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I'm glad that other people are still working on Vulkan documentation materials. Outside of just reading the specification, Overv's vulkan-tutorial.com is probably one of the most read Vulkan implementations in C++, but I have some minor complaints about it. And I hope this author considers making an improved tutorial, not just translating Overv's to Rust.

Vulkan is so painfully verbose in unnecessary ways, forcing you to be explicit about everything, when in many cases, whole swaths of lines of code are unnecessary or the standard could have established sane defaults that match what actually happens in practice in the industry.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, I'm sure I probably am, but I see no reason to declare particular structures in both the standard and in tutorial documentation like vulkan-tutorial.com when they widely aren't going to be of use to anyone until you reach broad adoption or advanced usage.

Most of these tutorials should be helping you get to a triangle as fast as possible, but none of them follow the order of what you're exposed to in the reference material, and they all go on tangents about needing to state application info (not required), creating your own validation layers (this is advanced material, why recreate VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation???) or declare what device you're going to use (it's almost always going to be the first exposed device--even systems with discrete GPUs will only declare that they have one GPU available and hide the fact that they have an integrated GPU on the CPU).

It leads to hundreds of lines of code that distract from the high-level goals: initialize the renderer, set your shaders, upload assets to the GPU, and draw them.

I think the industry is still lacking reference-quality documentation outside of the reference specification, which doesn't explicitly help you with implementation details for the most common use cases.

I wouldn't expect it to, but it would have been nice. A lot of modern reference specifications do actually do this now.
Not just electrical -- pretty much any system or major structure in your house. We had to have a few minor repairs done to our roof, but due to newly passed regulations (and a 45° roof pitch), the roofers needed to also install roof anchor points (beefy D-rings basically) for their safety before they did anything else. Anecdata, sure, but plumbing, sewer, foundations all have similar stories.
GitHub code brushes – Photoshop for code
No, just personal use. I use it to help explain relationships between ideas or concepts I’m not familiar with, especially with economics and biology. It does an excellent job helping me understand what certain words mean in certain contexts.

With the caveat being I don’t assume the information it tells me is always accurate. I usually do a Google search to confirm something new but without ChatGPT I wouldn’t have known what to search for.

For now it mostly helps me understand the context behind something I’m learning about. Saves me like 10 minutes of extra googling.
The underlying API seems to be available for multiple browsers but not Firefox yet:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystemF...
Pretty decent, as far as these things go. The equipment bit is quite a change from the usual "turn in all company property or else" threats.
Lattice the "People Success Platform", not the semiconductor company and maker of FPGAs that has actually turned a profit
> sometimes giving the appearance of better cooling when in actuality your system will throttle after 10 minutes of work.

If it throttles after 10 minutes instead of after 20 seconds, that is in fact better cooling. The higher thermal mass is one of the major benefits of water cooling over air cooling for this reason.
https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/doc-folding.html#:~:text=al...
Wouldn't it be lovely if it was for every one of those people, realistically it was per.

In a vacuum it might be simple cause and effect, but nothing about the global situation in the past few years is simple. Money printing certainly had a part to play in inflation, but peeling it off from all the other factors and labeling it as the main culprit is kind of just mental gymnastics.
One of the interviewers was augmentative and combative in their line of questioning as if they were playing "bad cop". I won't go into details, but I was given a hypothetical engineering situation that just wasn't realistic in my experience and tried to explain why, but they would not take no for an answer.
It's interesting that Elon laid out that Medium is one of Twitter's first targets, and now Medium is making this shift.
When we talk about current we are usually talking about the rate.
So the question is: for how long can the chip sustain this level of current.
If this is true, shouldn't there be consequences for NAACP? Surely accepting cash to weaponize racism is (or should be) illegal?
Part II: The failure points from $5M to $100M in ARR
Having been through a bunch of tech organizations, this letter is a high watermark for treating people with respect and candour about the business, which is objective thing they share. It goes a long way to positioning people well to manage the change in their own lives.

A rare demonstration of ownership, and it helps anyone laid off demonstrate the kind of culture they can bring with them to their new roles. Anyone who worked in the culture that produces that level of ownership will be a valuable asset wherever they go.
They should add geolocation to the fuckups. That is not where either Montreal or Gatineau are haha
SFINAE and enable_if
The 100k investment (something they announced in Feb 2020) isn't an instant check for 100k, there are several conditions, [details here][1], and the relevant part being:

> The way it works is simple: if you’ve worked at Lattice for at least 3 years and part on amicable terms and if you start a new company within 12 months of leaving, Lattice will offer to invest up to $100,000 either at a $5 million valuation or at the terms of a seed round you are raising, whichever is higher. Lattice will look to support these companies through sharing advice, our network, and even partnership where applicable.

[1]: https://lattice.com/blog/lattice-announces-the-invest-in-you...
Do you need permission to shift the blame for your own poor planning? As far as they're concerned, this was all played out just fine, they needed the headcount in case they could grow more, and if things changed, they can always lay off 15% of the workforce. I'll add the implicit statement to their note on ZIRP myself (in italics):

> Starting in the middle of 2020, the world moved in an unprecedented environment for many companies. As interest rates plummeted to 0% and monetary policy pushed lots of money into the economy, companies had easy access to capital, and demand for products and services surged. Organizations hired aggressively to meet market demand and the war for talent reached a fever pitch. The result, for Lattice, was that growth skyrocketed. [We either ignorantly assumed it would be like this forever, or knowingly took the risk that we'd have to lay people off when the economic picture meaningfully changed.]

> Fast forward a couple of years to 2023, and the economic picture has meaningfully changed.

(Aside, anyone else annoyed that so many companies have adopted the term "impacted" as the verb to refer to people who were laid off? The company is experiencing a layoff, an event as a noun, through which coworkers are impacted. Maybe I've only noticed this recently. It rubs me the wrong way, as we're avoiding saying what happened out loud, like the company is absolved from their responsibility as the subject performing the act of firing on the object. That said, the severance here is fairly generous so this isn't a knock on Lattice so much as pervasive SV culture.)
Ahh gotcha. Thanks for the background context.
I, probably like a lot of people, will curse under my breath when figuring out a problem, or coding in general.

I try to keep it clean for professional discussions. Definitely customer facing, but still mostly so for internal discussion.

Probably a lot of people curse under their breath at work during problem triage. Thus, it comes off to me as being more legitimate being sweary.
Couldn’t you just not mow your lawn and let the chickens eat all the bugs?
Beef tallow is an excellent and cheap butter substitute for a lot of cases. You can refine 10-20 lbs / beef quarter.
Android:
Bouncer - powerful permissions management
Island - Create a work profile for work apps or apps you want to keep off your main profile

iOS:
iVerify - Security related recommendations, guidelines and reminders.
You can buy pretty cheap coops at stores such as Tractor Supply that will house half a dozen chickens or so. They're great for people starting out because a number of things, that you might not be aware of, have been integrated and thought through. Also, backyardchickens.com is a popular site for all kinds of advice that we've used to research different chicken matters. In short, it's pretty easy to keep chickens, but you have to do it regularly and with love.
Externally he has a personal writer whose whole job it is to make him seem smart. He's the darling of the Canadian tech industry, which badly needed a win since the implosion of Nortel, so he has a ton of advantages. In SV he would be a mediocre wannabe founder but in Ottawa he's hot shit.
Well, I have time to read.
Possibly availabilty, in our Denver Suburb, Kroeger and Walmart shelves are nearly always bare. We've had to resort to buying 5 dozen at a time at our Costco...which I don't like, because it takes awhile to get through them.
> Wouldn't that lead to more red light running?

I don't think so. Obviously, the signal heads would have to be placed in a certain way that the MUTCD also prohibits in order to ensure near-side signals are easy and prominent when stopped at the stop bar (for example, minimum signal head distance from ground).

On the contrary, I actually think the MUTCD enforced far side signals create dangerous situations where certain signage, like "no turn on red" is less visible, especially on arterials where most traffic deaths and severe injury occur, because the signage is literally 140 ft away on the opposite side of the intersection on the far-side signal head monopole.

140 ft is very far for any signage placed at this distance when the driver is stopped at the stop bar, especially if you're not specifically looking/familiar with the area.

I was actually hit by someone driving a month ago on a multi use path because a driver turned right on red, despite not not being allowed. I believe that signal head placement led to this, because the no turn on red signage is very hard to see here (again, 140 ft away).

This is in contrast with the Netherlands, for example, which their overhead, near-side signal heads are only 20-30 ft away from the driver, very prominent and easy to see out of the windshield, and any signage next to the signal would be extremely prominent, despite the intersection size being similar (140 ft). NL obviously doesn't allow turns on red in the first place, but that's a whole other discussion...

Sorry I don't have photo examples on this computer atm. But this is something I've been discussing with local city engineers. It's a recurring problem, and they're aware of it, but any solution has to work around the MUTCD.

I do agree with you that signals are incredibly inefficient and ideally we would be getting rid of them wherever possible-

> “Traffic signals are the most mindless and wasteful thing Americans routinely install to manage traffic. Removing nearly all of them within cities would improve our transportation systems and overall quality of life.”

https://gettingaroundsac.blog/2022/03/16/too-many-traffic-si...
The graph you linked shows that this is not true. See the tiny purple graph at the right side of the bar? That's the rare earth minerals and their amount in an electric car is tiny.
For a steampunk throwback of this idea, there are a number of self-playing full orchestras at the House on the Rock (an amazing museum of all things kitsch Wisconsin) that use 100% mechanically driven pneumatically controlled instruments. It's amazing and this video doesn't do it justice, but here's a pretty good idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpaRGpoMyjg
I run my 1440p screen at 1080p because my portable monitor is 1080p and I don't want to try and setup different scaling on different screens in X or move to Wayland. I'm happy enough.
It's no good for training, only inference, but there's salad.com that has 10k's of DAU with GPUs and they've built a managed container service, with a inference API coming soon https://salad.com/salad-inference-endpoints
I own a LemurPro 9. Love it but the arrow keys are a crime against humanity. It appears they have fixed this (maybe even sooner) with the Pangolin.

System76 if you here can you switch chassis :) ?
I am out of the loop. "Target"? Like to compete with? Purchase? Destroy?
I totally sympathize with the driver compatibility concern, but what is the hassle of sticking in a linux usb drive to install?

In general, how serious are these driver compatibility concerns for modern laptop hardware?
I tried building a startup around this back in ~2012 called "Netkine". The basic premise was that compute is fungible and that all compute has a price (regardless of whether it is from a datacenter, or from someone's desktop PC). We seeded different compute on different networks around the SF Bay Area (either in low cost datacenters, or different networks like Comcast/AT&T) and had a customized version of Linux which could securely boot on a Windows gaming machine. You could then carve out different sized virtual machines on any machine in the network, and it would seamlessly create a VPN tying each of the instances together.

Our biggest problem was finding customers on the demand side. What is the killer application which can take use of that kind of compute with those kinds of networking properties? What are the use cases? No one has written software that takes advantage of that kind of compute, because it's essentially a solution looking for a problem.
Thanks for the feedback. You've definitely got a point that we need to improve other parts of the website, and the docs definitely need an overhaul as well.
My favorite Star Trek alien race.
> US residency being tied to employment is still so funny/ridiculous to me, as a non-American. What a raw deal for the immigrants.

That is quite common, especially in the developed world. The US is a little stricter in the timelines and thresholds it applies, but not as much more as people seem to think.

Immigrants get a raw deal everywhere, especially immigrants from developing countries.
The cynical part of me is wondering if they're all jumping on the opportunity to do some "reorganising" with ZIRP as a get out of jail free card.
UK Treasury considers plan for “digital pound”
Wow another day another org doing a layoff. Guess I’m not alone in that respect
It just seems like people have extremely high expectations for what a single number could possibly encompass. It's a single, summary statistic- it's not going to ever be anything more than that. Of course low inflation doesn't mean everything's perfect and prices are just fine. It doesn't say anything about how poor or rich people are, what they can afford, or how wealth is distributed in society.

It is just an (imperfect!) aggregate measure of prices, and it certainly seems to capture something- inflation was low for a long time, then COVID, then it got high, then rates went up, then it went down again. When inflation is very high there aren't many inflation truthers going around insisting that actually, inflation is low; when inflation falls or stays low, there's always people insisting that actually not everything is great. Which: yes! You can have low inflation and all sorts of problems! But having those problems and high inflation is worse.

It's not hiding anything, it's just not rich enough to capture everything you're interested in.
He’s a serial liar at this point nothing he says means anything.
Question is how you get people who aren’t seeing large price increases to join such an app. It’s easy to imagine a world where only the people above the mean in inflation search something like that out, giving off a false impression of numbers being cooked by institutions that use more complete methods.
The file handler is already tucked inside an asynchronous Promise based API. I think it’s reasonable that a mere attempt to get a handler synchronously is made possible. Whether to support synchronous read/write access is another matter.

I would be delighted if handlers were more akin to byte arrays that could be written and read synchronously, albeit with an asynchronous function to persist changes to the disk.
you are paying for convenience, support the project, and have system that is tested for the ground up and configured by the manufacturer, and branding.
I don't feel that is so great, some other laptops and pc in the linux ecosystem are great also, but this is their monetization scheme, high price for niche products.
I don't think they can sell for lower price and compete whit companies who doesn't expend the money in developing the distribution, wm, etc.
Im no historian but I suspect white space sensitive languages influenced the desire to drop a white space character.
It's a bathtub shaped curve. Even in low-birth-rate countries, birth rates have not depressed among the rich.
FTC delays could send Microsoft and Activision back to the bargaining table
Make art.
The lock in isn't a negative, it's just a cost. If you didn't build it yourself, that was a time and expertise savings. If they go away, you either just use the other vendor, or you have to pay for the time and expertise now, which you would have been paying anyway if you didn't use the vendored solution to begin with.
Where? I live in a poor rural area and every grocery store in town (and we ain’t talkin Whole Foods here) has even generic eggs for more than $5/dozen. Thank goodness I have my own chickens.
Never great to get laid off and even more so in the current environment but that comp package should lighten the blow for most people
I suspect it's the conflict between where the actual even organizer is, and the "region" they're covering (the 'license' from the site means that there can only be one 'fuckupper' per city).
Perhaps, but it would continue to allow the poster their own choice of words .. which I think is important.
Unit Economics Metrics (2021)
I happen to be extraordinarily familiar with a similar situation (long story). I think you should be careful who you discuss this with, particularly if the previous owners might get involved.

My advice would be to go to Bavaria yourself, and destroy the ring.
Costco is also a special kind of store, where you pay an annual membership to get wholesale-like pricing.
They said nothing about hiring.
Correct. Java never ran on SunOS 4.x (aka Solaris 1.x), only Solaris 2.x (aka SunOS 5.x. I loved Sun's naming schemes.)
See: 1st Amendment to US Constitution
The area around Viborg was lost to the russians in 1721 and 1743. The western part of that, Lappeenranta and part of Kymenlaakso, are part of Finland today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Finland
>It took a bit, but eventually I came to understand that he is so good at reading code that he just wants it all laid out in front of him as densely as possible. He can effectively run it in his head, as long as he can see it.

In some ways, I also benefit from this. If I am working on the same code every day, I typically have it all loaded in my head anyway. If I am coming to a codebase for the first time, or coming back to it after working on something else for a long time, it is very helpful to have as much of the code as possible fit in one screen.

That said, there are tradeoffs for sure. Whitespace is not much help for me, but clearly named variables (e.g. `area` instead of `a`) are essential. Then again, there are some short variables that are very common and clear to me in specific patterns, for example in `for i, length in enumerate(boards)` I have no problem realizing immediately that `i` is short for `index` where ever I see it in the for loop body.

Three specific pieces of advice here:

1. Use an autoformatter when you need to read code to convert it to your preferred style. Don't enforce that on the team without consensus though.

2. Everyone who can afford it should buy larger monitors. 4k 32" will fit a lot of lines of code, even if it's not quite as dense.

3. Don't stress about style consistency too hard, but do attempt to match the existing style in any given project.
The full cost of fracked methane gas is not actually included in the price.

I'm not just talking about the environmental cost: gas consumption and production is subsidized by tax dollars, and the health costs are poorly quantified but my understanding is a growing body of evidence links gas usage in the home to childhood asthma and other chronic health issues.
Yes: simply observe whose interests are always catered to regardless of the party in power. It’s not the average hard-working American.

Check who the major political donors are, who funds the NGOs, think tanks, and PACs which guide policy-making. Check who employs politicians after they leave public office and who pays their speaking fees. Check who owns the major media outlets. Check who funds the endowments of academic institutions. Check declassified CIA documents which show direct collaboration with entrenched monopolies in carrying out foreign coups and military interventions.

It’s a big club, and you’re not in it.
I thought they were talking about Lattice Semiconductor for a good 5 minutes. I figured a hardware company with just over 700 employees was pretty damn lean, and didn't understand why they were downsizing.

Turns out no, this a a cloud based HR platform - which made me balk at the fact they had just over 700 employees.
The problem with this theory is that it doesn’t match up at all with who is having kids. Rich people are far less likely to have kids than poor. It’s kind of hard to square that with “kids are too expensive” being the main driving force.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
Hopefully with the breaker for that circuit turned off in the meantime.
And Biden's still trying to give away more in student loan forgiveness and has still paused payments.
LinkedIn algorithm somehow rates me high on their rankings for python devs in London. This has the impact of recruiters often correctly guessing my email address based on my employer domain and bombarding me with emails. I used to get at least two or three calls on my work desk, where the recruiters call the switchboard and ask for me by name. Needless to say, I have removed the name of my employer from my LinkedIn profile, nothing good comes from attaching too much information to a public profile.
Police in German predicts a future domestic violence using an algorithm
the rise in blood cholesterol is probably because you're eating more saturated fat, not eating more cholesterol
It sounds like their moving block system was working, but it has been slow-motion failing for a decade due to maintenance budget. So the emergency WhatsApp backup has been normalized as operations. But normalizing drivers handling their phones introduces new risks. So, yeah - there is only one way this ends.

The alternative is follow Toronto and New York, and slow the trains down and require full exclusion. But that has its own problems reducing system capacity, which Mexico City can scarce afford.
Never used Fahrenheit in school for anything. I mean you could in theory if you wanted when asked on an exam "what is the boiling point of water?" write something other than "100 C". I'm not aware of anyone that did.

We certainly never adjusted the thermostat in school, if that is what you are asking.

If someone asked me to read the thermostat at home for example, I just told them the numbers on it. It's not like "72 F" is radically different from "72 years old".