting an article with a defense of Nick Shirley leads to the comments on an article being about that.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
Historically one of the big problems with Xcode has been that they only dogfood. There’s people on the team that have not touched any other IDE in decades. They’ve gotten used to all of the quirks, and just don’t really know that things c
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
How would you even tell? The entire premise is that bots are spamming it into oblivion and there's no signal to begin with.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
This is true of every billionaire who is still actively trying to get more money. If you're not satisfied at that point, there's no number where you will be.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
Per the article it's already happened for 96% of creators and this is the deadline for the remaining 4%.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
So is nearly all of this list.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if they rip people off on cheaper phones, but for higher end phones the “free” phones are typically exactly the normal price of the phone split over 24 payments. Every time I buy a new phone I compare buying it direc
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
macOS fakes fractional scaling by rendering a larger image at 2x and then downscaling it. For example, 1800x1169 renders a 3600x2338 at 2x scaling, then resizes the rendered image to 3024x1964. This is slower and looks worse than true fract
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
It’s a $3000 monitor, so yeah, other top end monitors are what I’m going to compare it to.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
4k at 33" is awful too. 5k text is visibly better than 4k at 27".
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
As long as there's a fast charging station somewhere along the route you'd need more like 30 minutes to charge midway through, not multiple hours. You also surely recognize that your driving patterns are very atypical and a car no
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
Exposing what people need doesn’t guarantee that they won’t go digging. It is surprisingly common to discover that someone has come up with a hack that depends on implementation details to do something which you exposed directly and they ju
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
To put it simply, I do not believe his recounting of events. I think that he convinced himself that was the case, but the conversation did not actually happen as he remembers it.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
His theory of gravity (everything in the universe is exponentially growing in size at a continuous rate, shrinking the gaps between things) was a fascinating thought experiment for me as a kid and I enjoyed thinking through how it could wor
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
One of the minor weird things about iOS development early on was just how fast the transition was from the simulator being dramatically faster than actual devices to the simulator being slower than devices. When I started out you’d get thin
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
When using systems without history editing I simply make an order of magnitude fewer commits. With git I basically commit every few minutes and then edit later, and with not-git I simply don't commit until it's "ready".
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
Yes, there is a very large amount of software that's involved in making touchpads work and that software is part of the OS.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
Do you specifically go out of your way to check who sent every transactional email you receive and take notes on which email sending service your order confirmation was sent by? That would be a very weird thing to do and would be the only w
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
The physical card is explicitly just a backup option for when contactless payment isn't available. It would be sort of weird to make it support contactless payment.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
GS lost a whole bunch of money on the deal and wants to get out of it.
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by plorkyeran 9mo ago
One byte equals one character was already incorrect in the pre-unicode days for east asian languages. UTF-8 is much easier to parse than something like Shift JIS, where splitting a string in between bytes of a codepoint results in a valid b
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by plorkyeran 10mo ago
I can't get a $10k workstation but if I used $10k/month on cloud compute it'd take a few months for anyone to talk to me about it and as long as I was actually using it for work purposes I wouldn't run into any consequen
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by plorkyeran 10mo ago
It is very common for there to be "accept all" and "more options" buttons where rejecting all requires multiple clicks via the latter. The sites which havea "Reject all" button right next to the "Accept al
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by plorkyeran 10mo ago
2-5x faster than both abseil's b+tree and std::map means that abseil's b+tree had to be the same performance as std::map for the tested workload. This is... very unusual. I have only ever seen it be much faster or moderately slowe

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