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by ynx 3y ago
This might be a self-report, but... I used to tip anywhere from high 20's to low 30's, but in the years since COVID, _everything_ asks for a tip even when no extra service is provided (i.e. take-out), so I default to 0%, or a mode
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by ynx 3y ago
...as in the MicroBlaze architecture owned by AMD by way of its acquisition of Xilinx?
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by ynx 3y ago
> I ask management for a 30K raise after saving 500K and my message is still unread. I suspect I will eventually receive either nothing or 5K. Pain I feel very acutely. As an employee, I saved a FAANG company billions of dollars in poten
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by ynx 3y ago
Pedantically - never, because in the strictest sense it is not specified enough for that. But perhaps someone could make a "wasm-but-it's-actually-RISCV-underneath" kinda thing.
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by ynx 3y ago
Apple doesn't support Vulkan, obviously doesn't support DirectX, and barely supports OpenGL. Metal is a different beast, and the adapter layers are not adequate. It takes extra effort, and fairly deep and unique knowledge of rende
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by ynx 3y ago
I don't buy a nihilistic "does anything mean anything anymore?" approach. I'm basing my evaluation on Copilot. It functions as a highly context-sensitive and very useful autocomplete, so the "autocomplete" labe
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by ynx 3y ago
My productivity boost is much more modest than 30% to be sure, but I'm less tired at the end of the day. The productivity boost for non-seasoned devs, or devs of average skill level or above doing relatively routine but needed work? Fo
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by ynx 3y ago
Words mean things, especially when communicating in professional or semi-professional settings with terminology with longstanding meaning. To not do so is poor communication, and irresponsible depending on the stakes. Codegen's long hi
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by ynx 3y ago
As of the last time I was close, flatbuffer usage is or was near ubiquitous for use in FB's (ha ha, go figure) mobile apps, across Android and iOS at least.
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by ynx 3y ago
Even if it did - the current copyright regime is already so extortionate as to be dystopian, so is it truly a loss?
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by ynx 3y ago
For what it's worth, I'd advocated to adopt SourceGraph at work for a long time but the open-source version being impossible to deploy essentially blocked us from ever considering it. I don't doubt that your perception of the
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by ynx 3y ago
> the whole FB C++ build experience was fairly primitive and even worse for iOS/Android Flatly untrue, on iOS much of the infrastructure was well ahead of what anyone else had aside from Google. It worked so well that a tooling team
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by ynx 3y ago
I've been out for a couple of years, but... > I'm honestly not sure what sapling is My rough understanding: arcanist + git evolved into arcanist + hg, hg became a frontend to cHg and then the whole edenfs/sapling stuff sta
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by ynx 3y ago
Red Hat did way more than "cash in" considering how many open source projects it has created or funded directly or even indirectly by employing a very large number of their maintainers.
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by ynx 3y ago
> Also ignore the fact that Red Hat builds their product on top of Linux, which they didn't build and don't own. I feel like this ignores the fact that Linux's continued success is, in large part, a direct consequence of
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by ynx 3y ago
VR developer here. Politics aside, nobody should ever choose Unreal Engine for standalone VR anyways. It's clear that Epic doesn't prioritize VR, so it's more easily explained as an efficient use of resources. In concrete ter
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by ynx 3y ago
One of the most persistently irritating parts of being deep in this space is people loudly proclaiming what it is that VR is truly missing. The answer is not only different for different people, but very different for some of them. It'
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by ynx 3y ago
That's what they did with Alien Blue, before killing it
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by ynx 3y ago
> CUDA isn't a "technology", its a shader language that has been supplanted by better industry-wide standards As someone who uses industry-wide standards in a related field... The proprietary implementation often has the b
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by ynx 3y ago
Because it's information that may be able to identify, but is not necessarily conclusively identifying of, a person.
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by ynx 3y ago
Because a promise that imprisons knowledge indefinitely has no integrity. To me, it's clear that it is absolutely in the public interest to - perhaps not go out of one's way to spread, but at least feel free to - explain the condi
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by ynx 3y ago
A lot of self-proclaimed technologists counterintuitively love to see technology fail, especially when they predicted so ahead of time. That's some frustrating shit, because it rewards the least patient and surface-level analyses which
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by ynx 4y ago
Buck far predates Bazel, and was built by ex-googlers replicating Blaze. Skylark was a later evolution, after the python scripts grew out of control, and a cue that fb took from Google long after Buck had been near-universally deployed for
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by ynx 4y ago
Facebook has had access auditing tools for at least 15 years at this point, and it only got stricter with time. It was already a fireable offence back then, too, to improperly access someone's data without a business justification. Fro
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by ynx 4y ago
Precisely my experience with him as well.
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by ynx 4y ago
Not supporting new platforms is because - Total dependency on an engine's build system - Lack of official support for uncommon platforms - Extremely low expected ROI even if it were possible to deliver on other platforms Gamedevs aren&
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by ynx 4y ago
While I have no problem with Docker, it probably is worth noting that their entire product is based on a decade and a half of Google engineering invested into the Linux kernel (cgroups). Not that that demeans or devalues Docker, but it co
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by ynx 4y ago
Part of it is that a lot of kids who grew up in the current era of games only understand the game that they were handed, where creating servers is easy and matchmaking is table stakes, AA or AAA level production values are "good"
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by ynx 4y ago
Been on macOS since 10.3. In general, the .1 or .2 patches were solid, and if one release seemed like a stinker the next one tick-tocked its way into stability/quality pretty reliably, and staying on N-1 version while N was out was a p
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by ynx 4y ago
I agree with the general idea but disagree strongly with the execution. Highly paid tech workers are still workers, albeit ones that tend to lack class consciousness because they think they're on top (until they get fired en masse to s

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