bjwbell

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by bjwbell 11y ago
I do not want to give up any privacy. The stasi wasn't that long ago.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
It's dead because new projects aren't started in Perl unlike C.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Code of conduct section in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CONTRIBU...
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by bjwbell 11y ago
ECT gets a bad rap, but works. Anecdotally, my uncle went through it.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
What actually made a difference, for me, was changing my work. My dad experienced this too. If you're depressed maybe you need to change your life, this is hard. It was for me.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
It jelled with what I know anecdotally. Their Indian outsourcing is terrible, bad compensation, nothing close to Google or other tech companies in India. This is from a few years back.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Learn the art of writing gpu compilers. Software defined radio is another. If you find web-scraping dull don't pursue it. Life is short.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I follow the national weather service for my area (US). It's awesome they're total geeks about weather and share it. Everything else is mostly meh.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
What's bad about his benchmarks? I've cursory glanced at them before and didn't notice anything in particular (used to write gpu drivers for a living).
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Considering the completion rate for PhD programs, admitting a broader applicant pool would likely make it worse.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
AT&T, rolled out fiber to many of the suburbs. I can't imagine switching back to Comcast, night and day.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
You're right, the comparison isn't as valid as I thought, rustfmt has improved impressively since I looked at it last. 'go fix' might be a better comparison, what's the Rust equivalent?
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I should have been more specific by tooling. I meant source code manipulation and analysis, go-oracle and goimports are a couple. There's many more in the go community. Are they useful, I'm not sure. They feel useful but I have li
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I'm thinking more of difficulty in writing rustfmt compared to gofmt. There's other examples like go-oracle or goimports which as far as I know don't have Rust equivalents. How useful the extra tooling is, I don't really
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Perhaps I should have said it's easier to write tooling. C++ has arguably very good tooling but creating it was difficult. For Rust and Go the example I'm thinking of is rustfmt and gofmt.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I'm familiar with Rust's tooling, not knocking it at all.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
There isn't one language to rule them all. An advantage of Go over Rust is easier tooling due to a simpler language, an advantage of Rust is a richer type system. These are in opposition.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Nice phrasing, unpleasant was the feeling I was going for. Sometimes I wonder about giving up.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Some history might help. Go was created largely as a reaction to writing server side C++. I have sympathy after writing but mostly reading C++ code bases. I swore never again. I react in horror to the features being added to CUDA and SyCL t
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by bjwbell 11y ago
That's why I said large set. I haven't thought about garbage collection enough to have any insight on it.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
How do you have a large set of language features with them not interacting? In Java, serialization and generics interact with practically everything. In C++, RAII interacts with exceptions, which is the point but isn't exactly pleasant
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I don't find it unsettling but it's not particularly interesting. You can view epicycles as detour before Copernicus, I think that's more of the sense of what Wolfram is referring to as a detour.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
For one, if you take global warming seriously it's a disaster. Each immigrant from a poor to rich country increases their CO2 emissions by about an order of magnitude.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Wrong C++. maybe that's why he didn't say, it's all of them (for an approximate value of all).
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Overwhelming evidence is needed that Gate's philanthropy will be remembered more than his computing career. Carnegie is remembered for steel before philanthropy. Carnegie's wiki page "Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American i
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Rich Geldreich http://richg42.blogspot.com/2015/01/open-office-spaces-and-c... "1. North Korea-like atmosphere of self-censorship: ... even simple conversations with other coworkers can be difficult, because
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by bjwbell 11y ago
It was hard for me to find projects I found interesting enough to contribute to. It wasn't until I had an overarching purpose that I found success. It took about 5 years.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
That's what I know too for graphics draw calls. For GPGPU there's been hard work for finer grained preemption, last I looked into it (~1yr ago) on Linux it was a work in progress to put it kindly. If you're curious, lookup th
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by bjwbell 11y ago
With the cost in multiple billions to build a fab and the consolidation of semiconductor manufactures the reduction in # of architectures isn't surprising.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Performance, I don't mean benchmark performance but the sucky stuff. Today on Linux I have to restart Firefox every ~20min because it slows to crawl. I don't know why and don't really care, because it'll take an unknown

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