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Tsarbomb··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
There really is a skill to using it effectively. I've tried coaching some of the devs on my team. Some get it, some don't.

Our company has been tracking token usage and models used vs output (tickets, story points, PRs, deploys, etc...). A dev got chewed out, even after I warned him, because he spent over $2k in a single month almost exclusively on Opus while his actual productivity in terms of what he delivered was abysmal.

Tsarbomb··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
Years ago I interviewed for Amazon. I found out that on a desired team size of 8, there were only 3 left, where the other 5 who were no longer there, as I was told, were poor performers. I didn't take the job.
Tsarbomb··on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
Oh yikes, these people are ill and legitimately need help.
Tsarbomb··on Byzantine-Sassanian War (602-628 CE): The Last Great War of Antiquity (2023)
Yea they were absolutely exhausted in terms of economics and demographics but it is so much more than that too which the article touches on.

The lands in the middle east changed hands so many times that you had a generation be born and grow into adulthood without having being firmly associated with one empire or the other.

You had the nomadic tribes grow rich from their mercenary work for either empire.

You also had the fact that both Christian and Zoroastrian faiths took huge blows as the true cross was stolen by the Persians and then the Roman army destroyed the most important Zoroastrian fire temple and snuffed out the eternal flame there.

And finally after the Persians were defeated by the Caliphate, you the the Romans, against their well established strategies, gather their forces for a decisive battle, and then make tactical mistakes allowing for defeat.

It was the perfect storm of the right place, at the right time, with rolling nat 20s.

Tsarbomb··on The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)
Are you suggesting a general solution to the halting problem?
Tsarbomb··on The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)
Hard disagree. While they had lost a ton of ground people were still sporting blackberries in large numbers. The absolute bone headed move they did is they continued to promote and sell their legacy models front and centre cannibalizing their own future growth.

There were other issues that were much smaller in the bigger picture like android app support on BB10 coming a little late as well as the devices in general had a somewhat underpowered SoC. All of these contributed to slow adoption, but the fact they were promoting new models of the Bold while their warehouses were full of the Z10 was really what did them in.

Tsarbomb··on U.S. Steel Shareholders Approve Sale to Japan's Nippon Steel
The government giving money to corporations without ownership is communism now? I think you may be thinking about nationalism and some other things adjacent to that...
Tsarbomb··on Show HN: A minimal working Rust / SDL2 / WASM browser game
Check out Bevy. https://bevyengine.org/ It has the best ECS design I've ever seen for a game engine. Super fun to use. Currently no editor and you need to wrap your head around ECS, but it will definitely push you to improve your rust skills.

Edit: Also it can be compiled for WASM.

Tsarbomb··on Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in 'company reset'
What? DOTS is great and extremely performant. CS2 is completely the fault of the developers.

The real issue with Unity is that they don't double down on DOTS + HDRP/URP. I have not opened the editor for a few months but last time I worked in Unity the legacy render pipeline was still the default and documentation around DOTS and HDRP was somewhat lacking which is a shame because when you get it working, it works super well.

Tsarbomb··on Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange
Westinghouse is owned by Brookfield Renewable Partners and Cameco.

Cameco is the second largest uranium producer in the world. Brookfield Renewable Partners owns and operates a lot of power generation. Both are Canadian where there is a huge pool of both power generation and specifically nuclear power generation talent and experience. As an example until 2016 Canada had the largest operator nuclear power facility in the world, several provinces are currently in the planning phases of SMRs, and Canada will be financing CANDU reactors in Romania.

It's safe to say they see some sort of advantageous vertical integration of the supply chain, as well as believing regulatory and economic outlooks being good.

Tsarbomb··on Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics
I hard disagree. The chassis and cooler designs of the old intel based macs sandbagged the performance a great deal. They were already building a narrative to their investors and consumers that a jump to in house chip design was necessary. You can see this sandbagging in the old intel chassis Apple Silicon MBP where their performance is markedly worse than the ones in the newer chassis.
Tsarbomb··on Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits
No it's not normal, they are talking a bit out of their ass. Based on their dates, I'm significantly younger than them and yet I was able to afford a house in one of the more desirable neighbourhoods with only me being the one working in tech.

I'm not targeting the person you are replying to with any malice, but since almost all of the major financial and business institutions in Canada are headquartered here there is an overabundance of people that would claim they work in "tech" when in reality they are making a respectable but decidedly non-tech salaries at places like TD Bank or Thompson Reuters as examples.

The range of possible salaries for devs in Toronto is quite large.

Also as an additional anecdote, every single one of my classmates who went to the USA and decided they would like to start a family, came back to Canada to start that family.

That is not to say it is all rosy here. There is an overabundance of poor or terrible talent that's been shipped in to cover the exodus of Canadian educated people chasing better salaries in the USA while business leaders and purse string holders are content to celebrate their mediocrity while being confused why productivity is so low.

Tsarbomb··on Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve
I'm 99% sure the person you are replying to was saying that tongue in cheek / sarcastically.
Tsarbomb··on Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas can now grab and toss
Our entire economic model globally is built around scarcity, either real or artificial. You remove that and we are in one hell of an upheaval.
Tsarbomb··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
Just curious how you are certain of the better performance and behaviour of Oracle given that Oracle does not allow disclosing of benchmarks without prior consent from them?
Tsarbomb··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
They for some reason are refusing to prove the affirmative of their statement that there are things Oracle can do that Postgres cannot; which leads back to my original question, that they may simply not know Postgres.
Tsarbomb··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
Picking one of your previous comments at random where you use the examples of pattern matching and analytic functions... yea postgresql does that too.
Tsarbomb··on Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games
I wonder if there are any bits of Quake 2 code still left over in CS:GO

I know Carmack made a comment that HL2 did have bits of Q2 in it.

Tsarbomb··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
Not to poop all over what you said, but I went through the history of some the previous comments you made to communicate the power and features of Oracle and I have simple question to ask you: Is it possible you are unfamiliar with the full features and capabilities of Postgresql?
Tsarbomb··on Lichess on Scala3 – Help needed
Stupid question, if you already are at the edge of max heap size for allowing compressed OOPs, can increasing ReservedCodeCacheSize kick you into 64 bit uncompressed land?
Tsarbomb··on For its big comeback, Intel needs to spend money, and it's making less and less
I've seen this in action professionally and it drove me up the wall.

At a previous job I had to spec out some hardware procurement on the order of a million dollars over two years, and all of my compute was based around AMD EPYC. The amount of fighting and arguing that this resulted in was wild. These were all still supermicro boxes, still from the same trusted vendor we were using, but I had to spell out many times that we were basically getting double the compute for what we would have got otherwise.

Worst part was when the first shipment arrived and nothing booted and worked and turned it out be a bad batch of drives from micron that had bad controllers, the same ignoramus used it as a "I told you so" moment, even though the vendor confirmed it was a micron issue and immediately shipped over replacements.

Tsarbomb··on U.S. workers have gotten less productive – no one is sure why
Having once worked in the EMR/EHR space, a big thing to consider is some companies come in with their own workflows, processes, and ideas that they want to push onto physicians while other companies are way more accommodating in building "bespoke" solutions to specific problems.

The latter in my experience ends up providing better results to physicians as they have been employed as domain experts in building the software solution to their specific workflow. I've seen it done for in ophthalmology, specific disease/injury specific radiology, and diabetic specific checkup and appointments where I've seen as much as a 75% reduction in the amount of time the physician has to dedicate lookup up info, cross-referencing, and documenting.

Tsarbomb··on MacBook sound balance changes on its own
My bluetooth headphones will always change to left side only when reconnecting. If I accidentally walk to far from my laptop and come back, same deal.

It is absolutely wild this bug exists.

Tsarbomb··on The road to Zettalinux
Not agreeing or disagreeing for the most part, but in 2009 all of the prerequisite technology for cryptocurrency existed: general purpose computers for the average person, accessible internet, cryptographic algorithms and methods, and cheap storage.

For 256 bit computers, we need entirely new CPU architectures and updated ISAs for not just x86/AMD64, but for other archs increasing in popularity such as ARM and even RISC-V. Even then compilers, build tools, and dependant devices with their drivers need updates too. On top of all of this technical work, you have the political work of getting people to agree on new standards and methods.

Tsarbomb··on macOS Subsystem for Linux
Seamless mounting, launching code editors in Windows from Linux, issuing docker commands in the Linux OS while the docker engine and its mounts are hosted on Windows.

Doing things with something like Vagrant on Mac sometimes cuts it, sometimes doesn't. Either way, if I'm not shelling out money I could be stuck using a subpar solution like VirtualBox.

Tsarbomb··on macOS Subsystem for Linux
I think most people understand why the WSL2 approach eventually won out, and its saved my bacon more times than I can count when I had to demo something and it breaks on my Mac only for me to quickly switch to "real" linux on my personal windows machine running WSL2.

However, with WSL1, implementing the Linux ABI was such a wicked flex.

Tsarbomb··on Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III as its head of state
It's wild how many people don't understand this.

To help spell it out for those who keep misunderstanding, when the Queen visited the USA in 2010, she did it as Queen of Canada, under the Canadian flag, with Canadian staff and security.

Tsarbomb··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
She has been Queen of Canada for 45% of Canada's existence as an independent nation. Wild.
Tsarbomb··on Apple M2 Pro to use new 3nm process
As the other reply mentioned they are testing against the M2, and they are also testing the lower powered AMD part 6850U which does best the M2 in some tests.

Not sure why you came out so strong with such a false statement.

Tsarbomb··on Fedora 37 to officially support Raspberry Pi 4
Personally the only limitation I found with the 4th version was when not actively cooling it. Experience was great until it throttled.
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