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by vkazanov 3y ago
It should be a reminder to just pay for Michael's work.
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Classic..! I wonder how it feels now, 20 years after reading it for the first time. I remember how revelatory it felt.
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Nope but close enough :-)
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Software people have the same difference with Europe, if not worse. And it's ok. Both numbers are a very, very decent pay in respective countries.
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Don't worry. A few generations later you great grand son will save your soul for you.
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by vkazanov 3y ago
I don't thing anybody seriously considered Phi's for generic compute or something. Most experimenters saw it as a way to have something GPU-like in terms of raw power but with no limitations charateristic of SIMT's. Like, sli
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Well... Back then in my shop they would just assign programmers to things, together with a couple of mathematicians. Math guys came up with a list of algorithms to try for a search engine backend. What we needed was matrix multiplication an
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by vkazanov 3y ago
I used to play with these toys 7-8 years ago. We tried everything, and it was bad at it all. Traditional compute? The cores were too weak. Number crunching? Okay-ish but gpus were better. Useless stuff.
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Well, the problem with world domination plans (Microsoft included), is that every actor has one, and they don't necessarily, ehm, align. So the non-desktop part was lost by Microsoft, and this resulted in the world we have now, Linux d
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Microsoft did everything, like everything and more, to kill every alternative platform on the planet. Hedging their bets with half-hearted posix support was part of that effort. If not for that MSN vs Internet fiasco, they would succeed.
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Knowing polish, russian, lithuanian and bits of other related languages, I find it interesting how the word directly assumes military leadership, the medieval feudal kind of way. It can be roughly translated as "led by a voivoda",
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Yes, we own a hybrid so some of that space is eaten by a battery. And the rest of it is taken by all the stuff we always keep around the car. And yeah, it's kind of hard to classify UXs. Wiki says it's a "subcompact crossover
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Dunno, we never felt the need to damage the car to get some more space :-) It just doesn't make sense to use a jumbo jet to get around Kent.
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by vkazanov 3y ago
As a london, uk resident, I recently got a hatchback-sized lexus hybrid "SUV", the ux 250h. Perfect for the place, possible to go to a motorway, high mpg, reliability. My kid is just fine in the back sit, I can see a second one fi
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by vkazanov 3y ago
But isn't this how things work in Windows and Mac lands? There are vendors that do hardware support. There are not too many linux-based vendors. And linux still works on 80% of unsupported machines. I go for linux dells. Mostly OK. Cer
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Well, Germany is not exactly a powerhouse of IT innovation these days. I took a few week-long professional courses related to low-level stuff in Munich and elsewhere in Germany, and it felt as is most other students were either working in f
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Aren't that many pure windevs left these days... In many professional circles Windows itself is no more than a vintage curiosity. So in many ways, WSL is a survival strategy - it makes it possible to stay a relevant developer while wor
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by vkazanov 3y ago
You can actually autogenerate all reasonable variants of the code if necessary, there aren't that many architectures these days. Simd imstructions are usually very local, this shouldn't blow up the binary. The point is to not have
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by vkazanov 3y ago
As a share of the total number of programs written this is a minority indeed. How many pls are out there vs the number of libraries/apps? The number of deploys is a different thing.
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by vkazanov 3y ago
YAML is the Perl of config formats. I just don't understand how it ended up being so popular! I remember my oss editor at some being had a little problem highlighting a yaml configuration. No problem, - I thought. - how hard can that b
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Well, nothing truly horrible but here are things I find inconvenient (but working nevertheless) when using the sdk. 1. NodeJS-based utilities. The tooling around js doesn't lean itself well to integration with with the dev's envi
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by vkazanov 3y ago
So an engineer learns how to make something, and then goes elsewhere to make it. To be honest, the way you put ut, the story feels OK to me. There are many truly bad examples, e.g. the arm china story, but engineers doing their thing is not
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by vkazanov 3y ago
A million?
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by vkazanov 3y ago
tree-sitter definitely can be used as a incremental parser for an LSP. But the original purpose was and still is to provide a standard format for an editor-agnostic way to parse languages. As somebody who wrote a tree-sitter grammar recentl
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by vkazanov 3y ago
I have both the book discussed here, and How to prove it, and back in the day the Proof book was a revelation, unlike Polya's one, which was interesting but that's about it How to prove it just made proofs click, and I wish I unde
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by vkazanov 3y ago
This is a great example. There's an obvious UB, the compiler sees it at compile time and should just stop the programmer from doing the mistake at all times. Instead, it's totally possible to just let the programmer tear his leg
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Obviously, IT people would like everybody to just use a single os. Windows, preferably, as they have the best enterprise integration suite. Either way, it's usually much easier to negotiate hardware in smaller companies: they don'
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by vkazanov 3y ago
I didn't say "too much math" :-) if anything, I'd like MORE math. But the amount of time available is fundamentally limited and it has to be balanced. E.g., in my personal circumstances probability theory, statistics, de
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by vkazanov 3y ago
...and this is why it shouldn't really matter. I real life, though, having a proper Linux kernel at hand is useful.
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by vkazanov 3y ago
We're living through some unfortunate times. Eastern Europe is... becoming a much darker place. As somebody who grew up in a crazily mixed family (Polish, Russians, Lithuanians, with relatives all over the globe) I am used to visiting

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