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>Intel C/C++ Compiler that favored Intel

Thats where Nvidia learned to "optimize" Cuda software path. Single threaded x87 FPU on SSE2 capable CPUs.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/07/did-nvidia-cripple-it...

https://www.realworldtech.com/physx87/3/ "For Nvidia, decreasing the baseline CPU performance by using x87 instructions and a single thread makes GPUs look better."

They doubled down that approach with 'GameWorks' crippling performance on non Nvidia GPUs, Nvidia paid studios for including GameWorks in their games.
Don't forget consistency - you can get chicken nuggets and barbecue sauce and french fries that taste recognizably the same at any of their 42,000 restaurants. The food preparation and storage, shipping logistics, and other underpinnings of their consistency trick are admirable, even if the other issues with fast food detract from the overall picture.
People Still Don't Understand Visa
This is a very well done mini-documentary about how Visa started, the unconventional thinker behind it all, the resulting struggles, and
ultimately their success.
What happens in practice is, parties do control the government. There are these things called "whips". Also, voters watch national media and mostly vote based on the leadership, stated manifesto etc of each party at the national level.
Why is it that every time the 1% ruin the economy, the 99% has to retrain?
Politicians forced to learn statistics -> Politicians better prepared to understand consequences of their actions -> Politicians exploit economy better -> Everyone worse off -> Law to educate politicians is abolished -> Politicians exploit economy nevertheless

Seriously, the problem is not politicians being clueless about all the above, but having too much power which makes them think they need to solve everything.
Gotcha; thanks for the tip.

Gemini seems to be much, much worse at the interpersonal dynamics that are important to us. It can't seem to keep track of who has what life experiences and how they might be relevant to our problem-solving, where Claude does this rather well.

I'm working with Claude now to create a summary capsule.
Elon's primary day-to-day activity, and maybe biggest cause of his success, is organizing his companies for maximum productivity.

This is very relevant for organizing government organizations for the same goal.
The timescales involved in us becoming even a K1 species are probably enough to say we won't be anything resembling current humans, neither physically nor socially.
I think counting the number of devs might not be the best way to go considering not all teams are equally capable or skilled in each person, and in enterprises, some people are inevitably hiding in a project or team.

Comparing only the amount of forward progress in a codebase and AI's ability to participate or cover in it might be better.
If your priority is to use open-source software, FreeCAD does the job. But I basically always recommend AGAINST it for anyone who asks me that I consider a more "normal" user. Normal in the way that they don't share my masochistic tendencies to spend all sorts of time and efforts getting open source tools to work, fighting through quirks, poor UX, bugs, etc...
I wouldn't claim they can handle more weight (since top bodybuilders are lifting insane weights to get those muscles), but they can certainly do it for much longer than bodybuilder who trains for short bursts of maximum efforts. Our body literally builds only around the effort it experiences, and 0 more, running in absolute minimalist mode.

If you ever ie been running, say at 10km consistently, try to move that one day to 20km while maintaining the intensity. Significantly harder, you may experience various connective tissue issues too and not just muscle and energy management.

Or break a leg or two like I managed with recent paragliding accident, don't move one of them for 3 months and you will find that body, in its quest for lowest energy spending at all costs literally consumed all connective tissue to barest minimum, so stuff just doesn't move at all. I guess other mode didn't develop since in our distant past, like in rest of animal kingdom, broken leg meant certain death.
There you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone
> So if the post-$40m raise founder's share is $30m (number doesn't really matter), he'd have to pay 1.1% of that in wealth tax? So he'd have do dilute his share from e.g. 75% to 74.25%

Paying 1% on $80M for a company that isn't making a profit is a trivial amount to you? Must be nice. :-)
This is a good example of what could happen to software development as a whole.
In my experience large companies tend to more often buy software rather than make it.
Ai could drastically change the "make or buy" decision in favour of make. Because you need less developers to create a perfect tailored solution that directly fits the needs of the company. So "make" becomes affordable and more attractive.
Anybody does realize this is very sad?

Namely, so few neurons to get picture in our heads.

I guess, end of the world scenarios may lead us to create that super intelligence with a gigantic ultra performant artificial "brain".
Will we even remember what a muscle is at that point?
Workflows and UIs didn't really seem to change much to me, so I'd say the UX is still just as poor. I don't doubt they've made improvements under the hood and fixed bugs.
That's the point I am making. And the reason Amazon or Microsoft can't deploy them is the hardware, not CUDA.
At least they should be clear it's about control.
How long ago was this? I bought an AMD laptop this year and it's been great with both windows and Linux. I can't say the same for my Nvidia pc ...
I wish they were that restrained.

While they do include MS services in their advertising it's way more than that. They include a bunch of other crap, including hardware offerings like trying to sell you XBox controllers in popups near the taskbar. They advertise Candy Crush, Instagram, Adobe Express, etc, as listed apps "preinstalled" in Windows. They push clickbait MSN articles (ads) for games, travel, and buying guides in the search button of the taskbar that is enabled by default. They then push those in a widget popover panel too. They make Edge the default browser out of the box (and are relentless about getting you to switch if you change it) and Edge itself then shoves ads in your face with default bookmarks like Ebay and Netflix and Walmart and featured content. IIRC even things like their Maps, Weather, and Photos apps also had web advertising placements.

There's probably more but I can't bear to use Windows more than minimally necessary so I've probably missed a bunch.
A bird can fly to moon if it keeps on improving every month.
Sounds like a Waffle House an hour after last call except replace "without any tension or fanfare" with "overwhelming aggressive unpredictability" hah.
The laughable thing is believing that Ofcom has any budget to prosecute anyone, let alone a small website.
I still use proto2 if possible. The syntactic sugar around `oneof` wasn't nice enough to merit dealing with proto3's implicit presence -- maybe it is just because I learned proto2 with C++ and don't use Go, but proto3 just seemed like a big step back and introduced footguns that weren't there before. Happy to hear they are reverting some of those finally.
Taco Bell: Te parezco un chiste?
IANAL either, but that is _way_ oversold by the general public. It's only parody if the point of the new work is saying something about the original.

Popeye having explicit sex with Olive Oyl isn't parody, it's just for people to get their rocks off. There's no commentary on the original work being made. Nothing wrong with that, but if people think they're in the clear because they shout "parody", they're mistaken.
The Future of Phishing (Demo)
The garbage-truck photo op was Trump's a followup to his campaign calling Puerto Rico "garbage", and in particular to Biden calling that behavior "garbage".
Maybe at mid-day during the week. On Sunday, the Costco parking lot is the last place I'd want to be if I'm trying to get miles on the road.
Newer amps might be better but I can’t hear the difference in the sound quality myself, and the older ones look and feel a lot nicer.

Newer cars are definitely safer- but I don’t find them nicer to drive or more economical. You can get an 80 VW rabbit that gets 50mpg, or a Mercedes 190D that gets close to that. Both are really fun cars to drive. Modern cars are much heavier and lower emissions- which ultimately cancels out the improved engine efficiency.
I might modify your argument to say that there is nothing uniquely Chinese about enshitification of the world around us.
And HN! And GitHub!
> Even many chemists and physicists think significant portions of their fields have results that can't be reduced. Biology and medicine even more so.

Yes, I'm aware of the reproducibility numbers, that's why I said social science was the absolute worst, by far. Despite only 50% of medical papers replicating, they've still provided significant improvements over the past few decades. Ditto with chemistry.

The same cannot be said for sociology and psychology. CBT is still the tool with the best track record and that was created in the 1960s. The robust, replicated results from sociology since the 1980s have modest effect sizes and are basically things we already knew, eg. that social isolation is not good, and that social norms influence people's behaviour.

> Even if the problem were related to robust quantitative analysis, the question of why so many people are failing to apply particular methods isn't a question of physics or chemistry.

Neither is it a question of sociology or psychology. Science is a systematic, self-correcting process that should be agnostic to any factors, including human fallibility, conflicts of interest, AI generated nonsense, etc.
The full agenda of course is: if we jail someone for the meme, then we get to force the company to remove the meme, and then we get to destroy the company if they do not comply with exacting specifications within exact times. Thus full control of speech, teehee modern technology brings modern loopholes! "shut up peon, you still have full right to go into your front yard and say your meme to the squirrels"
> why would anyone do such an expensive thing?

I find it amusing that somehow resources would still be constrained as we go closer to be a Kardashev I civilization.
More people read more things off of more screens than ever before in history.

This fear is unfounded. It isn't the proliferation of technology that is making people dumber; it's the American cultural deemphasis of education, entirely independent of technology.
because there are plenty of research showing majority of screen time is spent on video watching, followed by social media and games.
Let's ask for 3 goats then. And how much developing o1 cost, how much another version will cost? X billions of dollars per goat is not really a good scaling when any number of goats or cabbages can exist.
So the US wants to be like China???
> So not clear on your point.

I just meant that an article, claiming to go for a deep dive on how McDonald's is part of the new American zeitgeist, mentions one presidential candidate, and the CEO murderer, but doesn't mention the other presidential candidate.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/01/kamala-harris-on-working-at-... is just from a few months ago.

> “It was not a small job,” Harris told Ruhle. “There are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to...raise families and pay rent.”

Just seemed like an odd omission, that's all.
Nah, it's going to become democratized. It's already started.

There's been a few different stories like this lately:

https://interestingengineering.com/videos/guy-builds-integra...

People said the same thing you're saying now about computers. You're just being silly and forgetting history.
Taco bell has significantly fewer locations, it's less likely that your next exit has one.
> If you are traveling at any random place in the US

And not only in the US. McDonald's is big in some European countries like France. In small towns, McDonald's may be the only option available past a certain hour.

My relationship with the company has evolved though. When we were teenagers, we loved McDonald's. It was also not available everywhere and quite novel, so we would sometimes drive a long way with my mom just to go there. Nowadays, I'm much more concern about my health so it's really one of the last option I'd consider. It feels they have become dirtier than what they used to be though, but maybe that's subjective.
We definitely don't need to reduce it for interplanetary travel.
Less federal data collection means that consumers are left in the dark. Consumers cannot make intelligent buying decisions, and the market will fail. This is a silly thing to do if you want free markets, innovation and competition.
Gastropod is a great listen, and they did an absinthe episode, interesting history and details.

https://gastropod.com/absinthe-the-worlds-most-dangerous-dri...
When I was a teenager, I would have opposed this. But I also couldn't vote!
I looked and apparently he nuked the entire whiteboard era series of vids. Even the game stuff up now is newer and not as detailed.
why is code generation under-utilized? protobufs and other go tooling are great for code generation. Yet in practice i see few teams using it at scale.

Lots of teams creating rest / json APIs, but very few who use code generation to provide compile-time protection.
Well I did not mean it to be offensive, and I hope that the author would not take it this way.

I genuinely thought about this expression when I realised what happened with this project, and looked up the English translation. I shared it because I found it fun and interesting, that's all.
And you get to insult people trying to help you. Well done, it won't happen again.
No, not just Microsoft services or features (or subscription based software), ads for games and apps on their store get jammed in the start menu as well.

And as other commenters have pointed out, lots of budget phones and hardware jam ads all over the place.

Premium hardware too (hello Smart TVs)
Who do you people trust more, a national government or a tech company?
The Most Dangerous Idea
I still have five C2758 nodes running just fine, though!
I have been wondering if this should be seen as a success of laws raising minimum wage. In some states, the rapid rise of minimum wage means that it is no longer viable to have someone else make a sandwich for you. Isn't that a victory for those who want equality?
I basically never eat at McDonald's personally but I expect a lot of people just default to it as the predictable option that isn't too bad for their tastes and doesn't cost too much.
Graphql won the race for me. Grpc is no longer relevant. Too many hurdles, no proper to and from Web support. You have to use some 3rd party non free service.
The author is really laying the populist manipulation on thick. After about two paragraphs, I felt as greasy as a McDonald's hash brown.
There's a whole YouTube playlist about that sort of thing: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBuns9Evn1w9XhnH7vVh_7C...

I've heard it called "law of unintended consequences" and "cobra effect".
If you're the only one that can come close. Kaggle competition prizes are about focusing smart people on the same problem. But it's very rare for one team to blow all the others out of the water. So if you wanted to make a business out of the problem kaggle will (probably) show the best you could do and still have no moat.
In my home town the joke was waffle house is for when you want denny's but don't know how to fight.
No dude. Just for software.
Most of that 'batshit crazy conspiracy stuff' turned out to be true.

I'd ask you to quantify -- but no one is saying, or even insinuating, that it's "batshit crazy conspiracy stuff". Only that they don't see any particular evidence for it.

The fact that you're making such an obviously ungrounded implication (or you don't see the huge difference between the two positions) suggests you've become unduly caught up in your own semantically confused internal dialogues.

I'd call this 'evidence based'.

Except it's not, and in fact you're engaging in very common form of faulty generalization.
Blog and news website comment sections are explicitly exempted from the Act.

> A universal duty to moderate will accelerate the disappearance of hobbyist websites and further entrench corporate social media. I think that's a bad thing.

I also mourn the loss of the lawless Internet, but it's spilling out into the real world, and that's where I happen to live. We have to make compromises.

When the English people decided that our flirtation with being a republic was a failure, the some of the puritans who supported that republic refused to compromise, and left to start a new country across the Atlantic Ocean. They called themselves... Pilgrims.
That's what I was hinting at "something you are familiar with" and "effort to transact". People hopping off the highway for a quick stop with their family don't want to mull over SlopBowl's menu for 10 minutes, even if it's better quality... they know if they roll into a McD, they can grab a happy meal and the kid won't complain.
Wouldn't the bacteria be similarly disadvantaged when trying to sense its environment, eat, and reproduce in a completely mirror world?
Reminds me how one-type-fits-all smartphones are sold as premium devices.
I find the core position of the author unconvincing - that is, the author advocates for non-professional languages for beginners, instead using languages designed specifically for teaching. The main argument put forward in favor of professional languages is crossover: if a student learns a language in class, they may be able to use that language professionally. The author then argues against that main point.

I think students should be taught in "professional" languages, but crossover is not my main reason. Rather, it's that professional languages have an enormous corpus of examples that students can look up. If a student is learning on a teaching language without much adoption, there's just not much else a student can do but use the materials that part of the course. Teaching languages don't let students expand their universe of examples.

I agree with the author's point about real insight coming on learning the second (and third, etc.) language and systems. But I don't find it as a compelling point in favor of teaching languages - quite the opposite. To me it means there's no need to obsess over first languages.

Designing programming languages is fun. Designing a programming language which meets some platonic ideal of teachability is moreso because it feels possible to "solve" the design and craft the perfect jewel of a language. But I'm unconvinced it's useful research.

For the record, my first language was C++, and I'd default to teaching beginners in Python.
LLM's for now only have 2-3 senses. The real shift will come when they can collect data using robotics. Right now a human programmer is needed to explain the domain to AI and review the code based on the domain.

On the bright side, every programmer can start a business without a need to hire a army of programmers. I think we are getting back to artisan based economy where everyone can be a producer without a corporate job.
Sorry--the throttling was at the AWS Lambda layer, not S3. We were being throttled because we'd deploy a new container image and suddenly thousands of new containers are all simultaneously trying to pull the database file from S3.

We aim to return a response in the single digit milliseconds and sometimes get tens of thousands of requests per second, so even if it only takes a second or two to fetch that file from S3, the request isn't getting served while it's happening, and new requests are coming in.

You very quickly hit your Lambda concurrency limit and get throttled just waiting for your instances to fetch the file, even though logically you're doing exactly what you planned to.

By having the file exist already in the container image, you lean on AWS's existing tools for a phased rollout to replace portions of your deployment at a time, and every one is responding in single digit milliseconds from its very first request.

EDIT: The same technique could be applied for other container management systems, but for stuff like Kubernetes or ECS, it might be simpler to use OP's method with a readiness check that only returns true if you fetched the file successfully. And maybe some other logic to do something if your file gets too stale, or you're failing to fetch updates for some reason.
Its much more scalable to enforce your own boundaries rather than rely on the defaults provided by technical limitations.
I have never thought about it ever to be honest, for me it just works and I am able to use all the features without complication.

I use the tab auto-complete and the composer functionality very often.
Content is similar, but the control is in the hands of US, so not the "enemy gov".
Out of my league / knowledge, but a tidbit that you might understand better: last time I mentioned this, someone said something about SELinux can't do security checks and implied it's some fundamental mismatch, rather than some work SELinux can do
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(ancient_Greece)
ESP32-Controlled e-ink anniversary counter
I have made an anniversary counter using the LilyGO e-ink display for my girlfriend. It is fully open source (except for the 3D models, for which I provide only the STL files).

The counter works by displaying:

1. A counter of total time together (years, months, days, hours).
2. A counter of accumulative values for months, years, weeks and days. For example, the first counter might say (1 year, 0 months, 1 day, 1 hour), while here it would say (12 months, 366 days, 52 weeks and 8785 hours). This way, we can celebrate our 100th week together (or would have celebrated at the time).
3. A cute message from a list of around 20.
4. A random photo of the two of us on the right from a list of around 7.

The device updates every 20 minutes and then goes to deep sleep. During the update process, the counter is synced, the image is changed to another one at random, and the cute message below is updated. It requires a Wi-Fi connection on boot to sync time.

This way we never miss our anniversaries : )
What a classy McDonalds, makes me feel like I'd need a tie.
I love Tintin! People in the US grew up with Marvel comic books. We grew up with Tintin, as did our parents before us. Can't wait to see what people do with it.
> I can already type faster than I can think.

But can you write tickets faster than you can implement them? I certainly can.
Samsung, and some other major players put a lot of ads and bloatware in their phones, TVs, laptops and other appliances. Xiaomi doesn't have ads on global versions of TVs and Phones. I know the Chinese version does have ads.

As a homeowner, I don't know what is worse. Using stuff where the local government can watch and spy on every step or some Chinese guy watching your boring life if you are low-level person.
So company profit margins should be capped? At what level and how would that work exactly?

What about all other stuff? i.e. maybe you or somebody else can "afford" to sell their labour at 10-80% of what they are paid?
It is not 18 million minimum, it is up to 18 million... unless you are so big that the second criteria affects you, then it is up to that.
This starts as binning and ends up at down binning :)
My hope is that it will one day be able to attenuate the speech of people I'm not trying to listen to.
Out of curiosity, apparently US totals are Subway 20k, Starbucks 15k, McD's 13k, Dunkin 9k, Taco Bell / Burger King 7k, Dominos / Pizza Hut / Wendy's 6k, then others.
Another anecdote: when mechanical looms became a thing, textile workers were afraid that the new tools would replace them, and they were right.
Thinking about a military career. Pretty sure soldier will be the last job to disappear. Mostly not joking.
I thought his primary day-to-day activity was playing Diablo?