msbarnett

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by msbarnett 4y ago
There’s tons of very profitable companies hiring right now - the “top-name” companies doing layoffs were all “growth-first, profit-never” types. We’re not in an industry-wide downturn and there’s a hell of a lot more out there than FAANG or
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by msbarnett 4y ago
If you’re a top performer you bail as soon as there are layoffs anyways. I certainly do. It’s rarely a sign that anything good is in your future, they’re often performed poorly, and the work environment post-layoffs is incredibly bleak and
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by msbarnett 4y ago
for one thing, zips are far less likely to destroy data than sourcesafe, which was famous for doing just that
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> SVN had a great feature set, and a great way to handle merges, and sane defaults. Are you kidding? Subversion had a notoriously awful way of handling merges, which was a huge driver of people onto Git as soon as it appeared. You trul
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by msbarnett 4y ago
You’ll have to wait until 3rd parties do those comparisons? Apple has literally never posted “here’s a ream of benchmarks vs the Dell XPS XYZ and HP modelnumbersneeze738462” — pretending this is indicative of some grand conspiracy to hide p
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Finally, doesn’t the fact that apple has a fundamentally different rendering pipeline relevant? Is it still all that fundamentally different? All of the RDNA parts are tile-based renderers (I think even the Vega series GCN parts made t
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by msbarnett 4y ago
You could equally conclude that one of the reasons that very few people used it was because of the input lag.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Nit: Zen 3 increased the CCX size to 8 cores.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> I mean, if you want to argue that the story is actually a substantive and intellectually interesting one, containing significant new information Why would I want to argue that? It certainty doesn’t describe the million identical ChatGP
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by msbarnett 4y ago
An extremely partisan voting block heavily flagging something is a piss-poor signal for on-topicness, come on. That kind of sloppy logic is a great way to let organized voting rings suppress uncomfortable news, though. Incredibly embarras
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by msbarnett 4y ago
It’s not just the number of points that matter, it’s points over time. 3 points very quickly will rocket you over 20 points in 4 hours or something. And comments factor in too, so commenting “why is this on the front page” just helps it be
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by msbarnett 4y ago
You only have to look at Japan for the last few decades to see what the long term effects of deflation look like. Negative economic growth, few job opportunities for young people, investment and lending are de-incentivized so innovation and
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by msbarnett 4y ago
At this point I’ve only got one non-arm64 container, and it’s solely optional support for testing some obscure cases that our CI infrastructure handles more robustly anyways. Your information is pretty out of date.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
And yet, real world production rust programs exist and measured performance is generally excellent. People are acting like this graph they saw for the first time today means that Rust is running at sub-Ruby speeds, when even with these exce
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> It seems crazy to me that something as trivial as allocating heap space needs rust nightly and unsafe. It seems crazy to you because your spectacular misdescription of the problem is simply incorrect.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
No. TFA points out there isn’t a gigantic performance sink or anything, just an infelicity in the code they’re generating. >> Does this mean Rust is slower than C++? > No. You can always write your Rust code carefully to avoid copi
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Inefficient? Underperforming sure but they're probably among the best in terms of "efficiency" TFA extensively demonstrates that they’re a far, far behind Apple’s 2 year old M1 silicon in efficiency.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> I mean he single handedly pulled the future forward in two different industries so far. This is the single bizarrest and most literally inaccurate use of the phrase “single-handedly” I have ever seen.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
No, I don't think that at all. Clearly. The Windows mandate was a colossal, world-historic fuckup that I think is indicative of his impulsiveness and representative of his capacity for making very very poorly thought through, Company-d
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by msbarnett 4y ago
The point is that "he did a phenomenal job early in his career" rather misses that his early career is more "incredibly mixed bag containing disastrous missteps" than universally "phenomenal".
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Like when they had to force him out of PayPal before he destroyed the company with his “rewrite the entire backend for Windows Server” mandate?
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> This is exactly the case for CD Projekt Red. They built their own engine (RED Engine) for Witcher 1 and built on top of it for the two Witcher sequels and also pushed it to its very limits for Cyberpunk 2077. Close. REDEngine was creat
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by msbarnett 4y ago
What? I used an X daily until about two weeks ago when I bought a 14. Zero issues with it, and never even heard about any.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
It is broadly speaking not legal. Many lawsuits spiralled out of this. In the broadest settlement, workers were entitled to $2,500 in general damages plus any out-of-pocket costs & losses incurred due to this clusterfuck including &quot
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Sure. Public servants rally in Ottawa to protest Phoenix payroll system: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/public-servants-ra... Highly doubt that this is the only time a Peoplesoft clusterfuck inspired de
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Memes generally would not fall under the category of non-copyrighted material; they’re most of the time extremely copyrighted material just being used without permission. And even a wholly original work an artist sarcastically puts a Getty
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> I'm pretty sure DALL-E was trained only on not copyright material Nope. DALL-E generates images with the Getty Watermark, so clearly there’s copyrighted materials in its training set: https://www.reddit.com/r/
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Before they changed the default the first command I had to type on a new install was $ chsh -s /bin/zsh You can’t please everybody.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
He was (and still is) banned from prize money tournaments even after that partial re-instatement. Regardless, there's obviously a huge difference between "no evidence he cheated after August 2020" (wow, guess his heart grew 3
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by msbarnett 4y ago
That’s specifically in response to the question of whether or not Niemann has played a statistically anomalous number of “near perfect games”, based on analysis of on-board moves. But as they note earlier: > Hans is consistently above ma

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