MillenialMan

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by MillenialMan 4y ago
I don't think it's about money. Software engineer salaries are very high, and cubicles are a compromise that still saves space. I think it's because for most people, procrastination reduces output a lot more than distraction
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I get what you're saying but I think it generally does the opposite. People like prestige.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
The vast majority of titles in tech confer more prestige than deserved, because there's no downside to a company handing them out like candy. I don't look at it as a portability issue, the incentive isn't to be accurate to be
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
The reason I'd like the construct is because it's explicit - intent (and the scope/limit of your intent) is encoded in what you create. It's clear you intend to do nothing with that name except symlink to the nested memb
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
GPUs are $3000 because of Bitcoin, not Unreal Engine.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I'd like languages to have some kind of "delegate" functionality, where you can just delegate names to point to nested names without screwing around with ownership - it would just act like a symlink. The scope of that action
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I stand corrected! Thanks for the link, that's very cool.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Those rivets probably aren't modelled, they'll be reconstructed from volume information in the texture. Which is still impressive and a great way of dealing with that type of geometric detail, but it has limitations, and the engin
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
That's not really true. Video upscaling is probably going to be linear interpolation, which is very unlikely to add meaningful artifacts, but an intelligent zoom that tries to add visually meaningful information may change the apparen
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
It's rarely altruistic but this seems very win/win to me. Talent without a record can prove their chops and get hired above their on-paper experience level, Google gets an additional avenue of recruitment.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I understand your point. I'm saying: the subset of problems that benefit in a performance sense from immutability is very small. The vast majority of the time, cache misses slow down algorithms. That's a perfectly reasonable gen
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
That wasn't really my point. There is still a translation process you have to apply to cross the boundary between immutable and native data structures though, and that has its own overhead.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
In general I would agree, but a significant part of Clojure's appeal is that it's immutable by default, because that allows you to make certain assumptions about the codebase. Introducing mutable datastructures means you can no lo
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I don't really agree. Cache friendliness is almost always a relevant factor as soon as performance becomes an issue. I get what you're saying but as I see it immutability gives you architectural efficiency and in some cases space
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I understand the point, I'm not arguing that you can't do that or speed up your code by doing that. Python is also slow, but you can still go fast (in some cases) by calling into C libraries like numpy - but the performance is com
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
You're right - I missed that, the author does mention arrays having better access characteristics, although he doesn't really explain why HAMTs specifically are slow. How does Clojure's HAMT avoid fragmenting over time? >
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Fair enough on scaling. But 24 is still a lot less than two to three orders of magnitude.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Yes, this is a general problem with functional data structures. They have to be fragmented in order to share data. There's also the more nebulous issue that they encourage nesting to leverage the architectural benefits of immutability,
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Threading doesn't compensate for that degree of slowdown, and itself has overhead. You'll get something back, but not much.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
The biggest performance issue Clojure has, which isn't mentioned in the article and is fundamentally unsolvable, is that it misses the CPU cache - a lot. The data structure that drives the immutable variables, the Hash-Array Mapped Tri
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
You can switch Spacemacs and Doom into Emacs-mode keybindings. Command key sequences become hidden behind a shortcut and modes are disabled. It relaxes the learning curve.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
For what it's worth, I don't think you're a hypocrite and I do sympathize with you, I wish they wouldn't pull this shit too. But they're a drug company, you have to expect them to act like a drug company. The number
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Malaria vaccines are more effective than covid vaccines. Malaria kills a lot more people than covid. Why do you buy sushi instead of malaria vaccines? Relative to the problem I wouldn't consider that a sacrifice. Doesn't matter, I
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Bluntly: no. Lives saved is probably not a significant component in the cost/benefit analysis when these companies are deciding how much they should invest in an avenue of research.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Treating men who hire prostitutes with respect is kind, but not necessarily honest. More or less a requirement is that they not care if the person they're having sex with hates it. They're a distinct class of people and not reflec
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I knew someone would post this response. I mean if romance wasn't an issue, you could be a straight male and marry your male best friend.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
My point is that he's trying to shoehorn the "Love Languages" framework onto that situation, because the model is designed to encourage you to do that - it's the same thing that makes it sell. You shouldn't dismiss
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I don't mean this disrespectfully, but your comment is a perfect example of someone falling into the trap I was describing. If someone's using you, they don't love you. They won't love you. It doesn't matter what
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Plenty of it has a point - so does Cosmo. The problem is that it's a psychological model written primarily to be sold. You're welcome to put your trust in that, but I think that's a mistake, and the way that type of stuff usu
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Ok, but are you married to someone that you don't like?

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