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Its interesting to watch AMD at work, for one GPU generation they spent $300 million for everything, including design, marketing and the single production run of silicon.

Meanwhile, Intel is spending ~$4 Billion on its iGPU architecture alone for the next gen and has been spending heavily since ever to try and improve, with much worse results.
And finding kosher beef. If you want a kosher burger, you usually need to buy the beef yourself and make your own burger.
> Most of the 72$ shares sold pre-IPO to retail investors were dumped on IPO day

Why do you think any retail investors got shares at $72?
The best way I've found to handle that is while scheduling the final interview. The one that's further along, ask for the in-person to be a week later then they'd proposed. Try to schedule the two in-persons at the two companies within a week of each other.

The other (risky) way to handle it is to say "I understand that you need a timely response because you may have other candidates you need to get back to. If you need a response this week then unfortunately I'll have to withdraw from consideration, as I won't be able to get back to you by then." Of course, you have to really mean it, and you have to be ok with them going ahead and withdrawing the offer.
How could I better ask the question? I'm genuinely confused since they poster talks about not eating "meat" but eats fish, which culturally for me (Buddhist and Hindu) are non-veg
* is the wild card character so veg*n "matches" both "vegan" and "vegetarian." It's a short-hand way to say "vegetarian and/or vegan."
The book "It doesn't have to be crazy at work" [1] presents a nice approach to deal with deadlines:

> [...] The date won’t move up and the date won’t move back. What’s variable is the scope of the problem—the work itself. But only on the downside. You can’t fix a deadline and then add more work to it. That’s not fair. Our projects can only get smaller over time, not larger. As we progress, we separate the must-haves from the nice-to-haves and toss out the nonessentials [...]

[1] https://basecamp.com/books/calm
Underwriters insist on a lockup period for a reason. Everyone asks about short selling and options, and the answer is always no.
As with the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes in London, you may well find that the cameras turn out to be "broken".
Causing demographic shifts isn't the stated purpose of the immigration system. No presidential candidate would ever run on replacing incumbent demographics with planetary demographics. Are you suggesting that demographic replacement should be the purpose of the US immigration system or the purpose of the immigration system of any country for that matter? To do so would invite an incredible backlash against all forms of immigration pretty much anywhere it was openly stated.
The structure of society is brutal for those who need to shift gears in their middle years while supporting a family. Good luck!
Historically Forth was block orientated (1024 bytes)

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/3-forth-editor-blocks-b...

When I implemented this in a home rolled Forth on the Apple //e under Prodos (mid eighties) I used the Apple sparse file with random IO as block orientated drive. The Starting Forth link suggests that's a common mechanism. I suspect a lot of micro Forths just hit the disk directly.
Seems to me that you just spent twenty years to slowly develop muscle memory, when you could have achieved the same results in a few weeks. (I did the same thing.)

> the same knowledge will come naturally as students learn other aspects of math

The key difference here is that being slow at typing for twenty years didn't discourage you from typing. Being slow at math can discourage kids from doing math, and the "twenty years of regular practice later" moment will never arrive.
I've also heard the argument that it comes from an animal welfare perspective:

It seems a little ghoulish to eat a calf with its mother's milk.
Within our lifetimes, I expect we are going to see games than run faster raytraced than rasterized.

Why? Raytracing doesn't pay a penalty for overdraw. Rasterization time increases linearly with scene complexity, while raytracing time (with the proper acceleration structures in place) increases logarithmically.

We're eventually going to see open world games that are only possible via raytracing.
I think the JavaScript community needs to step up and boycott NPM
Agree. Also more than human nature, it's a highly competitive world.

If a manager in the org, is producing results using a heavy handed approach, you can be sure your boss is going to be knocking on your door to have a little chat about "improving things" in your teams. It's not a bad thing. Pushes good managers to evolve their own systems.
I don’t understand this expectation that retail investors should get a decent profit on a stock they bought days ago. It was priced at 72, went up a bunch, and is now down less than 5% from what they offered it at. It all seems... fine?
If you're bad at taking tests, being able to make a vague excuse for why you failed one is not an acceptable substitution for passing it.

Nor is the above argument an acceptable substitution for a sound argument that these kinds of tests have some kind of validity.
Where I currently work every now and then they have spaghetti and meatballs using the Impossible meat. I was so convinced that it was a legitimate substitute that I asked to see if I could just buy the meatballs straight-up to use at home. No dice.

I can't wait until the time I can just get them from the grocery store.
And they fail so much it is painful to watch. Strangely in capitalism the fit will sell themselves when able to get a really sweet deal. But the unfit will "survive" in some sense as "independent" units.
I've had the same experience as a hands-off manager. In almost all of those cases I should have let the person go instead of trying to improve how I manage them. Hind sight and all and choosing to let someone go can be difficult, but still
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I guess the paper should be at https://www.liebertpub.com/loi/soro, in the April issue, but that isn’t there yet, so I don’t know whether it’s open access.

I did find a probably related paper at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-665X/ab0ea2/... (paywalled)

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/soro.2016.0032 (2017) also seems related and is online photos of the structures.
Rumors say that Sony (and probably MS) paid for Navi and the PC version is basically a bonus. I don't know what that predicts since the PS5 hasn't been announced yet.
That's not true. I'm lazy (efficient) and I let my recruiter get me passed the HR shenanigans.
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Yes, I should have specified that I was speaking in the context of someone who is working at client's offices on a regular basis (in which you would have enough mileage to make a difference when it comes to deducting the expense). If you primarily work at home and you occasionally visit clients for meetings and updates or sales calls, then you should be fine deducting the mileage.

But if you are the type of freelancer that goes and works on site on a regular basis for your clients, then the IRS will likely try to assert that your client offices are actually your "place of work" and driving in to see them is merely a non-deductible commute.
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Every previous tech IPO in the past few years has had a curve like this. Facebook dropped below $20 shortly after IPOing, before starting its long ascent to >$100. Short-term speculators are likely to be burned, but if Lyft does meet expectations in the next few years, long holders will make out well.
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Edit: apparently this is done to change the subslot to make sure RAM will be mapped into 0000-7fff. All those words wouldn't have meant much to 12-year-old me, but I certainly knew I had to do that before loading games on my Mitsubishi ML-FX2.
Agreed. The narrative is frequently, "Tech company X's CEO was running secret, morally-questionable project. Rest of the company's engineers upset to find out about it."

So far that dissatisfaction has been mostly inert, unfortunately. But I like to think that the typical engineer's morals haven't been as corroded by money as the typical CEO, and that we'll eventually reach a breaking point where things will get so bad that the engineers will finally take a stand. Tech puts power in the hands of the few, but that tech can't be built without lots of engineers. The sooner they see past the utopian narratives peddled by their bosses and set aside their comfy lives, the better.
Have you considered enabling this out of band? For example as a network administrator I could verify a CIDR block and receive a real time stream of 5-tuples (err, 7-tuples with the proxy?) destined to my network.
The purpose of the IPO is to fund the company.

Many companies have been railroaded by the banks to price their IPO shares so conservatively that they make relatively little money on the IPO. It may be dwarfed by the amount the banks and investors make in a few days.

Taking the long term view, maybe this IPO is just fine. The company gets funds, they grow their business and the stock will rise well over time.
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Stocks are a major part of compensation for tech companies. Looking at just salary is an incomplete picture and also isn't fair for job-seekers. Fwiw this page has compensation data with break down by RSU, bonus, etc: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html
Having sex in the rave-family from the electronic scene in berlin of the 90s is still worth a minute to remember (at 250bpm), of course.
This is factually inaccurate.

Cloudflare do not use the EDNS Client Subnet extension:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7871

You are right to say that can potentially affect geo-located services. But that is not to say that 1.1.1.1 doesn’t support EDNS:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6891
>You meant American, because in the UK the front-line treatment for depression or anxiety is a talking therapy, coupled with social prescribing (which to be fair has variable availability), and then medication if indicated.

It's the front-line treatment for mild depression and mild-to-moderate anxiety, because of the poor evidence for the efficacy of antidepressant medicines for patients with less severe illness. SSRIs and talking therapies are recommended equally for moderate or severe depression and severe anxiety, because the evidence suggests that they are equally effective.

NICE guidance states that benzodiazepines should not be prescribed for more than two weeks, because of diminishing efficacy and the risk of dependence.

SSRIs are cheaper and more convenient than psychotherapy, which should not be underestimated. The NHS certainly can't afford to offer psychotherapy to everyone who could benefit and many Americans don't have adequate insurance coverage. Getting psychotherapy outside of office hours can often be a significant challenge, which is a total dealbreaker for many people. I would certainly like to see greater use of psychotherapy (particularly for people with chronic and/or severe disorders), but there's nothing innately wrong with the widespread use of a safe and effective class of drugs. There just isn't any evidence to suggest that SSRIs are inferior to psychotherapy, although it may be the case that some patients who do not benefit from SSRIs would benefit from psychotherapy (and vice-versa).

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg90/chapter/1-Guidance#ste...

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg113/chapter/1-Guidance#st...
> I don’t understand this expectation that retail investors should get a decent profit on a stock they bought days ago

I don't have that expectation. IPOs are risky. IPOs of massively loss-making companies' non-voting stock are riskier still.

But when two sets of investors--on institutional and one retail--bought stock within days of each other, under similar informational and macroeconomic circumstances, and one of those groups (the latter) was prohibited from buying at the price the other (the former) bought at, and a single institution is the arbiter of the price at which bucket A buys and sells, and bucket B gets screwed to the tune of 20% on a day the general markets rose, it's a reason to call out the bookrunner as a numpty. Particularly for a name, like Lyft, that will disproportionately depend on retail investors buying their stock for months to come.
So telling that these simple behavioural rules actually have to be spelled out instead of being normal common sense behaviour.
Some Google searching suggests enforcement would be after the fact so your scenario might well be permitted. Also found that Google searching "insider trading" may not be a good idea...
Would you have helped to build Auschwitz if you got paid enough money?
It's a 1-on-1 interview (not in front of others). Ultimately the point is to help the person.

When interviewing and I didn't get a job I always desperately wanted to know how to improve things next time and nobody would tell me. Instead there was this little canned BS email from HR "after much consideration blah blah blah" stop that ... tell why!

This goes one step beyond telling. Show people why. Show them what they are doing, when they are doing it, how you can see it, why it's bad, why it hurts them and help them not do it in the future.

Give them an offer to correct it after you've made it clear (this is like throwing an exception in programming versus silent failure). Reset the clock and try again if you want. Maybe they're actually great and you read them wrong (they might be a "good program" with your bad input). The interviewer isn't some flawless executioner.

Most interviewers don't act like characters out of an Ayn Rand book. At the end of the day they care about others and know they have bills to pay. Doing this shows "this is why this job can't happen". Try to be their best interview for a job they didn't get.

The candidate doesn't walk out the door with ambiguity or false pretense or the illusion of doing well. Nor do the decisions come across as arbitrary and indiscriminate. They know exactly what action they need to take for their next opportunity.

If they don't get the job on offer, the best you can do for them is help make sure they can get the next one.
Great story, and very recognizable.

Also many thanks for mentioning Checkly[0]. I can totally see why you guys opted for a more APM driven solution. In the end, you probably want white box and black box monitoring.

Disclaimer: I am the founder of Checkly.

0: https://checklyhq.com
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I was talking to a few international masters students who can't find jobs in the US because increasingly companies can't sponsor H1-B. The immigration slowdown is across the board, even for EB1 green card applications. I think the wait time for EB1 is currently about 2 years and it is even more for Chinese and Indians.
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Indirect lighting isn't a subtle effect, it's the difference between something looking real and looking fake.

A lot of games go to great lengths to make the lighting look sort-of-natural, but this takes a lot of manual effort by artists and it's usually mostly static.

Real-time global illumination gets you realistic lighting without extra manual effort, and it enables dynamic lighting effects such as light pouring into a dimly lit room when a door is opened or the sun changing position in the sky over time.

Ray tracing also has secondary uses, like determining visibility between arbitrary points in the scene or doing collision detection.
But the question is, how much engineering hour and effort do you want to put into a feature that will benefit a very tiny percent of your users, vs putting that time into trying to make the experience that 99% of users have better?
Looks like the formula was originally based on seitan but is now based on soy. I've been experimenting with seitan recently in my own cooking. Its texture is almost perfect as a chicken substitute, but it's low in some important amino acids (lysine). It's very interesting that they've switched to a soy-based formula, since soy is a whole protein source. I may try to copy this at home...
I like this question, but it is hard to define one that is global to all projects.

Without putting much thought into it though, I'd say the hand washing of development is source control. Most projects know they need source control so do some parts of it, but don't use it to properly make reproducible software builds consistently. And sadly I have ran into a lot of people still not using source control, which blows my mind.
Nvidia already enabled RTX on the 10-series line of GPUs because the whole feature is just a "software hack" in the first place. RTX hardware has cores that are faster at running the software, but at the end of the day it was always "just" software in the first place.

See also Crytek doing real-time raytracing on a Vega 56: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nqhkDm2_Tw
I'm sure you haven't looked over historical data, but if you did you'd find this to be a profitable strategy were it not for two problems: finding shares to borrow (a requirement to "short" a stock, because you borrow them and immediately sell), and if you try and fix that problem with buying put options, those won't be available for a week.
I regreted getting out in that I took a large paycut (50%) when I dropped out but I was able to start making it up quickly as I got promoted about 6 months in. (I only ended up making up about half of what I lost so for me software definitely has more $ potential) Depending on the field you get into, a lot of the technical skills you acquire are really just logical ways of problem solving. These skills can be applied to a variety of fields, making things that a majority of others may find challenging into relatively trivial challenges. Not because I was smarter than anyone else but just because developers are trained to approach problems in a specific way. I got into analytics, so if you jumped into sales or something like that your mileage may vary. I was also able to leverage my programming background to creating some automated vba scripts which carved hundreds of hours a year off of my teams workload. Simple scripts that any developer could do but only a developer would think to do. These scripts led to some nice pay bumps.

Nicest part was being able to leave work at the office, it hit 5 o'clock and I was gone. I got to enjoy personal and family time.

I worked for a very large company when I got out which I had not done before and I learned how political things can be. I also got to interact with non-technical co workers which was a nice change of pace.

I do regret the years lost from a software career perspective but when I got out I was fried so I may not have been that far ahead anyway if I stayed in.

I would probably do it again if I had to, it was good to see what else is out there. A career is a long time and I wanted to be sure.
It's a pretty bad article based on current thinking about Chaco. I have no doubt his guide was pretty good, but I suspect his retention and understanding of what he was told got things scrambled, and then he went off on his own tangents.

There's a lot of work being done tying Chaco to the broader region. The most forward thinking would be Steve Lekson's (UC Boulder) work, he proposes a migration along a meridian between Chaco, Aztec, and Paquime. I don't really subscribe to that particular view, but I am not a researcher and my opinion is worthless as far as that goes.

I found much of what is written in that article to be debatable at best, fanciful at worst. I'm not sure it is worth going into it line by line.

If this is a topic that interests people, books by David Roberts and Craig Childs give an excellent overview of what was going on at this time period, albeit in a very personal manner (e.g. do you care how David gets along with a hiking companion?). Then there are a significant number of books that are accessible to the lay reader without requiring you to read "methods and materials" types of research reports. But Roberts and Childs will give you the gist. I particularly like Childs' "House of Rain".
No idea why anyone would hold at least until the lockup period expires.
Considering Suse has Walmart, Kroger (and their QFC, Fred Meyer, etc subsidiaries), Safeway/Albertsons, and numerous European & African chains using SLES as the base of their retail systems, they likely sell many more support contracts.

SLES has pushed deep onto back office computers and embedded devices like deli scales, which ia a big stretch from where it started (as an IBM 4690 OS replacement).
Like sausage you don't want to see how programming languages are made.
I agree. But you also have to factor in that when the insider trading went down, she was sitting on the board of directors of the NYSE. So she knew what she was doing and I'm sure that factored in to the decision to prosecute.
So if I end up at a Cloudflare customer over a Cloudflare VPN you will never tie the two records together? That is actually encouraging if you'd publicly commit to that.
These would be business expenses and would hopefully be reimbursed. You didn't interpret the suggestion in a very charitable way.
The government has no plan/vision regarding fighting this issue. Even none of the parties fighting the 2019 elections is bothered. Instead everyone is concerned about Hindu vs Muslims and Pakistan. India's democracy's weakest part is its citizens who are so easy to manipulate.