throwaway-1209

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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
No, a statement is not evidence no matter how much you want it to be. A _sworn testimony_ of a _witness_ is evidence. But there can't really be any witness here, unless the person on the other end was extremely careless. So you get a b
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
That would be unbelievably stupid. It's not like in DOJ anyone cares if she "did the right thing", they'll put her in the slammer all the same. Not even Hillary Clinton would get off scot free after something like this.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
That's a statement. Statements are not evidence. I can make it seem like it's GRU (or "the Chinese") from right where I am in the US, with no way for anyone to say it ain't so. And I'm not even a pro.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Nah. Only 6 people have printed the doc and of those only one could be found in phone call metadata making a call to a press related contact. I don't know what the leaker was thinking. And in the end even this leak doesn't contain
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Amazing to see the number of people who try hard to justify this blatant rip off pricing. This is coming from the same group of people who complain endlessly about the cost of wireless data and telco data caps.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Lots for ML, and their Accelerate framework is already second to none on the CPU. Meanwhile, Microsoft doesn't even bundle BLAS with their OS.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
That's a dangerous slippery slope you're descending. You may at some point end up on the receiving end.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Does anyone know of a similar document for ARM, and in particular for the various flavors of aarch64?
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
I guess if your where clause is very selective, you could avoid the hit since the same branch is taken by all threads in a warp. But then there are better approaches such as BRIN indexes, RLE and dictionary encoding with which you don'
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
You're a better manager than any of the ones I had at Google. That said, your boss might laugh _you_ out of the room, bringing us back to square one. He/she doesn't cherish the idea of hiring a replacement for the duration, o
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Opcodes are fine, no one is saying everything has to be expressed as an operator. I'd like to see more of a C/C++ intrinsics syntax, but with total control over the order of instructions and register allocation. Basically same pow
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
No one in our industry will "starve on the streets" in the foreseeable future. They may have to take a smaller paycheck with a contract that doesn't have the clauses they don't like, but let's not engage in histrion
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
And that's exactly what those contracts are aiming for: not to control your mind, but to establish a deterrent from much more nefarious shenanigans, if thoughts of such shenanigans arise. Some of the top Silicon Valley companies (datin
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
It's fuck or get fucked. I'd rather not get fucked, same as you. It's just that now I'm on the other end.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Words of a man with not much to lose. Once your net worth is in multiple millions, the calculation will change quite a bit. You will most definitely not want to lose your life's savings on a moral crusade.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
There are only a handful of shops around where I live that will even touch a Tesla when it comes to body work. Aluminum is hard to work with. OTOH someone who has paid $100k for a car should be able to fork over $300 more a year.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Where clause is the worst possible use case for GPU: GPUs don't tolerate branches or non-coalesced memory access all that well, and WHERE executes a ton of branches. Even so, things seem to be faster. Go figure.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
If you don't like compensation the door is open, you can leave. Look, I agree with you in principle, but I'm now a large shareholder in a business, so I see the other side of the argument too. The goal isn't really to stop an
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
6 months "to travel"? Your manager will laugh you out of the conference room. A month, that should be doable.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
It's been a few years since I left, I don't remember. I do remember there are level and performance requirements, too, and there's no guarantee that they hold your old spot for you when you come back. So you do very much depe
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
I agree with you in principle, but I've seen shit you wouldn't believe when there's a few million dollars at stake: otherwise fine, ethical, upstanding human beings can turn into the worst weasels you can imagine if you don&#
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Yes you could, but there's no guarantee whatsoever they actually will let you come back. It's a subtle point which many people don't understand. The first part, them deciding to let you come back, is not deterministic. The se
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Junior SWEs don't get a sabbatical, unpaid or otherwise.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
There's no grace period as far as I know. That'd be stupid on their part: every keyboard jockey would immediately threaten to leave in hopes of getting a counter. Why not, if there's a "grace period"?Once you leave,
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
From someone who's been there done that: former Googler, now running engineering at a startup. It doesn't get any easier to come up with a startup idea once you leave mothership. I know it seems counterintuitive, since once you le
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
+1. Make it look more like a severely restricted version of C.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
"And don't call it Linux because I own the trademark".
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Makes you wonder why not write it as e.g. "eax mov 5" or even "eax = 5".
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Let's see what Linus thinks about this.
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by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Can it print yet? I was surprised to discover there was no built in way to print out the text I was editing (on Linux). I do sometimes print out especially gnarly code to think about it on paper.

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