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by s1gsegv 2y ago
Excellent talk even if you’re not interested in game consoles
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
10% per year does add up, particularly if you don’t upgrade every year. I think if you get some decent lifetime out of your computer you have a good chance of still getting a significant speed boost when you upgrade. I have a Ryzen 3950X an
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I’ve always thought of it like the law of conservation of energy. Money is “energy,” your physical and mental health/stamina are, your time is, your knowledge is a store of energy, your connections can be a store of energy, the risk yo
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I’m in the same camp. If I do something I find interesting and make it open source, it’s because I’d like to do this work out in the open, or someone might benefit from it, not that I am necessarily seeking out collaborators. Plus if you do
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
Depends on your car. If you have a particularly inefficient/large EV then maybe, but if your car can do 3mi/kwh then you’ll get a little over 3 miles of charge per hour. That doesn’t sound like much but it’ll get you 36 miles in 1
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I can respect that “one size fits all” office setups giving way to more varied conditions is a positive. However it must be said that it’s very ‘convenient’ for companies that this is a cheap way to squeeze more out of cramped and more work
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
It’s interesting, because I admittedly don’t drive so consistently, I do 80 miles round trip a couple times a week and might not drive at all on off days, but I’ve found 120V 12A to be completely sufficient. That’s true even with the charge
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I suppose parks (national, provincial/state, or just local) and libraries are neutral. Perhaps this was always true, but it seems for a brief time places like shopping malls were not as concerned as much somehow with having purely imme
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
The depreciation we’re seeing may genuinely be wealth gap related. The people on one side of the gap want a new Tesla rather than a used one, and on the other side you may not have stable charging infrastructure i.e. in an apartment, don’t
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
Yep I specifically keep Google Maps around to find restaurants even though I far prefer the audible navigation from Apple Maps nowadays once I actually want to drive there.
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
Maybe the answer to the bias is to have entire teams as either fully in office or fully remote. At a certain level of management abstraction the physical presence wouldn’t be much of a bias anymore, I almost never see my VPs anyway. And for
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
The thinking is that you might’ve instrumented other code or de optimized it in a way that you don’t want to commit while solving the problem.
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I did notice this when I had a city apartment with a window facing the street: regulators have not taken noise pollution into consideration. They made it very loud so as to be sure to alert all pedestrians, which is good, but it is also far
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
This is the other thing with HxD and I think it's very important for a hex editor, it handles huge amounts of data in the correct way. HxD can open entire block devices, or per-process/whole system RAM, and it all works without bo
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
Interesting, I find HxD on Windows to be the absolute peak of hex editors with no real parallels on macOS or Linux. Which is a shame because I never use Windows. Hex Fiend for instance is my hex editor on macOS, but why does it insist on re
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I think they are now giving people with allergies the correct information… the unfortunate answer is “we are unable/unwilling to control for these allergens, so you can not safely eat it” (whether this is genuinely not economical, or t
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
The incentive systems need to be aligned for us to start seeing these super duper use cases
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I like to think of it as a disguised original Tesla Model S
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
Absolutely. LLMs get a lot of hate but sincerely, GPT-4o can be given a hunk of code (one function/small class worth) and told to find optimization opportunities, and it will do a great job, especially considering the 30s it takes to a
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
Yeah, I don’t care if it’s an advertisement or not, my attention is a finite and scarce resource. I won’t allow it to be stolen by an app just because it suits them. Doordash is on my chopping block to replace completely at the moment, beca
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
See my other comment in this thread, but I’d venture to say yes. Changing the efficiency of enforcement naturally will throw something else in the economy out of balance, particularly if the money spent to increase confidence-sniffing is no
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I think you’re absolutely correct, inefficiency is a strong counterweight, and it’s one that’s (consciously or subconsciously) built into the laws and punishments. When you look at a punishment which is set up as a “deterrent” or you hear a
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I went back to iOS recently, and with AirPods or CarPlay, I found Siri to be a really pleasant surprise. If I need something done, like a text message sent or a quick calculation done, I can just ask without taking my hands or eyes off what
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
They provide a really pleasant service in return: new music discovery I may not keep the files, but if I left Spotify I’m still left with a list of thousands of songs I enjoy and almost certainly wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
This is a really cool idea! Apart from illegal acts though, I wonder if it actually solves the societal gravity problem. I can imagine someone going “yeah I paid $$$ for this thing that’s a societal bad, what are you going to do about it?”
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
To add to this, you must try to do something beyond being a software engineer to encounter more low hanging fruit. Most of the easy “I wish I could” problems that are directly related to what a typical software engineer does on a day to day
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
Yes, Metal seems to allow a maximum of 1/2 of the RAM for one process, and 3/4 of the RAM allocated to the GPU overall. There’s a kernel hack to fix it, but that comes with the usual system integrity caveats. https://gi
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
Having to right click the app (only the first time btw) to open it if it’s unsigned seems right to me even as a power user. If the app is “Mozilla Firefox” and it’s suddenly unsigned I’m going to want to figure out why. Same with UAC, I use
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
This is a good watch, it goes into detail on the architecture of the PS4 showing how it differs from a standard x86_64 “PC.” https://youtu.be/QMiubC6LdTA The “too long; didn’t watch” summary is that there’s several peripher
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by s1gsegv 2y ago
I wouldn’t lump macOS and Windows together for that, as someone who uses Linux and macOS regularly. macOS has defaults that can be for power users, but you can find them and change them. Windows is actively trying to subvert your will at ev

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