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by webdevver 10mo ago
honestly ive had it with the shift key myself. just a nuisance. besides, the text looks much nicer and 'even' when every letter is broadly the same height, but that is ofcourse subjective. it would be good to track down the '
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by webdevver 10mo ago
i now buy deliveroo slop basically every day, and every day the delivery driver is a barely literate global south immigrant. in other words, its a huge positive impact. unfortunately for the delivery driver, well, hes basically an indenture
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by webdevver 10mo ago
this is always the risk of posting on hackernews: a random commentator absolutely iq mogs the op.
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by webdevver 10mo ago
having open source gpu runtime, from api to metal, would be nice. but as you can see, the real meat of the business (the compiler) will probably never-ever be open sourced for internal political reasons. which is the most interesting compon
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by webdevver 10mo ago
>They seem to earnestly believe that it isn't an actual tool but a gatekeeping mechanism devised by autistic persons to humiliate normies. it should be that, though.
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by webdevver 10mo ago
we need to go /stalinmode/ on the whole bootup and initialization industry subsector. it should be required by law for that stuff to be open source and documented. "but muh competitive advantage??" its literally a for lo
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by webdevver 10mo ago
cool idea, but I tried searching for ffmpeg, linux, llvm-project - how does it not have the top 10 open source projects in it?
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by webdevver 10mo ago
the people are a lot stupider than the politicians. sorry but it needs to be said. as for the MPs, theyre ok. not as stupid as most think. they are very self-interested and not in the business of 'rocking the boat'. strongly prefe
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by webdevver 10mo ago
nobody is going to stop you leaving the UK. its entering another country that suddenly becomes a real problem, and ofcourse, if you're in the UK, the only country worth moving to at that point is the US with (as I understand) quite s
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by webdevver 10mo ago
the solution ofcourse is to invent a strain of bacteria that absolutely devours this stuff. ofcourse this very obviously leads into hollywood-esque tragicomedical cataclysms... "whats that smell... flips mouse upside down oh damn, my
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by webdevver 10mo ago
well... i dont know about that. i dont think its as virtual as people think. fundamentally any industry is about people, and london is chock full of hft shops, and they're all in-office. where would they go? they are quite serious soft
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by webdevver 10mo ago
holy cope
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by webdevver 10mo ago
ive long held this take aswell. a lot of people point back at history, with the argument of "we did it before, we can do it now!" but whats to say it wasn't a transient? transients can last 1 year or 100 years, but in the lat
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by webdevver 10mo ago
the only meaningful contribution this guy made was his prose. certainly a talented constructor of sentences, i could never write as precisely as him. but as far as meaningful technical contributions, i struggle to find anything. his path se
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by webdevver 10mo ago
scott could not have picked a better time to retire tbh. dude really sold the top.
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by webdevver 10mo ago
for me, its C++11. the absolute pinnacle of mankind. everything has been going downhill since then. coincidence? i think not!
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by webdevver 11mo ago
21 seconds https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/build-linux-kernel-1.1...
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by webdevver 11mo ago
>market which is now huge SoC market is mcdonalds. its huge in the same way the soybean industry is huge. zero margin commodity.
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by webdevver 11mo ago
oh... i thought this was going to be about simulating optical lenses and lens physics.
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by webdevver 11mo ago
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by webdevver 11mo ago
getting out of bed every morning is the hardest thing ive ever done. every single time.
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by webdevver 11mo ago
i didnt read the article (save for the tldr at the end), but imo the youth are, by definition, always ok. nobody is going to become illiterate or such nonsense, the backstop will always be mammals trying to get one-up on each-other, and you
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by webdevver 11mo ago
eviscerated!
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by webdevver 11mo ago
replacing hr with claude code powered bash scripts might just be what the industry desperately needs
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by webdevver 11mo ago
why do you assume mass firings are a bad thing? shedding 'dead weight' (morality aside) is a good thing, no?
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by webdevver 11mo ago
2029 is a long bet
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by webdevver 11mo ago
god forbid someone builds something. it is very fitting that a british newspaper would be so repulsed by the prospect of industry.
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by webdevver 11mo ago
it would be good to analyze which of those .text/data sections are actually visited - i recall someone running the Vivado FPGA toolset, that is notoriously massive (90GB+) over a special FUSE fs that tells you which files were accessed
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by webdevver 11mo ago
grifting and shilling is mankinds collective yearning for wealth, fame, & fortune. it would be inhumane to silence these voices.
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by webdevver 11mo ago
the customer service was not "lost" to AI. it was never there to begin with, and never going to be there either. sadly, there is zero financial motivation for meta or google to help you recover your account. and in cases when they

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