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by sigstoat 4y ago
> the first words said is you want to make the call even longer than necessary to provide me with information i can do nothing about. excellent.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> even a 4090 doesn't get above 30 fps on rtx portal without dlss helping out at 4k. A 4090! hmm, yeah, i just tried turning off DLSS on a 3080. that went very poorly. > It feels like this was purposely done to disadvantage amd
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by sigstoat 4y ago
now they come in nice little disposable cardboard boxes, and they're available within a mile or two of your home, 365 days a year, probably about 24/7, regardless of season, or any diseases sweeping through the chicken population.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Where's the predicted society where automation allows us all to work for two hours a day, and spend the rest at leisure? if you'd like the standard of living of a few centuries ago, you can probably fund that by programming f
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Nope. I've never met anyone who can complete in a month what it takes an average coder a year to complete. i've built in two weeks something that took another guy 5 years to not even quite finish. with better performance, rel
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Maybe they should change their incentives so that managers actually want the right things what's the incentive structure for mid-level managers that maximizes productivity, but doesn't have the managers whipping the staff to
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> There is a book written on how DirectX was created and what went on inside the team during those initial days of DirectX. what's the title? the number of books on programming with directx sort of drowns out the search results.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> The worst managers of all will tend to give you the answers you most want to hear i don't think the worst managers even know what the right answer is.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Not History per se but history on our discipline and how little things have changed. i've been reading older software engineering books lately. the only way in which they are outdated are the mentions of tapes, terminals, and smok
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by sigstoat 4y ago
you know there are integrated circuits which aren't CPUs or microcontrollers. it's tough to program your way out of needing a regulator or amplifier or something.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> dont you think there are many objects that are "micro hubbles" you reply to a comment about the size of the mirror, and then ask if there are "micro hubbles". no, there literally cannot be a micro hubble, because th
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by sigstoat 4y ago
any suggestions for getting nice graph db-style functionality out of an postgres schema, where you've got the nodes and edges of a labelled property graph spread across a bunch of different tables? (AGE seems to want to create a separa
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by sigstoat 4y ago
when it first came out and my boss was behind himself about how cool it was, he was feeding it all of his emails with other businesses to have it clean them up. boggled my mind.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
yes and then we foolishly just take the average or something instead of saying “oops clearly this needs to be broken down further”
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by sigstoat 4y ago
it's mostly a problem with screens, simple, inexpensive tests that should only be used a precursor to running an expensive test involving mass spectrometers. usually the manufacturer of the screening test mentions this in the documenta
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> What do you want him to say? there's nothing that makes the HN comment section happy about these corporate communications. if some CEO literally fell on his sword in personal apology to these folks, they'd gripe about the blo
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by sigstoat 4y ago
turning depositors, probably the most senior possible form of debt, into shareholders, the least senior form of debt, is a garbage deal that nobody in their right mind would take.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
hot tip: ld_preload’ing it when running something that leaks memory or erroneously frees memory still in use can fix the problem. (obviously best to just fix the code if you have it.)
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by sigstoat 4y ago
you can amplify noise from various electrical junctions to produce randomness for orders of magnitude less energy than anything involving macroscale materials moving around. there’s no problem left to solve.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
to do what? the colors represent different weather phenomenon, not the temperature. i quickly counted at least 16 different colors present on the map.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> A former colleague of mine challenged his grad students to implement an error-free version of binary search. He gave them the specification and verified each one: the majority of the submissions had errors. I was in a class on Isabelle
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by sigstoat 4y ago
i think an open source zapier alternative would be a desktop app that had a nice UI, and synthesized terraform/FaaS code/API gateway-equivalent stuff behind the scenes and then ran it against my preferred cloud provider account. n
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by sigstoat 4y ago
in my experience that sort of "send some spam to addresses we have no reason to believe exist" behavior takes the form of sending stuff to $commonfirstname@domain not $service@domain nobody is sending email to alsdkjfadf@domain
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Japan has literally bought major cities in commute distance with bullet trains. Japan is the size of California. > You factor that into your plan and travel comfortably and peacefully. If train travel became as popular as air travel
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by sigstoat 4y ago
those customers were responsible for $19.6B in sales. that’s sort of a bunch of money to say “fuck you” to. not to mention the ethical backflips you’d have to use to distinguish the SAF from the ACLU.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
if i've learned anything from HN, it is that the language you write something in is the most important thing you can say about it.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Out of all objectives that further Russian power, you have decided on the squashing new nuclear plants. it's not like it's a team of five guys slogging away in the propaganda mines with pick axes. they can pursue a number of
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by sigstoat 4y ago
maybe foreign data wrappers would be relevant to your interests? i believe there are already a number of them which expose non-databasey things.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> But this is HN, and, from an optimization / constraint satisfaction problem perspective / scale perspective, it’s really not a very large problem. i can't even begin to imagine what the utility function _alone_ must look
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> He is with his family, living however he wants. Eating great food, drinking, relaxing. Enjoying himself. i don’t feel a particular need to start paying to house him any sooner than necessary. we’re all going to be stuck with that bill

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