thrwawy1234

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   by thrwawy1234 2y ago

   I will not miss the “DEI” components of NSF proposals (or the PIER part of the DOE ones), especially having been on the review panel side about 5 times now. It’s not that I disagree with their intent, but the fact that after you’ve read a
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   by thrwawy1234 3y ago

   I get the impression they're hyper sensitive about the v-tuber persona, which is odd, because nothing seems to scream "look at me" more than adopting some very unusual virtual persona to publicly stream development for an ope
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   by thrwawy1234 3y ago

   I really wish we had a different word than "tool" for the stuff we use to assemble and work with software. These sorts of discussions inevitably devolve into people arguing about physical tools as found in the arts, manufacturing
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   by thrwawy1234 3y ago

   I know. Many of us have the photos app show us things we didn’t really want: dead pets, dead relatives, exes, etc. I think most rational adults can handle that and turn it off instead of getting super dramatic about it. Are these people
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   by thrwawy1234 3y ago

   I’m getting a bit tired of this style of hyperbolic journalism: > My hands were sweaty, my heart was racing, and I ended up walking away from my desk to take five deep breaths. Seriously? Over a product announcement for something you don
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   by thrwawy1234 4y ago

   Yes and no. As you said, in some areas we have wonderfully efficient codes that can take advantage of hardware for things like codecs. Efficiency through high level languages - that's debatable. Often they trade developer efficiency