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Chaosvex··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
iPhones actually can. I'm guessing some Androids have an equivalent.
Chaosvex··on The Wormhole Hall of Shame
Yeah, that's right and I believe that was the episode that introduced McKay. I've been binging Stargate over the last month or so, so it's pretty fresh.
Chaosvex··on The Wormhole Hall of Shame
Isn't the whole CG effect of flying through a magical tube seeing the wormhole?

Although the explanation of how it all works is rather inconsistent in Stargate. Initially, gate travel was something that people experienced and it was only later changed to being dematerialised.

Chaosvex··on Static Allocation, Constant Work
Windows doesn't support overcommit, so you can't unless you have a ridiculously huge swap set. It is an issue.
Chaosvex··on Static Allocation, Constant Work
When most of the elements are no-ops/unused, I don't think we should be making any assumptions about the performance at max capacity. Contiguous iteration is cheap. The author may call it the constant work principle but I can't agree.

In the context of HFT, since the author drew inspiration from the domain, there's also the issue of now having introduced new branches into the hot path. A lot of work goes into reducing branches and priming the predictor in advance of orders actually being placed. Granted, you could potentially be avoiding branches elsewhere as a byproduct but that's probably getting into the weeds and nitpicking the examples.

Chaosvex··on The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
It's generally a little more complicated than that. Not up to writing paragraphs about it so I'll just leave this as a note so anybody that's interested can do their own research.
Chaosvex··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
> Do you think it's impossible for someone to have a 25K line PR / diff but not know what's going on in the system?

If you didn't write any of it? Yes, you only think you know what's going on.

Chaosvex··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
Given the decades of consumer and enterprise GPUs often being identical or near identical hardware, it'd be interesting to see if there's any evidence of this actually being true.
Chaosvex··on How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
Too slow to edit this post but *morale. I'm blaming lazy phone typing.
Chaosvex··on How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
On complex codebases, I've seen this strategy absolutely decimate team moral.

A large tech company decided to stop having subteams responsible for particular features or areas of the code for one of their products. The result was developers having to spend inordinate amounts of time researching highly complex spec documents and reference manuals on a daily basis for even the smallest of fixes. It drove moral into the ground and developers started a mass exodus to other teams or tech companies.

After some changes of management for the team, the policy had to be reversed to stem the bleeding. Turns out that developers don't like permanently being in unfamiliar territory.

Chaosvex··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Razer was always low quality garbage at premium prices. Gamer marketing for you.
Chaosvex··on Learning to code is still worthwhile
Funny but also not true unless you have low standards, potentially as a result of just not being very good yourself.
Chaosvex··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
Drink your Mountain Dew verification can to continue.
Chaosvex··on Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped
Everybody on HN knows better than OP how to run their own business and could absolutely please 100% of customers or potential customers 100% of the time. Apparently.

Idealism doesn't survive contact with reality.

Chaosvex··on Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446
Chaosvex··on My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress
What do you mean? What's cost effective about this?
Chaosvex··on Fable created novel 4D splat format
I don't think their writing is supposed to be an exercise in saving bytes. Per se.
Chaosvex··on Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not
Let’s say the goal is a human-only social network.

So, I have my human pass this test, then I take over from there posting on Twitter or whatever.

Chaosvex··on GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11
On the other hand, it'd be absolutely fascinating to see how that'd play out. The ramifications could be huge.
Chaosvex··on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
Ray tracing says hello.
Chaosvex··on Steam Machine launches today
It doesn't.
Chaosvex··on Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux
Asio also comes in standalone form and both versions are header-only. Not necessarily directly related to your comment but adding it on, anyway.
Chaosvex··on "No Feigning Surprise"
"has been a perfect hook to get people to read and understand what it means"

"Joke's on you. I worded it poorly intentionally!"

Chaosvex··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Sure wish the UK could get some of this cheap renewable energy you're referencing.
Chaosvex··on Orthodox C++ (2016)
It's a tiny website with low value AI generated content and a very quick look revealed that you've linked to multiple articles from there. It's a fair enough observation that you might be affiliated. I don't think you are, though, hence the 'if'.
Chaosvex··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
The new model is so good at splitting firewood that it's too dangerous to release to the public without safeguards to stop it from splitting things that aren't actually firewood. The old models are terrible - I can't believe we ever thought they were good.

Remember: this is the worst that splitting firewood will ever be.

Chaosvex··on Orthodox C++ (2016)
Yeah, that makes sense. Perhaps the downvoters also didn't realise that I was talking about the 'HFT University' article.
Chaosvex··on Orthodox C++ (2016)
What are you talking about? Are you claiming ~two weeks ago predates LLMs or am I misinterpreting what you're trying to say?
Chaosvex··on Orthodox C++ (2016)
I'm not wrong. It's been removed elsewhere for being LLM generated. This discussion has already been had multiple times.

The author used Claude to generate it and instructed it to intentionally insert mistakes. They had comments posted on Reddit that discussed doing this and their account is a slew of AI generated responses. The short responses where it appears they didn't use AI don't reflect the behaviour you'd expect from somebody that claims to have over 30 years of experience in HFT but rather point toward them being a teenager or somebody rather immature. They also make a number of wild claims that when put together, are unlikely to be true.

Sorry if you can't recognise it for what it is and shame on you if it's your website, given that you've previously submitted content from there.

Chaosvex··on Orthodox C++ (2016)
AI slop article.
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