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some of my coworkers are really fast with emacs this knowledge is not transferable easily which makes tooling inconsistent and now we need to support everyone’s special riced working styles
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the #1 trait i lust for in a coworker, employee, or contractor: that they type really fast
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dmajirb 1 day ago | parent | next [–] Glad you handled it well. My experience with Covid was even less mild (felt like a small hangover at worst). Clearly I am not at risk for hospitalization due to Covid, however am being pressured to receive a vaccine that I do not want/need/trust. I still do not understand how smart/intelligent people can defend, or outright vehemently advocate for, vaccine mandates given that what we know (not to mention that what we don’t). Brings to mind the following quote by Benjamin Disraeli; ‘the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, yet wiser people are full of doubt.’ mystes fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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mystes posted:dmajirb 1 day ago | parent | next [–]
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notTheAuth 9 minutes ago | parent | favorite | on: Complex Chips Make Security More Difficult Security will play a huge role in obsoleting software development as a job. Monkeys in chairs papering over generic CPU design is pushing chip makers to consider silicon designed to workload spec; input parameter set, let it go. Chips are now undergoing their great decoupling like software. It’ll take a while as manufacturing process pivots but rather than 8 generic cores we’ll eventually have SOCs per application. Software will be pushed to the UI layer alone for users, and whatever industry needs to boot strap manufacturing. Frankly I’m looking forward to it; I can’t think of anything software companies have provided humanity that will stand the test of time, except making us all learn their new preferences. reply
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Mr.Radar posted:notTheAuth 9 minutes ago | parent | favorite | on: Complex Chips Make Security More Difficult i mean this is a bit hand-wavey but it’s not entirely wrong
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kitten emergency posted:i mean this is a bit hand-wavey but it’s not entirely wrong it is pretty entirely wrong. there are specific niches which have gone from being implemented in software to having dedicated hardware, but the overwhelming trend is the exact opposite.
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Nov 5, 2021 16:52
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Yeah - the categories of problem where custom silicon helps are mostly single-pathed, specific kinds of computational crunching. Business logic isn't that. That is a neckbeardo who is minimizing what all that business logic actually does and that it, plus the interop between disparate systems, is why they pay us the medium bucks. My life got so much better when I stopped writing low-level nonsense except for fun and by choice. You stop dealing with this kind of quasiperson.
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Nov 5, 2021 17:08
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also, wrt the security thing, making bug-free hardware is orders of magnitude harder than making bug-free software that does the same thing, and making patching difficult/impossible isn't exactly good for security. and there have been recentish high profile cases of os writers having to scurry round putting in software workarounds for hardware security flaws
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Plorkyeran posted:it is pretty entirely wrong. there are specific niches which have gone from being implemented in software to having dedicated hardware, but the overwhelming trend is the exact opposite. idk, I don’t think they’re gonna be sticking Linux in your fridge forever.
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Qwertycoatl posted:also, wrt the security thing, making bug-free hardware is orders of magnitude harder than making bug-free software that does the same thing, and making patching difficult/impossible isn't exactly good for security. and there have been recentish high profile cases of os writers having to scurry round putting in software workarounds for hardware security flaws In absolute minimal fairness, most of that bug-free software, isn't. Almost no software adequately handles OOM errors, for example. It might never actually hit those bugs, but they lurk. Re: Meltdown and Spectre, you're right that OSes had to put in fencing to avoid those bugs (and at a significant performance penalty!), but that is as much an indictment of the performance-at-all-costs mindset that those hardware folks are pushed into. Designing out-of-order speculative execution is loving black-magic wizardry for those who really are well and truly comfortable staring into the event horizon, but you can build fast--just not earth-shatteringly fast--processors without it. It's the demand software folks have put on hardware folks that have made that a progressively more integral part of that hardware.
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kitten emergency posted:idk, I don’t think they’re gonna be sticking Linux in your fridge forever. Fridges--well, you're not going to put all of the logic around reading temperature sensors and reacting to them in complex and user-programmable ways into an ASIC or an FPGA. Could you do it? Probably, but you won't, because doing so is overwhelmingly more human effort that writing it in a modern HLL is, with bonkers turnaround times. And that's not even talking about stuff like human-renderable displays and the like. I don't want an LED screen on my fridge, but they're coming, and you're not reinventing the wheel for that when a general-purpose SoC that can drive the whole thing is already peanuts. I used to work for a company building exercise equipment. Three dudes wrote the entire stack for our microcontroller that handled resistance and performance data for the machine and shipped it over serial to an Android tablet that acted as the display. Neither part of that system would be good at dealing with the other's--but custom silicon wouldn't make the work that microcontroller did faster or cheaper or meaningfully lower-power.
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tracecomplete posted:It's the demand software folks have put on hardware folks that have made that a progressively more integral part of that hardware. you can just say webshits you know
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i'd say there's like three main reasons hw is less visibly buggy than sw: 1) a poo poo-ton more effort put into verification, since once you make it you're stuck with it 2) interfaces are generally low-level, which are easier to specify and test 3) firmware/drivers can work around bugs, and not expose features which are irrevocably broken (this happens a ton, just not generally in public) if everything moves to hw then 2 is gone, 3 is looking dubious and any project manager is going to look at 1 and think "hmm maybe we could do this in software and ship two years sooner"
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out-of-order and speculative execution is a natural step for processors because it’s the only way to get more of the hardware actually doing something during any given cycle. utilization is laughably low even with it more importantly, it’s a step we collectively took a long time ago, and your idea of what processors would be like without pipelining and branch prediction (which are all that’s really necessary to start running into spectre-class problems in the hardware) is very wrong
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the problem isn't out-of-order and speculative execution, the problem is that we assumed our virtual machine abstractions were perfect
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yeah branch prediction was standard in processors before javascript was invented (i have, more recently than that, written assembly for a weird processor with three branch delay slots instead. my advice is don't do that) Qwertycoatl fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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DELETE CASCADE posted:the problem isn't out-of-order and speculative execution, the problem is that we assumed our virtual machine abstractions were perfect right, and once you have any speculative execution at all, it becomes a long-tail problem where almost any subsystem of the processor could theoretically cause bugs by enforcing things the wrong way. but that’s where we have to solve it, not by going back to 1975 in practice very simple pipelined processors are usually fine, but only because there’s only so much they can do speculatively before the processor catches up to the misprediction. anything at all that increases speculation depth or whatever can expose bugs
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Progressive JPEG posted:i use emacs but thats only after years of tweaking it to fix all the stupid defaults Yup. I used Vim (And vi, and Ex-Vi, and Ed) for 8 years and kept trying emacs. Vim has like gt and gT which is like "go tab" and all of the rest of the things are mnemonic. Emacs has uhh. C-x C-4 5 to like, change the active window or whatever. It's just utterly weird and arbitrary and hosed. That being said Doom Emacs is really nice because i got to keep all of my muscle memory and get the power of Emacs too I think I wouldn't recommend either to other programmers but I do romanticise the idea of an editor that can grow like a beard around me
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But then I also wonder why Bloomberg executives get specialised trading terminals and yet programmers are happy with like Gedit or Nano or whatever. We deserve good tooling while we make our buttplug.io continuous integration tests
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tracecomplete posted:Yeah - the categories of problem where custom silicon helps are mostly single-pathed, specific kinds of computational crunching. Business logic isn't that. That is a neckbeardo who is minimizing what all that business logic actually does and that it, plus the interop between disparate systems, is why they pay us the medium bucks. Yeah but Business Logic for 99% of companies could be entirely handled by a well written "sufficiently smart" modern Personal Database software. Nobody needs "horizontal scalability" until they are google.
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alexandriao posted:Yeah but Business Logic for 99% of companies could be entirely handled by a well written "sufficiently smart" modern Personal Database software. Nobody needs "horizontal scalability" until they are google. of course it could, but this requires investment into people and training which is bad. instead you should invest into buying the next big enterprise shiny which promises to unfuck all the problems you have had with all the previous shinies, and after that get really coked out with the vendor salesperson
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solve employer's problem with in-house resources: $20 starbucks gift card fail to solve employer's problem with in-house resources: fired solve employer's problem with enterprise vendor: steak dinner and cocaine with salespeople once fail to solve employer's problem with enterprise vendor: steak dinner and cocaine with salespeople many times
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ketanmaheshwari 0 minutes ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Decline of Unfettered Research I recently proposed an idea to create a new data transfer protocol that involves drones to carry data in a medium with a prong attached to them. When the drone lands on a platform atop a building, the prong connects to a computer connected to the platform and sitting inside the building triggering a mount action. The data gets transferred to the computer. Now, whoever needs to transfer data from this building to another will use the same method to upload it. I do not think this will be the best way to move data but if a protocol is in place it could be used as a basis for future intra-campus data movement. The proposal was shot down. A schematic of the idea is drawn here: https://github.com/ketancmaheshwari/datadrone/blob/main/sche... reply
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now we finally know dahir insaat's real name
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Mr.Radar posted:I do not think this will be the best way to move data oh, word?
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Penisface posted:now we finally know dahir insaat's real name i hate to step on your good joke but dahir is his real actual first name and insaat is just turkic for 'construction' or something like that and he's still postin' renders of his bizarre futurist ideas as recently as 2020 https://www.youtube.com/c/DaxirSemenov/videos
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good to see rfc1149 is finally being taken seriously
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i found the bootlickest:quote:kkjjkgjjgg 2 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] not at all related: quote:kjjkgjjgg 13 minutes ago | parent | context | next [–]
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tombert 6 minutes ago | prev | next [–] This isn't a joke; I had actually scheduled a lunch with Lowtax for this Saturday. Despite a (let's call it) checkered past, I was extremely excited to meet him, since he's been a huge influence to my sense of humor and Something Awful was really important to me as a teenager. ------- I had found him on LinkedIn a few weeks ago, and simply sent a message explaining that I'm a fan, would love a chance to buy him lunch and chat about Something Awful and Gaming Garbage. To my surprise, he responded back with "sure, I'd be up for it". I responded back with "How does early December sound to you? something on the order of December 11?" His response was "poo poo I dont even know if I'll still be alive then". This response was a little weird, but this isn't exactly "off brand" humor for Lowtax, so I ignored it. I then say something to the effect of "how about something along the lines of November 13?", which he said was better. He then said "and you have my permission to stab me". Again, not off brand for Lowtax. I bought a plane ticket to Kansas City, was ready to fly out this friday. But I had this deep feeling in my stomach that what he was saying wasn't just a joke. It's pretty well documented that he's been depressed, and I dunno, upon re-reading his messages a hundred times I got a dark feeling that these might be kind of bad omens. What exactly do I do with this? I discussed it with my wife and a friend, who weren't sure what the best solution, and I ultimately decided not to say anything. I figured I'm just some dork who stalked him on LinkedIn, and I was afraid that if I said anything he would think I'm weird and cancel our lunch date. And now this poo poo happened. He finally did it, and now the thought keeps playing in my brain of "what if I had said something a few weeks ago?" I know I don't owe him anything, but I can't help but have this repeated feeling of "I valued an opportunity to meet my man-crush more than I valued someone showing suicidal tendencies," and it makes me feel downright rotten. That's not the kind of person I want to be, and it makes me feel legitimately sick that that's how my brain decided to work. At some logical level I know none of this is my fault really; realistically even if I had said something, I doubt much would have changed, and I doubt I had enough there to get him committed or anything, but there's a difference between logically knowing something and feeling something. As it stands, I think there's a reasonably good chance that I will feel partly responsible for this for the rest of my life. This sucks. -------- RIP Rich. I know you had a rough last couple years, you were the definition of a "complicated person", and despite everything you will be missed.
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javajosh 9 minutes ago | parent | next [–] >credible allegations I truly wish that allegations of any and every sort were considered not credible by the general public. Domestic abuse is a real problem, but false allegation of domestic abuse is a real problem, too. Indeed, if a person wants to harm another without lifting a finger, the simplest thing to do is claim "He hurt me" or "I'm afraid of him" and you'll get every cop, judge, attorney, a legion of your friends, and family, maybe some of his too, on your side. Because to even doubt a woman's allegation is to condone violence against women, making you no better than an abuser yourself. This isn't against women. How many of us, given such an arbitrary and powerful weapon, would have the character not to use it, especially against someone we hate for personal reasons? "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and yet here we are, giving scorned women the literal power of life and death over the object of their rage. That the accused does not have recourse, neither in a court of law nor in public opinion, goes without question. The solution is not to lament the lack of self-restraint, but to take this unfair power away. Accusation is not guilt, and we need to stop assuming that every accusation is credible. malwarebytess 22 minutes ago | prev | next [–] His ex-wife posted on the forum. Basically she pursued 3,500/mo alimony and about 90,000 cash, and won a judgement in court. Lowtax apparently had a weak moment and decided the best way out of that was suicide. Can't say I blame him. Dude was broke, deep in addiction, lost everything, became public pariah, and now was financially hosed forever. Courts are wildly imbalanced against men.
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Qwertycoatl posted:javajosh 9 minutes ago | parent | next [–] literally came here to post this, drat
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:the forums are coming from inside the hn?! crossroadsguy 1 hour ago | parent | context | next [–] | on: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful... What’s that site? Definitely not humorous. Soft bullying forum? A place to lodge whims and cerebral flatulation? I created an account and figured it could go two ways - abandon it, or try to invent the most effective mental faeces filter human kind has seen. It’s been years.
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fritz posted:crossroadsguy 1 hour ago | parent | context | next [–] | on: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful... Even more than the endless bad takes, the fact that everyone on hn writes like an rear end in a top hat is the most infuriating thing about that site.
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mrmcd posted:Even more than the endless bad takes, the fact that everyone on hn writes like an rear end in a top hat is the most infuriating thing about that site. they all write like fifteen year old boys trying to sound grown up
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