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by rufo 6mo ago
I don’t have much actively constructive to say, but having worked in a large engineering organization before - boy, do I feel this.
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by rufo 8mo ago
The quote uses ifs because it was written before this was verified, but the Wikipedia thread in question has links to evidence of tampering occurring.
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by rufo 8mo ago
You're getting lucky with the games you're playing, then; there are absolutely PC games that have had 20-30 minute long shader compilation times _on high-end gaming hardware_. (I think some of Sony's ports were known for this
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by rufo 9mo ago
I replied to the parent post, but in short, I used it through a subscription service that specifically didn’t update until the ownership issues were clarified to their (and ultimately my) satisfaction. The screen recording permissions are n
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by rufo 9mo ago
Yep, I’m aware of the (incredibly-poorly-handled) change of ownership. I’ve been using it through a SetApp[1] subscription, and they stayed on the pre-acquisition version for quite a while; long enough that enough details came out about the
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by rufo 9mo ago
Random possibility - if you have Bartender installed, it's buggy as shit on Tahoe, and has some really weird stuff it does with hiding the cursor and otherwise changing the focus around. I haven't switched off yet because the alte
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by rufo 9mo ago
Depends on what you need - for pure performance regardless of power usage and 3D use cases like gaming, agreed. For performance per watt under load and video transcoding use cases, the 12th-gen E-core CPUs ala the N100 are _really_ hard to
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by rufo 9mo ago
It's worth watching or reading the WSJ piece[1] about Claudius, as they came up with some particularly inventive ways of getting Phase Two to derail quite quickly: > But then Long returned—armed with deep knowledge of corporate coup
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by rufo 10mo ago
> You can't take denied promos at face value, honestly. This was my experience as well. Maybe your manager didn't push hard enough for you at the level calibration meeting. Maybe your director didn't like the project you w
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by rufo 10mo ago
https://x.com/jonathan_blow/status/1887599339037663629?s=46&... > Are you kidding? He is the best President we have had in my entire life, by far. It's a miracle. I just hope it doesn't abruptly g
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by rufo 10mo ago
https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1939982295936782396 > Trump was my preferred President in the last election cycle but nothing will make me hate him faster than this banana republic shit. (replying to a post
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by rufo 10mo ago
I suspect GitHub - and, to some extent, Microsoft at large - is going through something of a trust thermocline[1] event right now. There's been frustration brewing with GitHub as an open source platform for a while, but not enough for
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by rufo 10mo ago
Motivation doesn't necessarily help. I used to be an extremely motivated engineer. I cared about the code that I wrote, the other people on my team, making sure things were documented and understandable. I tried to write good code wher
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by rufo 1y ago
I think it's that the low quality of the LLM-generated podcast caused him to reflect on the last year's worth of (apparently, largely low-quality) LLM-generated pull requests opened on the project; not that the podcast itself was
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by rufo 1y ago
What's interesting is the change in the policy. Old policy: > If you use an LLM (Large Language Model, like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, or Llama) to make a contribution then you must say so in your contribution and you
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by rufo 1y ago
Even better than a Kindle - library browsing is built-in to the device.
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by rufo 1y ago
Pretty much that. The SDR enthusiast's docker guide the parent comment linked to uses this ultrafeeder container, which has instructions on how to connect directly to dump1090 running on a port. Pairing that[1] plus the rest of the gui
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by rufo 1y ago
IMHO: the acceleration curve into point-of-no-return was when Microsoft decided to go hard on AI, and saw GitHub's Copilot as one of the key inflection points they were going to use to do so - even going so far to adopt the Copilot bra
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by rufo 1y ago
I think sometimes the migrations were halted more because MSFT wanted to hold off. Microsoft makes more money selling Azure outside the company, and they needed more power for GPU build-out once LLMs and AI started becoming one of Microsoft
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by rufo 1y ago
It got a little bit better, first with trains (bundling together PRs so they weren't going out one at a time), and then the merge queue started automating most of the testing and fitting together PRs into bundles that could go out toge
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by rufo 1y ago
> One of the facts established in the verdict was that Google had been slipping Apple more than $20b/year... While the payments were public knowledge and there was speculation about the amount being somewhere between $8B and $12B, t
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by rufo 11y ago
I'd argue the extra $15 for Global Entry is worth it, if you're considering signing up for a Trusted Traveler program. You can go from landing in the US to curbside in single-digit minutes, and even if you don't often fly int
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by rufo 14y ago
As someone who already dreads smartphones coming out at lunch or dinner outings with friends, I already hate the idea of people's wrists lighting up and distracting from conversation. :)
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by rufo 14y ago
Yes, that's basically what "Send Money" does in Simple. It does look like GoBank is doing instant person-to-person transfers, which Simple doesn't have just yet (but they've said is coming soon).
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by rufo 14y ago
Simple has an answer for this in the FAQ. Note that Simple doesn't charge anything themselves for out-of-network ATMs, whereas GoBank charges $2.50 for withdrawals. Does Simple rebate ATM fees? If you use a domestic out-of-network ATM, we w
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My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved(quinnnorton.com)
419 points by rufo 14y ago|40 comments
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by rufo 14y ago
There is no special hardware. It's going to use an off-the-shelf motion controller to start. There's a second video a bit further down with a bit more info.
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by rufo 15y ago
Getting the email server set up is easy, almost trivially so. It's dealing with all the other issues that's an immense pain. SpamAssassin is not always a magic bullet, deliverability to third-party mail servers can be a major problem even i
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by rufo 15y ago
I found DataTables was much, much faster when I passed a JSON data hash - I think the DOM manipulation is what normally kills it. We've got some tables of several thousand rows in a small internal app and performance is fine, even in older
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by rufo 15y ago
MapGL doesn't seem to want to activate on my 2011 MacBook Air in Chrome beta (15) - it just says my computer doesn't meet system requirements. I don't see the option in Safari (with WebGL enabled) or Firefox, either.

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