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I agree completely

In fact I could be that other engineer (I'm not, but I'm in a very similar sounding situation)

I was the most senior engineer and first to join a new startup with a bunch of colleagues from an old work place. I put in ridiculously long hours for the first year and a bit to get the product started, and got completely burnt out and my family life suffered

After we brought on a few more engineers I reduced my hours to a more normal 40 hours a week, and made use of the flexible start-up hours to pick up my kids from school some days and come in late on others (A great way to manage the stress of being in a busy startup)

Now I also spend a lot less time writing code and more time managing product requirements, an overseas team, on system architecture, and all those dev-ops tasks (big time-sink) that no-one else wants to do

I don't completely know the original-poster's situation, but quite often the senior person on the team is often shielding the other developers from all the daily crap that is going on in a company so that they can be as productive as possible, and you might not be completely aware about everything that is going on
The reason it's the only one that works is bad behavior, so it also rewards that bad behavior.
In the last 6 years I've used a 7870, 290, and 580 as my desktops GPU. All have been stellar cards that have only gotten better over time.

Back when I got that 7870 circa 2012 I was taking a major risk - at the time the 6870 was the premiere foss card and radeonSI was brand new with growing pains. The 290 was another risk being the first major architecture update to GCN. But I was validated in both purchases with usable cards at first that within a few months became excellent.

I've played a lot of the major Linux AAA releases on these cards shortly after release - Borderlands 2, Civ 5, Metro Last Light / Redux, Tomb Raider, etc. There used to be quite a few bugs at release and glitches. Nowadays everything is pristine. And I get about twice the framerate in BL2 today than I did four years ago on that 290.

I'm almost certainly going to buy a Navi card next unless we have another crypto bomb ruin the market again.
If the market share were compelling enough, couldn’t some other maintainer step up and do this work? OSS doesn’t necessarily mean support for everything under the sun at all costs; Chromium may be open source but that doesn’t mean they have carte blanche from Google to test every possible combination of distro and GPU.
> as in under, burn, us

No, think "duck". That would be "dack" in Norwegian.
I get all of that, but it in no way explains the question that I asked.

How do the terrible atrocities of the past cause auto lenders of today to deny minorities loans based on racism alone and not business sense?

That is my question and that is what this post is about.

TFA has evidence that people are going out of their way now to deny car loans to people that would otherwise be eligible for those loans except for their race.

I am not doubting that this is happening, I am trying to determine why it would be and how no start-up has recognized the "market inefficiency" and opened a "we specialize in loans to black and hispanic people" and made billions and billions of free dollars currently being neglected.
I thought you could just have the drivers be downloaded and installed during installation i.e. never technically shipped with the OS.
I didn't look at the bugs at issue, but I rather doubt mode switching is what Chromium cares about. It's sure to be video decode or GPU output.
My CS course at a community college went over the limitations of floats in detail, in the CS class.
> Do what you know is right.

Exploit him for financial gain?
Awesome, a laptop with one-year OS support...
At Apple's scale, is there much financial advantage to switching from ARM to RISC V for iOS devices? Does Apple have to pay ARM any per-device royalties?
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AMD GPUs are definitely competitive unless you made a business out of computing things in GPU. For most daily tasks like graphics (games) or even moderate number crunching (OpenCL), AMD GPUs are perfectly usable and high value.
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How do auto loans and credit card approvals differ? Surely both have some human element to it still?

Maybe the sums involved are different, so giving loans is more risky than approving credit cards?

Also, incentives might be different. Maybe credit card companies want "bad" borrowers, because they make the most money if people go into high debts on credit cards? On the other hand for normal loans there is no such incentive, because the interest rates are fixed and much lower.
There's more to being user friendly than having a dumbed down UI and being technically correct.

Helping corporations spy on users is definitely not user friendly, and Chrome is by far the worst offender there. Saying, "nobody cares," because they're ignorant that it's going on is no excuse, either.
Every update to an app also counts as a new download.
Thank you for the kind words. It's always nice to hear from happy customers .
> handful of warts

What type of issues?
Your first points are well taken. From a quick googling you're right about the way the spec phrases it. It is, of course, terribly precise about under what circumstances UB occurs - https://stackoverflow.com/a/23429477/

> I stayed away from using the term “undefined behavior” because I’ve had a lot of problems in the past with students believing undefined behavior means “but it works [...]

Seems to me that developing a due terror of UB is vital to having a basic understanding of C as a programming language * , and beyond that, it's vital to appreciating what C is.

As well as being a considerable practical headache (it's not a compiler bug, it's UB going haywire), it's one of the major differences between C and, say, Java (alongside the way C types are not portable, etc). I'd say it deserves some emphasis as a basic principle.

* I suspect some theorists would contend that, strictly speaking, C programs aren't programs, and C isn't a programming language. Programs are, theoretically, meant to unambiguously map inputs to outputs. C is not unambiguous. But, needless to say, I digress.
No, in fact one of the bug comments refutes this sarcasm:

> The default driver on the distribution we support is broken.

They do test the default driver on the distributions they support. The tests show that the driver is unacceptably unstable. It may work better on other distros/versions, but they don't have time to test those. They're happy for others to help out in testing these unsupported combinations, however:

> Again, if someone wants to spend the time to test thoroughly to narrow down the blacklist, we will accept patches.
Some of that may be just from people preferring to go to a school that isn't that far from home, or to attend the school of their favorite college football team. UGA and GA Tech are solidly ranked schools and a lot of graduates from there have very good outcomes.
You're deliberately misrepresenting what that Operation was about. The target was money laundering, and they investigated the 50 or so businesses most associated with laundering. The point was to prevent money laundering without significantly interfering with those industries' access to financial services.

Meanwhile, Gab is just reaping what it has sowed. They claim that they represent the silent majority, and if that's not another one of their lies they shouldn't have any problems setting up their own financial services.
just because something is a bad idea doesn't mean you shouldn't be allowed to do it.
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>If Windows or macOS started shipping buggy/crashing OpenGL drivers and not fixing them, Chromium would be entirely justified to fall back to software rendering there

And they do just that, quite often! Just take a look at the list of drivers/hardware/os/feature combinations that are blacklisted in their file at [1].

Tons of MacOS and Windows things on there (and Android, and Linux!)

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/5e87d14bfc6...
This isn’t correct. WiFi router ships with GPL Linux and proprietary router software. The company / foundation creating the distribution just needs to have a license for the proprietary bits.
Uh, I think the point is that we need to build fair systems that reward high-performers. This answers all of your questions.

>> What if there had been no SpaceX during his lifetime.

We need a fair and level capitalist system that reduces barriers-to-entry for innovative companies and stops monopolistic practices. This will ensure that good ideas are profitable and make it in investors self-interest to build companies around the Muellers of the world.

>> We simply don't know enough about developing talents and making the most out of life yet.

The point is, we need to build systems that enables geniuses to be discovered regardless of races, resume, age, skintone, college. By-and-large the software industry is already incredibly efficient at this relative to other industries.

Other industries (e.g. healthcare) should adapt or be eaten. Software should double-down on talent speaking for itself (e.g. blind interviews, open coding competitions for all)
I get the predicament that caused Chromium to blacklist Nouveau. Nothing against the incredible work done in Nouveau, it's just reality: given a thousand eyes, apparently not all bugs are shallow (see also: Heartbleed and Shellshock). That being said:

>I'm curious why you hold this position.

Agreed. There are countless AAA titles (games) that do vendor checks on the GPU. Game developers are a bunch of people who have been working with GPUs for more than a decade, possibly approaching two decades. For some reason, GPUs are the one thing that the OS HAL isn't able to sort out. Windows (and Mac?) drivers are always proprietary, so different hardware vendors are all Windows developers have to worry about. I can't imagine the headache of dealing with differing hardware vendors (and families), on top of differing driver vendors.

Reality fucking sucks and I guess this is just Chromium acknowledging it. I doubt there's a grand conspiracy here.
What's the difference between understanding a 40-year-old CPU and understanding a floppy drive? The second is no less impractical than the first, in the modern world.
I wonder what he thinks about the end of Moore's law.
It works fine on Arch. I'm pretty sure the issue is more to do with Ubuntu's packaging. For them to disable it everywhere due to an issue with Ubuntu makes no sense. Besides, Ubuntu packages old software several releases behind stable.
or if lens scratches or dust were detectable in the same spots on the photos, revealing the photos were taken by the same camera

With the prevalence of mobile phones, whose camera lenses are likely to be exposed to a lot more "scrubbing" than a professional/dedicated camera, I suspect this might not work so well.
Staples Center in DTLA revitalized a previously barren part of downtown and was one of the major factors leading to the gentrification of the rest of the downtown area.

It was partially subsidized by taxpayers...
Is this related to the Google account? Because since switching to firefox and everything not-google I have been constantly harrassed by recaptcha everywhere.
You have options, that you prefer to avoid, because you choose not to cope with the inevitability of your own mortality, for emotional reasons. It's simply easier to don the mantle of the soulless worker drone.

But you do have options, and the free will to exercise them. You could rob banks, sell drugs, stay in bed, go on a hunger strike, bootleg intellectual property for fun and profit.

You have choices, up to and including suicide.

BigDog can't even commit suicide intentionally.
Gab has been rejected from 18 banks.

So closer to 1.
Just my observation but i rarely see or know of mobile users who browse app stores without first being taken then by a wish/link to download an app. Users who independently dive into app stores are mostly developer-oriented people looking to solve a problem with an app.

Apps go viral via memes or social channels and most of that is thus other apps.

Web, other than being much simpler, and easier to find, has the important benefit of not requiring a user to change context - they can switch tab but they are still in a browser - so their personal 'flow' is far less interrupted than when they change to another app. That interruption has flow on effect to retention, productivity, integration.

Bottom line is for a startup, esp a bootstrapping one, start with web MVP, get it out there fast even cobbled from existing apps and services. Prove your hypothesis as quickly as possible - and when data proves otherwise go pivot. Rinse-repeat.
I see, well I still think that I can help here.

How do the terrible atrocities of the past cause auto lenders of today to deny minorities loans based on racism alone and not business sense?

Because attitudes take time to change, and if we didn’t know that before the resurgence of facism in places like Brazil, Italy, Austria, Hungary and other countries should reach us that. The same people who thought it was acceptable to redline, or even kill people over their race still do, they’ve just changed their language. Some of their children doubtless feel differently, others almost certainly inherent their attitudes from their parents and communities. The older generation with its concentration of wealth and influence also haven’t changed.

As another person said, people are not rational.
Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum) supports IPv6 and is available in much of New York City.
I'd be interested to read an article about people being prevented from flying between Canada and Europe because of the US government. I think I remember a case of Canada refusing to let someone enter as part of a pre-booked journey which had a leg that took them into the US, but even then, I don't suppose that the affected passenger was a US citizen.

Similarly I don't know if there are cases where Canada has refused entry to a US citizen that isn't a wanted criminal (suspect) in the US or guilty of something that Canada themselves object to.

We could certainly imagine all sorts of extreme scenarios, such as the entire family secretly being spies for China, and the US tipping off the Canadians, but neither country being able to publicly reveal this, but -- assuming that these children are just innocent victims of an abusive bureaucracy -- I'd like to see them launch a case in the US.

There may be many good reasons for them not doing so, but I don't think that their ability to travel to Canada (from Europe, for example) nor their ability to travel by land between the US and Canada, is the limiting factor.
That's not the point. The switching issue at least is present on 18.04 as well. Basically, ubuntu changed the mechnanism from bbswitch in 16.04 to a different one in 18.04. The 18.04 one is buggy and inferior at the moment.
This is another reason why we shouldn't let current web browsers decide the future of the web... which to them will become a proprietary black box of slow JavaScript spyware and horrid markup languages.
Sorry about that. It’s (oddly when you think about it) a common abbreviation in French.

Yeah, in France we use the English word weekend (amongst a lot of other)
What's the news story here? Tech companies file innumerable number of patents without implementing them to cover the space in case they get sued so they can retaliate. Realistically this patent wouldn't actually be useful in practice for the proposed application but would be useful if written carefully enough to countersue for unrelated applications of the tech.
Considering that a vast amount of extremely important software and large projects use C++, I would say it solves real problems nicely. You can get pedantic about features of any language if you want to.
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I've seen ones which have a spiral ramp, not stairs.
"Quick cash" is always hard. ;-) Especially if you don't have "any contacts". However, you must know some people. Maybe not folks who are dying to give you quick cash today, but people who may know other people. Being introverted and not wanting to be one of those people who always tries to get quick cash out of people I know, I've tended not to talk about work with a lot of people. This is not smart. Ask the people you know about what's going on with them, and share what's going on with you.
Is that not a difference in Opportunity? Californians are spoiled for choice, with 250-some in-state four year colleges to choose from. Georgia has 85. And, as you describe, Georgia does not have a lot of world-famous institutions. Out-of-state students pay much higher fees, so where you live can be a real influence on where you can afford to go to college.

I mean, I'd call it opportunity. Maybe economic opportunity, if you want.
I think it's mostly the google account (and not blocking access to its cookies), but (as an FF user) I feel that just being on FF instead of Chrome is also a strike against you.
The fact that JSON.stringify uses double quotes is slightly in favour of using single quotes in handwritten code
> There's an implicit "because of this" between the two bullet points.

Not about this being the most significant factor. You've decided to infer that from the list - most of us didn't because he _explicitly_ says so in his last sentence. They also had influence over this particular issue, unlike the macroeconomics of China.
You'd have to ask them. I suspect the consortium compensates the developers. I've no idea how much that pays.
Not it can't, unless they build Docker containers into the Window and Mac kernels with the Linux subsystem.
We should have really gone with an ""IPv5"", because IPv6 tries to boil the ocean. We do not need that many ip addresses and now we will rarely be able to recall specific IPv6 addresses like IPv4 addresses.
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Wouldn't it possible for it to work better if it is the case that more dense scrubbing patterns are complex enough to differentiate one camera from the other, and that such an algorithm can pick up on that?
the same map with much better ui experience

https://vrcmap.co.uk/

it is the source of the iframe on the uni of cambridge page the article links to
>Commercialization of my data without consent or compensation is my fear.

You should have assumed when you spit in the tube that you waived all rights to protecting your genetic data.

I'm not saying they should be allowed to use it however, including selling, but I'm saying when you spit in a tube and send your DNA to a company... you should kinda assume the worst.
> “Employment relationships are fundamentally exploitative though.”

that you a priori assume this makes me sad. a company has no fundamental right to a power differential over an employee.

an employment agreement is between two equal parties looking for a fair value exchange. with that said, of course power differentials often exist in those situations (unfortunately), but it doesn’t always have to. that’s one of the reasons everyone should always apply to multiple jobs at once, and hopefully get multiple offers, so you have leverage in the employment negotiations.

and the best managed organizations consider managers to be support staff with decision-coalescing responsibilities rather than overlords.
What does that have to do with politics? None of those things you mention are any more political than sports. I don't care about you getting to work or receiving medical care any more than you care about my sports.
> which to them will become a proprietary black box of slow JavaScript spyware and horrid markup languages

Did you read the bug report?
> I can't remember the exact number, but almost all VC in the US goes to just a handful of counties.

Fair enough, but to play devil's advocate people from all over the world flock to these counties, and places like YC exist specifically as an entryway to this otherwise closed network. Musk himself has spoken at length of why he came to the US, and the Stripe cofounders have a similar story.
Now start thinking on people living on rural areas outside first world countries... Lot of wasted talents...
It’s not generally ambiguous in math, and a similar situation exists when a patient describes his symptoms using different words.

That said, I started with: ‘Math is arguably worse with redundant notations for the same thing.’

He asked “I’m also curious what you think is redundant in math notation.”
> Is that not a difference in Opportunity?

Definitely. I'm agreeing with the article, although I believe that race and gender are red herrings. The real problem is socioeconomic in nature (fwiw, I say this as a staunch capitalist).
> Quite surprised to see such strong opinions on this issue

you shouldn't be. to a certain group of people, it is particularly loathsome to be prohibited from doing things that can only hurt the person doing them. this is basically how we treat children.

a patient should be allowed to limit access to their medical records for pretty much any reason. an individual doctor should also be allowed to refuse to treat a patient who is unwilling to disclose part or all of their medical records; they may have valid liability concerns. but revealing your records should not be a precondition to accessing the entire field of medicine. what part of this do you have a problem with? you still get to deal with your doctors however you want.
Piecemeal. First require more price transparency. Then stop incentivizing the HMO/PPO type of insurance.
Wow, what a conceited message.

If you want to support nouveau, then you can put the work in. You have no right to demand that others do work for you. Especially when they already have a functioning alternative solution in software rendering.
> hangs from the the max-texture-size-equivalent tes

I reported this bug back in 2015 and they have made no progress on it. It seems Nouveau just doesn't have the resources or man power. I can't really blame Google here. You don't want the browser to be able to hard lock system(not even a Magic SysRq will reboot it)

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92136
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First two years of medical school are in classroom, second two years are clinical rotations.

Residency is after medical school, and that's the first time you start earning a meager paycheck. In medical school, even when you're "working" with patients, you still pay tuition.
I definitely agree with most of your points.

Code is read much more often than written, and most newer languages optimize for convenience rather than readability.

In my view Rust is actually pretty verbose compared to other new languages, and feels a bit cumbersome to write.
Technically it could be made quite a bit leaner syntax-wise.

I just wanted to point out that Rust and the Rust community often share your view and want to optimize for readability as well. There actually was a lot of heated discussion last year around proposals that suggested reducing readability for convenience.
If that is truly a massive trend (and it seems like it would be reasonably easy to measure), the current setup of libraries is not that conducive to employment preparation (mine still features books on Macromedia Flash and Office XP).

One can probably run it more efficiently as an Internet access room at a local community center, with access to printing/faxing/tutoring/resume building and other services.

And, just as you said, some zip codes will benefit from this setup more than others.
I did 4 months ago, I loved it at first but when I tried to use it in a more complex use case during hackathon I ended up hitting some weird compile bugs with it and decided to go back to webpack. Maybe ill try it again once it matures a bit more.