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There’s tons of very profitable companies hiring right now - the “top-name” companies doing layoffs were all “growth-first, profit-never” types. We’re not in an industry-wide downturn and there’s a hell of a lot more out there than FAANG or MANGA or whatever we’re calling it now.

If you’re a top performer you bail as soon as there are layoffs anyways. I certainly do. It’s rarely a sign that anything good is in your future, they’re often performed poorly, and the work environment post-layoffs is incredibly bleak and disheartening.

If you have options there’s no good reason to stay.

for one thing, zips are far less likely to destroy data than sourcesafe, which was famous for doing just that

SVN had a great feature set, and a great way to handle merges, and sane defaults.

Are you kidding? Subversion had a notoriously awful way of handling merges, which was a huge driver of people onto Git as soon as it appeared. You truly had to have been there to believe it, but in all but the simplest of merge scenarios, declaring branch bankruptcy and manually moving things back into the target branch by hand was your only real option. Early to mid 2000s, the most common team branching strategy I saw with subversion was "there's only one branch and everybody does all the development in it because god help you if you try to put it back together after branching for something".

It wasn't until well after the momentum was clearly in Git's favour and a huge chunk of the user base was gone that Subversion finally fixed it to not be complete dogshit.

You’ll have to wait until 3rd parties do those comparisons?

Apple has literally never posted “here’s a ream of benchmarks vs the Dell XPS XYZ and HP modelnumbersneeze738462” — pretending this is indicative of some grand conspiracy to hide performance deficiencies of these new M2 models the way GP is, is silly.

Finally, doesn’t the fact that apple has a fundamentally different rendering pipeline relevant?

Is it still all that fundamentally different? All of the RDNA parts are tile-based renderers (I think even the Vega series GCN parts made that switch?)

You could equally conclude that one of the reasons that very few people used it was because of the input lag.

Nit: Zen 3 increased the CCX size to 8 cores.

I mean, if you want to argue that the story is actually a substantive and intellectually interesting one, containing significant new information

Why would I want to argue that? It certainty doesn’t describe the million identical ChatGPT circlejerks that rocket to the front page without getting flagged out of existence.

This NFT story was no less tech adjacent than them, and no less vapid and inane than them, but it had the appearance of being embarrassing for a certain hyperpartisan political segment, so it was flagged by a bunch of those supporters, and you in your infinite fecklessness are sitting here back-inventing justifications for this flag based on “well no I’m sure all those flags were about the low intellectual quality of the article” as if 97% of the front page wasn’t idiotic pablum aimed at potted plants.

It’s hard to take seriously the suggestion that you’re too stupid to realize those flags weren’t politically motivated and not just a comment on its indistinguishable-from-any-other-garbage-that-gets-popular quality.

An extremely partisan voting block heavily flagging something is a piss-poor signal for on-topicness, come on. That kind of sloppy logic is a great way to let organized voting rings suppress uncomfortable news, though.

Incredibly embarrassing statement for someone moderating this place to be making.

It’s not just the number of points that matter, it’s points over time. 3 points very quickly will rocket you over 20 points in 4 hours or something. And comments factor in too, so commenting “why is this on the front page” just helps it be on the front page

You only have to look at Japan for the last few decades to see what the long term effects of deflation look like. Negative economic growth, few job opportunities for young people, investment and lending are de-incentivized so innovation and industry growth moves to other countries, while owning property becomes a liability, etc. Managed decline is about the best case scenario for a deflationary economy.

At this point I’ve only got one non-arm64 container, and it’s solely optional support for testing some obscure cases that our CI infrastructure handles more robustly anyways.

Your information is pretty out of date.

And yet, real world production rust programs exist and measured performance is generally excellent.

People are acting like this graph they saw for the first time today means that Rust is running at sub-Ruby speeds, when even with these excess copies we already know, and have known for years how rust programs have been performing in real life.

That there is room for improvement here does not mean that the status quo was not already excellent.

It seems crazy to me that something as trivial as allocating heap space needs rust nightly and unsafe.

It seems crazy to you because your spectacular misdescription of the problem is simply incorrect.

No. TFA points out there isn’t a gigantic performance sink or anything, just an infelicity in the code they’re generating.

> Does this mean Rust is slower than C++?

No. You can always write your Rust code carefully to avoid copies. Besides, all of this only comes out to a small percentage of the total instruction count. That being said, it's something we should fix, and which I'm working on.

Inefficient? Underperforming sure but they're probably among the best in terms of "efficiency"

TFA extensively demonstrates that they’re a far, far behind Apple’s 2 year old M1 silicon in efficiency.

I mean he single handedly pulled the future forward in two different industries so far.

This is the single bizarrest and most literally inaccurate use of the phrase “single-handedly” I have ever seen.

No, I don't think that at all. Clearly. The Windows mandate was a colossal, world-historic fuckup that I think is indicative of his impulsiveness and representative of his capacity for making very very poorly thought through, Company-destroying decisions.

The point is that "he did a phenomenal job early in his career" rather misses that his early career is more "incredibly mixed bag containing disastrous missteps" than universally "phenomenal".

Like when they had to force him out of PayPal before he destroyed the company with his “rewrite the entire backend for Windows Server” mandate?

This is exactly the case for CD Projekt Red. They built their own engine (RED Engine) for Witcher 1 and built on top of it for the two Witcher sequels and also pushed it to its very limits for Cyberpunk 2077.

Close. REDEngine was created for Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Witcher 1 was built on a modified copy of Bioware's Aurora Engine (the Neverwinter Nights engine).

REDEngine versions were:

REDEngine 1: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

REDEngine 2: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings – Enhanced Edition

REDEngine 3: The Witcher 3

REDEngine 4: Cyberpunk 2077

What? I used an X daily until about two weeks ago when I bought a 14. Zero issues with it, and never even heard about any.

It is broadly speaking not legal. Many lawsuits spiralled out of this. In the broadest settlement, workers were entitled to $2,500 in general damages plus any out-of-pocket costs & losses incurred due to this clusterfuck including "a compensation process for severe impacts such as ruined credit ratings, accumulated interest on loans or credit cards, loss of security clearance due to bankruptcy, mental anguish and trauma, or loss of savings from cashing in investments such as RRSPs to pay debts". There's still other lawsuits ongoing.

Sure. Public servants rally in Ottawa to protest Phoenix payroll system: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/public-servants-ra...

Highly doubt that this is the only time a Peoplesoft clusterfuck inspired demonstrations, either. Some software is just unbelievably shitty.

Memes generally would not fall under the category of non-copyrighted material; they’re most of the time extremely copyrighted material just being used without permission. And even a wholly original work an artist sarcastically puts a Getty watermark and then licensed under Creative Commons or something would fall into very murky territory – the Getty watermark itself is the intellectual property of Getty. The original image author might plead fair use as satire, but satirical intentions aren’t really a defence available to DALL-E.

So even if we’re assuming these were wholly original works that the author placed under something like a Creative Commons license, the fact that it incorporated an image they had no rights to would at the very least create a fairly tangled copyright situation that any really rigorous evaluation of the copyright status of every image in the training set would tend to argue towards rejecting as not worth the risk of litigation.

But the more likely scenario here is that they did minimal at best filtering of the training set for copyrights.

I'm pretty sure DALL-E was trained only on not copyright material

Nope. DALL-E generates images with the Getty Watermark, so clearly there’s copyrighted materials in its training set: https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/xdjinf/its_pretty_o...

Before they changed the default the first command I had to type on a new install was

    $ chsh -s /bin/zsh 

He was (and still is) banned from prize money tournaments even after that partial re-instatement.

Regardless, there's obviously a huge difference between "no evidence he cheated after August 2020" (wow, guess his heart grew 3 sizes that month) and "no evidence he cheated after a 5 month ban which required him to beg to get his account back, made it very clear to him that they were watching him like a hawk, and they wouldn't let him play in tournaments even after that" (not exactly indicative of an unprompted improvement in his morals).

That’s specifically in response to the question of whether or not Niemann has played a statistically anomalous number of “near perfect games”, based on analysis of on-board moves. But as they note earlier:

Hans is consistently above many contemporaries in strength increases, even though he has only recently shown the same caliber of play. Likewise, as set forth in Figures A and B below, Hans had the fastest and biggest increase in his score over time in comparison to his peers and other notable players, when considering all of their known Classical OTB games played from age 11-19.

Which should raise a lot of red flags given the nature of the “peers” (Fischer, Magnus) and its very sudden occurrence after being banned from online tournaments. It’s much harder to detect computer-aided cheating in classical time control moves than in speed chess (where they detected it in his online play) — not least because, as they note, they have no access to time-usage data for the OTB events, which would be critical to any such analysis. Nevertheless they do flag 6 OTB events that their FairPlay team believes merits further analysis by FIDE, in Appendix X.3. Reading between the lines I think that’s about as strong a statement as they can make without fully creating political issues with FIDE, who they’re probably hoping will work more closely with them going forward.

All that said, it makes more sense to look at the anomalous nature of his OTB outcomes rather than searching individual OTB moves trying to find a smoking gun given chess.com’s relative lack of data there, and the political entanglements involved. And as for that

While we don’t doubt that Hans is a talented player, we note that his results are statistically extraordinary.