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by qppo 6y ago
It seems fairly expensive to have different machines for gaming and music production/recording when the only substantial difference is relative investment into CPU and GPU cycles.
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by qppo 6y ago
We fix it when we see it's broken, which isn't going to happen at 1am local time. If we have a distributed team the odds are better it gets fixed sooner. The world keeps spinning and there's always another bug to fix, it&#x27
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by qppo 6y ago
I've never worked on a product where it ever made sense to be "on call." I'm an engineer, not a doctor.
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by qppo 6y ago
I think the simplest explanation is that they don't have automated review processes for media like they do for software and Apple isn't a single person making decisions about what they sell on every app all the time. That said, TV
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by qppo 6y ago
Nothing! Just that they're over represented in listings and publishers/authors will game their way to the top of search and best seller results on book apps. It makes it more difficult to find content I would like to read.
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by qppo 6y ago
I don't necessarily agree that TV/Music/books need more moderation in terms of censorship (and they do have plenty of that), but more curation. Apple TV is a good example of that, it's highly curated. Books are really ba
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by qppo 6y ago
Nintendo defined mobile gaming for decades, and they currently sell the leading game console in the world which is designed to switch between mobile and console gaming.
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by qppo 6y ago
I'd argue that most of the time you never owned your data, it was held under lock and key by proprietary serialization formats. Sure it's physically on your disk, but data is only useful if you own the mechanisms to read and write
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by qppo 6y ago
Comprehensive labor reform could be a solid platform for any state representative or governor that wants to make a run in 2024, and I can see several states taking it on. There are many horses to be traded. Some things like banning non-comp
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by qppo 6y ago
The first thing that any state should do to make itself a new tech hub is create strong protections for workers so they can freely move to different companies or found their own. Pro-labor is not anti business, quite the opposite here. But
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by qppo 6y ago
The middle ground of DSLs is to consider that to realize a DSL one must have an AST, and an AST is the ultimate data representation for complex business logic, allowing for (almost literally) infinite degrees of introspection or analysis, a
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by qppo 6y ago
An accident most likely, since the policy dates to the 19th century.
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by qppo 6y ago
Well right now it's personal safety as another comment mentioned. Long term it's because I don't want my kids to grow up around the same people I did. Intolerable is an ironic word because my personal choices cut right to the
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by qppo 6y ago
Not municipalities but the state's labor laws are highly conducive to the tech culture and don't exist most places in the country. There's not much money for the startup crop that feeds big tech outside the Bay Area. It'
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by qppo 6y ago
GC is usually out the window if you're debating using C++
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by qppo 6y ago
I'd like to see the ratio as a percentage of domestic Cadillac sales
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by qppo 6y ago
Yesterday the conversation was all over the tone of the email exchange, and my gut was regardless of the research it discussed that Google was probably alright to choose to accept that researcher's resignation. Now I think I was wrong
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by qppo 6y ago
> UML diagrams are highly overrated. Personally I think they're plain dumb. Not saying I can't hide my ego and move on, just that I think they're a massive waste of time on a leaky abstraction rooted in organizations that
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by qppo 6y ago
Not an expert here but I think there's a non trivial detail to your gist, which is that (user space) context switches can be faster than cache misses, and you can design a scheduler that knows enough about its coroutines to switch to a
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by qppo 6y ago
I mean if you compare a rich person to a poor person yes the rich person is going to come out ahead in most social metrics but we're not speaking of wealth inequality, but social divides outside of it. That said, in the United States,
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by qppo 6y ago
Diversity initiatives are like a graduated social tax. As a passably straight white man I can afford to pay more than an LGBTQ person of color. Just like I can pay more in income taxes than people in different financial situations. It doesn
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by qppo 6y ago
> the market for Linux-only laptops is pretty small. but growing more today than it was a few years ago because of the prevalence of Chromebooks in education. Many of which run ARM CPUs!
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by qppo 6y ago
People who get left holding the bag when trading options.
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by qppo 6y ago
So old we use Latin terms to describe it, like de jure and de facto .
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by qppo 6y ago
It's closer to Scientology than Unix, in my opinion.
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by qppo 6y ago
In any game information asymmetry creates an advantage, so I don't know how you remove incentive to secure information or break its security.
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by qppo 6y ago
Nation states don't have access to Google Project Zero's institutional knowledge and experience, except maybe the US. I think that knowledge and experience is a higher barrier than people give credit. Really the best way to preven
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by qppo 6y ago
I use ripgrep on macos
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by qppo 6y ago
Awesome tip, thanks! I didn't know this existed.
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by qppo 6y ago
That's a searing hot take, to be sure. There is no alternative to the C ABI. If you look at stable ABIs in other programming languages, they're either identical to or thin shims around the C ABI! Even COM, with the caveat of calli

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