torginus

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541.
by torginus 6mo ago
Why are people so focused on India when it comes to outsourcing? US dev salaries are so much higher than the rest of the world that basically you could hire anywhere in Europe and still save most of the cost per person. You could go to LATA
542.
by torginus 6mo ago
Social media is an extremely competitive landscape, with competitors rising overnight. Google, Apple and Microsoft dominate the world with their products and platforms. Facebook & WhatsApp certainly doesnt.
543.
by torginus 6mo ago
This is something I have observed too. I think one of the ways things have gotten worse is generally people are less social, we're interacting with each other via screens, not in person. While one could meme about being introverts, I j
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by torginus 6mo ago
I'm not sure about this but I remember that a lot of servers at my old company stuck with hard disks as late as 2018 - exactly for the same reason - HDDs for all their faults dont have write endurance issues. This was quite surprising
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by torginus 6mo ago
This is the only correct take. The only metric that matters is cost per desired outcome.
546.
by torginus 6mo ago
It's weird how people pep talk the AI - if my Jira tickets looked like this, I would throw a fit. I guess these people think they have special prompt engineering skills, and doing it like this is better than giving the AI a dry list o
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by torginus 6mo ago
Would fitting the old tractor with one of those external AC units that run off 12V work?
548.
by torginus 6mo ago
>3000 IOPS If that's true, I wonder if this is a deliberate decision by cloud providers to push users towards microservice architectures with proprietary cloud storage like S3, so you can't do on-machine dbs even for simple ser
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by torginus 6mo ago
I wonder what happened to actual artists though - they seem to be doing fine. I'm sure many people as consumers dabbled in AI art, and reached the conclusion after hours that what they made never looked quite right. Then they found the
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by torginus 6mo ago
Btw where does this obsession with datacenters come from? If you can tolerate ~150ms ping (which chatbots certainly can, as their internal processing can take much longer), you can serve US and Europe from a single US location, and the whol
551.
by torginus 6mo ago
There's nothing necessarily static about BSPs - in fact level editors use BSP brushes (other piecces of geometry stored as BSP) - exactly because calculating set operations between BSPs is fast and well defined, and results in another
552.
by torginus 6mo ago
When I bought a Macbook M1 years ago, then was forced to switch back to a PC and wanted to have something similar in quality - I realized there's NOTHING that compares at ANY price point, let alone $1000.
553.
by torginus 6mo ago
My 2 cents is that so far LLMs have had a bad track record in replacing people in jobs where simple software logic and flowcharts wouldn't do the job.
554.
by torginus 6mo ago
I dont get this - you can just print with SMD paste and then reflow the whole thing at once - though you will need high temp materials to do that, but several amateurs have done it. Afaik there are a lot more high temp UV resins you can pri
555.
by torginus 6mo ago
I mean that could mean a lot of things. By default, in C++, an std::vector<float> and std::vector<int> are two entirey separate classes with distinct methods getting compiled, even though in this particular the methods would be
556.
by torginus 6mo ago
The nice thing with skip lists, is all 'rungs' of the list are stored in an array for a given node, so there's a lot less pointer chasing. The not so nice thing about it is that you have to pre-guess how deep your tree will b
557.
by torginus 6mo ago
yeah it turns out that complex code, when its properly encapsulated and implemented in a bug-free manner, is not such a cost after all. A correct skiplist is easier to NIH than a correct red-black tree (which for me was the final boss of th
558.
by torginus 6mo ago
I don't understand how they differ in this regard from range trees, which they essentially are, just their method of construction is different. Things like BSP trees are very good at intersections indeed, and have been used for things
559.
by torginus 6mo ago
>What are skiplists good for In practice, I have found out, nothing much. Their appeal comes from being simpler to implement than self-balancing trees, while claiming to offer the same performance. But they completely lack a mechanism fo
560.
by torginus 6mo ago
One of the things I was thinking about with regards to pause and or save games, is the need to control all aspects of real time logic, with possibly stopping/resuming, and saving it to disk is how our current ways of doing async is inc
561.
by torginus 6mo ago
I don't think it's a hack necessarily - as a well implemented time system would produce the same results at game rate = 0 as with pause. Also there's a need for different time domains - like imagine, in a paused state the men
562.
by torginus 6mo ago
China already has a well developed DRAM industry, as DRAM is somewhat easier than logic, and can tolerate a much higher defect rate. The industry will figure this out. Another point is I often see the money argument - like country X has mor
563.
by torginus 6mo ago
The Radeon VII came out in 2019 as a $700 consumer GPU with an 1TB/s HBM2 memory subsystem which is more than any consumer GPU you can get today, including the high-end ones afaik. At that point in time, there was a whole lineup of AMD
564.
by torginus 6mo ago
Dunno, I just yell at her, and she drops it and looks at me :) I haven't heard about poison meat, but she sure loves to find and eat the most disgusting stuff, up to, and including, poop.
565.
by torginus 6mo ago
I've never even taught it to my dog, as she just drops toys at my feet after fetching them. She just enjoys the though of the stick being thrown too much to waste time on holding on to it.
566.
by torginus 6mo ago
As someone who speaks German, it feels puzzling to me why I would teach my dog German commands (even though I have a GSD), these are just the regular words/phrases for things but in a different language.
567.
by torginus 6mo ago
My personal context to understand where I'm coming from - I'm working on my own language, which is a curly-brace C-style language with quite, where I didn't try to stray too far from established norms, and the syntax is not t
568.
by torginus 6mo ago
Why doesn't Qwen itself release the quantized model? My impression is that quantization is a highly nontrivial process that can degrade the model in non-obvious ways, thus its best handled by people who actually built the model, otherw
569.
by torginus 6mo ago
Well, monopolies or cartels are better at extracting wealth from the market, while fierce competition destroys margins thus profits. That means a monopolistic company is great investment vehicle, while one that sells goods at cost is a crap
570.
by torginus 6mo ago
Also this assumes hardware never fails. I learned about this the hard way back when I started mining crypto on my 5700XT way back when. I figured since I already used it a lot, and I've never had a GPU fail on me, it would be fine. The

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