DavidVoid

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by DavidVoid 2mo ago
Seems to be run by a married couple of (maybe) burnt out account managers. That, in combination with some AI help, explains the empty "LinkedIn slop" writing style I think. It's not often I comment on blog posts, but this is
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by DavidVoid 3mo ago
The game Overwatch is a pretty great contemporary example of this [1]. It has some excellent fluid animations, which look really weird if you freeze frame them. [1]: https://youtu.be/vIdeGmN__Pw?t=550
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by DavidVoid 4mo ago
I don't think GPUs ever had branch prediction in the first place. You can however run into poor performance due to thread divergence, which is a similar kind of issue (with much less black magic).
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by DavidVoid 4mo ago
Yes. I'm sure it would feel nice to pay off my apartment loan, but the interest rate on that is 2.75%, which is way lower than what I can (reasonably) expect to make on the stock market.
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by DavidVoid 4mo ago
> Product owners and engineers could initially collaborate on this spec and on test cases to enforce business rules. Those should be checked into the project repositories along with the implementing code. There would need to be automate
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by DavidVoid 4mo ago
A couple of quotes from one of the employed baristas (translated from a Swedish local news article) [1]. "I'm worried every time there's a delivery, I never know what she's ordered." "I like it. At the inter
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by DavidVoid 4mo ago
I don't think so. The cafe is a real place and it's owned by the company mentioned in the article. It was in the local news the other week [1]. If you're going to do an experiment like this, then Stockholm is a good place to
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by DavidVoid 5mo ago
Considering the size (and significance) of the VSCode user base, it feels like someone should be in charge of ensuring that default behavior doesn't change without good reason. Does anyone (or any team) have ownership of the extensions
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by DavidVoid 5mo ago
See also: the distinct shape of the flap and landing gear levers (which are often located next to each other). https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/22680/why-is-th...
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by DavidVoid 6mo ago
How do you read a number like 17? "seventeen", small endian. Language is messy, some more than others [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language#Numerals
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by DavidVoid 6mo ago
There's an old German short film called Nicht löschbares Feuer (Inextinguishable Fire, 1969)[1] that I'm fond of. It was a protest film against Napalm and how some companies wouldn't really let their employees know what the
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by DavidVoid 7mo ago
I like em dashes—and sometimes overuse them—but 37 times is absurd in that amount of text.
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by DavidVoid 8mo ago
I would go even further and state that "you should never assume that floating point functions will evaluate the same on two different computers, or even on two different versions of the same application", as the results of floatin
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by DavidVoid 8mo ago
Unless you compile with fast-math ofc, because then the compiler will assume that NaN never occurs in the program.
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by DavidVoid 11mo ago
It's already eroded in many countries right? Gendered patronymic names used to be common here in Sweden - Katarina Gustavsdotter (Vasa) was the daughter of Gusav Eriksson (Vasa), who was the son of Erik Johansson (Vasa), &c. - but
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
> Digital payments are very convenient and deeply integrated, so long as you have a local ID which allows you use the local payment system Swish etc. Just to reiterate how ubiquitous Swish and BankID are here: 99.9% of Swedish residents
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
I'm in Sweden and the only time I've ever come in contact with a check was when an American company sent me one as a refund. Most of these reasons just sound like fee-issues to me. I use a debit card (or Swish) to pay for everythi
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
That is partially why the banks/government in Sweden have been happy to phase it out. Companies also don't like dealing with cash because it requires extra accounting, security, and transportation. In the early 2000s there were ab
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
Swedbank offers debit cards to kids as young as seven [1]. Depending on the kid's age (and what the parents configure), there will be different limits on how much the kid can spend. Swish is the de facto standard for sending money betw
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
This is also partially due to hacking incidents in recent years. In 2021, all 800 Coop grocery stores were closed for a few days due to the Kaseya VSA ransomware attack [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaseya_VSA
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
And a lot of the time it makes the syntax more compact than it would be with 0-indexing. for i=1,#arr do foo(arr[i]) end I don't feel that strongly for or against either way of indexing though, they both have their pros an
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
I don't see how kilowatts would be more sensible than kilowatt-hours here, especially since the power output might not be consistent. See also, "Power is not Energy": https://youtu.be/OOK5xkFijPc
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
Despite being written in 2009, it certainly still feels relevant. And thank you for posting this, because it made me think of Sir Noël Coward's banger song "There are bad times just around the corner" (1952) [1], which I ha
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
Ran into the same thing. Changing to a non-default DNS fixed it.
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
> the algorithm will wrongfully report "false" for arrays like e.g. [INT_MIN, -1] If you have INT_MIN along with any other negative number in the array then your program has undefined behavior in C. Signed integer overflow is
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
Man I hate when sites hijack the page up/down keys.
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
There is indeed; Watts aren't energy, and it's a common enough mistake that Technology Connections made a pretty good 52 minute video about it the other month [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOK5xkFijPc
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
This just makes me want to get back into learning stenography again. It requires a hell of a lot of practice, but being able to write at 200 WPM (without frantic finger movement) would be quite nice. Here's a demo/explainer at 200
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
It matters for reproducibility between software versions, right? I work in audio software and we have some comparison tests that compare the audio output of a chain of audio effects with a previous result. If we make some small refactoring
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by DavidVoid 1y ago
Yeah it's pretty useful to enable every once in a while just to see if anything complains. Be very careful with it in production code though [1]. If you're in a dll then changing the FPU exception flags is a big no-no (unless you&

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