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Truth it, it depends on the type of person, type of team, type of work and most importantly trust.

There are definitely lots of great & honest homeworkers but also know plenty who go on dates or work on their startups secretly.
> The "general-purpose" differentiation is completely artificial

It's not.

> The only thing that should matter is the device's raw computing power.

It's not.
> Writing code with AI? I could swap to a local model.

AWS only brings in 80B+ a year, must be from everyone self-hosting. I'm curious why people think this is different?
Perhaps, but that doesn’t sound like you should lower productivity for everyone else hoping that it’ll reduce the need for managers to do their jobs. I’ve seen too many people spend 8 in the office working mostly on fantasy football or Facebook to think that changing locations is an effective solution.
They’re empiricists — the only ~~real~~ conclusive way to answer that question is to try it, IMO!

The old ML maxim was “don’t expect models to do anything a human expert couldn’t do with access to the same data”, but that’s clearly going to way of Moore’s Law… I don’t think a meteorologist could predict 11km^2 of weather 10 days out very accurately, and I know for sure that a neuroscientists couldn’t recreate someone’s visual field based on fMRI data!
Intel didn't take gaming seriously until very recently. They stayed focused on productivity focused applications well past the time when netbooks became viable for most use cases.
I can't tell from your reply if you agree this is the job of management or if you think managers can't do this off on average.
I find it very unlikely that we return to prepandemic work culture. Too many people value more flexible arrangements and so many people will trade compensation for quality of life and many companies will find it a competitive edge that gives than access to great workers who would otherwise take more money from full time RTO companies.
I thought the weak form was pretty solid?

It's pretty obvious to anyone who learns math or programming, that once you find the right vocabulary or equation for something, that your brain chunks it, and it's easier to reason about that domain moving forward.

Of course it's not like if you don't have the word "blue" you are color blind, it's just that it's really hard to have a conversation about 10 different shades of blue if you don't even have a word for it.

The strong version of Sapir Whorf is obviously false because everyone has perceptions and feelings that they can't put words to.
So shouldn't women have to work longer than men instead of the other way around?
I agree with you.

It seems people think "Big Ball of Mud" when they hear Monolith but they're not equivalent. Jut like I tend to hear "Spaghetti Code" when I hear Microservices. But again they're not equivalents. Both architectures are equally capable of being messy.
An open argument doesn't automatically mean hard metrics.

Instead, both sides have to be discussing in good faith, curious about the problem, and open to a variety of conclusions.

If management has already made their decision, that's not going to happen. If employees have already decided to ignore anything that doesn't support WFH, that's not going to happen.

The greatest failure in modern debate is not honestly engaging with data contrary to the outcome one wants.
Right? Or a second hand desktop for $300 and put a $300 3060 in it and get even better performance. So many options.
Silicon Valley, and computing technology in general, has its origins in the US military. It would not be surprising to see the industry return to those origins as great power competition heats up.
if you genuinely think that "literally everything in the creative industry" is chasing trends within the well-defined boundaries of existing paradigms that giant corporations have created for you, you aren't a creative
FYI, I maintain a list of more sophisticated window management tools at https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers
IIRC A proof was just published for the inevitability of hallucinations in the kinds of statistical models we use.
Except you don't have to hunt down the descendants of the grocery store or who acquired the company that acquired them that sold it for parts, decades later. With old games the rights holders are scattered and even unknown until they assert a claim they believe they have.
> They have guns and smoke powder in 5e and it just doesn't feel right.

One of the settings for the game that became OD&D included far-future alien technology (Blackmoor), so there's long been precedent.
Yeah I agree. I think they tend to go for a mutable parameter reference to keep track of that stuff, which is definitely C-like but kinda unwieldy.
> I guess this politically correct posturing bothers me because most of the people issuing this criticism have not had as much impact in people's lives as he has.

Cram it. You can say the same thing about Pfizer, anyone criticizing a dictator, or terrible philosophers trying to publish self help books for profit. By that logic, you're not qualified to defend Mr. Beast either because you don't actually understand the causal relationship between success and charity. It's nonsense criticism, a thought-terminating argument intended to obviate good-faith discussion.

Mr. Beast's problem is obvious, if you're willing to look past his marketing. Because at the end of the day, he's a business. He uses the same playbook as the most abusive monopolies like Apple and Google, laundering his reputation as a healthy net positive on society. Scratching beneath the surface, people know that he lied about how much money he makes, he lied about the cars he drives and the house he lives in, and probably lies to his employees to prevent them from presenting serious competition. Assuming Mr. Beast is, well, smart, assigning him as a happy-go-lucky charity cause is exactly the sort of outcome he wants. If he was serious about charity or altruism, he'd have some grander plan than sponsoring game shows and leeching off his popularity for profit.

By sincerely believing the image he presents, you yourself have been manipulated into thinking he's inert. Give him... I dunno, 3 more months? I've forgotten the average half-life of lifestyle influencers being ousted as racketeers or groomers on YouTube.
100% NOT worth it. Don't be fooled by any stories to the contrary. Amazon is a very abusive workplace.
I'd be interested in a hardware keyboard with this capability.
> - Maintain real estate value / Justify real estate investments

This is something that banks and commercial real estate owners would want, but it is highly unlikely to be motivating the companies actually using the space.

1. If they lease the space, they don’t care about the building values, and in fact would prefer for them to sink so that they can renegotiate leases or move to cheaper buildings.

2. If they own the building, then forcing your own employees into it does relatively little to influence its value, because the value of buildings is determined by the market, ie. the sale prices of similar buildings in similar locations. If buildings around you sell for peanut due to low demand, yours won’t sell for higher just because it’s full. You’d need everyone else to cooperate, and this kind of coordination problem is extremely hard.

3. Even if forcing employees into offices was beneficial from the perspective of real estate values, or at least people responsible for managing real estate inside the companies, the fact of the matter is that these people ultimately don’t have enough pull to enforce such a critical policy change. No CEO in his or her right mind will decide to sign off on return to office mandate based on any real estate value projections. The potential gain here is really trivial relative to changes in employee productivity or increases in turnover.
Huh I never thought about it from that angle, I dunno. The older people in our family who retired, were forced to retire at the retirement age (e.g. 55).

(Note, obviously, not everyone actually retires at the retirement age, you just legally can't sign contracts for work, so you do it under the table)

I guess if you're technical, you don't get pension until the mandatory age. But the minimum working period is like 15 years or something. At least before.

I have no idea what it means now.
There's a book by Lex Sisney about that called Organizational Physics. Interesting read.
I mean, it's very likely next gen consoles will feature AI hardware. The PS5 pro is already touting it.
I think changing from AMD GPUs to Nvidia GPUs by itself has a good chance of breaking backwards compatibility with how low level and custom Sony's GPU API apparently is, so the CPU core architecture would just be a secondary concern.

I was not saying Sony should switch to Nvidia, just pointing out that it is objectively incorrect to say that AMD is the only option for consoles when the most popular console today does not rely on AMD.

I also fully believe Intel could scale up an integrated Battlemage to meet Sony's needs, but is it worth the break in compatibility? Is it worth the added risk when Intel's 13th and 14th gen CPUs have had such publicly documented stability issues? I believe the answer to both questions is "probably not."
You're definitely bringing your laptop home when you're oncall.
You can get a LOT of compute credits, at the public rates the cloud providers charge (not OpenAI's discount) for the price of an NVIDIA 4xxx with 24GB or more of RAM. Enough to do what most people need AI to do for a long time.
This is not the first "we're starting a committee to figure out what to do about there being too many committees" I've seen in my ~7 years here. Makes me laugh every time.
At least then you might get a mayor that works for the people living downtown than whatever suburbanites swarm it on work days.
He didn’t say it was a flop. I know people who liked it.

But Apple obviously didn’t think it was the right track because they abandoned it and went back towards the previous form factor.

I’d say the Vision Pro is different. I’m not sure they got the form factor wrong. Maybe some adjustments needed, but I don’t think the core design is wrong.

Also a ton of the Vision Pros issues have nothing to do with the physical design. The cost is massive to get components (mostly the screens) that can achieve what they want. Their normal profit margins makes it worse. OS and App Store policies blunt the utility. Refusing to let developers have them until release meant no/few killer apps. US only for 6 months made all that worse.

In my mind it’s a totally different thing.
Instagram ads are as big as Google ads if not bigger (ask any teenager) but this DOJ is on a mission it seems.
To be fair, I wouldn’t want to go to the office to work with you either
what kind of asshole makes head count a promotion statistic? What does this prove?
> The Vision Pro is literally mind blowing.

Mind-blowingly stupid? I used an Oculus Rift DK2 in 2014; the fact that Apple could brute-force a similar product with no market fit and slightly more "magic" in it hasn't impressed me the slightest. Add in the fact that it's slower than an iPad and costs as much as a used car and the thing is dead-on-arrival. Meta ate Apple's lunch with $500 headsets and Valve dominated the high-end with better controllers and software for years. The only way Apple can create market fit is by inventing a new price segment (read: Stupid Expensive) and leveraging their branding to do the heavy lifting.

Apple dodged Khronos standards for years, avoided OpenXR during it's development, and got cut off from SteamVR after Valve gave up engineering support. They have so many loose ends to tie up that it's kinda hilarious anyone thinks Apple is a competitor in this industry, at this point. Vision Pro isn't an iPhone moment, it's a Lisa moment. We'll count ourselves lucky for each one we're not burying in a landfill.
Do you think the privates trying to get off the boats on D-Day had the promise of millions of dollars if they made it off the beach?

Sometimes, the ‘amazing’ reward is not going bankrupt, and that is enough.
Doing 60 million queries per second on a partitioned database isn't going to be easy either, and when you have problems you'll have to dig into the code of a database you didn't develop.
I agree, but I didn’t feel amazed until I actually scheduled a demo and used it

There have been so many bad VR headsets. I remember trying Doom on one in the 90s and getting motion sickness immediately. I also wear glasses so it’s never been great to wear anything else.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Vision Pro is just not getting any attention due to the high bar to actually use one. It’s not something you can describe that hasn’t been polluted by prior experiences with VR
What does fskit do better than MacFUSE?
There's a lot of finer details that influence how you design system. Yeah reading data is just SELECT, but there's too many things to consider.

- Volume of reads: how many people are reading tweets?
- Volume of tweets: how many unique tweets are being served to people?
- Data skew: Elon's tweets see hundreds of millions of reads, vs some tweets only see like 10.
- Size of data: A tweet looks like only a few characters of data, but every tweet has probably hundreds of columns of metadata.

These are just a few considerations. Plus, scaling out replicas isn't always the feasible after a point. Otherwise, why not just spin up 1 server per tweet and keep things simple.
> this is almost right but "layoffs" is the wrong word

Well, it's not quite the same as the forced relocation to Alaska, but if you're taking away a hugely popular perk and forcing people back to spending a couple of hours a day commuting, then you have to realize you are going to lose people, even if you rationalize it as a loyalty or team spirit test.

Things like this have a tendency to backfire though ... the people who will chose to quit will be the ones who can most easily get new jobs - the best people. The ones who are unhappy but less able to move will just RTO as pissed off employees.
Commenting to myself:

This looks interesting and relevant:

- https://github.com/projen/projen

- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/getting-started-with-pro...

- https://projen.io/

Looks Amazon official. Okay, I'm hype, this will be fun to play with.
> There's no way, once you consider the cost of building the building and all it's contents.

Sure, that's another factor that has to be assumed in modelling. In this case, Amazon is saying people must return to the office, not that they're building new offices.

As far as HVAC goes, I can't find clear data on how efficiency compares between residential and commercial but it seems safe to say commercial is more efficient. They also are built to be much more durable, lowering inputs related to maintenance like new parts and coolant. There's also the question of energy source, commercial may have better access to renewable resources though again then you have to figure out how you went to model carbon inputs for solar panels, new infrastructure, etc.

Modelling pike this is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do accurately. That's my only point here, the details are very easy to get lost in.
Archaeologists believe this Bronze Age board game is the oldest yet found
Firing happens all the time. Do you just mean at your company nobody ever gets fired?
I mean I know a few people who seriously do want that type of culture. They want to work 60+ hours a week and they want colleagues who arent to be punished. Amazon is a good fit for those types.
"You can be forgiven for thinking that OD&D is a medieval European fantasy game. After all, Gary Gygax himself says so. "

At various points (the original Dungeon Master's Guide, for example, page 88), he also has said it's expressly not a European Feudal game, and goes at length to qualify that, saying that it is only one of many sources of inspiration, and describes a number of political systems possible in a campaign and explains ways a variety of societies could be woven into it.

So, yeah I suppose if you've only read a little about D&D you could be forgiven for thinking this, but there is a large body of in-game and supplementary official and fan-created rules and settings which should give no one the impression that at any point were game authors and players as a whole were going for feudal european verisimilitude (or opposing it, for that matter)

Blog post is interesting but the title and initial setup is kind of a strawman
This is Bezos talking about this: https://youtu.be/e47wAgIhZ7o?si=LKZxoabqrCSCQ1ki&t=64
> Once you need to be in the apple developer program to build and run from source or something, that’ll be a legitimate nightmare. But we’re nowhere near that yet.

This is the case for building and running things with restricted entitlements and system extensions.

Unless you disable system integrity protection entirely, which locks you out of your purchased App Store software, DRM content, etc.
Are the patent issues just refusing to pay now or are they more complicated than that?
Gods, how much longer until we all accept that phones have reached a local (if not global) maximum?

There's really not much left to 'innovate'. More cameras, more memory, bigger and bigger and bigger screens, less ports.

The next innovation here is gonna have to be a total paradigm shift, and I'm not particularly convinced that Apple and/or Google are capable of that anymore. The only levers in their grasp left to pull are software. So now we are innundated with capital-F Features. And these Features are so important that users must be constantly bombarded with tips and popups and hints and notifications telling them about the latest Features. Google even calls their extremely normal and standard update cycle 'Feature Drop'.

People just want to buy a phone that fits their preferred physical dimensions, lasts at least most of the day, and generally does what you tell it and stays the hell out of the way.

Nobody, not one person on this planet wants their phone to swoop in an animated rainbow-bordered modal telling them that their calculator app now includes AI, for some reason, and that they now are compelled to accept some new terms and license for a calculator.
Wait, that's what you caught from all I just explained? I don't even feel the need to explain anything, but if you want to actually debunk any of the assertions I made, I'll be waiting.
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Shame!

Fwiw nowadays MiniReview is a very good source of games:
https://minireview.io
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That's when I think about jumping ship. If they require the App Store that's the end.
I bet Intels hubris is too strong to allow them to do that these days.
I'm in the same boat. 15 years of work and I'm very burnt out now. Any development process stresses me out these days.
This is well thought-out and quite well documented: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay

There's a huge community https://www.linuxserver.io/ for people building "home server" containers that all use the s6-overlay, hundreds of examples there. They have a lot of tutorials and a very busy Discord, Reddit, etc with all levels of experience from container developers to people who don't program and are just getting into Docker. I run a bunch of these containers myself and am pretty happy with how adaptable they are.
The article seems to be saying that the possible returns on the investments doesn't seem to match the amounts the AI companies are asking of investors.

My problem with AI boom seems is that the insane valuations of these AI companies seems to be based on nothing more than the power of the better funded AI companies to outbid possible competitors for limited amounts of chips available from chip foundries, ie TSMC et al.

If there is a glut of chips or the models become more refined and efficient then what power do these companies then have?
One huge step closer to iOS.
Damn it. I actually liked macOS but these changes are terrible for everyone but the most basic users.
No context was ever provided.
If you want to do something today not in ten years you use the existing protocols.
Not to be argumentative (really ), but that's borderline nonsensical; you're comparing a profession to a broad category of educational attainment. Teachers typically have a degree in the humanities. What other profession is so commonly viewed as underpaid?
If they open source it but the app isn't allowed on the app store, how will anyone install it?
There seems to be an argument here against markets, energy use and entertainment. While criticism is legitimate, little there is related to tech specificially and it is more a complaint against the construction of modern society from the 1700s onwards.
No one appears to have mentioned the important meta game going on: Intel bidding as a credible alternative supplier.

For Intel, by bidding they get to undercut AMD's profits.

For Sony, they get a credible alternative which they can pretend would be a viable choice. Thus forcing a slightly better deal from AMD.

We saw similar articles related to the Switch 2. That time it was AMD acting as spoiler to Nvidia. Nvidia reportedly got the contract. That time too we got news articles lamenting this loss for AMD.

As a gamedev I have a different perspective: Sony and Nintendo would be fools to give up backwards compatibility just for savings on chips.

Switching vendors does not just invalidate old games compatibility, it also requires retooling for their internal libraries. Console games, outside small or open source engines, use proprietary graphics api. Those apis are tied to the hardware. With this coming generation from Nintendo, and the "current gen" from Sony and Xbox they've been able to mostly reuse much of their software investment. I'd case more but this is obviously nda, other devs should be able to confirm.

Thus I don't think AMD for switch2 or Intel for ps6 was ever a credible path. Their bids existed to keep the existing vendor from getting overly greedy and ruining the parade for everyone. This is important, famously the original Xbox got hamstrung in the market by Nvidia's greed and refusal to lower prices as costs went down.
I’ve never seen a story shared so much
The arrangement and orientation of organs means you're a bit more likely to have acid indigestion if you're on your right.
Right. Take Asianometry-- a channel dedicated to economics, politics, and tech in Asia. Very high quality stuff. He goes into deep detail about a lot of technical stuff.. and as you can imagine his delivery isn't anything like a showman. He can be monotonous but if anything that is likely preferred by his audience, given his niche.
I heard it expressed years ago, when the role was still call sysops, that it was the one job where the better you were then the less work you did.

It was attached to a similar anecdote about someone being yelled at for crafting a well-oiled system.
And they rightly deserve to lose the business to AMD.

Intel to Apple: "We're too big to deliver what you want for cell phones." Apple: "Ok. We'll use ARM."

Intel to Sony: "We're too big to commit to pricing, compatibility and volume." Sony:" Ok. We'll keep using AMD."

It's interesting that Intel keeps trying to ship "features", some of arguable utility but others that are decently helpful, like AVX-512, that now AMD delivers and Intel does not. I'm sure Sony didn't want a processor that can't properly and performantly run older and current titles.
I've seen relatively small companies take 6 months to fire someone, simply because they "have" to follow policy and procedures. Document it. Put them on a PIP. Follow up. Document it. More meetings. Document it. Meanwhile, coworkers who know this is happening are getting more and more annoyed picking up slack for this person. It'd be cheaper to pay people to leave.
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