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by ska 3y ago
Oh I would never ask someone why; let a thousand flowers bloom. I just find I get tickled by the ratio of my interest in how someone solved their problem to (my) lack of interest in the product in this particular genre at least. "To ea
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by ska 3y ago
> Is the “automate” that I’ve italicized supposed to be hand-tune or something along those lines? I Gah, yes, typing faster than coffee. Fixed now, thanks. Agree on your points about more recent work.
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by ska 3y ago
> And I'm not smart enough to just follow a paper Don't sell yourself short. This is the sort of thing that is only straightforward if you have the right background.
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by ska 3y ago
I often find reading these sort of descriptions amusing, for the strange mix of "hey, cool seeing someones DIY project" vs "I just don't understand why". I guess my personal value on hacking up your own stuff is j
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by ska 3y ago
Can you not just write it from the paper(s)? Or is that more effort than value to you? > that translating eg. GPL Python or C++ into C would mean the license is retained It depends a bit on what exactly "translating" means but
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by ska 3y ago
> Honorable mention to std::clamp too. One shudders to think how many times variations of that template have been written in house.
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by ska 3y ago
> My sense is there are enough useful applications FWIW tech bubbles always have a large number of useful applications, hell the dot-com bust was full of companies held up for mockery that (maybe?) turned out just to be 15 years to early
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by ska 3y ago
We've been doing that sort of AI + radiologist since the mid 90s now, and it has made an incremental improvement; I expect it will continue to make incremental improvements. It's certainly cheaper than double reading everything (
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by ska 3y ago
> The thing that bugs me about this is how he just dismisses Uber as providing nothing. I think you are misreading him, but it's mostly his fault. He's not talking about if consumers got value out of things during a bubble, bu
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by ska 3y ago
I thought the point of ATLAS wasn't the idea that automagical tuning was going to necessarily be best. Rather that it was expensive to [edit hand tune] for all the hardware variations that were around and this was a practical approac
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by ska 3y ago
People discuss lots of things that are pretty well solved; i wouldn't equate "open question" with "lots of discussion". I guess in this context I mean that the question of static vs. dynamic in unit testing turns ou
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by ska 3y ago
I don't think anyone is saying unit tests and you are good to go are they? In any critical system work, there are multiple layers and you can't really skip any of them. It's also sort of meaningless to talk about such testing
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by ska 3y ago
I don't think it is really unresolved. Static languages with sufficiently rich and modifiable type systems avoid a fraction of cases where you may well want a unit test, but it's not the overwhelming majority. Merely static help
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by ska 3y ago
expanding on previous - I think it's mistake to believe that tournament style careers are necessarily meritocracies, also. In some areas the incentives line up to make it pretty pure, but not always. I suspect you can argue that the
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by ska 3y ago
Relatedly, the majority of CEOs probably make similar wages to software developers (e.g. < 200k) . But the top end is skewed with 8-9 figure salaries, and there are orders of magnitudes fewer of them.
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by ska 3y ago
I suspect their point was more that CEO slots are much more winner-takes-all.
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by ska 3y ago
interesting!
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by ska 3y ago
Fair, but didn't that change once CD players showed up in cars? Some people were certainly buying up loads of tapes (but they did wear out, so some repeats?)
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by ska 3y ago
> nd they've probably been working on Adobe's roadmap / integration for the past 15 months. That seems highly unlikely.
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by ska 3y ago
I think they meant any career where the rewards are not dominated by a very small number of people. For example, many/most? professional musicians struggle to make ends meet, but a small number make millions. By comparison e.g. tech ca
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by ska 3y ago
> I took it as a speculation, Ok but it's pretty groundless speculation then.
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by ska 3y ago
I thought most people embraced CD's because they were a massive improvement over tapes .
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by ska 3y ago
Once you get into the 40s or older, it can be pretty hard, particularly if you want to stay stock. It is significantly easier to have things fabricated than later tech (or learn to do it yourself). You may find a love of digging through
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by ska 3y ago
When you get into vehicles this old, the main problem is locating replacement parts, or having them fabricated.
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by ska 3y ago
Pretty big jump to make from the article. There have always been people around who embrace anachronism, and teens who find unusual ways to differentiate themselves. I'm not saying you are necessarily wrong, but we have nowhere near en
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by ska 3y ago
Eh, happens all the time. It's an extremely rare paper that isn't improved by th e process (though it's also a pain sometimes, and clueless/antagonistic reviewers do happen)
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by ska 3y ago
And java is???
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by ska 3y ago
And option 3 is 11c/unit cheaper.
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by ska 3y ago
> It's worth pointing out that most of the best science happened before peer review was dominant. This seems unlikely to be true, simply given the growth. If you are arguing that the SNR ratio was better, that's different.
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by ska 3y ago
It works but you have to keep it at least "semi-active". Some shops have CI services setup to cross compile etc. already. Mainly I've seen this not as a tool to maintain a "backup" but as a way to shake out bugs a

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